Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

What would you do to employ tedious hours or kill time? How about puzzles or brainteasers? This week, let us solve interesting riddles. Don’t be so serious or overthink to solve these riddles. 😊   1.    What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?   2.    Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?   3.    What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?   4.    What ends everything always?   5.    When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?   6.    A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?   7.    The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?...

Most of us have one wish in common in life: “ to be happy ” Although I myself am still working on the definition of ‘being happy’, I know for sure that happiness is not lying in comparing me and others. It is found in what I am, what I have, and where I stand right here and now. This week, let us brush up on some idiomatic expressions that are related to or describing the feeling of happiness. (source from https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/7-happy-idioms       &   http://www.grammar.net/top-22-idioms-about-joy-and-happiness) 1.    to be on cloud nine : extremely happy when something wonderful happens. 2.    like a dog with two tails: to look and be very happy. 3.    to be full of the joys of spring: When you are jubilant, energetic, cheerful and happy. 4.    to be as happy as Larry: When you are as happy as Larry, you are, of course, very happy. But who is Larry? N...

Life is… by Jean Lee a lonely stroll in the canopy sometimes shiny with woodnotes, oftentimes hairy as a mapless navigation, full of balmy breeze like a soft pat on your tired back, tainted by unwanted noise from passers-by, celebrated with ephemeral flame around a bonfire, fascinated at something new in each twists and turns, paused by thoughts and doubts at a forked road, continuing with hopes, regrets, confidence, turbulence, love, peace, …. and remembered by one or two                   who will always keep you at heart,  who will not judge your paths, and who will be proud of you for just being you