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Most of my life hacks came from my Mom which sometimes can be viewed as 'old wives tales'. However, later on, I gathered more reasonable life hacks through articles and friends. In here, I want to share both life hacks; the 'old wives tales' kinds and the reasonable ones.

1. Use Unmatched/Unusable Socks As Wiper

Most of us are always facing with large collections of unmatched/unusable socks. We always ended up throwing away those socks. I learnt those socks are the best wiper ever. Just use those

"The most powerful way to win an argument is by asking questions. You'd be surprised at how it can make people see the flaws in their logic." via @LifeHacks

Have you heard the expression "life hack"? This is a trendy expression that is commonly used as a blog topic. A "life hack" is a creative solution (or a creative way of doing something) that makes life easier. A life hack usually simplifies a task. It is often something that many other people don't know or realize.

When you share a life hack,

I woke up on Saturday March 8 like any other day. Moaning and groaning. Dragging my feet to do the screaming laundry. Even the happy chirps from all those birds can't brighten my mood. I did not listen to the television nor do I log into my Facebook. I was in a bliss trying to do some sorts of housework. After I felt human enough and pacified those screaming laundry, I log into my Facebook. I was shock when most of status were about the disappearance of MH370, a Malaysian flight bound to Beijing

                                                            Friends,

                               As all of us know about the incident of plane MH-370 !

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing at 00:41 on Saturday 8 March (16:41 GMT Friday).

About 50 minutes later, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control.

No distress call was made.

On board, there were 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 14 countries. That included 15

Writing Challenge: Catchy Blog Titles

A) Three Good MyEC Blog Titles

1) My Perth Diary : Day Four 1st Jan 2014 by noaslpls

  For me, it's a good blog title because it goes straight to the point, then, it's clear, descriptive and cathchy for who's a travel enthusiast. Capitalization highlights all the important words. Noaslpls were able to do direct titles for a series of posts telling us about the Australian city of Perth.  Congratulations noaslpls for such a great travel along the posts.

2) Astrona

Due to my hectic work schedule, I found myself having less time to write. My mind can't come up with anything. The dreaded thing is happening to me. I'm hitting the bricks wall. No matter how much I want to write about something, anything, nothing is the answer. Everything remains blank.

I guess my brain is taking a silent vow and refusing to come up with anything. It's like it is reaffirming what WMW always said about me. That I was always hibernating. I can't let it slides. I need to prove that

Seriously? Not exactly! I'm referring to a recent summer adventure that I participated along with my family in Boracay Island, in my country, the Philippines. This is called Helmet Diving.

What is helmet diving?

This is becoming one of the popular out-door activities among foreign and local tourists in the island. This activity allows you to climb down a ladder to reach the seabed while wearing a helmet made of glass plates. The helmet itself has an air compressor connected by a long hose up to

A) Three Good MyEC Blog Titles

1)  5 Skills to Teach Your Child Before School by Adam Fort

The title of this post is very descriptive and says you what about it treat. I think that it is very important because the people only with reading it they will know about the blog and they can take the decision if come in or not. By the way, the readers feel curiosity about the 5 skills, because the people always want to learn many things that help them.

2)  Why do you talk with me on skype ?! by Xhorxho Cak

I tried a new photo site today called "ThingLink". It's really fun! I used this image to create my first ThingLink. When you touch it on the site, the photo becomes interactive. Touch this photo. Then try making your own: www.thinglink.com

Unfortunately, the embedded photo option doesn't allow the links to show up on MyEC. To Touch (interact with) the photo, you'll have to visit the site.

PS - World Book Day is on 6 March. What are you reading? Leave a comment on my ThinkLink, or below in the c

Writing Challenge: Catchy Blog Titles

 1.Why don’t you talk with me on skype ?! by  Xhorxho Cakalli 

 Link” http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/why-do-you-talk-with-me-on-skype#comments: http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/why-do-you-talk-with-me-

 This title catches the eyes, curious to know who is inviting to chat, beneficially.

 Improved Title:  “Let’s Skype to Learn!”

 2. selfishless  by restored

 http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/selfishless

 It looks a strange title.

 Improved Ti

There are many good blogs that had been written by members of MyEC. Some of them attracted my attention because of their titles, which for me spoke volume. 

These are the few selective blogs that really caught my attention. 

1. Where Have They Gone? We Still Love Them! by Mr. Bob

I came across this blog when I was feeling a bit sad. One of my friends in MyEC decided to 'temporarily left' EC after getting so much harassment in the main chat room. Even though this blog was published in 2012, I though

The MyEC blog feed is full of interesting blog posts! You will find:

What you won't find, unfortunately, is a bunch of well-written blog titles. In a recent comment on my No Blog Left Behind post, one of our long-term bloggers mentioned that she typically reads blogs that have good titles. This got me thinking about what makes a good blog title.

Blog Title Checklist

A good blog title should: 

• be short and to the point (You don't need to write complete sentences in a title.)
• have proper capitalization

A few years ago, I traveled to England from Canada to do a special presentation about MyEC. I talked to hundreds of teachers about how I blog with English learners on EnglishClub. It was a fantastic experience, and many teachers vowed to get their students blogging when they returned to their own countries.

One thing that teachers were really excited about was a concept that we introduced long ago on MyEC: 

No Blog Left Behind

I explained that we (admin, mods, bloggers) do our very best to make sur

Are you enjoying the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics? I hope so. Are you satisfied with the performance of the athletes of your country? Do you think it's an opportunity for us to pick up some sports English words while enjoying the games? What's your favourite winter sport?

One more question: Do you think the countries should be ranked by all of their medals or only by the gold ones on the Olympic medal count/table?

Check out the Yahoo medal count and the BBC medal table, you'll find the difference.

Pe

This final entry of My Perth Diary is especially dedicated to Little Tree who said she nodded off while trying to read my previous blog. "Little Tree, I assure you, this is the shortest one, maybe" LOL. To Sono, "Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day"

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

Day Three : 31st Dec 2013

Day Four : 1st Jan 2014

Day Five : 2nd Jan 2014

Day Six and Day Seven : 3rd Jan 2014 and 4th Jan 2014

Technically today would be the last day of my stay in Perth. As compared to yest

On the 7^th of February the XXII Winter Olympic Games have started in Russia! Without any doubt  this international event means a lot for all Russian people. I think it’s a great opportunity to show Russian culture, Russian character and Russian hospitality to the whole world!  Besides it’s a great chance for all Russian people to unite and to be proud of their unique country.

As a teacher I could see some lack of patriotism a few years ago among young people because they were brought up in a new

This is my fifth entry of My Perth Diary. This blog is dedicated to my EC friend, Eric; "This 'beach hopping' blog reminds me of you. "The epitome of a California guy", lounging at his lazy seat while sipping some cold Bloody Mary or some kind Tropical concoction drinks.". LOL

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

Day Three : 31st Dec 2013

Day Four : 1st Jan 2014

Day Five : 2nd Jan 2014

We started to think that we made the wrong calculation of how long our Perth holiday should be. By the fif

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the 22 Olympic Winter Games, are being held in Sochi, Russia, from February 6 to 23. Over 2,500 athletes representing 90 nations are competing for gold, silver and bronze medals in 98 events.

MY EC 's members are also preparing for these games. 

Inna is participating in Gymnastic. So she is trying hard to get the Gold medal in this Olympics.

Dimas I don't know about him -:) Is he running for cake or Gold ? -:)

Cheetah will participate in cycling -:)

Here

This is another continuation of My Perth Diary.

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

Day Three : 31st Dec 2013

Day Four : 1st Jan 2014

Happy new year, everyone. After a late night celebrating the new year in Mandurah, we decided to take it easy today. Everyone woke up late. We had not decide where to go, what to do. We will just go with the flow.

We agreed to meet up at the hotel lobby at about 9.30 am. After contemplating a few places and browsing through the map, we decided to go to the N