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Hi, just wondering if you can share with me board and online games you like? I've used the below for playing scrabble in English and it's not bad: Eliot - An Open Source software for playing Scrabble

Have you been to Paris? I'm not French actually, am here for my postgrad study. Will be in Paris for the 2nd time but this time I really want to make use of it to really see Paris. What would you do if you were in Paris? Am in the middle of exams and am looking for some inspiration about what to...

Hiya, how is the financial industry in Canada recently by any chance with the credit crisis debacle? Is the job market in finance contracting? For those who work in finance, do you use headhunters' services and if you do, which ones would you recommend? Toro, US' is rather in a dodgy situation...

I must admit I'm a little tired to hear this myth heaps of people believe that Chinese-Indonesians control like 70%, 80%, or even 90% (take your pick!) of the economy in Indonesia. And the image of Chinese-Indonesians being cold-hearted and evil, because of a conduct of this tycoon who held...

Présentation de l'expédition Tara Arctic Le voilier scientifique polaire Tara a commencé en septembre 2006, une dérive arctique qui durera un an et demi. La coque arrondie et plate de Tara lui permet en effet de résister aux pressions extrêmes exercées par la banquise et de se laisser porter...

Am wondering to hear perhaps from people who weren't born Canadian but became Canadian later. What I want to ask is whether the trend of companies in Canada is to grant working visa for non-Canadians they want to employ or the companies expect the non-Canadian potential employees to get Canadian...

I really hope this kind of thing will never happen in Canada... [B]

Was wondering what the reputation (say rank-wise, its strenghts, etc.) is like for HEC Business School in Montreal?

Apparently Skype has been crashed since yesterday which I did notice too when I was trying to contact some people abroad. Any other alternatives of reliable internet phone service out there by any chance?

Just read that The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 would mean people in Britain can now be detained without trial; even without being told the crime of which they are accused. This is the same implication in US too?

I am shocked to hear some news from an ex-colleague that another ex-colleague whom I expect the least to get married quickly is going to get married soon. I suppose a congrat is in order indeed, but it just bewilders me how she can get married sooner than other fantastic single women I know out...

Just curious since there are some Canadians here who live abroad it seems. Dublin here, soon to be Lyon from next week though.

Ever decided to change course of career say from office work to research or say from IT to finance (changed to a different industry)? What made you come to that decision? What is the result so far?

Hi, was wondering if you yourself or ever taught children who had/have reading difficulty. How did you teach yourself or these children (maybe your own or the ones you came in contact as a teacher/volunteer) how to read with this learning disability? I was volunteering fixing an elementary...

Know any recipes with heated milk?

Would you consider adopting a child say from a third world country where there are heaps of orphans?

From Irish Family Press: Thoughts?

From Irish Family Press: I remember I read in The Economist, this constitution that was already rejected before by Netherlands and I can't remember what else, maybe Sweden etc. is going to be submitted again with amendments that basically only to cover the points that were objected by these...

Ever had one? Ever heard anybody you know who told that kind of story? Maybe you can put it here. I was in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris going to transit to another plane to Lyon. Since the flight that took me to Paris and the flight that would take me from Paris to Lyon are of different...

Had any experience of teaching English to children of elementary school age? Also as a second language more importantly. But that probably doesn't really matter yet, as I'm more concerned whether it's important to start from teaching the grammar or not. Unfortunately the case here heaps of Irish...