The ignorant toddler girl poked my daughter's eyes twice.

N. D. wants to compare notes with me.

"Got a frog in my throat," the old lady said to her friend.

It's said that Populism has contributed greatly to the great decline of the economies in Latin America.

星落鸟飞，弹指间青葱岁月已逝。

Interestingly, the actor Mike Myers played both the role Austin Powers and that of Dr. Evil.

And he's a Canadian.

Why do so many men only in their thirties and forties have frosty hair strands nowadays?

'Criticality'--there is such a word in English.

Simply keep your cool in front of of all that overflowing and constant hype of marketing and media.

That way, you can keep yourself out of the way of much frustrations and busyness.

Ah, the fleetingly changing suppliers landscape for personal computing needs.

Well, a Windows PC is a holdover from the fading Microsoft era, while a Windows OS is a blast from the past.

Where will bespoke IT systems go?

It's been reported that almost every parent in the Western societies is harried by time pressure day in and day out.

'Eight-Section Brocade' is an excellent English translation of the “八段锦” in Chinese.

Oh, my corny little gedit.

Well, the pedigreed Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Here and there, there seems to always be a man who mistakenly believes that to act violently makes him be a hell of a man.

Adoptive parents are not like blood parents.

Some of them rehomed their adopted children. But, that's a very complex issue with complicated reasons and motives. One cannot simply call that rehoming inhumane.

It seems that poppy petals often appear in Western ceremonies and movies.

The English verb 'administrate' has got exactly the same meaning as 'administer', where 'contest' hasn't as 'challenge'.

Laugh at me. I'm afraid that much of the pop culture stuff is just corn.

I've been keeping culling my RSS feeds, as well as my social media and email subscriptions. But they are still overflowing.

Many are observing the predicament which most Muslim countries are now in.

CBC's Rex Murphy publicly said that the lately allegedly scandalous Jian Gomeshi is "double-faced", who is another CBC host.

Did Jian Gomeshi fake out the public? On the other hand, did some of the claimers fake out?

L went from being bony to being just slim during his fifties or so.

It's usually more taxing to earn a living furnished with more than bare essentials.

Simple doesn't mean drab.

That's why I don't understand why the English word 'corny' has got a derogatory meaning, among others. Personally I always consider corn to be a delicious staple food.

It may be the reality in North America that many people abuse antidepresssants somehow.

J's been getting his act together for a long time.

It's sad to see people's body sizes becoming grosser and grosser in North America.

I normally don't cull the movies manufactured by Hollywood.

"And death is gaseous and gruesome".

That's what the role acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman said in the film The Savages.

Vocabulary, vocabulary, "how do I love thee?"

Duh, in a conversation with a friend of mine, I mistakenly invented a verb 'nutriate'. What I meant was actually 'nurture'. But certainly not 'neuter', :-)

It seems that homeopathic medicine has been steadily gaining popularity in the Western world.

It seems that yoga belongs to both Hinduism and Buddhism.

Historically, both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. But the latter has been nourishing China and flourishing in it for over a thousand years, at the same time dying out in India.

By the way, the reputedly vegetarian Sikh is a sect of Hinduism.

There is no shortage of changes happening in the world.

Oh, the old man's catheter makes me sad.

Busy students who live away from their parents had better be boarders.

White apparels are ravishing, but they are time-consuming to be taken care of.

Well, 'fecal matter' just means 'feces'.

"Froggy" is an English word that I've rarely come across.

Now the world has become increasingly wary of the potential economic fall of China.

China's annual GDP growth rates have been the envy of the world for so long.

Increasingly, university education has become a power-up, not the deciding factor.

The tower cranes deployed in construction projects are just so, ..., skyscraping.

The Pareto Principle is just a rule of thumb, not a scientific law.

There probably are more scarlet women than you think.

Who wants to have a life in which money always comes out on top?

Own your grooming. Own your diet.

Is there a market mechanism whereby every participant's needs get satisfied?

Will Canadians come to the conclusion that whether the pay scales for public servants are too high should be thrown open to debate?

Sigh. Strong-arm companies.

Well, there will be so many houses of cards among them.

That kind of behavior precludes the possibility of a business relationship with Client L.

And J is in no position to reveal the details of that behavior.

想要知道 Bob 这个名字在英文里多热门，看看山猫的英文单词就好了 -- "bobcat"。:-)

Costs are on one side, and man power is on the other side.

It appears that many young women today identify with feminism, a vogue bandwagon.

An amphitheatre is not amphibian.

Lovebirds, a specific type of parrots, got their name because when perched side by side, their bodies appear to form the shape of a heart.

Well, the self-styled fabulous ladies.

Please don't let on to anyone that you are only generous with others' money, ladies and gentlemen.

The potently freezing weather reminds me that Canada, all in all, is a cold country.

How many people in Canada despise its coldness?

Belarus' capital is Minsk, whose metropolitan population is about 2 million, according to Wikipedia, which is less than that of Montreal.

Children's modeling compound is best accompanied by an extruder and some extruder rails.

It's common knowledge that men have been being deballed.

Actually people have got a lot of haphazard self-defeating behaviors.

In J's heart of hearts, he doesn't think customers such as L are decent ones.

What's happened to the world's nationalities' categorization?

J for one is a Chinese by heredity, but he will be a Canadian by choice.

I'm afraid Google's goodies will disappear one day.

I don't want to be a subservient Google fanboy.

To instigate is a tactic.

On the other part, not to respond to instigators is a countertactic.

We can still see dressing styles like flower children here and there.

It's not all about oneself.

And, it's not all about money.

Do you think today's media and mass entertainment to be pernicious?

The English word "scholastic" seems to have negative flair to it. Dull, narrow, and so on.

Maybe people are too blinded by modern science to think some things to be incredulous.

The dichotomy between the expections of life by women and those by men is so out of control in North America.

When people say to get the most out of something, sometimes they are the blind leading the blind.

J's got unequivocal English.

English: Division is to divide the numerator in the fraction.

中文：除法是除一个分数里的分子。

In the above comparison, we can see that the English sentence expresses the same mathematical meaning more clearly than its Chinese counterpart.

The Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat (周润发) has got physical grace, especially when he's wearing a duster coat in his movies.

I said to W. M., "now I'll leave you alone." But I should've said "now I'll let you go" instead.

It seems that some teachers in Canadian schools water down school education to the blind leading the blind.

The U.S.A. has been such a beneficent superpower.

But how can some of its people be so selfish and entitled?

To bludgeon, to slight, to belittle, ...

There are so many similar words in English.

It seems that "prana" in yoga is analogous to "chi" (气) in traditional Chinese medicine and Taichi.

Being psychotic is different than being neurotic.

For the time being, the Canadian job market is cramp.

Well, it's sad to see the United States, the pinnacle nation of the 20th century, has been in great decline.

Ben Carson wrote lately that Americans, as a nation, are "losing" their "moral compass and are caught up in elitism and bigotry."

For customers who are not so good, J can only shrug and hope for better ones.

A man of stature.

There is a Punjab State in India, and there is a Punjab Province in Pakistan.

And they have got the same main language, Punjabi.

The greater Punjab region is the historic homeland of the Sikhs. Unsuprisinly, Sikhs' main language is Punjabi. Take note that the Sikh people have a total population of 27 million globally.

For starters, the Sikh people have the following characterics which interest me particularly:

1. Kesh

In Sikhism, Kesh (sometimes Kes) is the practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally as a symbol of respect for the perfection of God's creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

And that naturally involves head hair, as well as body hair.

However,

In modern times the trend of short hair has encroached upon this tradition; in some parts of Punjab, it is estimated that 80% of Sikh youths have cut their hair. Reasons include simple convenience — avoiding the daily combing and tying — as well as social pressures from the mainstream culture to look like everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

Nonetheless, you can take a look at the following old news (no oxymoron intended, :-) :
The Sikh woman who stood up to online abuse about her facial hair


2. Kacchera

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kacchera .


3. Kirpan

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan .


4.

The Punjab is the wealthiest Indian state per capita, with the average Punjabi income three times the national average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh#Representation

Can you see a way for Microsoft to claw back its desktop market share?

With laying off employees in large chunks, is it on the right track?

Thailand, and its Phuket Island (布吉岛), often appear in Hong Kong movies.

"Sleep like a lion" means "sleep like a baby", I suppose.

G, r, i, t.

Grit.

Are you a stickler?

Why is dilly-dallying from time to time considered to be a luxury?

Are vernissages commercial arts?

Runaway grandpas.

"Kindergarten" is an English word directly borrowed from German.