There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a bag full of nails and said to him, “My son, I want you to hammer a nail into our garden fence every time you need to direct your anger against something and you lose your temper.” So the son started to follow his father’s advice. On the first day he hammered in 37 nails, but getting the nails into the fence was not easy, so he started trying to control himself when he got . As the days went by, he was hammering in less nails
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We have an over 4 year-old daughter, we live in a big and crowded city. Everyday, we send her to a kindergarten near 1 km to our house where there are about 100 children cared in a 5 floor building with ground-size of 200 m2, without greens and open-space for them to play.
On the days-off, she stays at home with us in a four-wall space full of sounds, images, lights of TV and polluted by dirty air from street outside. Not similar to what I used to have, her childhood now is being flooded with chi
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It's a rare chance for me to meet with people who want to learn my national language, Bahasa Indonesia. The language is less popular than English or Spanish. So, I won't expect to see many people want to learn it. But, I accidentally found people from various countries who are learning my national language.
They are learning to improve their writing in Bahasa. And we, Indonesians change our roles there. We become the native speakers that could correct their writing in exchange for correction on o
Thinking about Time
Have you ever thought about time…how sometimes we have too little and sometimes we have too much?
Why is that I wonder? Why is it, when we need more, we have run out and when we have too much, we don’t know what to do with it?
Let’s think for a moment about a little baby. Do you think they think about time as they wait to be fed, changed or played with? Do babies “watch the clock” the way an older person sitting alone in their room watches the hands of the clock move ever so slo
Not long ago, I attended an office meeting that consisted of mainly male associates. There was a younger partner who had the floor and was speaking from a place where the sun doesn't shine (anatomically speaking). About half way through his presentation, I woke up and saw the mood his words were creating around the room. Believe me, it wasn't a pretty sight. Usually, I sleep during these boring quarterly meetings. God knows what inspired this native speaker to stand up and utter the words that c
A little note from me. Someone pointed out to me that it was not supposed to be Rin Tin Tin - for the comic. It was supposed to be called Tin Tin. Forgive me if I gave the wrong impression. I was talking about the Belgian Comic Book. Some people may call it Tin Tin. But for me, it was always Rin Tin Tin. Anyway, whether it was Tin Tin or Rin Tin Tin, I will be forever grateful for my English Hero.
I love reading. As far as I could remember, I would always have a book, magazine or even a comic in
Maybe you have felt or even said,
"No one visits my page or leaves comments for me"
Is this you?
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Don't be sad, be active on MyEC. If you become very active and treat your friends the way you want to be treated, you will be popular and also begin to improve as a person and hopefully as an English student.
We sometimes get a message from a friend on MyEC complaining that their friends don't comment or say hello. PLEASE DON'T MESSAGE US ABOUT HOW NO ON
i'm always trying to be strong for explain how i am ,that's a little bit of a lot of things i was trying to explain to some people who cares but...nobody listens nobody cares....ect
So i choose shut up and keep my fellings inside,and let them see just my flesh and blood and that what they want to see..but i learnt something that life is cruel .
~~~~~~ Chapter 3 ~~~~~~
Fifteen years later.
"Lina .... you work too hard". Lina had to smile upon hearing that voice. Saufiq had been saying that to her for the past few years.
She looked up and gestured at Saufiq to sit. "We are supposed to go out for lunch, remember? You promised me." Saufiq pretended to whine.
"In a minute. I need to answer this important e-mail." She tried to sound stern, but it was hard. She could not help from keeping a
"This short story is dedicated to Tara Benwell who showed me that I can write something totally alien to me. To Mickey for always come up with many interesting stories. To my dearest friends, Grape and Eric who first motivated me to write. To all my EC friends, thank you for the friendship."
"Knock, knock". Just looking at that simple words, suddenly my dreadful day seems to be of the past.
"Where have you been?" I asked.
"I haven't seen you in a few days."
"Are you okay?" I know I was bombarding h
My dairy is now full of your poems ,
sometimes...
in absence of mind I turn out the pages..
search my existence in your poem...in your complements,
like to lose myself in your poem....
Now my dairy is full of your poems.
I just had a midterm, and I decided to share my self-made flashcard with you guys. Enjoy.
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1- Verbs of Perception (that can be followed by either an infinitive without "to" or an -ING form):
To see
To feel
To hear
To overhear
A. Did you see that stuntwoman do/doing a parachute jump on TV yesterday ?
B. I heard your uncle say/saying that he is terrified of heights.
C. I could feel the man stare/staring at me.
D. I overh
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
Sometimes life is not easy, sometimes we don't take it easy
Sometimes life is hard, but even harder to walk in others shoes
Sometimes we have to give our shoulder when we actually need one
Sometimes we have to try to be a rainbow, when we are in the middle of rainy cloud
Sometimes we are the candle, who burn ourselves to light the way
Sometimes the better way to live is to love than to be loved
Take it easy...
Sometimes, some time is a perfect time, why don't we live it more often sometime?
Chapter 1 : Please read here
~~~~~~ Chapter 2 ~~~~~~
That was yesterday.
When she needed him the most, he was not there for her. She knew she was being irrational. It was not his fault that he was not there when her parents had broken her dreams. It was not his fault that he was leaving when they had promised to study in the same university. It was not her parents’ fault that they were poor. It was not her parents fault too that she was the first born. It was not her parents faults that she had to
I fell in love with LIE and LAY and in a while they both became mine!
TO LIE _LAY_LAIN (to recline)
TO LAY _LAID _LAID (to place)
My Dear EC friends, I want to introduce you with a rather pleasant and useful story, my request is the following , please read it carefully and before making any conclusions , read it one more time!
This morning I lay in my ‘’swanlike’’ bed so long I was late for my lessons ..I laid my clothes out the night before so I thought I would be able to sleep a bit longer. I was
hello everybody
here is my favorite dish, I really love eating shrimp and enjoy it
what about yours ... share a photo of it.. if possible
sweety
Hello dear readers, this week I'm inspired to write something about travels, and to kick off on this subject I decided to talk about "hints" to go almost unnoticed as a tourist in the following destinations: London, New York and Paris. So, let's start right now that!!!
# 1 destination city: London
tip 1: Don't go out with no umbrella;
tip 2: Practise your good manners. Always say thank you and "excuse me" all the time;
tip 3: Never eat a "kebab"on the London streets. It's highly unlikely
Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Blog Train! Today is May 6th at 6am in China.
In case you don't know what a blog train is, I will tell you. A Blog Train is where one person starts a story and others add to it. Not comment on it, but ADD TO IT.
For instance, I would start a story. The title of the story is "Mary had a Little Lamb".
I will start: Mary had a little lamb.
Another person might add: Mary and her lamb lived on a farm outside of a small town.
The next person might add: Everyday M
