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It was late October. The old oak on the top of the hill started slowly losing its leaves. Winter was around the corner and mother nature was preparing everything for the first freezing days. As many other leaves, I was also thinking about my future and realized that sooner or later my time would come. Sun was getting weaker and weaker day by day and my colour turned into dark yellow. Wind was blowing more intensively and nervousness other leaves spread around was in the air. They felt anxious an

Squash and Shrimp Cooked in Coconut Milk (Ginataang Kalabasa)

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. -Voltaire

I’m full of the joys of spring to see all of your entries for my first writing challenge about traditional dishes. I never thought that this would be patronized by a lot of members.  This only proves that blogging is essential to most of us to express our thoughts and share our creative ideas for the love of lear

The following letter was written by Richard Dawkins and it´s addressed to his daughter Juliet, who was ten years old at the time.

Dear Juliet,

Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me. Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know? How do we know, for instance, that the stars, which look like tiny pinpricks in the sky, are really huge balls of fire like the Sun and very far away? And how do we know that the Earth is a smaller ball whirling r

Certainly, you’ve been a guest once, twice or multiple times in your life to an event, as mankind wants to celebrate almost every memorable moments under the sun, wedding, graduation, feast, birthdays, baptismal, death day… etc. etc. Have you noticed something? Look around you; can you imagine all corners of that venue? How does it look like? Is it well pleasing? Appropriately designed? The ambiance of the area fits the concept of the celebration? For sure it does! Well, the particular event was

When I joyned here as a member, I was thinking that I found a community where people have the opportunity to exchange experiences, to speak about different habits and traditions. About everything what makes us to understand each other better. Also to speak about religions and politics without any prejudices would be possible ... at least I thought so because I myself I am able to do that with respect and acceptance. My conviction is ... even if we don't agree or don't understand others in term

There are many ways to say goodbye: bye, see you, catch you later, so long, have a nice day, take care, cheers, and so on. 

It can be so tricky, however, for a doctor, especially for a Chinese doctor,  to say goodbye to a patient. As you know, 'goodbye' in Chinese just sounds like 'see you or see you around'. The thing is nobody really wants to be sick again - in other words, they don't want to see their doctor again, but the doctor and patient may feel like saying something when they are leaving

What's your favorite meal of the day?

Mine's breakfast. Without a question! I just wake up excited to eat some darn breakfast. I mean, just think about all the fun you have while you're making up your mind: Will it be scrambled eggs, something bacon-y, porridge, coffee and a croissant, pancakes, etc. Are you gonna go out and get it, maybe? Hmm. Decisions, decisions.

In one of my previous blogs, Cooking with Nanna, I talked about all kinds of food made by some adorable grandmas from all over the wo

Yummy! This is the first thing comes in mind when you experience this dessert made out of love and effort (literally!), you would thought that I’m just babbling or I’m in the mood to pretend to be poetic when writing this, but no! I’m not saying that you’ll go through a mouth-watering imagination (more than that!) as I walk you through how to prepare and how to eat this (hey, there’s an etiquette when it comes to desserts...kidding), alright, as much as possible I’m trying to prevent excessive i

Dear food lovers, especially those who are into sweets. I am calling youuuuuuuuuu to gather here right now, don't miss your unique chance! Well, I would like to introduce you Bábovka [ba:bofka], which is one of the traditional Czech sweet dishes. You can have it for breakfast or enjoy it as a snack with a cup of coffee or tea during the day. It is very easy to prepare and also easily eaten as it is so delicious :-) In fact, it is something homemade and honestly, I rarely saw bábovka in caffé, ma

http://www.lifehack.org/426221/what-a-typical-day-is-like-for-introvertsI was always cycling or jogging with my husband and my father but sadly they are too busy because they always pray at At-taqwa, the famous mosque in our city.

My husband is an extrovert, while I'm introvert. I have many friends since I was a child. My family thought I was a shy and quiet girl, while I hided my real characters haha.

So how do you know if you are extrovert or introvert? There's also a mix of them -- ambivert. Wh

Last Saturday, on 5th November 2016, I took another event to challenge myself. It was a 20km trail with 20 obstacles challenge called the Viper Challenge. Though I've entered a few trail runs and on the road runs, this is the first time that I ever tried an obstacle event. This event was also a team challenge, thus, I was quietly confident that we can go through all the obstacles with team effort though none of us had any experience participating in the event.

On the morning of the event, due to

Bread is a very important part of the German diet. It’s a staple food at breakfast , break-time  and supper  and there are lots of bread types to choose from, many of which are regional in nature. If you took the effort to travel all across the country, you would be able to enjoy more than 300 bread varieties and over 1,200 different bread rolls and baked goods in Germany. And you won’t have to look hard to find somewhere to buy bread. There are bakeries on every street in every village town and

If my heart could choose, it would choose you again ... you and only you.
You are not to replace and you are all what I want because you are my love.
I love you with two loves; the one is romantic and sweet, they other one is simply ... you deserve to be loved.
You always conquer me with your beautiful eyes. When I look at you then I can see how the moon is hiking on foot on earth.
Never before I saw such a wonder like the moonlight on your face, never befor I have felt this fever, the flame of

Hello EC! as Luci (our blue-thinker… :)) asked fellow members to join her challenge, which for me is really positive, it’s a chance for us to see other folks life with a very particular topic-our hot beverages name it coffee, hot choco, tea, etc. etc. It’s my pleasure to impart you guys what makes me energize and feel refresh (yes! Refreshing tho it’s hot!)… from morning up to late night, I never consider myself as addicted to any of those because I can drink 10 cups a day and I can also not dri

Chicken Stew with Coconut Milk

One of the popular traditional dishes in my country is the Chicken Stew or ‘Ginataang Manok’ in my local language. It’s basically chicken which is chopped in small pieces, and sauted in garlic, onions and ginger then boiled in water. It’s added with lots of ingredients such as raw (green one) papaya, monggo beans and malunggay (moringa) leaves - experts say they are an anti-cancer green-leafy vegetable. The dish wouldn’t be complete without the main ingredient - the

Welcome to my first ever writing challenge! I’ve been a fan of this activity since the day I became a member of our club as well as joined to countless of its versions. Many members have shown their initiative by coming up different topics to join with and improve our writing skills in a fun and engaging ways. It would be unfair as your video moderator if I’m not going to share a slice of my cake with you.

If my memory serves me right, we had this type of challenge before, but that was ages ago.

Hello! This is my favourite mug. I use it to drink chocolate. I am a chocoholic like Luci said. :D Besides, I don’t drink coffee because caffeine makes me feel awful (trembling, headache, etc). I drink tea sometimes but in a simple cup which also use my parents.

But this is MY mug. No one else drinks in this mug except me. And it is the perfect mug to drink chocolate. But it was not so easy to buy it. One day, while I was shopping in a super market I saw this mug and I loved it from the first mom

                I prefer the content to the container (applicable to persons too) so I,m not so keen on mugs but what it´s inside, plus no one has ever given me any :/

These are the cups I usually take for my very first activity in the day after washing and dressing up, yes I need this 'gasoline' to start working every day and yes, you have read well... 'every' so, for all those who haven´t already started to work, my advice is... choose correctly your job and think it twice jajaja...  too late f