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Can you guess what the title of my blog is? If it's the first time you've seen this kind of post, you'd probably raise your eyebrows or freak out. Fret not! I'm just using the International Phonetic Alphabet or the IPA symbols.

If you've been learning English for years, you would mostly encounter these symbols many times especially in online dictionaries such as Macmillan.

The IPA is used as a guide to fully understand how a word is being spoken. It's somewhat like a code in unlocking a treasure b

Attractive is my face, character is my great, sweet is my smile and unique is my style!!

I have many friends even though I was a shy girl.I liked playing with many kind of people.I even went biking with them.

I rent my books and made money even though they didn't return them sigh.

My childhood was a victorious when I beat my classmates in 3rd and 4th elementary school as the 1st smartest student.

I was accepted in a public school and it was easy to be popular because I made friends easily even thoug

One of the most popular reasons why Red Smoothie Detox Factor  many people do not achieve, or sometimes even attempt to lose weight is because they feel it's too hard. Are you possibly one who fits into this group? Well guess what, being fat is hard too!

When you begin a journey to lose weight, it's going to take some time getting used to. Naturally your body is going to put up some resistance as you continually force it to get off the couch and hit the pavement to workout. It's definitely going

Dear Readers,

 Today, writing after a very very long time but, for this I will give  credit to my EC friends.

 I am getting immense pleasure in writing about my friends. It is a special occasion, it is friendship day.

Friends are really very imperative in our life. We all have friends - I think it is  very easy to share our problems with our friends, then with anyone. Friend is someone with whom we can openly share our feelings, our joy, without thinking much without caring how he or she should re

   In continuation of blog series under title as written above and demanded by an Indan friend, I have written its fifth part as promised with him.

   The Nehru Report, which made the Hindu-Muslim rift final and irrevocable, had sowed a seed of separate homeland for Muslims. In response to vide report, Muhammad Ali Jinnah announced his famous  Fourteen Points in March 1929 during the session of All Indian Muslim League. Although these points were not given any importance in the Congress circle a

A kid had a dream to meet a fairy, one day she met with a fairy and got a magic carpet and holy power to help the helpless people as a boon. The kid planned to use the magic carpet while her friend about to fall down into a hole, she thought she could ride on it and able to reach there before her friend fell down but  her friend saw it, she became curious and greedy and tried to convince her but failed to obtain it. The kid told the things to her mother but her mother was furious and asked her t

Hello guys, in this post I'll write some short stories using three common phrasal verbs.

Today we're gonna use the following phrasals:

- fall down: to drop to the ground;

- get off: to descend ( bus, train...);

- get out: to leave ( place, vehicle)

Text 1:

Carlos gets out his home at 6AM everyday towards school. In one of these days, he fell down because of a sharp rock on the sidewalk of his street. He was so angry, but, it seemed that nothing worse had happened to him. He rose and started walking  t

This life  I must be, 

silent but it was great. 

Happy but I am quite,

What I must showing a bit? 

I am not a hypocrite girl,

but all tears & sadness I kept hid.

When was the last time I mimic,

with my astonished & flickered jerk.

Silent yes I am, 

Dangerous is all they accused. 

As if you are making crimes

For unknowingly love by someone. 

Don't accused me as a robber,

nor a mistressed by your lover. 

Silent But Dangerous as they called; but 

my heart is pure & helpful to people. 

Forget me not , investigate &

My heart breaks whenever I see that a pet's been abandoned by its owner. There are guys who buy a pet, bring it home make it think it'll be loved forever but after a while they become tired and ''get rid of'' it. What were they thinking? That their pet was a broken toy or a piece of...? No!!! It's alive. It sees, hears and feels pain and abuse like a human being.

To all of those people who do this:

But the poor pet ends up like this:

Do yourselves and those poor animals a favor; buy one of these i

Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, La Bayadere, Giselle, ...

A ballerina in a pink tutu brings to mind, right? Like Rose Day, Thinking Day and any other Days; there's a Ballet Day and it's on February 7th. Why? Well, because ballet was introduced to the US on February, 1827 at the Bowery Theater. Plus, February 7, 1668 was the day when the Dutch Prince William III danced in the premiere of the “Ballet of Peace.”

Let's skip the niceties, shall we? Whenever I see a ballerina performing on a stage, something

Stay away from me.I love this lyric when I am in manic mood.I can break things.
Build a fortress
And shield your beliefs
Touch the divine
As we fall in line
Can I believe when I don't trust
All your theories turn to dust
I choose to hide from the all seeing eye,when I'm depressed.
Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood
You'll not rest
Settle for less
Until you guzzle
And squander what's left
Do not deny That you live and let die.

This

"What is your phone?" Asked by one of Sarah's officemate. Sarah lifted her phone and made the other person see it. "Oh! why is your phone only like that?" Then her officemate looked away and got her attention back to her brand new Samsung phone.. But as far as Sarah's concern " Well, my phone is cheap, yeah antique but it serves me fine."      

Sarah does not care. A lot of times she thinks why people need a million things in their lives. Always chasing new and up-to-date ga

Reading Mary and Onee-chan's blogs about MyEC members makes me wondering what had happened to a few older members of MyEC. Once upon a time, their presence coloured MyEC with their blogs, forums and even chat room. Now, hardly any members remember them. They are no longer the flavour of the month. How flitting their presence in this virtual world it seems.

I wonder, does anyone really know anyone in this parallel universe which we call virtual world? When, and not if, we leave MyEC, does anyone m

i have a 0ne-month baby....she alwalys cries at night... i and my mife take a shift to take care of her. it is very excited to have a baby even though it make me to stay late at night...but i don't mind as long as i am with my baby...

I was sick since last Friday and took sick leave for 2 days. I got well on Sunday but my husband won't let me go to the movie with my brother and my son. Yesterday I cancelled my class in campus since there wasn't a classroom for my midwives students.So I went with my mother. We ate beef satay before I took her to a railway station. She planned to go to Bandung and then catch a flight with my father to Palembang,I was left with my own family and went to a health clinic. Luckily my parents could

As long as we are young we think we have a lot of time. But the world turns and time marches on. We get older every single second.

Every year, we make plans. Sometimes we fail, but more often, we succeed and reach our goals.
Often, we ask, "Why waste our thoughts on time? We still have so many years ahead of us."

But NOW is time for writing the book of our life.
When we are old, what can we tell?
Stories about lost dreams? Stories about wasted time?
Stories about places where we have never be

Dear Adaline,

Although we haven't met, I can sense...

Your last message really made me wonder. How can you like somebody without actually meeting them? I can't say this is my best work, but I got caught up in the moment and after five hours I made this:

I'm proud of it 'cause it reminds me of someone with a beautiful mind, a big heart and a kind soul. You. My sweet Adaline. This is how I imagine you. An angel with a big heart.

PS. I haven't painted anything for 10 years! I used an app 'cause I'm sca

A Brief History: Foundation Of Pakistan Part Four.

In continuation of blog series under title as cited above, part four is written as demanded by an Indian friend.

The Bengal was parted on 1905. But, after strong agitation from Hindus and boycott of British's products, the partition of Bengal was annulled on 1911. Indian Muslim lost an opportunity to get a Muslim electorate elected who could rise the voice of Indian Muslim in the Assembly. It had awaken many Muslim and Muslim leaders. On 1913,

Oh how much I like the late summer with it's warm days and high sky. The drops of the morning dew shine like brillants in spider webs and the first peaches and apples are ripe.
The first fogs show the fall and the first leaves fall down from the trees.
Last roses are blood-red, to show that they don't want to die, but they have just still some weeks to blow.
The days are getting shorter and the nights longer, it shows us how close the fall is.
Still is the sun warm and I hold my face towards t

There are five great benefits of living a purpose-driven life: 

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. We were made to have meaning. This is why people try dubious methods, like astrology or psychics, to discover it. When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable. A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I dis