ESL Blogs

Lately I have come across here many so called "blogs", which I wouldn't be able to call the blogs even in my wildest dreams, so let me tell you in short my opinion about something I am able to call THE BLOG.

In your blog you can write about what you do lately, what is just right now bothering you, what you have experienced, about your hobbies, places you have visited, people you admire, you can share poem you composed etc. Blogging is about expressing yourself, your opinions, ideas on particular

This is the continuation of my previous blogs of the same title.

1. My Bangkok Excursion - Day 1

2. My Bangkok Excursion - Day 2

My second day, well technically my third day, started very early. My friend had no choice but to be up very early because we had to be at the hotel lobby at 7.00 am for the trip to the Floating Market. We were told that the trip to the Floating Market was going to take only about 1 and 1/2 hour, but, honestly, I believed it was more than than.

It was an interesting road tr

Winter is here and I feel once more again like a little girl because snow has without doubt mysterious impact on me.

Everytime when I see the snowflakes falling down lazily, something magical wakes up inside of me.

I even don't know what exactly it is, be it the excitement or the happines, I just know that the Queen Winter has decided to visit my place this year.

There are so many breathtaking moments starting with watching the landscape covered with snow and ending with admiring the paintings draw

This is the continuance of my previous blog; My Bangkok Excursion - Day 1. This blog is dedicated to Mr. Bob for whom always encouraging me and other EC members to write blogs. Thank you for the encouragement, Mr. Bob. I really appreciate it.

The next morning, I was thankful that the day was bright. After convincing my friend that it was not too early to wake up and had our breakfast, our day in Bangkok finally really started. We had our breakfast in the hotel since it was included in the hotel p

One more Lunar Year is ending. The Tet holiday is near coming. The weather is also coming to Spring. My surroundings is transforming to welcome a new spring. It makes me be excited to welcome a new spring being full warm, full colorful, especially, it is filled feelings.

The Tet holidays is the chance for us, Vietnamese, to show our gratitude, our Filial Piety; This is the chance for us, all of members in the family to get together, to tell each other, to share each other many things in our life

This blog is dedicated to Afro, who asked me whether I'm going to write a blog about my visit to Bangkok. And to Crocodil3, just because. LOL.

Finally, after tossing ideas back and forth, and after so much conversations and text messages, my friend and I decided to go to Bangkok. We decided it's going to be a short trip, from 11 - 15 December 2014. I've been to Bangkok before, but that was centuries ago. So, though it's not something totally alien to be, but I know there would major changes. I kn

In a few hours, well I am being too lateral, it is more like 1 day and a few hours more, I am going to say goodbye to 2014, for some of you, it maybe for another 2 days. I will be looking back my year 2014 with some bitter sweet memories. Some maybe will haunt me for years to come.

My 2014 started with a bang. I celebrated the new year in Perth, Australia. It was an awesome experience, which will forever engrained into my memories. But after that my life basically somewhat like in a Zombieland. N

Happy Holidays! If you haven't seen me around MyEC for a few days, it's because I've been busy baking, cooking, eating, and celebrating the holidays with my family and friends. One of the best things about holiday time is enjoying delicious food that we only make once a year. This month, let's teach each other how to make a dish, dessert, or snack that we enjoy on special occasions. If enough members join this challenge, I'll make a recipe eBook or slideshow out of our collection! 

Your Task: 

1.

I love Christmas time, the magic atmosphere, which makes us stop for a while and enjoy these awesome days full of love, peace and happiness. In my country Christmas is lately something I would say more related to the traditions than to the religion.

Everything starts at the beginning of November but usually in December the real Christmas shopping fever controls almost everyone. The malls turn into the places with colorful decoration, lights blink in every corner and meanwhile you do the shopping

Paralyzed with terror, hands cuffed with rope, tongue tasting dusty ground, boot over the spine and head at gunpoint,his muddy eyes hardly could see his wife helplessly screaming and being raped. He heard a BANG!!, tears rolled from his eyes whereas ground was wet with red.Another man came kicked his guts thrice, yet he could hardly feel the pain.These three abusers happily cherished evil moment as if they were god of terror.The kicker pulled his head, grabbing the hairs to his knees. Next man f

When I was chatting with an EC member a few days ago, I talked about my new hobby. He said why didn't I write a blog about it. So, here we go! This blog is dedicated to Crocodil3 who asked me to write about it. To Allen with whom I spent many chat hours talking about my new hobby.

I never thought that I would be obsessed with roses, though I have to admit that they are really wonderful flowers. You see, I thought caring for them are hard. Roses look like fragile flowers which need to be cuddled a

Okay, let me ask you what do you like most among long,  short and medium hair cut? Mine is short, I always prefer short hair cut. But, one thing is sure, no one likes to have untrimmed hair, right?

Most of the time, I like to let my hair down and hate to make a part. I just use a little clip in my back side not to get any part. Sometimes I tie my hair with a ribbon to make a pony tail in the back side. When I was a girl, I made two pony tails. And, when I get a bit long hair, I do my hair in a bu

I'm re-posting this blog because I finally managed to up-load some more photos. Phew! Finally!

A few weeks back, I took my Mom to Labuan to visit my brother and his family who are staying there currently. My brother and his family lives in Labuan and will be moving back to West Malaysia at the end of the year. Thus, it's like killing two birds with one stone. I've been to Labuan, a few century ago, but never really had the opportunity to explore the island.

Labuan is also known as The Pearl of Bor

You may not read every blog which is published here. I wonder why you read some blogs with interest while you did skip or neglect some. We're trying to encourage our members here to write more, but it's no fun if no one wants to read what we write. So, here's the question: What kind of blog are you interested in? Or, what kind of blog do you usually read with interest?

Topics

You may be so interested in some topics, say, English learning, travel, food, culture, politics, religion, etc. 

Bloggers or

Today I am coming up with my confession. It might be for you something shocking, something you have never had to face in your entire life or some of you might think I am a psycho or mad. Anyway, let me share what is on my mind and what has scared me to death several times. I am going to talk about... Sleeping Paralysis.

Is this expression new to you? Let me explain firstly what it stands for because not all people are familiar with it. I don't want to copy some lines from Wikipedia, so I will bet

This story was first written as a comment to Charos' photo; 'Pond hardly noticed by anyone'. I was fascinated with her photos' collection and decided to write a short story based on them. You may click on the links of the photos to check the beautiful photos. I've edited a bit from my first original story.

1. Toqi Zargaron

2. Kettle-like souvenir

3. Dagger

4. A small quaint cafe with willow tree

5. Khoja Gaukushon Ensemble

6. Pond hardly noticed by anyone

7. Safe haven

Her feet were killing her. She was

I'm so pleased to see that more and more members here have started to write and publish blogs. I really enjoyed reading most of them. But I'm afraid to say some of the blogs are not so readable, which means they are not so easy or enjoyable to read. 

Now that you've got such a wide vocabulary and have learned all of the grammar basics, you can write something wonderful for other members to read. Here're some tips for you:

Don't use the words which are hard to understand

Try to use the words which a

Hello everybody! Would you like to enjoy a magic Christmas scenery during a marvellous travel? I really would like it! So, I gathered on a list a few nice towns to visit if you intend to travel during this enchanting season. Let's get started!

1 - Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is the capital city of region called Lapland considered the official Santa's headquarter. It is located on the Artic Circle, eight hundred kilometers north of Helsinki, capital of Finland. Winter temperatures can reach incredible - 50

I'm that kinda guy who loves very much to read short stories . I visualize the characters coming in and love to make films out of the plot. The irony is that I haven't done any movie yet. The backup story sounds so boring that I don't want to share it here. 

To reveal the truth, I drove into EC through my passion to read short stories. I was just browsing on internet when I ran into a short story "The Chapel" by Josef Essberger. It haunts me so much to write and direct a movie by myself.

So, after