Too low vocabulary to say what you mean? No such thing. We can make up words.

The idea to create word from scratch may not sound like our traditional way of learning English - but the power of new words should not be discounted.

I was in for a big surprise when my daughter told me yesterday how the teacher gave them a lesson to craft DIY words. Her class has come up with new words. They are interesting. So interesting, in fact, that I decide to jot down here.

Imagine paying to enter a café with uncomfortable chairs and without Wi-Fi. Why would people line up in the Toronto cold for a table in such unusual café named Snakes & Lattes?

There's nothing special about their food and drinks. The Snakes & Lattes café attracts guests by their board games.

Board games are almost laughably simple, yet endlessly fascinating: half mentally entertaining, half socially interactive experience. Go there and you'll be able to select any game out of the café'

The great thing about budget travel is minimalist travel style, including bare-bones, smelly backpacker lodging.

I still remember my Youth Hostel Association membership card which worked like magical phrase "open sesame" during my university days. That worked well from Vancouver to Lake Louise, and Interlaken to Luzern. When I was a student, I could not afford hotel and, obviously, didn't have Airbnb. What I needed was pretty basic at that time: dorm beds, linen and kitchen. Most are lacking in ambience

As we navigate the pandemic, everything is new. We don't know what's under each rock. We don't know the path ahead. This, I believe, is why we are panic-stricken.

But as we get along, and the patterns become more obvious, we find the storyline predictable.

I guess that's the reason I borrowed Geraldine Brooks’s novel Year of Wonders . A story of the plague year, 1666, when we heard about how breathing would

The word uncertainty is loaded with negative connotations. Or much in the way that American psychologist Virginia Satir would say, "People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty."

One reason the word uncertainty lands on my head is a mysterious patient of mine. A colleague of mine, and a nice guy who had attended the same high school as mine. He had been having a condition called FUO. To say your patient had a FUO is like saying you bumped into a UFO. Mysterious, yes,