My poor wife’s vanity table is nearly 20 years old! We bought it when we got married, and it has done its service. In the intervening period, it has been removed three times; and each time the mirror looks like it will fall off! I think it’s held on by thin, short pieces of wood!…
There is typical confusion between the sounds of ‘i’ as in tin and ‘i:’ in teen. Teachers at school tell students that one is ‘short’ and the other is ‘long’, or at least that’s what students pick up. This results in mispronunciation of many words and some confusion for example between ‘bitch’ and ‘beach’, when…
Time was when a woman who couldn’t marry would end up a lonely spinster by her 30’s. Thank god those days are gone. But Taiwan seems to have taken the whole thing one step further… Or did Chen Wei-yih who finally planned the wedding day she’s been dreaming about since she was a young girl…
One of the things that bothers me in our community is the scrooge like behavior that’s taken hold off in the wake of the last economic downturn. While it’s a good thing when uncertainty abounds to know what you can cut out, our community has taken to turning off the lights in the parking garage:…
If you are looking for management jobs, then perhaps you really need to be cut out for stress. Today’s job was just horrible: I spent most of the day fighting machines, students, parents, customers, and by the end of it I was just really cranky. I don’t really think I’m cut out for the stress…
