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A 50cm-wave Killed 10 People

Onee, Comedic Reporter

Sun Oct 22, 2017

GONESIA - 10 people has been reported died two days ago by a 50cm-wave on Croco Beach. Twenty people had been taken to the hospital before they finally died in the hospital room. The victims have not been identified yet, but six of them were ascertained as foreigners.

"The wave is actually not a dangerous one. It is presumed that those people had never seen such a wave in their whole life," the police explained.

Lots of people were

Hi bloggers and everyone who likes writing. :)

I’m sure all of you know what passive voice is. Passive voice can change the focus of interest by placing the object at the beginning of the sentence. Subjects are often omitted in the sentence as they are usually unimportant, unknown, or obvious.

Passive voice is commonly used in news report. Hence, for practicing the passive, I challenge you to write a news report. :)

Here is your task:

1.  Choose a topic of your interest, then make a title of your ne

How to beat stress? That's the question, right? Recently I posted here discussion on this topic and I was really very excited to see so many people participating and sharing own experiences. On the basis of it, I decided to write this blog, which will be focused on                                                                   Y   O   U   R

Whether you like it or not stress is a part of our life and I would say it has always been here. Looking back into the ancient times and the way people liv

Dé.jà vu

I was waiting for her in the hotel lobby, where I had to have a short stay as a transit passenger.  I did not give her the time, but I e-mailed only the name of the hotel in which the airline was going to provide me the lodging. I had nothing to do specifically there in the hotel, so I came down to the lobby restaurant made myself comfortable in a sofa from where I could keep an eye on the entrance of the hotel.  The contents of the e-mail I sent to her were echoing in my mind:

“I am trav

We all are working for reaching comfort zone. Is itn't? 

Yes. somebody want to have good house. somebody else want to buy car? the list will go on.....apart from the basic needs of food, shelter and cloth. 

Other words, those are not in comfort zone working towards to reach comfort zone. 

The biggest challenge is once we reach a comfort zone staying there for ever. we should always come out of the comfort zone and trying to conquer next level. Then we will be always in a improving journey...

What is

READER'S DISCRETION ADVISED ! 

Marcus went to his friend who was an expert in Spiritual Studies , he was the reason why Marcus had a little believe in the other dimension and spirits , his friend told him about two spiritual experts skill full in white magic , though white magic is a folklore for the world , they are said to be in possession of it , he asked Marcus to visit them , they lived in the forest and had very less contact with the world , there was a hope that they may help resolve this

Distance between hopes and destination, dream and reality, what you are and what you are to be, what you possess and what you are to be possessed ,what you are doing and what you are supposed to do. What yet you have achieved and what you are to achieve, and the gap between your current position and your preferred position are always due reconcile.

The mankind pass away but the differences exist. From the inception of life there are always at hand the difference between all of the above and the m

In the cool season during night when the bed make body heated and proportionally to do list against coming days assignment is also display before. it is worthwhile to share the phenomena that while dreaming of the task to accomplish in next day we normally become much optimistic and when the day started and our dreams are required to be comes true we started working and also started making room for excuses to not get the planed works done.

it is very common in the cool season with me.

i think ther

A man’s personality is being formed it is being shaped by the noise of its surrounding he does not see himself throughout his own eyes anymore and as one can assume he cannot decide what is of his best interest. This symptom of lack of self love and confidence seems endlessly however he is watching TV.

He cannot see nor decide but he can watch TV, he must go to school where  the new shoes represents students’ new value, he has no shoes because these shoes are expensive, he is then for the first t

When I was coming alone from college, suddenly a car stopped in front of me. A beautiful lady came out of the car. I had not seen a lady like her any time. She was so beautiful. I am sure everyman will stop a moment if see her infront of his eyes. I cant explain her in my words. My English is very poor than her beauty. 

She asked me to get inside her car. I just followed her with out telling any words. I was inside car, no no, i was inside a dream world. The smell inside the car took me to some o

Hi All......I was reading Bet's blog regarding her uncle and his spooky experience when walking home one evening and it brought to mind a story my family told me about my mother.  Explaining the title of this blog as you know all countries have their religious affinities and such.....so here goes.

One chilly fall evening, as a young girl, my mother made the decision to visit one of her friends.  She was born in the 30's and she lived in the countryside instead of a town, walking was the most comm

Ish? What the :P is that? If you’re not familiar with this term yet, don’t worry. You’re not alone. Don’t be fooled by it either because you may know ‘-ish’ as a suffix (a group of letters found at end of a word and used to change or modify its meaning), but this word is actually a form of a very short reply.

Ish is an adverb used in informal conversational English which means ‘slightly’ and regarded as a reply to a question. And if you’re into English TV shows like I do, you’ve probably heard th

Following is my another blog became alive from my thoughts on the motivation of Eva's Writing Challenge)

I phoned her whether she would be able to come to see me.  I was wondering if I might be turned down, but instead my request was wonderfully accorded to.  I was surprised how could it happen, in spite I was hoping it to be happened that way.  She never responded to me like she did that day.  I was afraid she might not feel the pleading in my request.  I was thinking, trying to understand her i

I heard this story from one of my uncles who was a brave man instead of a  chicken like me!

The story is....

One late evening my uncle was getting back from his elder sister's house. His sister lived in a  village and he (my uncle) lived and did a job as a school teacher in a big city. But, during that time he was spending his winter vacation in their village farm house.

That day the weather was good, my uncle's farm house was situated 5 km far away from his sister's house. and, he decided to get b

Juggernaut

In the middle of the night I woke up lying on the path in the dark forest. Suddenly I heard the steps coming - almost running to me. But I could not see him clear. Just two X-ray eyes on the background of the dark silhouette. Somebody was approaching me. My heart beat increased and fear took control of me. In a while it all stopped and I could finally see, who was in front of me.

Two legs were sticking out of the ground. And before I asked myself "What the -_-?", one eye on the each of

Between Night and Day.

When the sun goes down for sleeping,
says "Goodbye, Day" with colorful light.
The sky looks as if it is bleeding,
before it kisses the dark of the night.

When fast the shadows will be growing,
and darkness is wrapping the land,
then all of the stars starting glowing,
and walk with the moon hand in hand.

And the lights turn on in the buildings,
like the eyes of the cats in the dark.
Can you see the lights in the windows,
lovers walk hand in hand through the park?

The trees will be washi

Being a professional translator in the 21^st century has become a double-edged sword. On one side, you have a profession that you know and love, offering you a secure income when everything else failed to do it for you. On the other however, you have translation technology tools, automated applications and algorithm based systems that can sometimes do it much faster than you, taking your job away in the process.

With that said, what does the future hold for translators and translation productivity

This blog is dedicated to Luci because of her question about the McDoos. It's about a national Syrian food that I mentioned in my previous blog. 

McDoos is some national stuff of food we do in Syria. We do it one time per year in the season of eggplant flourishing (almost in September), and then we store and pickle it as a provision for the whole year :D

I will give you the real ingredients which we usually do for a year provision of Mcdoos. And this will be sufficient for consuming of an average

Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world with a population of 38 million of which nearly half live in Buenos Aires.  It can be characterized as an urban population that has managed to coexist with the well-to-do and the working class in a state of “live and let live.”

The majority of the population remember the economic collapse prior to the 2001 Peronist era of the Kirchner Presidency and do not trust the banking institution.  They would prefer to keep their money under a mattress or

This is a true story and I have witnesses who will assure you that this really happened at the house. It happened with my younger sister. We were in our teen years and summer vacations were going. During those days our state was struggling with power crisis and almost every night power was cut for 8-12 hours, yes that is almost all night. 

As I said it happened with my sister, she was quite a tom boy and always tried to prove she never fears with anything. So we have a big 2 story house in villag