I'm still flabbergasted by Google's decision to shut down Google Reader. Oh, my heart.

Transportation is different than commute. The latter implies travelling back and forth on a regular basis.

Some Japanese modern music shrills. I can't stand that.

Prosody is obviously important in the English language.

I suspect that "moon and sea" is used much more often than "sea and moon". In the former, the sound /u:/ precedes /i:/. Why does the former seem more natural to English speakers than the latter?

By contrast, in the idiom "monkey see, monkey do", the vowel /i:/ comes before /u:/.

Hong Kong has long been an energetic section, in terms of the economy, in Asia. But has it been supplanted by Singapore?

Nearly everyone knows that the U.S. isn't squeaky-clean in its motives in its military interventions abroad.

Hopefully in the wake of the tragic Boston Marathon bombing, the U.S. government recognizes the importance of no more meddling in other sovereignties' affairs.

There have been many human beings who prophesied doomsday.

Time will debunk those conjectures.

Her smiles soothe my mind.

One just shouldn't start up in his old age.

That would put him on the razor's edge.

Probably one of those days down the road, the world's mightiest American graduate school system will go through some drastic reform and shrink greatly from its current enormous size.

Is Canada's Arctic sector crucial? You bet.

There is a voice shrieking life is short.

Tim Hortons' Honey Cruller donut isn't bad.

The eclipse of Sony is sad.

The nostalgia of Walkman...

I suppose that residents in the Shanghai megalopolis have to spend a large chunk of their time on superficial things, including commute.

It appears that there are more causes for the possible curtains for Asia's economic boom right now than in the past 20 years.

In my opinion, pretty sound both the female given names "Pauline" and "Paulette". However, they both mean "humble" and both are derived from their male counterpart "Paul".

Asia has long been hailed as an uprising economy and a prosperous continent.

But now I for one am not sure if disasters in Asia will break out down the road.

I've noticed that many restaurants have gone out of business in the vicinity of Concordia University, a section of downtown Montreal.

Once you choose an entrepreneurial path, you step into the wild.

How free and how risky.