I used to squash and mince garlic for cooking. Now I just slice it.

A winter carnival simply means a winter festival.

I moan and groan about information overload.

"Yard", "yarn", and "gage" are all simple words which are used often in old English.

Last week, a water main broke in downtown Montreal, and it caused a deluge and then ice all over.

Montreal's infrastructure will need to be upgraded.

Courtyard provides a good additional function to a building.

For toddlers, Souri Mini makes nifty snow suits, but it seems they don't sell really warm mittens.

For parents with a toddler, household chores can often eat up almost a moiety of their waking hours.

By way of learning by doing, one can be seized of all the necessary skills and assets to make a successful biz, as long as he works hard and is courageous but doesn't get over-confident.

Everyone has moments of "monkey see, monkey do".

Some people squash their cardboard boxes before recycling. Then you know they care.

The ratification of Americans' gun ownership is by no means clear enough in the United States Constitution, it's been reputed.

"The wind moaned in the trees" is such a widely adopted expression in the English language.

You see that many people have used it: http://goo.gl/IJu6A .

Deposit is there to be forfeited in case of breaching a promise.

One shall not kill another. It's ratified by law and morality.

But then, caveats come in. What if in a war? What if the law is corrupt and does not carry justice? And so on.

Samsung has become so nifty and nimble.

Apparently, South Korean industries have soared beyond the other 3 Asian Dragons. Taiwan has got some serious troubles with its almost out-of-mode PC component industries, and with its HTC's market share being taken by Samsung.

Amazon has gone gangbusters in recent years.

And Jeff Bezos has been touted as a genius.

The additive process of increasing my English vocabulary has been taking me at least three years.

All in all, it has to be done by learning new words one by one.

It's said that the old-fashioned brand names Pierre Cardin and Montgut are out of mode.

It's inevitable that people in Montreal must squash through the mud of melted snow for multiple times every year.

That's life.