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PLANT INSTINCT

Plants need water to grow.

When the water is abundant they grow more leaves and forget to produce fruits.

When the water is scarce they feel that they are going to die soon, they produce fruits to continue their generation. 

 

Just water your plants enough to keep their normal life!

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as a translator for almost 7 years now… people come to me all the time and ask me how did you become so good in translation… even though i only use two languages at work (English-Arabic)… and i tell them it’s all about your passion to this … in a previous blog I mentioned how much a good thing is to learn a new language… i know that since I’m learning spanish nowadays… to be a good translator you need to understand the world of languages … because this world is a wide world that could take years
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Start Saving Up!

  The prices of commodities are zooming up as fast as the bullet trains. We should take considerations on saving money, petrol, electricity and water and take advantage the free health and community services offered by the government.

  On buying thing like clothes or gadgets, we must first ask ourselves if we really need it. Are you familiar in impulse buying? Sometimes, we only buy things just to spend or we think it look good to us. Not clearly thinking if it is essentially important. A typica

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Did anyone watch Oprah's final show? I did. I even took a picture of my TV to capture the final moment. The only TV show I missed when I spent a year without TV was Oprah.

 

Why did I miss Oprah last year, and why will I miss her in the years to come? I used to think it was because Oprah offered a mini break from life. At 4:00 PM, for many years, I took a break from school, work, or motherhood to relax in front of the TV.  A few weeks ago, my husband hooked our TV back up for t

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because we never be alone

Last week I joined my class field lecture in Pacitan, East Java for a week. Well, we had so much activity to did and so less time for a rest. For each day we just had approximately 4 hours to sleep. We had to wake up at 5 a.m, and as soon as went to take a bath. If you're late, you had to wait in long queue, because just there were 4 bathrooms for approximately 50 persons,, hahaha..

After breakfast, at 7 a.m, we had to left our basecamp and went to field we had to survey. We practice different me

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The Village As Old As The Hills!

 

 

Please click on the play button to hear my voice.

 

 

 

Please click on the play button to hear my voice.

 

On the way to the village, we listened to different Iranian musics. One of which was an Iranian-Turkish song that my father loves it so much. Therefore, the audioplayer played it so many times. You can listen to the music while seeing the attached photos (Please click on the following link to see the photos). On the way to Abyaneh

 

 

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MyEC living room, issue #1

Come in, I am happy to meet you!

Tea? Coffee? Okay, let's talk about how we have been spending our time here...

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First of all, I wanted to thank all of you out of this nice company and other bloggers who commented in my blog. Good job, guys! I appreciate your comments! =)

Besides, during the last time I have been reading your blogs regularly and try to share my point of view if I have something to say. I would like to remember once more a string of blogs which had touched me especially. So, I am go

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DAY 2 : Tulip's field

 

Instead of going to Keukenhof, we went to tulip's field, where is one of fields provides flowers to Keukenhof and no any tickets needed. You can rent a bike or take a walk leisurely to enojy these stunning scenery.  Have you noticed that they are greeting us with their beautiful smile? 

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 hyacinths

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These houses are located along the road where we went to see tulips.

Each house looks like the house built in fairy tale.

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Hope you all have enjoyed them.  

 

 

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Have you tried out Fotobabble yet? This is a fun tool for talking about pictures. You need to have a microphone to use it.

 

The Fotobabble team has had its eye on MyEC since we began playing Fotobabble tag. Yesterday, they contacted me and invited us to test out their new feature: Fotobabble Slideshows. 

 

Will you help me test it out? 


Find more videos like this on EnglishClub.com

This is what you need to do: 

1) Choose a blog post on MyEC that meant a lot to you! It can be yours or a friends. Tak

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My Village

I was born in a village named Pematang Bandar. It’s about 45 km from the second big town in North Sumatera, Pematang Siantar and about 85 km from the famous lake 'Toba Lake'. My village is like the ordinary village, most of the people do for their life is farming. My village is the rice bran of my Province.

My village is a village with various ethnics live in. There are many ethnics such as Bataknese(the local ethnics), Javanese (mostly their parents come from java island), Niasnese (from Nias is
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Have you seen the beautiful welcome messages that some members of our Welcoming Committee have created? These members create their own images and text to place on the walls of new members.  Ali inspired many members to do this. These messages sometimes include useful links. I am so thankful for the members who take the time to do this good deed. It means so much!

Here is a new MyEC challenge for you inspired by Ali: Create your own MyEC Welcome Message

Your Task
1) Create a unique welcome messa

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2346171858?profile=originalWhat kind of food accompanies you while you're online? This is my first question to you and myself. I tell you, one of the favorite foods that commonly accompanies me when I am online ... is shrimp vegetable fritter (bakwan udang). I'm able to digest more than ten pieces, the reason why I got fat now (haha ..). Fried food is very simple and can easily be cooked (visit this link : recipe shrimp vegetable fritter).  

 

In Indonesia, generally this cuisine is served during rest time, while watching T

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Last night,somewhere in Pakistan,a U.S. commandos ended the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Do you think that, the fact that Al-Quaida's head was killed makes the world safer, or on the opposite, should we all be worried of what is going to come next as a revenge from the terrorists ?

My friends, i know it's a delicate topic to talk about, and i am not asking you if, what did the americans is right or wrong, or if we can find excuses to terrorisms acts. In fact, i have to admit that I have hesitated a

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Ma'am, are you my Mother?

 

I've been a proud mom and always will be.  Therefore, I wanted to write something about my son and my fulfillment about being his mother.  I wanted to share the joy of my motherhood.  But in the end, I found myself writing about someone else's children.

 

Last night, I came across a folder of photos containing my trip to Sri Lanka last September. Something pinched my heart while looking at them.  How could have I easily forgotten about them - the children at the orphanages I visited?  Here I am a

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Today, I asked a question in the OR (hospital's operating room). I hesitated to ask at first - what if I asked a stupid question? Would my Canadian counterparts look down on me because of a stupid question? But, the attending (a high ranking doctor) said, 'Good question! I know in Asia you don't...but in Canada we do...'.


So, here comes my question: What could be a 'stupid question'? Teachers usually want their students to ask questions. And, a question can be a good title for an article, or a go

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I am starting this post not because I am using commas exactly as it should be. Not at all! The reason is I am learning how to use them properly. In my case learning starts with considering. Being aware of my poor memory I try to grasp the logic of a thing or a process and so I can memorize what is vital.

Some people don't use punctuation. When they are beginners, this is quite understandable.

Though I notice people who use complex grammar yet still almost omit using commas and even periods and cap

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"Listen, Speak, Read, Write. Nuff said."

this caption submitted by Tara Benwell, Congratulations to you!

 

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One of ways to improve my English, I will print out the news text and bring it wherever I go ...

 

Hello friends,

please put your great captions or comments for this photo, It is fun. Thanks for your particiaptions!

 

-Nadiyah-

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Have any of you ever heard of Storybird? It's a fun website that allows you to write your own stories based on beautiful art by professional artists. I learned about Storybird via Russell Stannard at the IATEFL conference in the UK last month. 

 

I just created my first Storybird story called "Like Mother, Like Son." On Storybird, just like on MyEC, there is a monthly writing challenge. I submitted my story to the Storybird May challenge (Mother's Day theme). Unfortunately, this challenge is only
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railway transportation

2346194306?profile=originalyesterday, i went out of my town by train. this was my very first experience go somewhere by train. i was very afraid at the first time, because the train shaking me too much but then it's going to be a normal for me. i became familiar with the shaking.

in my town train is not a really familiar transportation. if somebody would like to go to somewhere the citizen  mostly choose to go by bus.  because train doesn't cross all over my province, just some part of my province.

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i spent 6 hours on the tr

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Greetings to all MyEC friends!

First, I’d like to ask something to you my dear friends who are serious in their want to improve their spoken English. How do you spend your time studying and improving your speaking skills? What are your learning plans daily to achieve fluency?

Hmm…I know… I know these are very common questions. We have read and discussed this kind of questions for thousand times here in our site. But what I’m appealing to you here my dear friends is that please hear me out my h

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