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Evangelina's Writing Challenge

Distinction

People always look for distinction because they think it makes life easier.  In fact life is not always that simple. Who know’s there is something under the surface? Having been hiding and yet waiting for the right time to show up. Let’s take a closer look to image of Yin-Yang, black and white in the same shape and proportion are flowing together in a full cycle. Each color represent the good and bad in this life, well it is called ‘distinction’. Oh wait! There is a black dot inside t

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Eva's writing challenge :-p

One of those worst days of your life. Last snow is gone and mud is just everywhere around. Exactly that one day, when nothing is black nor white, everything is just grey. Day, when u wish after waking up, it was still night and you could have slept for ages. During such day everything is blurred, in fact you don't wanna see the reality, so you better pretend to be blind. Your yin and yang aren't in harmony anymore and taste of the orange mousse gets on your nerves. If only it was chocolate mouss

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THE TRUE LOVE

The Way of Love 

Apostol Paul (a server of God)Said:
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

Here is the TRUE LOVE

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not

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Evan's writing challenge

He lost his way. He couldn't guess how long he was wandering along those streets which looked familiar to him, in the brightness of the days, in the darkness of the nights, nobody payed attention to him. The white snow on the pavement once he walked on turned into a brown slippery mud.Suddenly and out nowhere he came across his home. Will this nightmare finally end up for him? A tiny ray of hope appeared in the darkest and misterous night he remembered...Silence. A furious quietness was ruling t
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writing challenge of Eva

My world has been spinning after hearing it! Now I have no idea about the difference between day and night. All seems same to me. I am in darkness and have a feeling that there is no brightness around me. What is life? Is it about sipping a cup of coffee with proper proportion of milk and sugar. And, what it would be if I forget to put black pepper or salt in my evening broth? What does it actually mean if someone have chocolate mousse instead of orange mousse? See, how many people are in mud, h

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Evangelina has just published a writing challenge. The reason she did so may be due to the encouraging comments on her previous blog in which she asked if we were ready for or welcome a writing challenge. 

While it seems most of the members think it helpful to take part in a writing challenge, some members may be doubtful about it. They may try to ask this question: what's a writing challenge really for or what's the point?

Tara, the former admin, used to encourage us to write more with her monthl

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Unfavorable Numbers

4 and 9 are unfavorable numbers in Japan because 4 suggests death and 9 suggests illness. The reason why these numbers suggest these things is because 4 is read し, which can mean death, as in 死(し), and 9 is read く, which can mean illness, as in 苦(く). There are some Japanese hotels which don't use 4 and 9 for their room numbers.

In addition, the number 7 is favorable. There are words like "lucky seven". What numbers are unfavorable in your country? And what numbers are favorable?  

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According to Together We Rise, 1,200 kids enter foster care in the U.S. TWR brings together volunteers to help kids who are in foster care, and it inspires families to adopt them. All the volunteers are quite young, actually: "In 2008, TWR was founded by college students after one of their classmates discovered that their 9 year-old cousin was living in a car," states TWR. "They wanted to do something but they came across some obstacles because they were all under the age of 21. Government agenc

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Love in contrast

Eva's 

Writing Challenge - Contrasting words,

Love in contrast:

It made no difference between night and day for me since I fell in love with you. You must see that it is my blind love.  Be sure that I am not going to drag your name to mud by publicizing my love.  But the fact is like snow white. On the contrary I find myself unable even to express before you.  There is a burden on my heart. To those who think in black-and-white terms, my love may be either entirely good or entirely bad for you. Whe

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Hello, Friends :)
I am wishing you all a happy and bright Wordless Wednesday...

It's time of Wordless Wednesday game. Now please, caption this photo :)

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Remember that the winning caption will be used as the title of this blog...

The photo was taken by me at my home place :)

Go.. Go.. Go.. ;)

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Thank you all for your nice participation in this Wordless Wednesday

The winning caption was written by: Vision

we also had nice other captions here on this blog

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International Worker's day

Today is off in iraq because today's date is 1_May which is meant to be international worker's day or labors day that occurs on this time of the year  but i am not sure if labor's day is on this day in the other countries worldwide too because the date of it varies across countries,i hope each one of us is proud of what job we have and continue working with pleasure .today's the best day for the labors to relife from distress and anxiety coming to them everyday .for me i could have enough fun sl

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2347250739?profile=originalHi, my dear friends! Today I'd like to post the test on the prepositions of action. First, this group of prepositions is the most problematic in use. Besides, just these prepositions are used in the phrasal verbs and reading your comments to Dan's blogs I see you have some problems choosing the correct preposition for this or that phrasal verb. So, before starting this test, you should read my explanations in the attached file.

Prepositions%20of%20action.doc

Your task is usual. You should fill in

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Humanity Or Property

we all crave to be loved for our very own self not for money, beauty, prestige, fame and whatnot. We feel offended if others love us because of the wealth, fame or other factors. If a relationship is only based on one of these cases like wealth, beauty and etc, it will not last in the long run. For instance the moment there is no wealth, the relationship will be over.

The more you get to know a person, if there is no goodness in his or her heart the relationship cannot maintain. That’s why after

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Text 1:

Tomorrow I will  do business with some Chinese investors at my company. It'll be a very important business to speed up product sellings this month. To be very relaxed at the very moment, and so, do my best at negotiations, I prefer do nothing before.  For example, I asked for my wife to book a visit in hairdresser to do my hair for the company meeting. I also asked my wife to do the cooking, do the housework, do the shopping and do the washing up without my company. She gets a bit angry w

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I've just bought a book on English grammar to celebrate World Book Day

I enjoy reading books on English grammar and have bought scores of such books. I even thought I had enough and the bookstore seemed no longer attractive - I used to be a regular visitor there. 

The fact that I've got enough grammar books, however, doesn't mean I don't need to learn more grammar. I know there's still confusion, or rather, I know there's still something I don't really know about the grammar. 

I just finished rea

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Adverbs and adjectives

As adjectives describe or modify nouns, the adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. The adverb is placed after the verb it modifies. The adverbs are sometimes used to strengthen or weaken the adjectives. Some adverbs or adverbial expressions that tell us about the speaker's viewpoint or opinion about an action,  or make some comment on the action. Of course,  these kinds of adverbs are different from other adverbs because they do not show us how an action took place. They

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Feeling

2347250945?profile=originalI got a bad feeling since afternoon about my boyfriend. Maybe because he didn’t call me since morning. I waited until dusk to make sure he already at home when picked up my phone call.
“Hello!”
“Dear, where are you?”
“I am home, my doll. Just arrived.”
“Good! What’s happened?”
“Nothing.”
“No call from you all day and now your voice sounds weird, something must be happened.”
“How do you know? Hahaha!”
“I got a bad feeling.”
“Feeling, huh?”
“Quit joking! let me know please, I don’t think you are a

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US History in Passive Voice:

U.S. History - Passive Voice

1. Jamestown was settled by the British in 1607.

2. Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in 1621.

3. The French and Indian War was fought by the Colonists and British in 1754.

4. The Colonists were taxed by British Parliament to pay for the French and Indian War.

5. Tea was thrown into the Boston Harbor by the Colonists to protest high taxes in 1773.

6. The towns of Lexington and Concord were attacked by the British in 1775.

7. The Declaration o

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