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A．There's nothing interesting on TV.
B．I'm so bored.
A．Hey. I've got an idea. Let's check out the new 24-hour driving range.

A．Any suggestions?
B．I've got an idea.
A．Great. Tell us about it.

A．Do you have any activities for children?
B.　We have many exciting activities. Horseback riding, treasure hunting, and sand castle building, to name a few.
A．That sounds like fun.

A．Do you like music?
B．Yes, I do. I like classical music. How about you?
A．I like all sorts of music. Jazz, hip-hop, and reggae, to name a few.

A．Are you breaking up with her just like that?
B．Yes. Just like that.
A．I'm speechless.

A．This stew is delicious.
B．Thanks. It's very easy. You just put everything in a slow cooker and cook for about 2 hours.
A．Just like that?

A．How was the game?
B．Horrible. I got a yellow card, and we lost 2-0.
A．That's too bad. Better luck next time.

A．Did you make it?
B．No, I didn't. But it was very close.
A．Better luck next time.

A Knitting Technique Called "Saki-ami"

Knitting is one of my hobbies, but in recent years, I haven't made anything.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, wool costs money. And second, the things I made were often unfashionable, unusable, and not as good as the same item bought from a shop. As for my success rate, I’d estimate it to be around 30%. Then, this year I came across a different kind of knitting technique called, "Saki-Ami" while watching a TV program on handcrafts. The knitting process is the same, but the yarn is different. It’s made from cut up cloth. I was interested in it because I thought I could use it to transform old, worn-out things into something new. I had a lot of clothes that I didn't want to wear any more as well as a lot of fabric that my mother had collected over the years, and passed onto me.

So that it wouldn't matter if it failed, I chose some things that I didn't particularly care about, and tried making something. As soon as I started knitting, the cut up cloth underwent a transformation. All the dirt, stains and discolorations seem to disappear, and the end result wasn’t that bad. I loved doing it, and started to cut up lots of old clothes to make yarn. It was a little difficult to do, but I found the whole process somehow soothing. The biggest thing I've made so far is a rug more than a metre in diameter. Made of cotton, it's perfect for a nap in the sweaty season. Actually, I wanted to make it a little bigger, but I gave up because I’d run out of materials - Saki-Ami requires a surprising amount of cloth, and I couldn't bring myself to cut up anything that could still be used.

We can make up our own philosophical theory based on every thing around of us in the world
For example, it may be such an ordinary math-formula as
"my fortune is my health divided by my wishes and customs"

F = h / (w+c)

Health is the numerator there and it's rather obviously that at first I must increase and keep my body's skill up.

But yet I can decrease the total quantity of my wishes and customs representing a divisor till it comes to number 1.

At second, I realize that this 1 is still a regular number and so I might even go so far towards ZERO getting irregular values lying between 1 and 0 for my habits
and if I move decreasing it step-by-step then finally I've got ZERO!

Generally, I remember that any number divided by zero gives infinity as a quotient.of the math expression, meaning that the value of my fortune is being equal to infinity too.

Ok, it should be noted that the wishes and customs may be colored with the signs +plus and -minus as well, and in the negative case, it denotes some part of egotism and evils my thoughts and actions contain.