It's been reported that almost every parent in the Western societies is harried by time pressure day in and day out.

'Eight-Section Brocade' is an excellent English translation of the “八段锦” in Chinese.

Oh, my corny little gedit.

Well, the pedigreed Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Here and there, there seems to always be a man who mistakenly believes that to act violently makes him be a hell of a man.

Adoptive parents are not like blood parents.

Some of them rehomed their adopted children. But, that's a very complex issue with complicated reasons and motives. One cannot simply call that rehoming inhumane.

It seems that poppy petals often appear in Western ceremonies and movies.

The English verb 'administrate' has got exactly the same meaning as 'administer', where 'contest' hasn't as 'challenge'.

Laugh at me. I'm afraid that much of the pop culture stuff is just corn.

I've been keeping culling my RSS feeds, as well as my social media and email subscriptions. But they are still overflowing.

Many are observing the predicament which most Muslim countries are now in.

CBC's Rex Murphy publicly said that the lately allegedly scandalous Jian Gomeshi is "double-faced", who is another CBC host.

Did Jian Gomeshi fake out the public? On the other hand, did some of the claimers fake out?

L went from being bony to being just slim during his fifties or so.

It's usually more taxing to earn a living furnished with more than bare essentials.

Simple doesn't mean drab.

That's why I don't understand why the English word 'corny' has got a derogatory meaning, among others. Personally I always consider corn to be a delicious staple food.

It may be the reality in North America that many people abuse antidepresssants somehow.

J's been getting his act together for a long time.

It's sad to see people's body sizes becoming grosser and grosser in North America.

I normally don't cull the movies manufactured by Hollywood.

"And death is gaseous and gruesome".

That's what the role acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman said in the film The Savages.