"The bomb" is almost exactly the opposite of "a bomb."

There are so many idioms in American English.

There are forefathers, and there are foremothers.

By golly, the United States is so deeply broken now.

Its future looks a bit sketchy.

A plume of ashes.

胡为首善之地诸多污染？

The name is very interesting for the "daddy longlegs" insects.

In this day and age, people are so busy, not least men.

Nowadays I seldom read the blurbs on a book's back cover and inside cover pages.

The break between school classes is called "recess" in English, not "recreation."

Very young girls care the most about stuff's cuteness.

Engish learning involves a lot of tedium.

There are many people who want to grow into a software dev virtuoso.

The somewhat noisy K-pop took the cake.

Still, it's generally not my cup of tea.

A stroller in the nature...

I began to not drench my mouth with soda any more around four years ago.

Tea is plainly better.

In this seemingly cold modern world, some individuals are not beneficial towards others, much less charitable.

Life is all but too hard.

It's "clear the table," not "clean the table," nor "make the table."

"Commotion" is sometimes the word which can describe the public spaces in Chinese towns.

"Are you in a big hurry?" asked L.

"No, I'm in a small hurry," replied J.

"Those comparisons are good," said J.

"Yay!" responded L.

The English vocab is gargantuan.

"Suppressors, step aside," the female teacher said to the Grade 2 students.

Children need time to unwind after school.

Rye bread tastes better than multigrain bread, I think.

I for one somewhat kiss off most corporate and organizational news emails.

The female teacher loses it nearly every week in the Grade 2 classroom.

Almost every country/area wants to get off to a flying start in Artificial Intelligence.

I learn English 'cause it's pivotal.

And I learn French 'cause it's necessary.

"I'm not a promiser," the kid said.

Partially blocked sinuses are omnipresent, I guess.

Etymology shows that the word "canister" is not related to "can" at all.

The amount of words in English is mesmerizing.

"You ignite the moxa stick and let it burn," I said.

"Moxibustion and acupunture are complementary in TCM."

The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary states that acupressure was originally from Japan, in its respective word entry.

But it was from China, and it's a part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Japanese had learned it from China long time ago, supposedly.


The boon of acupressure is that anyone can be the masseur or masseuse, so that it can be done at home.

I often misheard "pears" as "pairs."

The vowel sound in "pear" is not the same as in "appear," "dear," "fear," "gear," "hear," and "sear." But it is the same as in "bear," "wear," and "year."

Sometimes it feels like that the verbosity, or sprawl, of English is out of control.

Just few examples. There's "for instance," there's "for example," and there's "e.g." In addition, there's "exemplary," as well as "exemplifiable."

Today, I've found out that apart from "exaggerate," there exists "overexaggerate." And second-graders are constantly uttering the latter.

It's "bunk bed," not "bunker bed."

Taken at face value, the word "grandfather" looks grander than "forefather", doesn't it?

In reality, it's the opposite way.

The blogosphere in China has significantly withered.

Many blogging websites have died or been cancelled, for instance, the blogs at http://www.ifeng.com/ .

Emblazoned T-shirts are very popular.

But I don't think they are good clothing generally.

茶叙珠江，一盅两件。

Nowadays, normally I learn several batches of English words per week.

That would actually take a bunch of my hours.

Now that Intel's processor chips have become unmitigated disasters due to the "Meltdown" security flaw and so on, especially in the arena of cloud computing.

It appears that AMD, after seemingly many years of losses, has turned the table on Intel, suddenly and unexpectedly.

Academic knowledge, for its own sake...

Sometime you have to be able to walk on water, like a boss.

In this day and age, there's too much delectation.

Yet much, if not most, of it feels somehow empty.

Tim Hortons in Montreal used to have a clam chowder soup.

It was good.

Uber allegedly flouted laws.

And they want to change incumbent laws.

The word "plodding" has got some negative connotations with it.

But it should carry mostly positive ones.

Oh, "dove" just means "pigeon."

There are too many luminaries in the U.S. and Canada whom I haven't heard of.

Many societal mechanisms and institutions need to be ameliorated.

For example, religions, as well as marriage.

There are a lot of frivolities in social media.

In order to save some time, unnecessary information should be largely expunged from long-winded university textbooks.

You can reject people.

But try not to spurn anyone.

Sometime it feels like that the Canadian governments are adjudicating on too many matters in Canadians' household life.

Where are the fine lines between private matters and public ones?

Such a lovely pic about dunce's cap.

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dunce_hat.jpg )

Sun Wukong, the monkey king, is so mischievous in the ancient Chinese novel "Journey to the West."

The festive white snows have brought with them extreme coldness.

Some Canadian journalist writers are somewhat flippant or simplitistically ignorant.

Social media exacerbates our severe problem of information overload.

How come some American businessmen seem to be overly competitive and not magnanimous at all to their competitors?

Yes, livelihood or to become well off can be competition at times. But life is NOT.

Excuses include real extenuating circumstances.

In the future, the choice of my system Python's version has to be chewed on.

Otherwise, a lot of small headaches would be awaiting me down the road.

Chinese is my first language.

But English is my Swiss army knife.

GUI interface is just an appendage in Linux distros.

Almost everything larger-than-life is done in command line.

Spirituality can make one unflappable.

Tattletales get lampooned in school.

I like the sound of the word "acquiescing."

Good wasabi is zesty, but hard to come by in average Montreal restaurants.

Businesses seem to be zealous about AI.

Competition has forced them to.

Confusing are the meanings of the word "contemporary."

"Ascertain" means very differently than "verify."

It seems that in China, nepotism is less in force than before.

Nexus phones are exemplary of Google's products.

They got discontinued before long by Google.

Prodigious amounts of information are calling for our attention.

But I want to refuse most of them. Less is more.

We've long acquiesced to the market economy.

Almost everybody is scrambling for some sort of AI glitz.

Is the epitaph being written for traditional web application software?

It seems that in Montreal, some good elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schools keep churning out assiduous pupils with formal academic literacy skills.

The problem is, those skills are sort of too narrow in today's and tomorrow's world, given the sacrifices of such massive amounts of time and efforts paid in order to gain the aforementioned skills.

"Tuck in your undershirt," J said.

For early childhood education, I think that the Reggio Emilia approach is better than the Montessori one.

I'll get my feet wet and continue to learn a little French.

Oui, monsieur.

Many young dudes like to rock out and chill out.

Tethered pets look lovable outside stores.

Shimmying can be done with the shoulders. Or with the hips, as the below video shows:

By the way, compared with those dances with body movements that are so provocative that they stretch credulity, belly dance just looks greatly cleaner.

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

And its English is kind of difficult.

The English word "marionette" is very different than "marinate."

The former means the sort of complex puppets that are controlled with strings.

Much posturing does no good.

Information regarding the all flourishing Artificial Intelligence has been overflowing in the media.

As people grow their ages, more and more of them capitulate to the societal pressures.

I had been vacillating between PythonAnywhere and Heroku as my current PaaS choice.

Sanctimonious people are apt to be hypocritical.

And certainly they are not very amiable.

Sassy celebrities wear store-bought clothing but they have much more discerning tastes and eyes.

Religious disagreement, or disputes, can get people to become flustered, or even very angry.

There's a children books author named "Holly Hobbie."

It can be her true name, not her pen name.

The interesting thing for me is that her first name can be confused with "holy," and, her last name can be confused with "hobby." For that matter, her parents' family, as a whole, are referred to by others as "the Hobbies," which exactly is the plural form of the English word "hobby." Swoon...

"Candor" is different than "honesty."

All this hurtling of Android apps' updating is off-putting for me.

Almost every week, there are more than a dozen apps waiting for me to give permissions for updates which are going to occupy more phone storage and RAM space.

Christianity defines that covetousness is not a virtue.

Instead, it is a sin.

The process of setting up a new Android phone with apps almost full of advertisements and bloatware feels almost like rigmarole, compared to that of setting up a Linux Mint computer.