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♥ I wish to all my EC friends Happy Friendship day ♥

Thank you for being in my life and for making it more interesting and colourful.

Today is International Friendship Day and I think it is good idea to celebrate such day because sometimes our life is too hectic that we tend to forget how much our friends mean to us.

At least once a year we should slow down and remember our friends, no matter if they are virtual or from our real life. We should dedicate at least few minutes to them, to appreciate t

I am from Iran and I like to write about the nomads of Iran because their homeland is nature, Have you ever thought about living in NATURE. It is very hard but wonderful. Nomads of Iran should live in coordination with nature; because they are mostly shepherds depending on the livestock for their livelihood…..They have winter and summer homes and migrate twice per year. These migrating pastoralists move to the warmer places in early autumn and again move to the cooler pastures when spring comes.

 I was born in Bangladesh. It is a small country of south-Asia with a large number of  enthusiastic people. Here, people are industrious, they can smile without any reason ( I am also)!

In true sense, it is a plain land. We have many rivers so, it's called as a reverine country. We have no mountain but we have hills and the longest sandy sea-shore around the globe. Overall, my birth place is greenish, weather is congenial all the year round.

I have visited many places of my country. I love to visi

This is supposed to be my travel blog. A few weeks back, I went to the Northern parts of Malaysia. I was writing about it for a while now. Then, a few tragic moments happened. The lost of innocent lives in Gaza and the downing of MH17. I lost interest in writing. Everything seems to be trivial and yet every trivial things seems to magnify.

It's like all the things I should have done differently. I should lived to the fullest all day long. I should try avoiding the self escapism and self pity. I s

I was born in China, so China is my homeland. Just as you know, China is a big Asian country with thousands of years of history. China, as one of the new emerging economies, has seen such a fast economic growth that it's now the second largest economy in the world, only second to the USA. China is still a developing country, though. Although China has made great progress in developing,  and even has succeeded in sending astronauts into space and a moon rover on the moon, and even topped the Olym

Karachi, my birth place:

I was born in Karachi. I saw my childhood here, I educated here in this city from nursery to graduation. I got my first job and then others here.

My birth place, Karachi is the largest city, and the main seaport and financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of around 20 million. This is the most populous city in the country, one of the world's largest cities in terms of population and also the 10th l

"Home sweet home!" This saying I find so true and if somebody uses it, on my mind is automatically my hometown, the city I can call without hesitation my heart issue.

I am proud of being Czech, I love my country and whenever I hear our anthem, it gives me nice inner feeling, which is for sure one of the proves of my patriotism. Sincerely, I dislike if people talk bad about my country and I am anytime and anywhere ready to fight for it and persuade them how wrong they are ( even though sometimes t

Where were you born? This country is called your native country. It it also your homeland and your birthplace. Is it where you belong? This month, I'd like you to tell us about the land of your birth and your sense of belonging.

Your Task
1. Watch and listen to "Vseki den" by EnglishClub's musician Jonathan Taylor Britunculli.
2. Create a new blog post. Use the title: Writing Challenge - The Land of My Birth
3. Tell us where you were born and where you feel most at home. Comment on your sense o

My friend nida - one of our active members here on MyEC - just asked where all the blogs about Gaza are and if I have deleted all of them. I thanked her for asking and told her I didn't deleted the blogs. But I also told her that anything that may cause fights or hatred between MyEC members can be flaged or closed by the system, which means you can't see the blogs any more. 

I understand the subtlety of the situation in the Gaza Strip. I'm so sorry that so many lives there were lost. The question

Just in one week, we lost three planes in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Mali, and hundreds of lives were lost immediately. The safety of planes is now the major concern of people around the world. I wonder if it's still the safest way to travel by air - though there are always plane crashes, the airplane/aeroplane/plane has been considered as safest way to travel. 

Why are people so concerned about the safety of planes? Thanks to planes, the world is now seen as a village - people can travel from one coun

Writing Prompt ~ Forgetting Articles

My neighbour has lots of pets in his backyard. As far as I know, he has a bunny, a parrot, a dog, a cat, a hamster, a guinea pig and some couples of parakeets and cockatiels. The bunny and the hamster spend all day munching on lots of pieces of lettuce along with carrots. They're very quiet and don't disturb your owner at all. The dog and the cat are very troubled, they seem to be addicted to go after each other in a ceaseless fight. They are really problemati

The office is in a somber mood today. Nobody seems to be in the mood to talk. We just stare at our computers. The radio is just playing slow songs. Everyone is in shock, again! We Malaysians are facing another sad tragedy. Our Malaysian flight is believed to be shot down by some party who is in conflict with each other and crashed in Ukraine. All 298 passengers and crews perished in the tragedy.

I just came back from an Iftar with my friends at roughly about 11.30 pm last night when I received va

    I am missing my mother extremely. She has left me, left this world forever. I can only meet her in my dream.

    Suddenly, EC suggested to write about a special dinner.
If it is possible, I would like to invite my mother to this special dinner, of course, together my father and all my siblings. It would be an extremely special dinner for my large family. If my mother could come back from the dead, of course, every member would be glad to move to tear due to happiness.
When I was a child, my f

I've been a member of English Club for about two years now. Anyone here WHO's ever met me knows that I'm a huge DR. WHO fan.

Some may ask why I'd chose such an eccentric fictional character as a dinner guest. He's not exactly notorious for having excellent table manners.

(Here he is eating with his hands. Although not depicted in this photograph, both elbows are obviously on the table.)

Others may wonder, "WHO the heck is Eric writing about"?

For those of you WHO've been hiding underneath a rock f

It's been a while since I post a blog under the 'Did You Know?' series. So here it comes for the first 'Did You Know?' series in 2014. It's all about the colour red.

1. Caught Red Handed

The meaning of caught red handed is to be caught in the act of committing a misdemeanour with the evidence. The origin of the phrase can be traced back to the Scotland in the 15th century. It was believed to refer to people who had been caught with blood for murders or poaching.

The phrase 'red hand' was first ment

People like comparing the genders, it is very debatable topic. For instance - whose life is worse, if men are so busy at work, all the time tired or if women are stuck in the kitchen, must do only their duties and take care of the kids. I was thinking about it and would like to show you in this blog describtion of one day with the views, which crossed my freaky mind. Just one thing - remember I am from Europe because in my opinion such issue might differ throughout the cultures we live in.

Let´s

What a strange situation. Boss asked every employee to come to his office. What happened? Only I knew the answer to this question. Somebody tore the cheque I filled in. Since I work in the reputable bank and I had to work hard to get this job, immediately after getting to know what has happened I felt very insecure and stressed.

We all met in front of the boss office. Each of these suspecious so called friends was giving face like they feel soo annoyed. Boss wasn´t there so we had to wait. In suc

Every day I am planning if each one of us in family will go to some tour together. But All members in my family are working,, it’s very difficult for everyone of us to take a leave from office easily.

We all leave for office in the morning and everyone reach home around 7pm or afterwards. So we all have no time to discuss with each other our next travel destination.

Everyone of us at home passionate about travelling, we all love exploring new places. But now everybody is very busy in office worki

100 is always has a nice ring to it. It's like a magical number. It's like when you reach 100, everything is complete. It's like when you achieved 100% in your exams. Every effort that you have had put into your work is worth all the heartaches and headaches, or maybe even some little stomachache. 

So when I reached the 'magical 100' of my blog posts, I felt relieved. It's like I had achieved another milestones in my fledgling attempt in writing blogs. It's like, if I don't write a single blog af

I think everyone remembers that some nouns are countable like pencils, books, apples and cars.

We need to remember that uncountable nouns can not have a plural form, unless their form is plural to begin with. Then they don't have a singular form.

Countable Nouns:

apple...1 apple...2 apples

book...1 book ...2 books

pencil...1 pencil...2 pencils

car... 1 car... 2 cars

Uncountable Nouns:

water...We can't count it.  We have some water,  less water or more water.

rice...We can't count rice.  We can have some