Despite the advent of electronic swipe cards to pass through a door, it is still argued that the manual door knobs remain the best. Why?
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As my maiden overseas travel, I was doubly excited when the plane landed at the Honolulu International Airport in Oahu Island, Hawaii, USA (Figure 1).
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Ordering food in a restaurant should be a straightforward business. But not when there’s language barrier, and a menu card is written in a Chinese
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An empty toilet bowl in a prestigious hotel is certainly a necessity – but a harmless bathroom fixture. I have provided a photo below so
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One seemingly familiar English word may have multiplicity of meaning, depending on the context and place it is spoken. Although I’ve had confusions in my
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If you perceive that Asians are conservative about sex, think again. These conversations among professional academicians, researchers and scientists suggest that they are as liberated – if not at par – with their more open-minded westerner counterparts. It happened in Beijing, China, in October 1995.
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Due to an unavoidable need in 1989, I was forced to use an automated public toilet for the first time. This incident took place in Ashford, Kent, England. Tinkering with the toilet’s electronic gadgets, however, resulted in unintended, yet humorous consequence.
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One should pay particular attention to the full title of a movie before purchasing a ticket at the booth. Otherwise, there could be an embarrassing consequence when you actually watch the film. In 1996, I entered the wrong movie house in Brisbane, Australia, because of the confusion regarding ‘Dead Man’ title.
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