"Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen" is a good one.

Well, Annals of Internal Medicine is NOT Anal of Internal Medicine. Duh.

There seems to be a lot of English loanwords in French. For instances, software, and email.

And vice versa, of course.

I increasingly like clothings with vintage looks.

It appears that Mr. Rob Ford has a loose mouth sometimes. Now he's gotten served with a libel notice.

What a drama in Toronto's public life.

It's intriguing that Mao Zedong permanently lies in state.

Individuals today don't have to be warehoused in an office cubicle in order to work and produce for the society.

Princess Ariel is one of Disney's smart devices directed at young children.

Any one human being's hubris should be abated, because only God's deeds are foolproof.

It seems that many Chinese intellectuals align themselves with Westerners, especially Americans.

But I'm afraid that some of them are just opportunists in essence, and those people cannot devote themselves to the Western ideals and values.

There are some somewhat annoying insects living in wall crevices. Please go away.

The cedilla in French is an interesting tidbit.

Sovereignties' foreign relations are all about horse-trading.

Vigils for Nelson Mandela have been held around the world.

I've got only a vague idea about what he'd done in his life. Maybe I'll read more about his life.

The high tide of the American style university education system has already passed, I'm afraid.

I'm telling you, first-generation Chinese immigrants in Canada are sort of like shock troops, figuratively speaking, but unfortunately, many of them, if not the most, die on the beachhead, because they didn't equip themselves with profound foresight.

K. L. thinks his money is a magic wand. Duh.

The flour canister in my kitchen seldom spends a day idle. :-)

Cooking is fun.

American intelligence agencies' nozzles must be everywhere in the world.

In French, how come the trema, circumflex, and grave accents of the vowel 'e' are pronounced exactly the same?

Duh. It's been reported that Vancouver was recently named as the worst gridlock city in North America.

If one doesn't invest some of his time and energy into his own intellectual and ethical growth in his day-to-day life, then the real difference between his days is vanishingly small.

I don't think "the helplessness of life" is a suitable English translation for the Chinese expression "人生的无奈". Then what's the right one?

It's hard to purchase a pair of earmuffs for men in Montreal, where of course muffs for men are omnipresent.

For me, alcohol can dispel tiredness.

So, drinking moderately can help life.

I only eat Western dishes sporadically.

I must look gormless many a time, because I am often absent-minded. :-)

Modern life oftentimes is like shards of glass -- broken, fragile, and superficial.

Maybe a man's chief asset is his character.

To consort with K. L. is not what J wants to do.

I am confused over the differences between carpets and rugs no more.

See http://www.ehow.com/facts_5877470_carpet-vs_-rugs.html?dmsp=manual .

The dignitary Mr. Justin Trudeau appears to be still a little too green to understand the principles undergirding Canadian politics.

See http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/08/justin-trudeau-seemingly-admires-chinas-basic-dictatorship-at-toronto-fundraiser/ .

Now nearly every Canadian knows Mr. Trudeau is probably a political lightweight. Well, Rex Murphy got it right. He worded 'The "Unbearable" Lightness of Justin Trudeau'. See http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/content/analysis/rexmurphy/justin_trudeau_the_johnny_depp_of_canadian_politics.html .

Day to day life comprises myriad little tasks.

Keep it simple, "stupid".

Shallowness makes people apt to be rectitudinous.

Another week. Another caddy of Orange Pekoe tea bags.

Crew socks are unisex.

Many of men's necklaces are made from sterling silver.

Oh là là. The French pronunciations of "restaurant" and "croissant" sound so pretty.

The enormity of the status of China's political stability definitely guarantees that beacons of that status will be reported in the Western media.

One should take risks. But one also should mitigate risks by acquiring knowledge.

Well, at the very least, popular Hong Kong triad movies spread fashion impressions and the concepts of noble characters.

In terms of personal development, so to speak, only to listen to new songs and new music is not progressive, while perhaps only to listen to old songs and old music is not retrograde.

If one can dispel his fears of death, then he is a freer man.

I'm afraid that oftentimes persistence is my way to slay the dragon.

Teen indictment is a very powerful naysayer.

Bonhomie and politeness puts people at ease.

Often used is the title "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" in politics.

There are so many doubts in life that cannot be dispelled.

The rubric of fashion shouldn't be controlled by magazines.

The commonplace foods and beverages in Montreal are often sugar-laden. How horrible.

Hollywood disseminates many wrong ideas in its numerous flicks, doesn't it?

The University of Wittenberg, located in Germany, seems to be a quite famous one.

Mime video - The rose

A nice pantomime.

The two words "Backpack" and "piercing" are among the ones which native English speakers normally don't understand when I'm voicing them.

Faux leather seems to be everywhere.

When I saw a nail salon named "DollySwan", I thought about Dolly the sheep.

I wanna try kipper someday later.

Working in a hospice would provide a very thought-provoking experience, wouldn't it?

There's no issue bigger than life and death on the Earth.

One should be able to discern another's true personality even if the latter is shrouded in elegant clothing.

Eristic words lead to strife.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

At the same time, one woman's meat is another woman's poison, certainly.

Vaporware goes nowhere.

Maybe some interest groups with humongous sums of money act like demogorgons in this world.

Can the democratic institutions check them?

While you have a toddler child, your time is still dispersed during every single day.

For that matter, cooking healthy meals occupies a large chunk of time.

The sere fallen leaves are omnipresent in the wake of nascent winter winds.

Encyclopaedias, now mostly supplanted by Wikipedia.com, appear to be an indispensable cornucopia of deep knowledge.

Dissipated are the offsprings of the nobility of all the dynasties of ancient China.

We can see the amaranthine obese butts and legs everywhere in Montreal.

Muslims are mandated to be teetotalers.

Profligate youths wear Louis Vuitton stuff and buy sushis as their lunches.

Unfortunately, Dollarama doesn't sell cork trivets.

Unfortunately, for many relatively wealthy people, being rich just means their families have more money to dissipate.

To be able to see through financial prestidigitations is an important skill to have.

A sweater is supposed to cover the torso and the arms.

Sometimes, there's not a scintilla of joy in life. But hope is always there.

Today's world is so fiercely competitive that many skylarking young boys fall behind.

Many traditional societal institutions have been assaulted by Capitalism, globalization, and statism, and thus have become unprevailing.

As the years go by, I've discovered that many American brand names sell antically shoddy products.

"Asseverate" is such a rare word.

German breweries make good pristine beer. They are better than many of their Canadian counterparts.

J wants his life to be a journey of strewments of virtues.

Money dissipates people.

Are there more and more peevish people?

Both the English and French alphabet are the same as the ISO basic Latin alphabet, a.k.a. Roman alphabet, you know, the 26 letters from A to Z.

It makes me sigh to see the continuous passing of day after day.

Human beings not only can communicate by parol, they but also can do by eyes.

In general, women in Canada are significantly better at trappings than their men counterpart.

The reverence grows.

We lead our life in silico.

How come I see more and more grief in the societies of both U.S.A. and China?

And, how come I see more and more discussions about the dissipation of ancient empires?

Some lousy wives give their men lip.

Some unwise wives want their men to be wusses who are bossed around by them.

Now the lackadaisical Winter weather will begin to chime in.

Among the Chinese languages movies, some Hong Kong movies are doozies really. Fashion, visual style, music, entertainment, depth, morality, they have them all.

Of course you shouldn't watch a Hong Kong movie with its dialogues interpreted into Mandarin. That would reduce it to a lackluster.

During the evening, people disperse into different houses and buildings. How many among them like their life?

The market, i.e. the customers, adjudicate every single round of business competition.

But the market is fickle, and the competition perpetual.

Some Canadian men don't pay attention to their trappings at all.

Are pristine women increasingly rare?

Of course, on the other hand, women are saying, "are good men increasingly rare?"

The way ahead for a Chinese immigrant in Montreal is strewn with tremendous difficulties.

The enskied Google Inc. has slowed down their innovation pace.

Personally I think the reputed enormous resources put in the "Google+" thing is their relatively dumbest strategic bet.

One of the problems with an overly materialistic lifestyle, which is way too common in this era during which Capitalism rules the roost in most societies, is that many things in it are merely for show, which is, ah, shallow vanity.