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The change of year Gregorian calendar or usually we call it as ‘new year’ identic with something called ‘resolution’. As I know days are same, they consist of 24 hours daylight and night, I wonder what kind of ’RE-solution’ people are talking about? Are they have problem that haven’t resolute yet a year before? Sometimes it crossed my mind as wishing, to get what they didn’t get it yet, if they did, it’s time to set another new goal then.

This year which will end up soon is a very special year, y

What do you know about Mother’s Day?

Mother’s Day is commemorated to appreciate the important roles of mother within family and social environment. Every 22 December Indonesia celebrate this day as Mother's Day, the date itself was determined by Soekarno (The first President of Indonesia) based on Indonesian’s histories and now I will not go into detail for the chronicle of Indonesia related to this theme. Generally some countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Mal

Education is the key for the success of an individual. I chose 'educator' as my word of the year for 2016 because it is my ultimate goal to be of service in the field of teaching. It sounds promising, isn't it? This club has inspired me to love English even more. I've learned to own it sans the negative notion that non-natives who are trying to emulate native speakers are fake. Ouch! Well, it doesn't matter as long as you have pure intentions to use English for your own self-improvement and care

With so much enthusiasm, I am proud to announce my WORD of the Year for 2016:   SAM

Yes, SAM will be a favorite word of my lips comes 2016.  She came to our house brought along by a veterinarian on the night of December 15.  After several instructions which I hardly understood, I came to accept SAM in my life.  Honestly, I am not really an animal lover but there was something between SAM’s eyebrows which told me to take pity on this little canine.  She tricked me with that pitiable look! 

She’s ba

Dear Tara here is my farewella fiesta (valediction), to you,  the "word of the year for 2016"

LOVE

My word of the year for 2016 is of course LOVE with all its modes and meanings.  This very emotional feeling, life aspect and the spirit, is the essential part of the "beings" created on earth.  When it prevails our dwellings becomes heaven, and when it replaced with other emotions, this earth becomes hell.  So to make our planet liveable LET LOVE TO PREVAIL ALL OVER  2016 and all the times to come.

It's not always so easy to choose one word from a vocabulary of 1 million. But we have to choose one for 2016 - another emoji won't do any more. 

I could have chosen the word 'change', but Tara has chosen it for the new year. I have to choose another one instead. My choice is this word: challenge. Yes, it was 'challenge' not 'change' that I chose.  

In the new year 2016, I may work in another hospital instead - far away from where I live now. I'll still save lives in hospital but in a totally diff

Good day folks, and I wish to participate in writing challenge. And I want to write about "Kolbasa", let me introduce this cute word to you so that you can understand better why I took it.

FAQ about "Kolbasa"

1. What "Kolbasa" means?

Kolbasa is russian word and in english translated as Sausage,  food usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef or veal, along with salt, spices and breadcrumbs, with a skin around it.

2. Why I write about it?

To be honest, I love it, adore eating it, almost cant ima

Yes, our administrator Tara is going to leave MyEC. She's got a new job, a full-time position, and she just announced the change in her new writing challenge. I'm so confused, too - it's the 'challenge' or the 'change' that we need to take. 

She was so sorry to leave MyEC, to leave all of you, but the word 'change' is the one she chose for the new year 2016. 

Maybe you can't believe it or you don't think it's true, but it's the 'change' that you have to accept at the moment, no matter how surprisi

Have you heard about Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year? This year it's not a word at all! It's the Tears of Joy Emoji. According to Oxford, this emoji best represents the moods and preoccupations of 2015.

This year is coming to a close, and it's time to starting thinking about 2016. Instead of writing New Year's resolutions, one entrepreneur recommends thinking of a Word of the Year to "be, do, and have". I'm going to try this for 2016, and I hope you'll join me. 

Your Task: 

1. Think about one

How I started blogging (writing)!

As I have told somewhere here in EC that I am in the habit of reading. I do not have interest to read any specific subject. I read whatever is in my reach, even the scrap of paper I pick up from the floor to throw away. This reading habit built a desire in me that I would write something, but what, I didn’t have any idea. Once I happened to visit a shrine, it was/is situated on the beach. I sat in a corner and looked at the crowds of the people men, women and chi

We all have own name and it is something, what identifies us. Anyway, do you know that in some countries people celebrate a Name Day? I mean like we celebrate own Birthday but just not in such grand style. A Name Day... maybe a word some of you might have no idea what it stands for, right? No worries guys, since we are here from the different cultures, various countries it is awesome we can exchange our traditions, so here I am with my blog about a Name Day.

A Name Day is mostly celebrated in man

One of my hobbies is making cookies. I didn’t know exactly when I was falling in love with this activity, but I supposed around 3 (three) years ago and I have been starting enjoying it. This is something that releasing ways of my stress and probably in the future I could be having business in this line. So, since then I have been collecting the recipes from internet and have exercised it by myself at home. Unfortunately I live faraway from my hometown, so I only cooked the recipes when I went h

Dear  Readers,

 To day I have a story for you all, Please give comment after reading this article, OK ?

        This experience was happened a year ago and told  by my friend  who teach  at the same school. After I listened this funny story, I directly tell to you through writing. My friend is called Nelly. She wears glasses like me because of the age. One day she felt  some thing wrong  with her glasses. when she was teaching , she felt blurred on her seeing. " Oh my God, my glasses has only one

Imagine you just seated yourself in the airport - waiting for boarding.  That's when you found yourself shaking your legs while seated watching, talking or listening. I just invented this word 'legshakin' for the movement of your legs. I know there's a Chinese word for such leg movement. What do you call it in English? Or can you invent a word yourself for the leg movement?

legshakin ∣noun∣ /legʃeikiŋ/

Example sentence: Legshakin can be so annoying or distracting, but can also be so beneficial for

Nobody is perfect and everybody makes mistakes. Well, I hope we all can agree on this. Anyway, what do you think: "How to face criticism without being hurt? Is it possible?" We can say without doubt that criticism activates our emotions. It is pretty individual because some people feel sad or useless, others pretend they don't care etc. I think that the way we percieve it also goes hand in hand with our self-esteem. People with low self-confidence might get totally destroyed by one negative sent

English language has very wide vocabulary; there is almost an equivalent for each word, so it is hard to make a new word in English.
I made the words “co-brother-in-law” and “co-sister-in-law” for men married sisters and women married brothers respectively, but when I searched online dictionaries, I found that these words have already been invented in English, of course they are uncommon in English and just used in South India.

Englishsick / adjective / ˈɪŋglɪʃˈsɪk

describes how melacholic someone is, because it's been missing to speak English with other for a long time, whether native or foreigner speaker.

Example: I don't speak English since I finished highschool. But, at the end of next year I will let my englishsick side go. I'll go back to Canada!

Englishsickness / noun / ˈɪŋglɪʃˈsɪknɪs

 describes the state of missing of speaking English with someone or a group of people for a long time.

Example: Even though, a few co

I used to enjoy buying books and subscribing to magazines - you bet most of them are about English learning. Not until recently, however, did I realize that I shouldn't keep buying such books or magazines any more.

I need to find time to reread some of the articles because I know I may have rushed things when there were so many articles to read.

Yes, it can be so boring to reread the articles which are not new or fresh. I tried to pick up an old magazine (published a couple of years ago) the other

Dear France,

Millions of people were in state of shock and sorrow when they heard the news about the terror attacks in your breath-taking city of lights - Paris.

You are one of the nations that never cease to give assistance whenever someone is in need. It's evident how you've supported my country especially during the onslaught of calamities. Who would have thought those ruthless killings could happen to your remarkable city? A city with rich culture, art, and fashion. Is this the price you've pa

1. Crackedbamboo (noun): We say about females who have harsh, a bit cracked, less sweet voice. But we use this word to describe a female not her voice quality. example, Lubna is a crackedbamboo ( we do not say lubna has a crackedbamboo voice!). In Bangoli it is 'Fatabash".

2. Hairfairy (noun): It is a girl or a young lady who has very long and beautiful hair. we say" Keshoboti konna" in Bangoli.