"Would you like some wine?" the waitress graciously asked. "Is it extra?" J replied. "Yes, it is." the waitress corresponded.

A string of characters.

People don't ping each other via emails as much as before. SNS has largely replaced that need.

Among the recent iterations of all the major browsers, Chrome and Firefox seem to have been leading the force, while Safari has been lagging behind in terms of performance and robustness. As for IE, who hasn't forgotten it?

"Did you assay him with entertainment?" J said.

Music video - Go no more a-roving - Joan Baez

Lyrics (Actually it's a poem "We'll go no more a-roving" by Lord Byron):

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. 1788–1824

599. We'll go no more a-roving 

SO, we'll go no more a-roving
  So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
  And the moon be still as bright. 

For the sword outwears its sheath,         5
  And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
  And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
  And the day returns too soon,              10
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
  By the light of the moon.

http://www.bartleby.com/101/599.html

Improving their English levels is a gigantic drain on the myriad young people in the non-English-speaking developing countries.

The songs by Chyi Chin, a famous male Taiwanese singer, are my Proustian pleasure.

Some Westerners don't possess very sophisticated English. So their judgement over that matter isn't impeccable. When an ESL learner speaks or writes, they get his or her drift and then they think his or her English is good, which actually isn't the case.

Sophistication is key.

For a man with ambitions, buying mortgaged real estate in his twenties is a decoy presented as property. It would clog his freedom to pursue his ambitions.

Are teenagers in Canada set to bloom?

美國各色嗎？中國各色嗎？

In the literature of mathematics which is in Chinese and English, the Greek alphabet was introduced into it for the purpose of mathematical notations.

I wonder which symbols stand for those notations in the literature of Math which is in Greek. The English alphabet?

The Canadian government should accede to the proposals that Canada opens its telecom industry to foreign ownership and competition, especially to American ownership and competition, I guess.

I'm telling you, I've been battling with information overload for a long time. I'm not alone. Info. overload is an epidemic of our era.

Everyone of us who's not out of touch has to TOUGH IT OUT, I'm afraid.

Dismissing mercenary thoughts facilitates one's career, doesn't it?

對死去者獻上我們的敬意，並抱持一種社區式的負責的態度。

一地雞毛。一地蒜皮。

Our baby daughter's appetite shifted lately. We've been having headaches because of that.

LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE (Royal Ballet of U.K.) - Clog Dance by William Tuckett

"
William Tuckett dancing the clog dance in "La Fille Mal Gardée"
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Music: Ferdinand Hérold arranged by John Lanchbery
Royal Ballet 2005
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