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How can we develop a real friendship? 

First try to understand what is the meaning of real friendship!

THINK!

Clue for you:
"Some times heart can sees, What the eyes can't!"

I found a golden book which guides for build up a genuine friendship!
I like to share them with you.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep these principles in mind!


1. Become genuinely interested

                                                 I got this picture from here.

I am a shy person. I had never sang before. However, from the birth of Karaoke Group, I sang. The funny thing is I do not even have  proper voice to sing. I even hated to listen to my voice. Listening to my voice was frightening. However, I realized everybody has this feeling. No one likes to listen to his or her own voice especially on the Internet where everybody can listen to them. I tried to ignore this feeling and

My wife and I are moving to a different part of the world to teach.

We will be teaching engineers Advanced Business English, Academic English and Technical English in Japan.

Our home in Japan will have much lower temperatures than Saudi Arabia.  It gets 4.78 meters of snow fall in an average winter.

We will live in the city of Aizu-wakamatsu. This is a very old city in the Fukushima Prefecture. I am including some photos from the Wikipedia Commons, such as the famous Tsuruga-jyo Castle. 

I am also a

I have added a few idioms about monkey from my original blog, since there are a lot more and interesting idioms about them. The additional idioms are highlighted in blue font. LOL. I was writing this during the EC upgrading period. The chat had been disabled, of which was good for me. LOL. I have a better time in researching more obscure facts.

Did You Know? Series:-

1. Did You Know?   2. Did You Know? - Continuation   3. Did You Know? - Another Continuation

4. Did You Know? - Not Another Continuat

While skimming through my journal, I came across a lovely night that I had before the uprising taking place in my beloved country Syria. I'd like to share it with you.

Feeling very bored that I couldn't study nor do anything else, I proposed to my family to have a tour around Aleppo Castle. After some discussions, we set off to the castle. Horaaay!!! I was so excited and happy. You may be wondering why that much?!! Well, it's because this's my chance to meet some tourists and practice my English.

Another school year passed and the same questions cross my mind :

-How can we apply the four skills of learning English at schools ?

-How can we change the old ways  to  better ones if the number of the students is large and the textbooks should be finished during the school year ?

The teachers in most countries still practice the traditional teaching method which is :

"Chalk and Talk ".This phrase often used to describe traditional teaching.  It describes  the teacher in front of the group of learn

I was writing this fables because Bala asked me about cats' fables. Though this fables didn't give a good view for a cat, I like to share with all of you. This was a story about a cat and a tiger.

The Story of a Cat and a Tiger

Once upon a time, a cat and a tiger were the very best of friends. In fact, the cat was more of a teacher to the tiger. The cat would teach the tiger on how to hunt in the deep jungle. He also would teach the tiger to art of stalking its prey. The tiger was well know to hav

Hahaha .. you thought that I have had enough torturing you guys with all those obscure and maybe needless facts? You thought wrong. LOL. Here comes another one in the Did You Know? Series.

1. Did You Know?

2. Did You Know? - Continuation

3. Did You Know? - Another Continuation

4. Did You Know? - Not Another Continuation!

5. Did You Know? - Gosh! Will it never ends?

6. Did You Know? -Oh No! Not Another One!

Did You Know?

1. Why happiness is always associated with animals?

There are many idioms/expressions

This story is nearly forgotten among the Malay children. It's not as popular as other fables that involves tiger, mouse deer or even crocodile. I still remember this story which I read when I was a small kid centuries ago. I was surprised that when I tried to find this story online, I hardly find anything about it. Therefore, I would like to share this story with everyone, to keep it alives.

When writing this fable, it reminds me of one EC Member that I always teased by calling him "Python". I do

The most beautiful thing in the world, I believe, is a smile. As we smile, we look not only more friendly, but also more courteous. It glamorizes our temperament in a way that even cosmetics can not replace; it can also narrow down the distance between people. One of my neighbors is just such a case, she always smiles broadly whenever we meet. Her smile is as beautiful as flowers and brightens my mood. 

The theory of smiling can make us healthier is not new. Recently, I read an interesting arti

I am very upset sometimes about learning/ writing English. I learn English language now a days but only have a progress a little bit. Actually when we speak we have a confident but I have no I need a good speakers as well as writer to help me to learn English very well. And tell me how I improve my English speaking power with simple tricks. Thanks to all. Who can help me?

Change will happen. It can not be avoided in life. People are usually afraid of change because it means they will have to do things differently and learn something new.

Are you afraid of the changes on your web page? Will you learn how to see your recent comments instead of those from when you first came here?

Sometimes people surrender to change and other times they fight it. We should try to relax and watch the changes at MyEC.  We will learn the new ways to do things if we relax.  If we are afr

Once upon a time, there was a very busy chat room in a site named English Club. One could see all kinds of life form in there - humans, half-humans, cyborgs, animals, flowers, and yes, also life forms from other dimensions such as fairies, ghosts, zombies, aliens, and many more.

Whenever these creatures entered this virtual world, their fingers or toes or wings or beaks instantaneously tapped their respective keyboards. Not a single sound was coming out from their voice boxes, but it seemed their

This fable is very famous among children in Malaysia and had been passed down from generations. A mouse deer is always being portrayed as a very pretty and intelligent animal. There are many fables portraying this intelligent animal, and I want to share with you one of the most famous one. It is about how a mouse deer played a trick towards a group of crocodiles. I hope you will enjoy reading it.

A Mouse Deer and Crocodiles

Deep deep in a quiet Tropical jungle, a crocodile was having a blast swimm

The speaking skills required in international speaking exams can be quite daunting for candidates because many candidates have no idea what the examiners are looking for.

Let's take the IELTS speaking task for an example.  The test begins with a few simple questions about yourself.  He/she will ask you questions about your job or studies, what you are doing now, what your role or responsibilities and duties include.  Here you are using a variety of present tenses.

He might ask about past employmen

When we are born, we don't know a word to let our mom know how much we are hungry. For this, we cry as loudly as possible to draw attention of mother. By doing so, we meet our requirement. At this stage, there is nothing in our mind, but satisfying our nutritional needs. So, crying, at this stage, is the just and the easiest mean of meeting our demand.

As soon as we grow up, the fact reveals on us that we are not born for satisfying our nutritional needs merely. A part from this, there are so man

When I was happy girl :) ....    :(

I remember, first time that I saw scary movie I was about 6 years old .first movie that I saw named "Deadly dolls"  I remember that my father never permit me to see that movie ,because  he knew that I love movies  and impress me a lot and immediately simulate what ever that I see in the movie .

My father had this experience when I was 5 years old and  I saw a movie in the TV about people who trapped in the forest and they set fire because  they wanted to banish

   When saying about Greece what comes to our mind mainly is its rich, wise historic past because of its grand historical figures, like philosophers - Plato, Aristotle and many others. But, we can't forget Greece is too, an exuberant region with landscapes which take our breath way, by the way,landscapes like magazine covers or desktop wallpapers .

   First of all, Greece is a country which takes part of the southern  Europe, and has a temperature that is privileged by a lush vegetation, which ex

Hahaha ... I know, I know. When will this ends? LOL. I think my answer would be "Only God knows",  though I really hope you like this series.

In this blog, I am going to dedicate myself on writing the origin of certain expressions and idioms because I really like to read and know the origins of these idioms and expressions.

Did You Know? Series :-

1. Did You Know?

2. Did You Know - Continuation

3. Did You Know - Another Continuation

4. Did You Know - Not Another Continuation!

Did You Know?

1. Red tape

Th

I was reading this remarkable story about Richard Lee Norris who had "successfully" undergone a complicated face transplant procedure. I thought this story suits this month Writing Challenge : Pretty Paragraph since this is indeed a pretty remarkable story. Please click here to read the full article in Huffington Post UK.

Mr Norris lost most of his upper and lower jaw as well as his lips, teeth and tongue in a gun accident in 1997, and had been living as a recluse after that accident. Though the