Ten points/pointers to amuse or to entertain YOU with thoughts

1. When life serves a person with a lemon,do make lemonade as a matter of positive attitude.

2. Roses have thorns but thorns have roses. Look at the bright side in things for economic utility e.g. satisfaction. Everything is ontologically beautiful to appreciate aethetics.

3. Sounds may be stretched as musical tones such as the Chinese language being offered at www.Dictyon.net .

4. Mind may be stretched for meditation. Chinese language is filled with insinuations as culture. Meditation is beneficial for the mind with healthy mindset to be cheerful with upbeat joy.

5. Oysters do not give to charity. They are shellfish e.g. sounds like selfish,ignoring eleemosynary activities.

6. One day has 1440 minutes for repeated addition e.g. 24 times 60. It is up to the individual to allocate time resource judiciously. Daily Function may be sleep,work and leisure 8+8+8 over 24 hours( time constraint) for any adjustment as one sees fit. Time-savvy?
7. Spring can be a season or a coil of metal. It is the interpretation. Subway may be a sandwich outfit or the underground transportation. It depends!

8. A ventriloquist may or may not be a speaker of the Chinese language. If one knows the meaning of the word,the meaning is obvious. In Pin Yin system of romanization:"You kou ji zhe."

9. My sister is endowed with a large nose: a mark of a witty, courteous, affable and generous. Perhaps I share the same genes from the same parents?!

10. Skim Milk was used by Shakespeare in two of his plays: "King Henry IV,Part 1," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Such citation may not be incorrect?!

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a lifelong learner of American English,an admirer of Mark Twain and a student of Sino-American Economics in humor.

Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 at 2.22 p.m.