home,"my wife said, "You’d be sorry if you had an accident on the first day,wouldn't you"While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English, "Would you mind telling me when you are thinking of leaving Or are you going to sit in your car all ...
Of course, characterizing hunting this way blurs many lines. To some, shooting animals cannot possibly be an environmentally friendly activity. The existence of “hipster hunters" is also limited by cultural attitudes toward guns. It's almost impossible to legally own a hunting weapon in Brooklyn...
as Kimi and his Ferrari race engineer got lost in translation regarding his disconnected drinks pipe. “No, no, Kimi, no, you will not have the drink,” has since been added to the list of iconic Kimi-related lines.
a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas ( or another fue) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat --- at the generator, through the transmission(传送) lines, etc. ...
“Johann Klee, thank you, and we’ll get this ready for him.” “Good.” She whirled and raced out, threading the needle between a scrawny man in brown overalls and one of the sales ladies. The pair, deep in a conversation about something related to small motors and pumps, ignored her...
I’ve been preoccuped this week with recent developments back home which make what I am doing probably illegal in my home country. Which makes me even more compelled to blog about it. The Philippine government has enacted into law Republic Act 10175 or also known as the “Cybercrime Preventio...
Mascots, athletic Japanese, and evolution denial uncategorized Butterflies, and English: The silent language uncategorized Bribes, German, parental figures, and inter-cultural lunch uncategorized Honey on tap: Beekeeping innovation for a modern age ...
Indeed, smartphone seems to be useful in various situations, for instance, chatting with a friend far away or killing time when waiting in lines even checking if you drop an "u" in the word "quick". People, actually, including me, sometimes read something that comes from almost everywhere ...
Why yes, I am arbitrarily changing the rules of this countdown in the middle (at the beginning) of it, and expanding it out to broader China. For one thing, I can do what I want. For another, I have not written a single thing about the places we’ve been in China, and now we...
His immediate___was in English, “These guys are not educated and so they don’t___time.”While he was speaking, at the back of my mind I was___why a rickshaw driver could speak English so___. When I was thinking about this, he again started talking with me and what he said r...