Randall is a good name.

A kernel in any relationship is, trust or distrust.

If one is stuck in enjoying creature comfort, then he's hopeless.

I guess that's why some aristocrats are apt to somewhat despise nouveaux riches.

Busted has been the avouchment that essential oils used in aromatherapy are good for people's health.

"... aromatherapy oils are volatile oraganic compounds (VOCs), which are considered indoor air pollutants that can irritate the eyes, throat, and lungs."

"... spas that offer massage therapy using fragrant essential oils may have elevated levels of potentially harmful indoor air pollutants such as VOCs and ultrafine particles, according to an article in the journal Environmental Engineering Science." 

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2012/12/03/aromatherapy-soothes-stress-but-don-breathe-too-many-vapors-study/KlItTjOzvxFSHjhNGGLSQI/story.html

In this era of people earnestly combating environmental pollution on this Earth, why at the same time do some of them pollute indoor air that they themselves breathe in?

One has low monetary consumption doesn't necessarily mean he has low income.

A few ex-employees of Budget Rent A Car's certain Vancouver outlets have publicly avouched that there's been a fleecing scheme going on.

See Budget Rent a Car fraud claims probed by RCMP.

Ouch.

有的时候，英文比中文更有诗意，更美。

比如说，sundew (a.k.a. drosera) 要比其中文名称“毛毡（氈）苔”有意境得多。

Microsoft has been putting its weight behind pushing its disruptively unconventional Windows 8 operating system, as well as MS Surface tablets.

It's a very, very sensible strategy, IMHO. The Redmond giant almost desperately needs to pinpoint and grab new growth markets, even as its financial performance has been excellent.

It seems that while in my teens and twenties, I had felt melancholy generally.

By contrast, I've been feeling sanguine in my thirties.

Looking back, brilliant has been the usurpation of the market dominance of Nokia and RIM by Apple's iPhone and iPad, as well as Google's Android devices.

The management, as well as the shareholders, of Nokia and RIM must have lived with bitter regrets these years.

See what Mr. Michael Walkley said lately about RIM's stock rally at Canaccord Genuity says RIM shares are overpriced and puts a 'sell' on its stock.

And see how RIM's stock price has been miserably hovering around its sum-of-parts analysis value throughout this year of 2012 at https://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=TSE:RIM .

Music videos - 后来 - 刘若英

後來
詞：施人誠 曲：玉城千春（日本） 編曲：王繼康

後來　我總算學會了 如何去愛　
可惜你 早已遠去　消失在人海
後來　終於在眼淚中明白　
有些人　一旦錯過就不再

梔子花 白花瓣　落在我藍色百褶裙上
愛你　你輕聲說　我低下頭聞見一陣芬芳
那個永恆的夜晚　十七歲仲夏　你吻我的那個夜晚
讓我往後的時光　每當有感嘆　總想起當天的星光

那時候的愛情　為什麼就能那樣簡單
而又是為什麼　人年少時　一定要讓深愛的人受傷
在這相似的深夜裡　你是否一樣　也在靜靜追悔感傷
如果當時我們能　不那麼倔強　現在也不那麼遺憾

你都如何回憶我　帶著笑或是很沉默
這些年來　有沒有人能讓你不寂寞

永遠不會再重來　有一個男孩　愛著那個女孩

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0igPuDjYUE

Work and life are two quite different kettles of fish.

貌似中国社会越来越直接了，多少真实的人间故事就走着 屌丝 和 黑木耳 的套路。

I was harrowed by what I saw in the portrait and description of the life of aging parents with developmentally disabled child.

Plastic dog kennels look better than wooden ones.

Restaurants in China should begin to adopt the Western notion and practice of customers giving gratuities to waiters and waitresses.

Or some similar form of profit-sharing such as that they get a percentage of the profits.

Alberta, Canada is alleged by some media to possess a proven oil reserve which is 7 times bigger than that of Saudi Arabia.

Someone in Canada must be happily thinking, "release the kraken!"

Although the world is changing increasingly faster and it has created information overload for nearly everyone, you still want to spend time to mark the trends.

Canada's vast energy reserve has been unleashed.

Will this country of 30 million people be blindfolded by that and then only focus on the energy sector? I don't think so.

't is, 'tis, and 'a

It's relatively easy to guess that 't is  and 'tis mean it is, while it's not so to guess that 'a means he.