Now the flip side of this whole kissing as exercise thing is that, like, hundreds of bacteria are exchanged in a kiss—so you know … she extended her arms in a balancing gesture, it's all risk-benefit and yeah, all in the name of philematology—that's the actual scientific term used for the study of kissing. Oh and get this, a woman has usually kissed about seventy-nine men before she finally settles and gets married.

The surface must be pinnable. Cardboard is the easiest surface on which to work. Buy a gridded folding cardboard cutting board or a gridded cardboard cutting table.

And although the Hong Kong linguistic landscape has Romanized Chinese, for example in business names, bilingual Chinese students had expressed to me on many occasions that they generally ignore English text, whether transliteration or translation.

The actress's role in the acclaimed drama finally put her on the map.