Year: 2014

  • Surprising Lessons from “The Ugly Truth”

    Surprising Lessons from “The Ugly Truth”

    Funny how a romantic comedy movie can impart useful life lessons.  These three things are the key takeaways from the movie, “The Ugly Truth.”

  • My First Impressions of Yoga at Love Yoga World

    My First Impressions of Yoga at Love Yoga World

    I could do a headstand – until I was about 10 years old. It was a valuable skill to have at that time.There was not much to do, anyway. No TV set. No fancy (even simple) toys to play with. Not even books other than old, thin, overused school textbooks. So, contorting our bodies became our…

  • Thoughts on The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury

    What can be cooler than a time travel story? (Maybe an illusion realised?)

  • 29 Questions I Still Ask Myself

    Three days before I get fully sentimental. I’m letting out 29 questions that I’m still asking myself.

  • What’s Your 2048 Strategy?

    2048 was spiteful. It keeps pouring 2’s and 4’s anywhere on the screen.

  • Free Figures of Speech Infographic

    Designing an infographic is addicting. After making an infographic about Phrasal Verbs, my desire to create more useful ESL lessons through infographics just won’t die. In fact, it keeps burning. Today, I’ve finished one infographic about Figures of Speech. I thought it’s delightful.

  • Phrasal Verbs Infographic via Piktochart

    What do you feel about infographics? For me, they’re fabulous! When I googled “infographics creator” last night, I found Piktochart on top of the search results. I gave it a try and here’s my first infographic! It’s about Phrasals or Phrasal verbs.

  • A Father’s Day Message

    Most fathers are under-appreciated, some are not even appreciated. My father perhaps falls in between. Maybe we can blame it on general gender divide: most men are action-oriented while lots of women are discussion-inclined. I rarely tell my father how much I love him, most recent was last May 24th on a less than 10-minute…

  • Orange is the New Black

    It’s official. I’m really starting to grow up. Situations which I used to judge as wrong or appalling now suddenly become less… unpleasant.

  • 10 Super Awesome Dad-Daughter Movies

    10 Super Awesome Dad-Daughter Movies

    No dad is perfect. Yet in these movies, they seem to be the most charming creatures on the planet. None of these fathers would have been super awesome without their charismatic daughters. Both are necessary elements to a unique and unforgettable tandem.