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This blog is dedicated to my friend, I Am Vietnamese who loves all critters and creatures, especially caterpillars.

After a few months of hectic schedule, finally I managed to get a long week break. I decided to go back to my hometown and visit my Mom and my brother. It was about 4-hours drive, though I hate driving, I enjoyed it this time. Maybe because the drive was smooth, and it's been a while since I go back. 

It's really relaxing to be able to enjoy the village, after all the hustle and bust

A Short Biography Of My Dad

How can I start I don’t know. I am a member of a big family. We are six brothers and four sisters. Now a day we can’t think about this type of big family. But it was reality. We lived in a beautiful village. Our big family was fully agro based. But it was so difficult to meet up all the necessaries from the earning of out agriculture firm. But there was no other way. At one stage we all the brothers and sisters were student. Some were university going, some were colleg

I'm really touched with the blogs I've read about "my father". So I feel like sharing my feelings and the moments I had with my father. My father was a strict man, and I was stubborn kid.

We were very poor, it was really hard for him to fulfill my wishes. Even riding a bicycle was a dream for me, but he did everything what he could do for us. I used to complain every time to God for the things I don't have in my life. I was not mature to understand the things as well as I can understand today.

I r

The sun of my life

Father!
I picked this flower for you.
It was growing gently in the heart of a rock.
Father, I don’t know how the sun patted it with her golden hair,
Did she pat it, in the way you pat me with your hands?
My father!
I picked this flower from the foothills for you.
It’s not red, it isn’t fragrant too,
Because its root got no portion from the hard rock except bitterness.
Father! When I was picking it, I told her:
“ You beautiful flower! Perhaps your destiny was to be picked by me,

It's time to say...yes, time to say, how much I care for my father.  In true sense, he is generous and kind. I always have found him as a soft spoken gentleman  who always thinks  for others benefit.

In our childhood,during Winter, he used to play Badminton with us after returning from his office. He purchased toys, arranged Carom-board in the rainy season to keep us busy. I heard several times, he kept telling to our mother to keep us busy in a healthy way that we could not get enormous chance t

My father, dad, papa, no matter how I call him, he is simply one of the most important people in my life. He gave me life and I am happy and proud of being his daughter.

He is Capricorn according to the zodiac signs - typical introvert, who hides the emotions, shows them rarely but I can understand it because I am Capricorn too. There is some hidden bound between us. We are soulmates, we don´t need to talk so much but both feel the love and understanding from every gesture.

When I was little girl,

We have choice in making friends but we have no choice in having parents, they are God gifted.

Why God created parents, because he cannot stay with us all time so, he made parents to have us feel that God is always with us.

Nobody in this world could ever nurture us unconditional as parents do. They always have so big heart to excuse our mistakes which we sometime commit repeatedly or more than hundred times and again they show us love with the same flow.

Writing and sharing only about my single

This blog is a bit different from what you may expect from a blog dedicating to father. This is blog not only about my father, but also about the late Tun Razak Hussein, the second Prime Minister of Malaysia. Why I chose both of them for my Writing Challenge, I hope I will answer that by the end of my blog.

Tun Razak Hussein was born in March 1922 to a wealthy family. When he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, he realised that the distribution of wealth among the people was not balanced.

This is my father!

He is my father, very unsocial and carefree.  We are his two kids, a son and a daughter, me.  I know my father loves me more than he loves my brother.  I enjoy this privilege being belong to a daughter loving family.  I have pictures when I was a child, I see myself sometimes in his laps, sometime riding on him and giggling.  I remember whenever by brother teased me or snatched my toys or color pencils or refuse to do anything asked, I used to phone my father and he always used

Father's Day is coming up in a few weeks (Sunday, June 15), and I thought some of you might want to do some writing about fathers, father figures, or fatherhood in general.

Here are some possible writing topics to explore in June. This month I'm not going to assign a special format or assignment. You can choose any of the following topics and write a blog in any way you please. Let's make a Father's Day collection of writing! 

Your Task

1. Choose a topic from the list below. 

2. Add a new blog post.

I want to share with you a joke which was sent to me by a friend. It was in my own language, so I had to translate it as it deemed fit. Thus, I am sorry if my translation is a bit weird. And I am sorry if this joke belongs to somebody. I don't mean to plagiarize!

One day, there was a bank robbery somewhere in the Capital City. The robbers shouted "Everyone! Lie down on the floor!. The money belongs to the bank but your life belongs to you!" Everyone did as instructed without much ado.

This is what

How can you spend your time in the best way when you are trying to learn a new language? 

Which of the four language skills are most important; Listening, Speaking, Reading or Writing?

First, let's look at how people acquire language after they are born.
Listening-  Children learn their language on their own from listening and they make little sounds as they hear others speak. They hear their own sounds and can try to copy the sounds others make.

Speaking-  After listening to everything that is sai

I was warned that somebody posed as me (Expector) in the chat room a few days ago. That's so annoying and intolerable. I wonder why they did that - they may have found it's fun to pretend to be someone, or they did it on purpose - just to cause trouble.  I've noticed that so many members complained about the situation in the chat room. Some members even left MyEC since they find some trolls' (or bad apples' or bad guys' or whatever you call them) misbehavior in the chat room is so unbearable. So

I guess I am going to let the cat out of the bag, for some of you night owls who spend most of your English Club time chatting and reading your friend's blogs.  But, English Club has much, much more than My English Club (our social media side).

If you have paid attention in the past, you may have noticed some of the helpful resources.  

Today I am reminding you about our sections on idioms.  

I am just scratching the surface of the offerings that are available. The idioms at this link are about ani

Many students are confused on how to properly use contractions in speech.  This is one of the most common errors that I see in my students, so I will explain how this should be done and give some examples of pronunciation. 

But first, let us remember that a contraction is a short form of a phrase in English and is most commonly used in informal speech and writing.  The phrase is shortened (contracted) by removing one or more letters, inserting an apostrophe in their place and making the phrase in

I didn't write this but absolutely love what this woman wrote. I just wish I knew who the original author was, so that the appropriate credit can goes to her.

It was shared in my Facebook wall, and I thought it depicted the absolute truth faced by women nowadays. To confine to what the media portrayed as an ideal woman. We, women, constantly need to uphold to certain image, which in reality ridiculous to achieve. I have to admit, sometimes I do longed for certain things when looking at those imag

NOTE: EnglishClub.com is NOT associated with this contest. This contest is by members for members. ~ EC Admin

Hello again,

so let´s make a list of the candidates who will take part in the competition MS and MR. EC 2014.

Please, don´t hesitate to take part in it. It is just fun, nobody will cut your head, so take it all easy..

You can mention here in your comments the people who you would like to suggest and I will ask them to participate. So here we gooooo !!!!!!  

This is the list of the candidates

Did you know that here and there are sometimes confusing to English learners? These words are selected based on distance from the person speaking. Did you ever get confused by here and there?

This, that, these and those are also confusing words which are based on distance and number, so I will quickly explain the differences between them.

If something is close it is here. If we can touch a book, we would say it is here.

If it is not so close it is there.  If a book is across the room we would say i

Hello all EC members,

I am coming here with one idea. Let me ask you if you would find interesting the competition called MISS and MISTER of the EC.

What it should be about?

1. NO BEAUTY, NO AGE LIMITATIONS. Since it is  easy to misuse some pictures from the internet, let´s put the beauty aside, moreover as we all know - beauty is something temporary.

2. The main point of this competition will be to find the most beautiful girl and boy with awesome CHARACTER. I am talking about the INNER BEAUTY.

3. The appl