I teach my students how to make a presentation in English. This is a good method to teach how to make slides, together with providing them with an opportunity to speak in English. (Yesterday I did it myself to show supposedly^^ a good exam…

3 days ago, all of a sudden, right before I went to bed, when I got up from my chair, I felt a stinging pain in my lower back. I didn't care so much and slept. Next morning I found it a bit hard to get up on the bed because of the pain. It…

North Korea tested a nuclear bomb yesterday. Come to think about it, this April, it launched a rocket which flew over Japan to somewhere no one knows. Although the communist country insisted that it was a communication satellite, it can be…

Yesterday my wife took me out to see a movie titled Gran Torino, saying it was critically acclaimed. These days movies have become a casual and purse-friendly entertainment especially when you are old. If you are a married couple and one o…

Plato thought that this world is like a shadow projected on a wall in a cave. We live in the cave just looking at the shadows. We think the shadows are our only reality. But what is it that cast the shadows? Plato thought it is the real re…