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I’ve often noticed people in various tube stations trying to sell their used day travel card after they finished their journey, I thought it’s a clever and easy way to recoup some travel expense. So, today, after I finished my train journey and checked out, I looked around at the entrance of Stratford tube station […]

I’ve recently started reading the famous book ‘How to win friends and influence people’ by Dale Carnegie, because I feel Im too retarded at dealing with people. As I read the book, I came cross one section particularly interesting. I think it illustrates a good point, so I quote the section here to share it […]

Look at these wonderful long legs. Maybe he’s a terrible dictator but at least you’ve got to give him some credit for his taste of females.

Lots of people in China want to move to the west because life is often considered to be easier in those countries. But now I’ve actually discovered that lots of monks also want to move overseas. In fact, lots of them want to move to Canada because Buddism is getting hot in Vancouver these days […]

I’ve just read something funny on a Chinese website. Recently, a popular comedy star from China went on a tour to US with his team of actors. But without being aware of the vast cultural differences between China and US, his actors repetitively made fun of physically handicaped, mentally retarded and fat people in his […]

According to recent Census Statistics from the HK government, the average life span of people in HK have actually now overtaken Japan to become the longest in the world with men expected to live an average of 79.5 years and women to 85.6 years. But this is just counter-intuitive to me, how come people live […]

I know I can be very stupid sometimes (usually because of my bad memory), but at least I wouldn’t expect to forget the username of this blog. Well, actually this was exactly what happened today. It again reminded me how stupid I can be sometimes.
It all happened because I was no longer automatically signed in […]

I used to think YouTube is mostly about young kids making loads of crap videos, but now I’ve just discovered there are actually lots of elderly people also on the site. In fact, I think humble and elderly people tend to make much better videos. Lots of their videos are just so raw, original and […]

English language is hot in China. Actually, speaking English is considered to be quite fashionable among urban Chinese nowadays. The fact that the younger generation is devoting huge amount of time learning the language has raised the question of whether it is worth it. It is ture that learning a foreign language can be very […]

Yesterday, I watched a section of a rather interesting TV programme, but I can’t remember the name of it now. Anyway, it was probably about a bunch of chavs that were taken to Italy to visit a big opera house, they were so impressed by the grandness of the place, upon entering the house some […]