It's interesting to know that hippos are also called "river horses" in English.

And, like horses, they are fond of eating grass. That's the opposite with crocs' dieting habits.

Oh, those giant bloody carcasses are disgusting in the video below.

Dictation is done every week in the classrooms of the lower grades of elementary schools.

We're not like-minded.

I'm small-minded. :-)

Some Chinese martial arts teachers cajoled their students somewhat.

The unceremoniousness of some typical North American women was a novelty to me, when I first arrived in Canada.

Now it's a huge turn-off for me. I'm not alone in that aspect.

So if they want to find their own Mr. Right, they'd better shape up before it will be all too late.

Software developers and developers-to-be mostly are dog-tired year by year.

But many of them are apt to be taciturn men.

Asia was the first and only continent that has been nuked in human history.

Will it be nuked again in the near future?

The rains have fallen.

And the sweltering has dwindled and then disappeared, for now.

I'm responsive to new English words which I encounter day in, day out.

That's a best way to go through with the massive English vocab.

The word "wildebeest" is pretty interesting.

The word's form is much like "wild beast".

At the same time, the particular animal is also called as "gnu." Remember the "GNU" part in "GNU/Linux?"

Today has been another unusually muggy September day.

However, July and August passed as abnormally cool.

The haphazard weather makes one wonder what's next down the road. Will some natural disasters strike?

The world now is all very bewildering.

Given these a few humid and very hot days, I guess that it's going to rain cats and dogs before long.

Well, I didn't know that slugs are nocturnal.

I rarely encountered the word "transmogrify", except in dictionaries.

The current leader of North Korea is such a handful for the world.

He's turned his country into an extremely dangerous pride of nuclear warheads.

Unfortunately, many American and Canadian women have reduced themselves almost to a piece of meat.

Their wrong thinking leads to that sad self-destruction.

My mind blurred the distinction between the words "analogous" and "monogamous."

Then I kind of invented a new word "anagamous" when I actually intended "analogous."

The Canadian populace generally don't eat well or drink well.

So, of course extraordinary obesity is a big problem here. And, reasonably that must be costing a hefty sum of money for the health care system every year.

Riding on the current trend, total chaos might be waiting ahead.

Biological nomenclature appears to be quite difficult.

It seems to entirely comprise of words rooted in Latin.

Blabbing to the media has long become a strategic weapon for female celebrities.

Meanwhile, that makes many of them almost no good, because blabbers are so.

A reform in the American family court system has been long overdue.

Otherwise, the institution of family will be further destroyed.

I think that haze of tobacco smoke is reasonably quite masculine.

Unfortunately, that also gets banned all over in Canada.

That can be sort of "oppressive," to men.

No wonder you see more and more Canadian young men dye their long flowing hair pink, truly pink.

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.

In the past, wills (aka testaments) were rare for common Chinese people.

Typically, his estate would be apportioned among his sons and daughters after his death.

In this day and age, many women behave and think in ways that men intrinsically dislike, seriously.

For some of them, they've made their bed and they must lie in it.

The red hot demand is not factitious in China's real estate market.

It's real. But it results from distorted market mechanisms.

The effervescent Perrier water is produce of France.

In this day and age, Anglophone Western countries' mass media seem to be full of pugnacious female journalists.

No wonder they've been losing market shares, once people began to recover their senses.

Don't smother your man.

It can be dangerous to be fond of elaborate meals.

Simple yet delicious repasts should be enough.

The fad for men's earrings seems to have passed its peak.

A smidgen of Python can make life a lot more convenient.

A mature man must be able to discern whether a path, a relationship, or an endeavor to be embarked upon is going to be auspicious or ominous.

So a man needs truth as much as wisdom.

The technological landscape is so convoluted that it takes looong to navigate.

I dislike bland white sliced bread and buns, which however is wall-to-wall in Montreal, more than soggy ones.

Hillary Clinton was alleged to prevaricate a lot to the Amercian public.

"Staycation" and "metrosexual" are both portmanteau words.

In the future, there will seem to be fewer and fewer places left in the society for people who are diehard technophobes or "Englishphobes."

Under the guise of education, aside from the core learning, myriad things are going on.

The word "meadow" doesn't automatically mean water meadow.

Some people cultivate their benevolent appearances, but not benevolence.

It's been well known that Google/Alphabet can be an erratic provider of technologies at numerous times.

Just think about Google Reader and Google Wave, among others.

Occasional self-abnegation is indispensible for each human being individual.

It seems that for the past many decades, cultivating people might have taken too much time and energy for the people in China.

In general, women often deploy subterfuge.

Crisscross is an overall pattern, isn't it?

Actually, hearsay evidences are pivotal.

Google Search, once the pinnacle web search engine, now has to share the market with Bing, which is developed by the dogged Microsoft.

In China, tight-knit pairs of boyfriends and girlfriends seem to be gradually replacing close-knit families, to a greater or lesser degree.

"Please indulge me for a moment" sounds more British than American, doesn't it?

Illogical remarks expose the speaker's incompetence, or selfishness, or both.

Yeah, sometimes it's difficult to know what to make of the whole education system pipeline, course requirements, and stuff.

The elementary school years, then the high school ones, and then the university ones. All that long learning takes away such mammoth amounts of time as well as energy, day in and day out. Keeps you nearly fully occupied, hence you almost can't learn your own things and think for yourself. And then, alas, the so-called lifelong learning, which can be stressful at times, awaits you and will accompany you to the grave.

种种学校，责成学生耗时竭力达成各种任务。

学子舍己而随人，殆矣。

I'll be gazing at stars into the night sky.

A gazer is totally different from a gator.

The modern females have commited a long string of faux pas since at least the 1970s.

People generally like husky dogs more than husky men. :-)

I have to realign my time expenditures often.

The English language seems to be very democratic, whereas the French language seems to be just the opposite.

Between the two, which one of the models of development will be toppled?

Scenes of people absconding with funds are so common in Hong Kong movies.

A rather common mistake that native speakers of English make is that they use the word "legislate" as a transitive verb.

But it's only an intransitive one.

Hunks galore.

And, bitches galore.

Obedience is no longer in the modern ethos.

Should that be brought back?

I'm in deep with English learning.

Sort of obsessive, for better or for worse.

Judah is different than Judas.

J used to make some promises. But he didn't come through.

Etiquette is different than courtesy.

I'm curious as to how feminist countries such as Sweden will fare in the long run.

What's the first sense for some people?

The sense of entitlement.

We are justified in being almost always busy.

The ouster of the two co-founders of RIM/Blackberry signified a lot for wannabe Canadian entrepreneurs.

For those of us who are inundated with information overload, which is most of us, JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) should be what we are content with.

Unfortunately, many people's strategies for becoming affluent end in speculating in the stock market.

A fuzz of straight black hair.

Hair sprouting from women skin battles sight from time to time.

Nowadays celebrities air their dirty laundry in public both at whim and intentionally.

And some are becoming wimpier and wimpier.

Sometime while dealing with my daughter's stuff and housework stuff at the same time, my mind spins like a top.

"Collocation" and "colocation" are two totally different words.

The myth of higher education seems to be going to be debunked by degrees.

Cyber eavesdropping is a real threat.

The recalcitrant ones...

Can you imagine "on oath" and "under oath" mean exactly the same thing?

"On" and "under."

I can't imagine "on the couch" and "under the couch" mean the same thing.

Leverage means power, but it also means risk.

Ah. All those fancy thingamabobs which were offered by Google/Alphabet Inc. and then got pulled the plug on.

Why invest your time and data in them?

"Fecundate" is an obscure word, whereas "inundate" is not.

Will Donald Trump be ousted as American president?

Despite the alleged scandal of Russians rigging the American election, the politically incorrect president has been seeming to make the American economy fruitful.

The Variable Hoisting thing in JavaScript is interesting.

Fashionistas are sophisticated in their dressing. That's for sure.

But the sad situation is, sophistication only exists in fashion for many of them. "What you see is what you get" is not a compliment. Especially for men. Even the young ones.

It's alleged that Western European countries obfuscate migrant rapes and crimes in their borders.

Certainly their native citizens are not immune to the rapes and crimes, allegedly.

Marketing blurbs purposefully make you unable to resist.

Provocatively dressed women should know what they are doing to the men, and especially the boys, in their physical and virtual presence.

Google, in their infinite wisdom, pulled the plug on Google Reader as well as Google Notebook.

That had significant consequences, for sure.

The sky is the limit for satnavs competition.

It must be hard for Westerners to wisely choose from the yummy thingammies in their favorite Chinese restaurants.

Sometime I for one am driven crazy by all those deets in information technology.

It seems that many phrases with "Irish" in them have got some negative connotation.

Examples include "Irish bull", "Irish confetti", and "Irish coffee".

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

Let's parse the function "parseInt", which appears in both Java and JavaScript.

>
> parseInt(12.5);
12
>

In the above little example, 12.5 is not an Int, but is a float. On the other hand, the return value 12 is an Int.

So, a more accurate name for the function would be "parseToInt."

The raging torrent of new technologies has successfully kept many people perpetually burning the midnight oil.

And that's not advantageous for their health.

If you are going to learn software development, learn the English language as well, for good measure.

Otherwise you're probably gonna wanna cry down the road, sooner or later.