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Observation Tuesdays – iPhone and the kid's descriptions

I do a few things on my iPhone that when the children describe them surprise the living daylights out of[…]

A long time ago (January 1993), in China, Barbra, who taught English as a second language at RMIT, said that[…]

I came across this written on a piece of paper on a bench in the stationary section of Kinokuniya in[…]

I remember my Australian friends gleefully telling me how English is better than say German, because in German you need[…]

I was watching a shuttle launch live a month or two back. One of the controllers said, god speed. I[…]

courtesy of wiktionary. Pretty straight forward and obvious. Why is knowing this a problem? Noun Singular redneck Plural rednecks redneck[…]

In the industry I work in LOS means loss of signal, though strangely Wikipedia does not understand this. Los may[…]

Quite some time ago, I decided to try out a housing agency. (Melbourne in the late 1980s.) I had no[…]

I come from a Chinese Malaysian background and spent my early life in the newly separated Singapore. For chinese people[…]

People keep on telling me that to like the french is to want to have an affair. They also say[…]