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The following is a (very poor) translation of an Urdu poem I have done on the inspiration from dara's blog "Eyes"

These are roses, these are wine.

They are unique, they are fine.

There is love in them, even the hatred,

Blessings are the eyes, curses are the eyes.

Sometimes they are mischievous

Sometimes they are shy

Sometimes they hide the secrets of heart

Sometimes become the book of heart eyes.

Some feel them deep like lake

Some find mirage, in the eyes

When ‘she’ comes, people say,

Sir, ‘eyes’! Sir,

February 14th is just around the corner. That's right. It's just another day, people! I saw an ad which was so dumb it made me feel sorry for the girl. The girl - a model - tried to simplify the concept of February 14th to the audience. She said, "[...] it's so simple. Give and you shall receive." Wow! Everything is so clear now. Give a diamond, have a ... ya know, it rhymes with DJ.

On Friday's broadcast of "Real Time", Bill Maher said, "... with Valentine's Day coming up; everyone must take a m

I have decided to post this learning blog as I see you have some problems using the present and the future tenses correctly. Speaking about some future actions we often use the present tenses. Let’s consider when and how to use them.

1. If we speak about some future actions taking place on schedule (classes, transport, TV program, holidays, etc.), we use the present simple tense as we have no doubts about any schedule.

His plane arrives at 10 am tomorrow.

The soccer game begins at 7:30.

I teach two

Hi, everyone! It may be the last intermediate test if you do it correctly. I see, you have learned a lot from the previous tests and now you know many things you had a lot of doubts in. It is very good and I am really happy. This test is approximately like Test IX. You know what to do, don’t you?

1. When he came in school, he recalled he didn’t learn what he assigned (4 mistakes).
2. When he solved the problem incorrect, the other student tried to correcting him (4).
3. He said he would sell the old car bef

I was told many times here on EC by people from the different parts of the world something like: "Ohhhh….your life is so beautiful, everything there is so clean, especially your streets, pavements, roads etc." Honestly I was like: "WHATTTT????" I have never been to Asia in my life but yesterday I read an article about trash in Dhaka – capital of Bangladesh and guys, when I saw the pictures, I realized that if somebody lived surrounded by such sorry to say this "shits" of course then they will ad

Have you heard about Jollibee or have you been there? This popular fast food chain in the Philippines hits the Filipino populace with its ever dear burgers and mouth-watering “chicken joy”, a famous fried chicken dish. But this time, it’s not the food that made Filipino crazy about Jollibee, it’s the stories they made for this coming Valentine’s Day entitled “Kwentong Jollibee” (Jollibee’s Stories). To be honest, I’m not a fan of Jollibee but I’ve been there multiple times in favor of my younger

Everybody should have hope in life ! So that, it would keep you standing for a very long time , without hope you would have nothing. Hope is like a star, it disappears during day time and shines in the darkness which would inspire every man on earth to get whatever they want! In this world everybody is not perfect and with hope everybody would become somebody even better ! Without hope there would not be any purpose in life ! So guys always stand with hope to become the better you ! thank you  (

A child’s brain is like a blank sheet of paper.  It creates early impressions on what they observe, and television has the power to influence the perception through how the child sees the world. “…Cartoon Network has found out that in Asia, Filipino children are the most connected with television.”( J. Angelo Racoma). However the aim of this essay is to discus some negative effects of TV programs towards the attitude of children and to give us information on how to teach young adolescence become

The Goal of Education

Education can make us a full man. A man that is knowledgeable enough to know what is important in life, a man that is intelligent enough to understand the different situation in life and a man that has wisdom to change the present life. For me the goal of education is to make us a full man.

When I read the article of Mr. Vicente R. Hao Chin, Jr. “The Goal of Education” there were only three things that came up to my mind. The knowledge, intelligence and wisdom, these were I

This is not your statistical precision of estimates from sample surveys, nor the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s result. This is different and related to things I observed, as I often heard a normal complaint from so many people I know, and somehow I have the same objection deep within my heart. I strongly believe people desire for what is good and striving their best to do good to other people. This is quite sad to tackle but I feel like writing about it so let it be. I don’t want

Our world has seven continents. Each continent is unique and distinct on its own. Do you know which continent you belong to?  Well… I, Robbie, of legal age, belong to the Asian continent. Mabuhay! I’m from the Philippines and my country is located in South-East Asia. Risty is a Filipina and works in the United Arab Emirates. I’m glad I have Asian friends. Onee is one of them and she’s from Indonesia. Kal is a thoughtful friend from Sri Lanka. She always likes to send wonderful e-cards on my page

Here I am with my attempt and my lexical sets focused on everything around the BABIES :-)

Finally it happened, yeah parenthood this new word, something totally unknown is trying to change your life upside down. In fact, things will never be the same again because there are not just two of you but that one...third one... ehm let's call him "invader", somebody who suddenly occupies your bedroom! Luckily sometimes he even sleeps in his crib. Instead of enjoying time with friends, you are sitting at

Hello, MyEC members! How’s your 2017 so far? I hope everything is fantastic and you’re still fond of Englishclub.  For this month, I would like to introduce to all of you our new writing challenge about ‘lexical sets’. Are you familiar with this vocabulary term? If not, let’s learn this topic together shall we?

A lexical set is a group of words which are all about the same topic and which all belong to the same part of speech. The group of words consists of nouns, gerunds, verbs, adverbs, or even

Evangelina wrote a comment in my blog: The Stark Beauty Of Nature - The Pinnacles And Lancelin; "I have a wish, I would really like to go to one place that is on the Heritage List of every country I visit and have a photo from here". I told her that I never thought to visit those kind of places, but then tt reminds me that in nearly every country I've ever visited, I always visit their famous markets. LOL

So here, I want to share with some of you market places that I've been to.

1. The Floating Ma

O my heart, my companion

It has been once again ordered that we leave in exile.

Wander street to street begging

Wander town to town so that

could find the clue of the beloved

Let’s find any messenger, messenger to her,

Or ask every stranger where we lost the address of her

Always looking for her, day and night,

Talking to own self or to her in imagination

How would I tell you what is the night of sadness, it is very bad

It would be sufficient for me

if it was one night or there was any count.

It was not bad

Coming back with the memories. I'd like to dig into the grave of the EC's hidden history that might not be known or recognized by many especially new members here.. 

Once upon a time and just 6 years ago, I published a poem here under the title of "Morbid Love". Later I was very surprised by a very brilliant reply from Ohnie.  Ohnie replied my lines wearing the character of the second partner in the blog..

Today, I read a poem written by Shey. Immediately I remembered Ohnie and her blog.. So, I de

"A legal loophole in 1913 made it possible to send babies by mail. This picture was taken after it was banned in 1920" (phew!)

Yes, it's as crazy as it seems.

In the early days of the parcel post you just had to attach stamps to your children's clothes and send them, as any other "normal" letter or parcel (no kidding, just like that!*). They "rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. One newspaper reported it cost 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandpar

Well, here is your new task. It is quite easy, mostly the tenses, voices, prepositions. You know what to do, but if you don't just check out the previous blogs with the same title.

1. When she entered to the kitchen, he already laid the table and waited to her (4 mistakes).
2. She said if she will get sleepy, she goes to bed before I will return (3).
3. I asked did she know when his plane will arrive (2).
4. Anybody didn’t know will he win or not (3).
5. I am waiting to her but she didn’t still come and called (3).