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- In the past, I divided my university courses into important and unimportant ones. Then, I worked hard towards mandatory courses and ignored the unimportant ones. So, I end up getting very good marks for my mandatory courses, but very low mark for easy ones. As such, my Grade Point Average came down.
Lesson: There are no important or unimportant courses. All of them are significant! Work hard no matter what kind of course you have!

- I did not ask questions in some classes because I was afra

  I'm certain that there are a lot of poor children who want to learn but they couldn't attend school because:

1. They prefer to work in order to sustain or provide a living for their family.

2. Because of poverty, many women and children are become victims of sexual exploitation and prostitution. 

3. Those young children could be the next generation of scientists, educators, or lawyers but have limited access of support because they are living in far away islands and have no means to reach them.

Last week one of my friends give me a special gift, he went to Israel and stayed there for a month, he just back at home last week and give me a red thread , while he was tying the red thread  in my left hand, he told me a story about it  “I took this red thread from the Rachel’s Tomb , you have to ask for seven wishes while I do seven knots” – he said.

I was intrigued so I was looking for the Rachel’s tomb by internet, I have not found information about my red thread and my wishes… but I found

HHello friends,

Let me know the caption this photo inspires you. The best caption will be known next week, same day.

This week, the winning catpion is :

"Please come out Mommy. We promise not to drive your crazy anymore."

It really made me laugh, Thanks to Tara

After 5 months of NATO's bombing of military personnel and civilians in Libya, the Libyan government has today struck back as promised by detonating a sizable bomb in Oslo, Norway, between the Oil Ministry and a government building housing the prime minister, presumably regarded as a command and control centre. Norway is a member of NATO and has been actively participating in the NATO campaign against Libya. Like most of the other participants, Norway has major interests in the oil industry.

This sign was hanging on a lemmon tree in the garden of a 5* hotel in Turkey.  I found it so strange that i took this picture.

What would you think the best caption would be for this picture ? Let me know .

Achan Malaka won the award for the best caption for this photo.

Hey..the sign is wrong..my fruits are sweet ;)

Time flies! It's already been five months since I arrived here in Canada in February, and I'm going back to China in two weeks. I've experienced the winter and so fantastic a summer here; I've learned a lot (English,medicine, and more); I've made so many friends; I've visited several beautiful large cities (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec, and I'll be visiting Vancouver on my way home). I really enjoyed my stay here, and so impressed by the friendly people, gorgeous sights, and the way they li

  theme- (n) idea or concept

  medium- (n) way or tool

  premiere- (adj) to be the first of leading

  ample- (adj) sufficient or enough time

  MyEnglishclub.com or MyEC is one of the fastest-growing social networking site in the world. According to a survey conducted by knowlegdepoll.com, MyEC ranked 2nd as an active social network that most people would like to visit and connect with friends. 90% of respondents enjoyed communicating by writing blogs, participating on audio and writing challenges,

How many cyber friends that you have? What do you think about making as much as friends in cyber world?

I have some social network accounts and I have around three hundreds cyber friends. Not really much friends, but I really like it so much. My friends are come from different backgrounds. It’s so excited to meet many people, I felt like I could contact with another side of the world. I got much information and many lesson from these friends. I could share all the things on my mind with these fri

Doesn’t medicine go too far by giving birth to foetus weighting only 500 grams ?

According to belgian gynecologists weight does not matter as much as the fetus (foetus) number of weeks. A little baby girl weighting 460 grams was born at 25 weeks and was kept alive for 7 months in a special premature unit in a belgian hospital.Today, at 7 months, she weighs 4.2 kg and measures 54 centimeters. Since yesterday and though she still have many health problems, she sleeps in her own bed in her parent’s

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother Ahmad Wali Karzai has been assassinated on the 12th of July 2011 by one of his own bodyguards at his residence in Kandahar. Ahmad wali Karzai was addressing a public rally when his assassin open fired at him  He sustained bullet injuries in the neck and head  He was rushed to nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead President Hamid Karzai was with the French president Nicolas Sarkozy when the incident took place The Taliban has claimed the r

Toronto takes the place of Vancouver as costliest city in Canada

--immigrant: someone who lives in another country permanently

--domestically: in one particular country

--accommodation: place to live, stay, etc

Toronto has just replaced Vancouver as the most expensive city in Canada. Thanks to a lot of immigrants from around the world, Toronto is now the biggest city in Canada, which caused the increase in rent for those who are living there. Second only to Toronto, Vancouver,the most beautiful city

Many of you learn English through EnglishClub.com's Weekly News. I have been reporting the world news for many years now. English Club used to have the Monthly News Digest. It had four stories from the previous month. This year we changed the format to a weekly news report. I add one new story every Tuesday.

This year is the most exciting year. Do you know why? A group of MyEC members are using English Club's weekly news for pronunciation practice! If you haven't visited the Audio Speaking Group

  Chocolate has a variety of brands, textures, and types. But, why is it one of the favorite desserts of every person? People, young and old find eating chocolate is an indulging experience. It actually depends on the brand and type we eat.

  I think one of the best types of chocolate is the dark chocolate. Some of my favorite brands are Patchi and The Old Gold Original Dark Chocolate of Cadburry. Researchers say that eating dark chocolate (about 100 mg per day) would help prevent certain cancers

((The videos and the pictures are filmed and taken by me, Jul 1, 2011))

“Happyyyyy Biiiirthday tooooo youuuuu
Happy Biiiirthayyyyy toooo Youuuuu
Happy Birthday dear Canadaaaaaaa
Happyyyy Biiiiiirthdayyyy toooo youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

"Yeahhhhhhh", shouted the people.


This was what Canadian citizens and I sang on Friday, July 1, to celebrate Canada Day. In the beginning, Canada wasn’t a united country. Instead, it was consisted of different and separated provinces. In 1867, all the provinc

I love old clocks. I lie in bed, restless, craving for sleep, staring with my sick of staring eyes in the nothingness and I can hear the seconds bursting dead in black silence and falling slowly down as snowflakes and then, only then you can FEEL time. Nowadays nobody teaches the children that the clocks make that tic-tac sound because they…don’t make that sound any more, do they? What we have is numb clocks.

I love old phones. The ones with the old dials. You put your finger in the hole and di

Do you remember, Tara wrote a post about William and Kate's wedding which took place in London more than a month ago and asked you  your thoughts about it.

Today, i 'm going to talk about the second "Prince" wedding of the year, the one that took place 2 days ago in the Principality of Monaco.   

First, let me tell you a few things about this tiny and very rich country.

The Principality, which is a small "city-state" of about 2 square kilometers, sits along the Mediterranean sea on the French Rivi

Hello my Welcoming Committee dear friends.

Here is two photos created by me to welcome new members, hope not so bad. is it? and I'd try better than these next time.

About links:-

As I think there are many useful links for newbies, how ever some are more useful.

http://my.englishclub.com/page/myec-user-guide

http://www.englishclub.com/about/learn-english.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/about/english-club-faq.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/volunteer

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/spamming-1

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This was my first blog in this site. I post it again because Nadira has challenged me to write something about chat. Sorry Nadira, I am too lazy to write a new one :D :D :D

Well, actually I was also thinking of writing about my meeting with a friend on her wedding day that I knew from an exchange language site. We finally met after about eight months chatting and texting. She and I are member of this site too. But nah, I am too lazy now ^^

So here we are. Hope you haven't read it Nadira :D

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I went to a convenient store and bought cup "yakisoba".

It's regular price was 198 yen ($2.5), but I bought discounted one.

I got it for 138 yen. About 30% off! Yay!

How to make cup "yakisoba"

1 Pull back the lid to one-third of the total.

2 Take out some small packets from inside.

DO NOT EAT

This is just a seal of anime characters.

Normal cup "yakisoba" doesn't have this kind of things! 
However, this product is a made of collaboration with anime, "K-ON!!".
So, it might be a good bonus for "K-ON!!" fan