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Yes, you got it! It's an idiom meaning 'now is a good time to do something'.

Some members here, including me, were having trouble accessing MyEC the other day. Some of them may have taken an easily accessible MyEC for granted until they experienced the connecting problem. Now, thankfully, everything seems to have been back to normal here on MyEC. It feels so wonderful that we can get in to and enjoy MyEC again.

What I'm saying is we should make good use of MyEC. You could post a blog, leave a comm

Last January we went to Singapore. Our flight was at night. And, when the plane took off I started thinking something interesting. Because, I always being scared of flying at night.

After landing, We headed towards the hotel. On the way we had profuse rain. I just could see some trees off in the distance. And, finally when we reached, we almost got soaked.

There was a close relatives of mine. He was a nice guy of 25. He received us and our hotel was just off the main road. We got free drinks over

"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry.  Haikus are short poems that consist of 3 lines.  The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The word honey has 2 syllables: ho-ney;  the word introduction has 4 syllables: in-tro-duc-tion.   Haikus use sensory language which describes details observed by our five senses to express a feeling or image. These poems can depict:

 An element of nature

*Falling to the ground

I watch a leaf settle down

In a be

Taking into consideration something called discipline makes life more meaningful. Everything should have a principle over life to be carried out properly. Ethics is the most considerable support that has to be taken into account when doing anything pertaining to a person’s life aspects. This little task will gradually illustrate how ethics can be an essential discipline that makes person’s life more systematic politically, socially and scientifically.

One of many sides that ethics has great influ

In continuation of the blog written under the same subject " A Seed Of Faith And Its Farmers ", some precautionary measures in this regards are discussed here

When you firmly intend to grow the plant of faith, you have to keep it away from charlatan farmers such as fanatic and extremist scholars, sheikhs or Mufti whose intentions of speech is to prolong ignorable discrepancies in creeds/beliefs and on which bases they spread hatred among Ummah. Besides this, don't trust in those scholars who are

I want to make friends with you. Sounds familiar, right?

At lease we come across with it in virtual world so often.  It got me thinking what it really means to make friends on net.  What do you expect from someone that you choose to be your friend? Is it important to you where does he or she come from? Does it matter what is his or her religion? How about his gender? His job, his marital state and so on.

For me it is kind of exciting to make friends from all over the world, because it would give m

well, Last night there was a devastating storm. Don't know why this year we are getting more storms. People are also dying  from lightning. I wish there were no more casualties this time.

I heard you are going to fly very soon. I wanna wish you safe fight. Hey, what are you going to do in this up coming new year? Do you have a plan to arrange a party. Okay, at first let me wish you  good luck!

It seems it is going to rain all day long. I hope, The roads will not be packed.

Sometimes, I wish if I co

 You have decided to use an essay writing service to create your essay for you. There are some great services out there and there are some services that are looking to screw you over like a hot college girl with no money. So, here is a list of some of the demands you should make of your essay writing service. If they cannot live up to the stipulations on this article, then you should cut them loose and find a service that can. Thanks to EssayMama.com writing service for consultation.

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I am really facing difficulty to learn this ' Being'. So, I come up with this. And, I hope, you may help me to fix it.

 A stormy night.

Last night it rained profusely. Gusty wind blew with lightning and thunderstorm.The windowpane was cracking. It seemed the wind was  thrashing everything. Really, I being nervous though I am not a nervous one.

Well, in the morning I met with a friend. She is always being nice with us.  I know her for a long time. She never being nervous to face any tough situation.

No matter how desperately down you are, no matter how grey is your each and every day, no matter how many sleepless and stressful nights you went through or how much you regret....just… don't let your hope die. Once you burry your hope, you burry your soul and alive body with dead soul is in fact - dead YOU.

At times it might be hard to keep your hope up and of course it is easier to give up on everything, to immerse yourself somewhere down into the bottom of all the worst experiences, to lock yo

Hi Mom,

Happy mothers day!!! I know I couldn't make you happy in many ways. I couldn't be a doctor or something you desired for a long time. However, you always loved me. I don't know how you love me so much. 'Love' can be a single word but there is more to say when I think of you. You cared me when I was sick. I can't describe all other things you done for me. I just want to tell you that I love you more than I can describe in words. In all conditions and tough times of my life, I will always re

Hi, people of the world. 

I could name this weekend "My sweet weekend" coz my activities were connected to baking and decorating. 

I learnt how to make sugar flowers (and they are eatable). And also I baked a cake for my colleague's birthday. I hope he'll like it! What will you say???? 

Thanks in advance :) And here are my results. Don't judge too strict :D

These are my sugar flowers: 

And this is my cake. I have just finished it and now I can drink my coffee :) 

Bon appetite :) 

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness of

This is the RESULT of your MAJOR QUIZ which is also the last quiz for this year.  This was based on Lesson 8, 9 and 10 (Preposition) posted in the Grammarly Yours group.  

Thank you dear Learners for your warm participation.  Hope to see you again on my next lesson next year!

YOUR RESULT

For those who were'nt able to make it, may the result become an inspiration for you to continue seeking ways to perfect your English.  Answer key is given to recheck your work.

ANSWER KEY

Dear Learners,

This is your M

English, perhaps like every other language, has many words with identical or similar meanings. They are called synonyms.

Think of the words, approximately and about. As synonyms, you can choose either word in most cases, so my advice is to choose the simpler of the two.

Here is an example paragraph of simple words (in brackets) that could be used instead.

There are numerous (many) words that are synonyms and often you can choose the simple (easy) word over the complex (harder) word. Doing this help

Dear S...,

Really, I am  too happy today to get your letter in this morning. Thanks for writing and to break the silence! Yes, I have not been writing you for a long time. But, of course, there must be some reasons.

First of all, My mother is very sick. She has been suffering from diabetic related various problems. Doctors keep saying to admit her into a hospital but I just can't make the decision yet.

Moreover, I have been trying to complete my M.Phil course. Sometimes which seems impossible. But,

All relationships you maintain go under a contract. If your friend does a favor to you, he may expect a favor from you when he is in trouble. Relationship builds up with wife though a written contract. All though our life, such relationships are fostered under contract. Some contracts are clearly written and some are not. To have a successfull relationship, we have to abide by rules that we bear in our mind, or write on the paper. There is one relationship in this world that doesn't care for any

Hello, everyone. I wonder that no one mentioned this special day in blogs :( So let me do it for you.

Today is a special day for many people on this planet - today is a Victory day and a day when the Nazi were destroyed and the Great Patriotic war as a part of the Second world war was over. Also it's an Anniversary here -  70 years have passed after that day. 

Many people were killed, many villages were burnt, many children were tortured and many cities were destroyed forever. But on this day I wa

Discussing about certain topics will help enhance one's presentation skills and the ability to weave stories. It will help us improve our speaking vocabulary as well as usages & sentence structures.

However, preparing to talk about different topics is something most of us hate to do. What then is the way out?

How about watching small video clips and discussing those? Wouldn't it be quite easy to watch a comedy/tragedy/tragicomedy video on YouTube and then try to describe and analyze it? This is an

To become a mom is the best feeling ever. Nine months of suffering were worth it! The morning sickness, pain in the womb, dizzy feeling, mood swing, peeing at night at least twice, heartburn, feeling like big elephant, whose movement is at the end of the pregnancy kind of weird etc. are the things that can hardly make me say:

"Ohhhhhh yeahhh, I enjoyed my pregnancy!" Sincerely, my dear friends, I didn't apart from feeling moves of my baby, which gave me energy. 

However,  after process of torturin