The two names "Francis" and "Frances" seem to have exactly the same pronunciation.

Hence the respective shortened forms: "Frankie" and "Franny."

While watching the movie "Assassin's Creed", I made the acquaintance of the famous "Leap of faith."

Those garish neon signs omnipresent in Montreal...

Montreal 的中小学每年大事庆祝的都是些什么？

Yeah, it's agreed that the magazine The Economist is an erudite one.

And its English is kind of difficult.

Christianity defines that covetousness is not a virtue.

Instead, it is a sin.

I was left with a deep impression by the excruciating inquisition near the end of the French film "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc".

Many Muslims come across as individuals who believe that his own destiny is already predetermined by Allah.

Destiny...

It seems that Australian women and American ones are two of a kind.

In Western countries, women's suffrage, which began to be granted around 100 years ago, probably has made everybody suffer, including themselves.

In total contrast, over a thousand years ago, Muslim women already had suffrage. And did that make them suffer? Probably not.

It's "Little Red Riding Hood." Not "Little Red Hood."

"K9" stands for "canine."

It's police dogs.

"It's complicated." is a subtle thing to say.

I'm befuddled by the South Korean society reported in news media.

Barely 21 years had passed since the end of WWI, and then WWII started.

So the Armistice Day hadn't have much use to pacify peoples and countries. Or, people just remembered the dead, but they forgot the cruelty of war inflicted on the whole world.

"Fast! Fast! Time is money. Don't waste money." The man exhorted his low-wage farming workers.

That's an interesting scene in the old American movie La Bamba.

Mr. President Obama did a mic drop recently. Among the presidents, he's a cool one.

The Lord Inquisitor appears to be a good short animation movie.

People seem to like striped awnings a lot.

Hong Kong films have been very luminous.

做得嘢。有料到。

Babbling away in Cantonese... :-)