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When cats are chasing mice, the mice are trying to escape. Sometimes they are not lucky enough and the cats catch them. It all depends how it will turn out. When they escape, they are considered lucky. A cat-and-mouse fight can be applied to many situations.

In British history, the Cat and Mouse Acts were applied to women in 1913. This period of time, women were fighting for their rights in Britain. The feminist movement started with the Suffragists. The characteristic of this group of leading la

Have you tried using YouGlish yet? YouGlish is an online site which simply means YouTube English. This is one of YouTube's features for people who want to practice and learn English through its videos.

I hope YouGlish would become a common eponym to many English learners and teachers in the future. Its site is very much user friendly. If you want to search a word, a phrase or a sentence, just type it down in the search (Say It!) button and it will show the videos and how words or phrases are sp

Loneliness, a presence of someone who always has been there even before you were ;
the unseen side of being alone.
The forgotten vaguely in a touch …a scent …a pain light as a mist. . .
gone… leaving you to fathom what forever was without a name...

Here I am on the motivation of Expector's Blog Challenge: discourse markers

“Be Cheerful and Help Others to be Cheerful”.

It is a holy thing to discover life, a happy thing and the world, a place of joy. It may be considered that much of religion and philosophy have been so gloomy with their miserable fanaticism and persecutions and their grim theories of sin and atonement through asceticism, so in result it may be assumed that happy is the man who can ignore them and snatch a joyful moment. But i

Nowadays, I've noticed that MyEC members fight too much on the issues like gender and religion. It seems like everyone is too stubborn to understand other person's views. Irony is that people keep fighting and keep trying to convince others despite knowing the fact that they would never succeed in doing so. Everybody wants to speak, but nobody wants to listen, or more correctly, people only listen to get more reasons to continues their useless debate.

Sometimes I read people's comments and replie

"Awww, what a cute kid! What would you like to be when you grow up, honey?" 

Pfft. As if that "kid" would give a flying fudge about the future. Do you remember this silly question? How many grown-ups have asked you this when you were desperately trying to wiggle so that they won't tousle your hair or get your nose? Kids live in a world that grown-ups are not allowed, if you will. Even if they get lucky enough and enter that magical world; they'd be confused as, um... well, you know.

They don't get

I haven't blogged in a long time.  I am not sure it is even in my realm of possibilities any longer, but here goes.

Everyone seems to be focused on the shootings in the USA.  We also know that gun control is a very controversial subject at the moment.  I do not support it because the gun is not the issue.  Yes, it is a quick way to cause death, no doubt.  The trouble in the USA is certainly more deep seated than just grabbing a gun and killing someone.  The right to carry arms was established in

He was a Hijdra (ہجڑا) (a transvestite).  His name was Raja.  I always found him sitting or dancing under an oak tree.  It seemed to be his living place.  There was a rag folded with a pillow lying on one side of the tree, and a Pitcher with the water on the other side.  Most of the time he used to hum while dancing,

 “I am the lover of my beloved, I am the lover of my beloved, one day I will visit Him.” 

When he sang, he pointed out to the shrine (the grave of the saint) nearby and then to the sk

I was born in 2014, unlike real world it was me who chose to come here. Some of us use our real names with our real pictures. Some of us choose a name randomly and some of us do some thinking about the name and the avatar that from the moment we sign in is going to represent our identity.

Just like real world there is so much to learn and discover if one is eager enough to learn. You will get to know good and bad people. If you come across bad people, you would get hurt, meanwhile you would gain

You know what do I think...

It is easy to tolerate my problems and sadness in life than tolerate others unhappiness and hardship in their life

Do you know why?

In the first state I am someone should act and could act to solve it ...but in the second case only I can see and maybe I can do a bit to help them ...Then I wish lucky for others at first... 

Dear friends,

Once I ran into a nice statement and it went deep into my heart and touched it. I stopped for a while and thought. It is typical of me to overthink when I find a reason for thinking. After that, I find it a good opportunity to put the pen to the paper or my fingers to the keyboard and let my thoughts flow on a piece of paper or the computer screen. Those sentences goes right below (Note: These words may seem repeating and boring. But these are the thoughts passed through my mind for

* I made up this conversation . It's NOT REAL. I just tried to use some of the discourse markers in a conversation, not a paragraph or an essay :) *

Host: Good morning all :) I'd like to welcome back my lovely friend ( belle ) , how are you doing ?

Me: I'm pretty good thanks. What about you?

Host : I'm alright , thank you. So, what brought you back on this site ?

Me : Well, I really don't know. I've been up all night long ( it's 6:45 am now haha ) and I thought I could do something fun online or hav

Today I am full of positive energy, indeed I decided to think positive, to talk positive,  to act positive, everything depends on us ....If we have less expectation from others, if we try to leave judging others, if we work only for humanity, if we leave to be self-centered, if we .....we will feel happiness
there are lots of if (provisions) for feeling luckiest .....but only one person is required to do them and it is me ...

        Again home work..lol..Maybe, Teacher Expector wants me to run away from our club…hihihi….

        Here is mine and of course, it is always “crazy” as usual….

Honey

        How do you think about the word: Honey? Sure, honey is made from the honey-bees. They suck nectar from the flowers and save it in their “special stomach”. Why I used “special”, because as I know, the honey-bee has 2 stomaches, one is for nectar and one is for his food. He needs around 100-1500 flowers that his stomach fu

Hi, I am wondering with two words which I just found them from my text book. 

How difference between the word Packet and Package?

Thank you,

Discourse markers? Unfamiliar to you, right? In fact, you use discourse markers more often than you may think. 

A discourse marker is a word or phrase that is used to connect or organize what you say or write, for example, 'so', 'OK', 'right' and 'by the way/incidentally' are often used as discourse markers. Some people might call them 'linking words' or 'linking adverbials', though. 

You may be familiar with the following discourse markers: as far as...is concerned, on the other hand, however, si