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At this time of year we often write wish lists for our loved ones. On my wish list was a coffee bean grinder and a novel by Kate Morton called "The Secret Keeper". I also asked my daughter to learn a song for me (see below). It's from my favourite Christmas movie, "The Polar Express". I'm hoping she'll sing it at our Christmas Eve celebration tomorrow night. 

I thought it might be fun to create an EnglishClub wish list. What would you like to see added to EnglishClub/MyEC in 2013? More podcasts?

Story About My Painting - Flowers In The Separated Bowl

This is the painting which I learned about what it meant after 4 years of doing it.

Most of my painting; was done when I need to tell my story. Most of the time; I would just paint without thinking of the meaning. Most of my painting; has no direct image to represent what I was having on that particular time. Most of the time; the colours will comfort me during my bad days.

My friend visited me one day. Greet, sit, drink and chat.  When I talk

The time of school comes , the time of sadness comes . children go to their schools They race, fight playfully ,play practical jokes on one another, laugh with all their hearts. They are joyful .They remind me of you, dear. So I hurry to the market to bring you clothes ,pencils, colors , balls..as I did last year , but I forget to ask you , do you have schools , stars , windows ? …do you have fields to play because I know you were interested in playing … but today it is a pity to see your grave

Hello everyone,

It has been a while since I recorded my last voice blog. How have you been? I hope all is well with you. Yesterday I paid a visit to a high school. Since it is an agricultural and vocational school, you can find extensive land for fieldwork, and pasture for feeding livestock on the campus. Aside from those, it also has an ecological area where is planted with various plants, and has some creatures. Thanks to the trend of health awareness, many people like jogging, taking a walk, o

People who choose to see themselves as victims of their past, of circumstances, and of other people are unhappy people. People who choose to take full 100% responsibility for their own feelings of happiness and unhappiness are much happier than people who don't.

Likewise, people who have no spiritual connection, who do not believe in a higher source of love, wisdom, and power, are far more unhappy and anxious than those people who turn to a higher power for love and guidance.

People who believe th

The year is coming to an end. To blog about our experiences or great moments on MyEC would remind us how we're able to contribute our own little ways to make this site be continuously patronized and supported by many members regardless of their English levels or knowledge. This is also a reminder if improvements of learning the language are achieved, based on the goals that we set to ourselves.

I can say that my English has improved a lot if I'd compare it to the previous year. I know that I s

Hello Dear EC Friends :)

How are you?

Have you tried EC new tool bar for chat?

It is amazing!

It has a lot of parts.

You can check  Owais Sheikh's blog about it here.

(Thanks for writing about it Owais Sheikh)

But, please let me say about my first experience there.

When I opened EC this morning, I could talk for some of my nice friends and one of them was Scarlett. I'm sure that many of you know her and her kindness. She is a new face in EC who is very nice girl. I had a lovely time with her and by usi

So many people around are getting ready for celebrating Christmas :) Schools had their parties and offices had their parties :) 

I hope everyone is enjoying this time, being with families and friends :) 

Here it's very cold today and will be cold tomorrow as well. So I have to keep warm and happy :) 

Cheers everyone and see You around 

Of the 100 terms most searched this year on UrbanDictionary.com, Aaron Peckham, the website's founder, says approximately 80 have been consistently popular year after year. But 20 are newly fashionable in 2012. Words like, derp, yolo, brony and romnesia made the cut

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/12/test-your-vernacular-the-most-popular-slang-of-2012.html

The 2012 elections also made for a bountiful harvest of new political expressions. So let’s close the year by taking a look at some of its lexical highlights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/opinion/sunday/the-words-and-expressions-of-2012.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Dear friends , 

Let me use this few lines to express my current happiness. 

Due to the fact that I come from a very very humble family, when I was child I never expected to travel abroad. Actually, I didn't even imagine I could get on a plane. It wasn't my first time travelling by  plane but an International trip? Never, and Russia? WOW 

Yes, finally, after saving money, making lots of sacrifices,  trying to tight my  belt, wearing the same clothes during the whole year, and so on , I could pay my

New from Larry Ferlazzo :: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/11/15/the-best-words-of-the-year-features-for-2012/

Christmas is approaching, preparations are on large scale, irrespective of many blows people are ready to welcome the thoughts of Jesus Christ. 

Lets imagine what would happen if all GOD like personalities like Jesus, Krishna, Allah, Buddha & many more take birth again to check what has happened to their work across the world. They will obviously focus on what is going wrong as they are not worried about whats going in the right way. May be they will come across the following: (there can be excep

I have located a strong correlation between personality development and economic theories as a part of Xplore Theory. (This theory is kept as open source on EC for people to use and experiment). Following is an exercise to check if we can locate any / many points related with personality development and economics. You may try to share, when you locate.

Definition of Robbins:

• Economic is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends (wants) and scares means which have altern

My life was as a freelance farm consultant travelling worldwide.  I taught English when and where I could to help local communities.     I retired from farming - though I miss it terribly - and taught English Conversation in the Khon Kaen area of Thailand.   I have recently moved to Chonburi province and hope to teach here privately - too old by Thai government regulations to teach officially !?   I would like to hear from anyone, anywhere about anything.

Take care everyone.   Ian

My body aches. My mind is numb. Memory quick as a flash. The madness in my head is slowly building again. What is this cushion? Is it made of wool? It smelled of stale humidity the whole night. A voice spoiled the madness in my head. “Everybody wake up. We’re at the bay.” Everybody? Damn! I could only see an old man - a pitiful, old man like the ship’s berth itself.

I was still left dumbfounded by what happened yesterday. I wish my subconscious would explain it for me. There was a question I want

we can think of promoting `world peace` as single most key value to bring in `real` prosperity to not only mankind but also to the entire living being. 

Peace has a power much bigger than violence. No once likes violence except `the rulers`. violence is `man made (or `ruler made` to be specific)  and peace is `natural`. There are many brains carrying great ideas about `how` world peace can be achieved. Some are openly fighting the mighty rulers, some are writing books and poems, some are planning

This is a very small experiment, which we introduced in our learning programs. 

We often comment or come across the dialog "I have a problem, there are many problems we are facing in the company, the person is really a problem, how to solve this problem, when can I come out from financial problems, our government itself is a big problem, machine is problematic one.

Just try to replace the word `problem` by `challenge` for the simple reason that `problem` represents negative energies and `challenge

This incident happened in southern Siberia а few days ago. In our area, the temperature is -40 deg C (-40 deg F too) now.

Two elephants of a Polish circus were being transported in a huge truck. Then the truck caught fire.

Then the trainer took out the elephants and run around a field with them to keep the poor animals warm.

After the elephants were put into a warm garage, he gave them water spiked with vodka. And the animals howled as if they were in a jungle!

As a result, the elephants did not suf