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Hi Everyone,

Thank you so much for all of the congratulations which really made my day - I was so pleased to know that my profile was just featured on MyEC. I'm so grateful for and appreciate it - what gift can be a more desirable gift than this for a Thanksgiving Day?! 

Congratulations on all of the members and entries which were just featured too. I'd like to thank all of those who helped make MyEC a pleasent place but failed to be featured. Many thanks to Tara and Josef for featuring me, to Luc

Here is my (very short) story for Luci's (very) Short Story Challenge. I'm afraid it is a tiny bit longer than 70 words. Tough challenge! 

The Blogger that Saved the Day

It was nearing the end of November when I realized I hadn’t posted a Writing Challenge on MyEC. I grabbed my journal, and started jotting down ideas. Suddenly, the lights went out. An alien appeared in front of me and made just one demand.

“Give me your journal.”

I tried to grab a knife, but it was too late. The alien was already wr

Some time in the middle of October this year, I had to travel to Sandakan, Sabah for a business meeting. This was my second visit to Sandakan, but when I visited it the first time, I never had the chance to see the town due to hectic meeting schedule. But this time, I had the chance to stay overnight over there.

First, let me tell you a little bit about Sandakan. Sandakan is the second largest city in Sabah. It's at the north-east coast of Borneo. It's better known to be the gateway for the famou

When I read Luci's challenge, I wonder, who on Earth can come up with some sort rational story line with all those words. LOL. Then it struck me, there's no need to be rational. I can come up with totally rambling short story and blame it all to an alien and say that it's my 'artistic creative' idea. :)

~~~~~~ The Story ~~~~~~

Since landed on this Alien Island, Luci found out that life was not so hard after all. Ohh! She won't call it a bed of roses either, but except for some bigger than elephan

Hello guys,

I was thinking about some "Challenge" and would like to test your creativity. It isn't big deal at all, just write a story - only 50-70 words BUT use these words:

DESTROY, TORTURE, TOILET PAPER, LIGHT, KNIFE, ALIEN, ISLAND

Just write a blog and give it title: Short Story Challenge: + add your title

All above mentioned words should be in the story so these who would like to give it title TOILET PAPER ISLAND can forget about it :-)

!!! I am looking forward to read funny stories from you !!!

It was an unforgettable morning full of excitement and expectations. Finally we made it, we will spend incredible holiday as a family together. Since there isn't lately anything impossible we decided to fly to the Moon. Our friends enjoyed unbelievable honeymoon two years ago in 2089 there and their experiences fascinated me so much that the Moon became my dream destination. We packed stuff and we were ready, our journey people 20 years ago considered something unrealizable, got started. First o

Literally, I spent a terrible night yesterday. Whole night I couldn't sleep a wink. Actually I went shopping in the evening. But, it was a horrible experience by all means. Which dress I chose first was unaffordable. Then I went for another, I did bargain but the salesman made it nonnegotiable! After being failure, I went to dine in a fine restaurant with my family. There were plenty of edible food items but due to some unavoidable circumstances, I couldn't enjoy it. Specially my kid didn't feel

Did you know there are many syndromes or terms that are based on people and sometimes unfortunate circumstances that befell those people? We may be familiar with terms such as Stockholm Syndrome, and its opposite the Lima Syndrome. Whereas, one of the most famous syndromes that I read is the Pavlov's Dog Syndrome. 

Anyway, in this blog, I want to share some terms and syndromes that derived from certain circumstances or people, and the story behind the name.

AMBER Alert

Have you noticed in American

Hi Everyone,

Just as you can see, I'll try to make some corrections for anyone who really wants to be corrected, or whenever I see the "correction tag", which means you don't mind others correcting you in public/openly.

English is such a tricky language, so it's inevitable for you (a learner of English) to make some mistakes in your writing. In fact, we all make mistakes - even a native English teacher. But we learn from our mistakes.

The problem is that we may have failed to spot the mistakes in o

Hello guys,
today some melancholic and sad mood wanted to destroy my optimistic soul, so I decided to go through the best therapy - to compose a poem. Autumn depression is here, exactly as I have described it in my blog about autumn, now I HATE YOU, AUTUMN!!! :-) Just pray for me so that it would be soon gone and I wouldn't bother you anymore with some silly poems :-D

HIDDEN IN THE MIST

At times I want to find myself in the thick mysterious mist,

in place where no people, no obstacles, nor limits e

Here goes my attempt in trying to write a whole dialogue. As Mr. Bob said, just imagine two people talking to each other. I found it's not so hard after that. So, try not cringe at this conversation. Please be patient with these two chirping birds. LOL

Ina : So, what's the plan for this year? Are we going to visit Europe as planned or are we going to go somewhere else?

Ita : I don't know. I've been thinking about it a lot, but I still can't make up my mind. What do you think?

Ina : You know I prefe

Dear Susan,

your latest letter made me sad so the only one thing I can do for you as your best friend is to give you some piece of advice I consider the most effective. I know that it isn't easy at all to live alone after divorce and I know that you find each and every advice people order you sort of unreal.  Anyway, Susan, life goes on and my advice is: "Get on with it, girl! Don't be stuck in the past better live in the present moment." Another word of advice, which is on my mind and might be u

Did you ever wonder why the comments were closed for a certain blog?

You may have assumed that the comments must have been closed by a moderator or the admin or the system itself, which may have puzzled you because you didn't find anything wrong with the blogs or the bloggers. In fact, I was puzzled too, and I tried to consult with Tara (the admin), and it turned out that the bloggers themselves disabled the comments. 

There are a variety of reasons for them to do this. They may not want to receiv

Hello friends,

today I would like to help you little bit and I hope my advice will be useful at least for some of you. You know, I have read many blogs here, no matter what your English level is, and if I sum it up, many times I have come across one mistake, which repeats over and over again. What is it?

Ok let me reveal this mysterious mistake... ehmm... wait, wait.. not now, let me firstly point out that  I don´t want to be here in the position of somebody superior, of course we all make the mis

As usual, after coming back from a long holiday, my brain refuses to cooperate and think too hard. Thus, I need to stop this mental blockage and write something. But then the question is, what should I write? Another rambling? I don't think I want to torture other people with that anymore. So here comes my favourite topic, 'Did You Know?'. In this blog, it's about legal and justice, and hence the word 'court'.

1. Kangaroo Court

Kangaroo court means an unfair, biased or hasty judicial proceeding wh

Hello guys,
I decided to take part in Mr. Bob´s Dialogue Challenge and to prove that dialogue is possible to make even though it is just one man - ehm woman show :-D

So here is my link with audio record:
https://audioboom.com/boos/2648556-dialogue-challenge-jane-wants-to-lose-her-weight

And here is the text:
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (phone is ringing)
Peter: Hello Jane, how are you doing, my friend?
Jane: Hello Peter, to be honest, I am little bit down, that´s why I decided to call you.
Peter: Ohhh, I

Hi everyone, 

Have you heard the NEW EnglishClub Learning Song that Jonathan made for us? 

It would be fun to make another version of this song with the help of MyEC members. Do you have any ideas? Here are two ideas.

• a karaoke version with MyEC members singing along
• (Remember our version of Heal the World that Junco organized? I listened to it today and teared up a little.)
• a version with MyEC member pictures (perhaps members could hold up a page with their country on it or their favourite thing a

It is sometimes useful and fun to practice dialogues with someone. I have been looking on the internet, but haven't found many for higher level students.  I wrote this one today and offer it to you to practice with.

If you want to, you can write a dialogue of your own and share it for others to use. You can link it to this blog in the comments and we will all try help you correct your grammar and make the dialogue sound like natural English speech.  Anyway, here is the one I wrote today:

EARTH DAY

    LOVE EACH OTHER & HELP ONE ANOTHER

We live together with my husband, my dog Callisto and our cat Fındık but also each other respect to one another,....we have respect for one another

In the beginning Callisto and Fındık hate hated each other but as the time went by, they love loved one another and recognize recognized their privacy. So they learned a lot about each other.

Callisto and I feel sad to dogs (inc. all animals) who are in the poor condition, I am sorry to say that in the cold w