A few days ago, while walking down the street, I happened to overhear two construction workers talking. On the opposite side, they were leaning against the barrier, cigarette smoke curling slowly upward into the sky. At first, only scraps of their conversation reached me, but then—almost as if someone had… Read More
Imagine this: you spend years building a thriving community of 100,000 followers on Instagram, while the same content on YouTube barely gets a few hundred followers and practically zero views. Sound familiar? I was in that exact situation. For years, I created videos explaining English idioms using 10-30 second clips… Read More
I remember the Commodore 64 era. That distinctive, unmistakable sound of the tape deck loading a game, and the vibrant tension as I waited for the screen of scurrying, pixelated ants to finally become a world I could play in. And I remember the frustration of being stuck on a… Read More
This will be a short post. Just a two-minute rant. Not overthinking, not analysing – just a little grumbling about how annoying it is when someone is careless, lazy, or simply stupid. Translating a movie is a huge job. English is full of expressions that are extremely hard to translate… Read More
Why do so many people believe “everything was better in the past”? Why do they even believe it was different? My son’s grandparents are about the same age as I am – my wife is only one year younger than my daughter from my first marriage – so I constantly… Read More
I like sitting in the park. I used to play a game where I’d try to figure out people’s stories from the few words I caught from their conversations as they walked by. Where did they come from? What do they do? Are they married? Secret lovers? These days, people… Read More
If you’re starting to read this, it either means you have way too much time on your hands, or you don’t yet know what this is. Don’t worry, in either case you won’t regret anything — at worst you’ll waste a few minutes of your life. You would have squandered… Read More