It seems that the NYC remains to be a hearth of economic vigor in the U.S despite its high costs.

If you look up the synonyms of "prostitute" in a dictionary, you'll find there are so many. "Hooker", "hustler", "harlot", "courtesan", "whore", and so on.

Well, the above example may not be a very decent one. Anyways, my point is that the great number of synonyms of many words is one of the difficulties we have to overcome when we read material in English from different eras.

Some Montrealers say that Torontonians aren't as courteous as people in Montreal.

I use my old feature cell phone sheerly as a reliable alarm clock. But I do it warily.

I put it into the Airplane Mode each time when I turn it on. A mobile phone in the Airplane Mode is supposed to emit no radiation at all.

The updating of software developers' skills is constant and perennial.

On every single day, from dusk to almost midnight, the time of my wife and me is completely occupied by taking care of our toddler daughter. Yes, having a demanding baby is that tough, if you are reasonably enough careful with her.

When a woman cuckolds her husband before they get divorced, that speaks something about her.

December 27th. The day following the Boxing Day. Still in the Boxing Week.

The downtown part of the St-Catherine street. A great many people are proceeding through the street and the malls on it.

This area delivers a great amount of business value in the Boxing Week period.

Wintry breezes at -2 degrees Celsius

This winter isn't too cold
-2 degrees Celsius is the best winter temperature
It doesn't freeze you a great deal
While it can give you the Northern flair

White snow, dark road, small hours in the night,
The yellow light from a height in the 4th floor apartment,
And the pink and blue drapes covering its windows,
In the high-rise building standing at the intersection of two thoroughfares

I think that arts are the form and container which captures human experience the best.

Maybe from around a decade ago, in terms of career prospect, a higher education had become to be no longer a ticket to good jobs and to be just a way to avoid and escape vile employments, for newly minted university graduates in Canada, whether they recognize that or not.

The counter side of polluted food is not organic food. It is clean food.

Freezing coldness and crushing loneliness are two biggest enemies for some people in Montreal

Just now, around the midnight, I went to a nearby Tim Horton's outlet to grab a coffee. A guy around 19 years old appeared to be drunk and was talking to everyone, one by one, over there, all of whom were strangers to him. He's a student who went to Dawson College, and he'd been from Hungary. "I'm alone. I can only hug trees," he said, "morning after morning".

He's crushed by loneliness. And he burst on Christmas Eve.

Who didn't see trees or plant leaves with one sort of canker or another?

Diseases do exist in nature. Nature isn't all good.

There are always some jerks in retail stores. They can't be liked after they offended you one way or another.

Do the rabbles in the Arab Spring realize that they probably won't see prosperity in their own lifetime?

The procedure of democracy leading to prosperity mostly takes a very long time to complete.

自由給予浮躁之人的，是絕望。

What can the gigantic mat of workers of China achieve in the future?

It's interesting that so many Americans and Canadians worship the late Steve Jobs, who seems to be authoritarian without traces of being democratic in his management of virtually everything.

It seems that there's no much difference at all among the three adjectives -- 'green', 'greeny', and 'greenish'.