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One day, I opened my eyes and was surprised, even shocked. How could everything be so dark, total black, the darkest black, without color, not even a single dot of light. I tried to sit on my bed. My heart was full of anxiety and confusion.... "I still can't believe this. Am I blind now?". My two hands were shivering and still holding the blanket. I was sure that that was not a dream.

"Nooo!! Is this a warning? Or is this a punishment? What is a big fault that I have ever done? This is really unc

Dear English teachers, please share the methods which you use in teaching Reading.

What is ROM?

ROM stands for Read Only Memory. The memory from which we can only read but cannot write on it.

Well, that's me for past these weeks. (^_^)?

January is my Birthday month and on my birthday, my laptop motherboard crashed.  Its kinda like a curse or something... lol  i was like.. what... i have been using this laptop for few months only and its still new *mental shutdown

It should be my happy day but turn out miserable.. still i am grateful to all the wishes that i received on that day..

        A lot of people tell me that I'm so quiet. A lot of people also perceive me as lonely, negative or not so quite interesting to talk to.

        It is also what I describe myself, silent. Silence is my friend. I like being quiet because that's the time I hear the true sounds of everything around me. The trees are boosting their magnificence. The flowers beside the road are conveying their ethereal beauty. The cool wind that gently hugging me.

        Silence is my friend because to some deg

       The unforgettable day in my life

               day before yesterday

                   February 4th is the Independence Day of our country.I went to Dhamma school on 3rd February to teach Buddhism to the students. My friends told me "dinu tomorrow we will climb the mountain. It's name is hunnasgiri. if you like to come, please join with us.

    It will be a memorable day for you. I thought... But My mind told me not to go there. Bcoz I've never walked long distance be

Can you guess them?

1. The more people you share your pleasure with, the more you feel pleasure. On the other hand, the more people you share your sadness with, the less you feel sadness.

2. Sea water evaporates and becomes vapor. It is cooled in the sky and becomes cloud. Cloud makes rain and it falls down on the ground and sea.

3. I am not sure whether it will become successful, but if the possibility of success is more than 50％(The percentage depends on the person), there is no reason why I don'

I never expected that you ended our friendship without saying a single word if you say just bye before ended the contact the pain of loss would be bearable for me but you wouldn't bother even to say that. The feeling of  pain of loosing you can't be express in words if I try to express this feeling in words it's be like you have a good friend and he was dead and you  haven't know where his or her dead body is nor you know his grave where you go and cry.....

I have to know your opinion regarding

Onee's writing challenge.  I am not describing "Dream"  I am mentioning a dream.

“OH! You have come again!” 
No reply, there was silence but “Yes,” was hissed in my ears.  She was looking very happy. Her supple fingers were caressing my forehead. 

“How much you make me wait, and then you part quickly!” My voice was trembling; I was staring at her beautiful face as I wanted to engrave her in my memories, so that I would never forget her, even when she parts away.  Her face was glowing like a moon

English has many expressions. We should know the meaning when natives us them.
I will use expressions with 'tongue' while telling a short story.

Here you go:

Sam is sitting on the bench next to the house door when Helen, his wife, comes home.

Helen: "Hello Sam, what are you doing here, outside of the house?"

Sam doesn't answer.

Helen: "Hey, did the cat get your tongue?"

Sam still doesn't react.

Helen: " Don't you understand me? I thought English is your mother tongue, or do I speak in tongues?"

Sam is st

Joseph's recent emailed newsletter about "Typing and Writing Symbols" was interesting. It reminded me of the days when I taught business communication and computing.

One of the things I taught students was how to create symbols on their computers that were not available on their keyboards. These symbols, as some of you will know, are part of the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) which you can find here: https://theasciicode.com.ar/

The article tells you how to make the sym

Friendship is a word that people often use, and often even they use it thoughtlessly. Especially in the virtual media.
We get friendship requests from people, we hardly ever know.
The word friendship got a new meaning during the last years.

I always struggle to call it friendship when I just met someone.

Sincere friendship needs patience and time for growing.

A real friendship is precious. Often, we have a wide circle of acquaintances, but only a few people are in our close circle of friends.

So I w

Silence

Silence means absence of sound (any voice), but is there silence actually?  No there is always sound all around us, sometimes it is beyond our hearing power.  There is a phrase “broken heart”, we say my heart is broken. Is there anyone who can say he has heard the shattering of heart? No, but it still breaks.  There is silence for you, but I was hearing all the shattering of a broken to pieces of heart.  This is not ridiculous, ask a poet, a love-failure.  There is another phrase, “promis

here 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 it. Someday, if I discover my pu

Scholarships are a way to overcome the financial problems of the individuals. This is the reason that people look for the right scholarship that easily accomplishes their requirements. If you are a sports player you will definitely search for athletic scholarships which are meant for you. But there are so many myths associated with these scholarships that it becomes difficult to take the right decision.

Most of the people think that you have to be extraordinary in order to get the scholarship whi

we all know that if happiness increases by sharing . In that way if you do a work in group then you'll enjoy more and get more happiness after it's completion, because happiness is something which can't enjoy alone.That's why if you start a new work just take advice from your friends , family , colleagues. In this way we can get new ideas and it will help us in our work as well as it will improve our relationship with that person.

A few days ago, I had a conversation with my student about success.

Though the following dialogue is not completely the same with what I were talking at that moment, it has the similar message. :)

We were learning language, Indonesian.

Me: You got a score of 6 out of 10, four mistakes. Let's analyze your mistakes.

Stu: I thought it was easy since this is Indonesian, our language.

Me: Yeah, I will tell you that the key of mastering Indonesian or any language is reading more and more. You can read news

Hello everyone, on this amazing learning platform, MyEC. :)

Here is another new writing challenge in the year of 2019. As you see in the title, "How I Describe ....." will be the main topic. Your task is to describe an abstract noun. Click the following link to read my first entry.

How I describe success

In your writing, you are free to make paragraphs, a dialogue, a story, or even a poem. How to participate??

1. Write a blog with the title "Writing Challenge: How I describe [your word]". Example: "Wri

It is a general fact, everyone in the world is somehow thirsty of respect or value what in other words we call recognition, but very less of us try to be a person of true importance or value.

Before going to the very depth of the quotation, one needs to deeply understand the meaning of "recognition" and of-course!  "Not to be Recognized" In some circumstances by the people around whom we work, play, speak or sometimes live.

According to the Dictionary, as per the quote; Recognition is the  respect

A Chinese scientist is being criticised for making twin girls whose genes were modified. He seems to have modified the girls' genes when they were ova, so that they wouldn't contract AIDS, because their father had AIDS.

Most scientists around the world criticise him because they think it is unethical to modify human genes. If they allow it, they can design people as they like. It would be very terrible, wouldn't it?

There are some problems about this case. For instance, how about the girls' human