Personally I find some violin music quite soothing.

The sector of female workers may have different motives than that of male workers, by and large.

Classic literature in Chinese and English unfolds themselves in front of me soothingly, from time to time.

During the Hong Kong movie Initial D (头文字D), there's a lot of car engine roaring and car tire shrilling.

It's a good film. I appreaciate the performance of the supporting actor Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (黄秋生).

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.