Why is there a need for clowns to make people guffaw and hoot?

It appears there're cosplay parties every weekend in Montreal.

"Barista" and "ballerina" both are English words imported from Italian.

How many people should be mortified by the shallowness of their life, albeit this is a free society?

People increasingly have to hopscotch from one career to another.

Isn't it bad?

I've got one or two pairs of fat jeans.

I hope I'll never grow into them again. :-)

Monuments remind in the physical world, while canonical books remind in the mental world.

Well, "pick flowers" is not authentic English, which was what I used to think it is.

It's an expression in Thai, instead! See http://thaitranslation.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/polite-v-vulgar-part-two-bodily-functions/ .

Nowadays I'm slightly disinclined to get social with friends.

I've got so many ideas over how to spend my time.

My daughter is an apple monster.

She's eager to eat apples almost everyday.

How many English sentences have I writ in my life?

Education, for my money, is ever more democratic.

The verb "import" has got an archaic meaning - "express, state".

Wormwood is mysterious because of its link to absinthe.

Only business innovators can jump the queue in competition.

Isn't "rendezvous" a better word than "appointment"?

There are two types of Americans. One are secular ones, the other godly ones.

I still don't get why so many Canadians are so crazy about "nutritional" supplement PILLS, such as antioxidants, sold in PHARMACIES.

They are not natural, they are man-made pills!

Here goes an interesting interactive website about the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S.A:

http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction .

One of my acquaintances had a vertigo at home the other week.

Old people are fragile.