Instead of rushing through the syllabi at breakneck speed with boring drills, I encourage all my students to ask me questions, any questions, about English, especially topics ou...

PoRiBlog, Christine, 開心媽咪, Nicole, yours truly, and Little Creature... ...and, Isis, Chestnut Girl, and the two gentlemen, who will make their YBlog debut some other time...

Another Heartless Blog Saturday, December 20, 2008 243pm:           1.         A m...

This is a poster in one of my neighborhood tutorial centres, advertising its list of English classes. Naive English Course?    Way to go, Charlie!&n...

Chicken Little Journalism If you read the papers or watch TV news reporting recently, you’d think that the sky is falling, with no end in sight.  The media report onl...

There is a program on Jade TV every Sunday called 城市論壇 .  You could always tell who, or which special interests are powerful and influential in Hong Kong by noting the ...

Potpourri, pronounced /,pə℧p℧’ri:/, with the [t] silent, meaning “a bit of this, and a bit of that”. Day, Swing, & Graveyard Here’s a term I haven’t seen translated correctly ...

The content of this blog may be considered “heartless” by some.  I am sure by some standards, I am indeed quite heartless. Tai Lin’s liquidation sale last week got a lot ...

(this blog contains spoilers for those who haven’t seen the film but plan to) Last weekend, LC and I were going to see Quantum of Solace.  Then LC heard from friends tha...

Potpourri 3.MP3 - YV-150   Others have written blogs about UK and US English expressions so I am not interested in duplicating their efforts.  However, there are so...