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"To try is to risk failure. But risks need to be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel change, grow, love and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.” 

― Leo Buscaglia 

Love (1972)

"We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There

Math is not my strong suit. There, I said it. Every time I see a math problem; my heart beats very fast, I start to perspire and I gasp for air. I feel like somebody needs to discover a cure for it. Maybe an allergy shot for example. You know, something like they've got for an anaphylactic shock; that's just a big, fancy word for having a severe allergy attack. I'll be their #1 investor if they do. I promise. On my honor! I just gave you guys a million dollar idea. You're welcome! Anyway, I don'

Nice and Simple as an Iranian Lady

Yesterday, I went to a park to walk and enjoy the fresh smell of spring. It was a sunny day. A man was sitting on a bench, he was reading a newspaper. A little boy was sitting beside him, then a woman came with three ice-creams in her hands. She sat on the bench beside the little boy and gave him an ice-cream. The woman gave the man an ice-cream, too. They were a family.

Eating healthy is important.

No kidding! It is a serious issue when it comes to growing children, because what's known as the junk food (not to them of course!) is ruining their healthy eating habits. The Sweetgreen restaurant chain released a series of school lunch comparisons from all over the world, to show us how culture could affect the diversity of school lunches. From a US or UK point of view, the school lunches in many other countries look mouth-watering and fresh. Unfortunately, lunch la

Dear readers over the world

To day I'd tell you about one of the legend that happened in my Area nearby.Don't forget to visit the location  and  give your comment , OK ?The legend of The Twin lakes in Alahan Panjang

Tautology is a complicated term that means saying the same thing twice. It's considered bad use of language.

Unfortunately, however, there are numbers of word pairs that are tautologies that have crept into common use. Here are some examples:

Swap out - this seems to be more commonly used in US English. Swap means to change something. I often read the term "swap out" as in, he said he would swap out the batteries so the torch would work. Swap would have done fine alone.

Sort out - we can sort somet

I don’t know from where to start and where to stop, what to care about and what to drop, what to amplify in and what to crop. Is it possible for a human to ignore other's pain, torture and suffer, and still be considered as a human. What is Humanitarian so. what Palestine means to me?, where is it? and where am trying to go?  .......

I won't talk about geography because internet knows more. I'll not talk about statistics even it is what I adore. I'll talk with responsibility, with eyes full of te

EVERYBODY IS A GENIOUS.
BUT IF YOU JUDGE A FISH BY ITS ABILITY TO CLIMB A TREE,
IT WILL LIVE ITS WHOLE LIFE BELIEVING THAT IT IS STUPID. ~ Albert Einstein.

Different people learn differently. There are introverts/extroverts, close-minded/open-minded, messy/OCD, booksmart/streetsmart... So why we insist on using only 1 teaching method when there are SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO LEARN?!!!

Let's think about to change the educational system for once!

I'm totally against the old educational methods and

HOW I WROTE THE BLOG, 'BROKEN HEART'

I was looking for the articles through the link provided by Expector, the challenger.  I was scrolling and reading the detail for articles "a, an and the".  I stopped at the portion where the article ‘an’ was mentioned.  There was also an example given: “an umbrella”  I stopped there for a while.  Since this article is rarely used along with the noun starting with a vowel.  I was thinking how to use this phrase, “an umbrella” in my next blog in response to Exp

Some people say white lie does not hurt. Someone tells it to avoid hurting another person. I don't believe in that. A lie is a lie. Whether white or colored. God does not like dishonest or untruthful ones. In fact, lying is a bad habit. It shows insufficiency or decrease of the individuality. Cowardice or being afraid of something are one of its major merits.  

The previous production leads to the story of   that shepherd who used to lie to his village people.

Once upon a time, a shepherd took his

Some people say, white lie. It does not hurt. Someone tells it to avoid hurting another person. I don't believe in that. A lie is a lie. Whether white or colored. God does not like dishonest or untruthful ones. In fact, lying is a bad habit. It shows insufficiency or decrease of the individuality. Cowardice or being afraid of something are one of its major merits. 

The previous production leads to the story of   that shepherd who used to lie to his village people.

Once upon a time a shepherd took

My dear friends! I see  you liked my grammar test so, I am posting one more. Your task is the same: to find and to correct the mistakes. Such tests without underlining are the most complicated as any word may be wrong including articles and prepositions. There may be a few mistakes in each sentence. I’d like to pay your attention to the following: it a grammar test, so the used vocabulary is out of the question, it is correct. I’ve seen that in the previous blog some learners tried to change the

                                   In Suzhou

I just got back from Suzhou. It is a City near Shanghai. But it is not as busy as Shanghai. Instead it is a city which has the flavor of a village.

We liked the vibes and everything over there. On the way from Shanghai to Suzu there were many things to see. It looked like the country side. We enjoyed fisherman's houses, ducks and ducklings, meadows,  cherry blooms and so on.

One day we went to a Lake side. There we enjoyed the scenic beauty of the lake.

Can you name the food which is a part of these idiomatic expressions and/or sayings?

A) Try to guess the meaning of them.

B) Use them in sentences while you're at it, okay?

For example:

a piece of cake

something easily achieved: I never said that teaching her would be a piece of cake.

Here we go.

1. it's no use crying over spilt (or spilled )...........

2. bring home the...........

3. like taking............from a baby

4. have other (or bigger ).......... to fry

5. from...........to nuts

6. too many cooks s

Broken Heart

I was born with a broken heart.  I had a hole in my heart.  I survived with the hole for quite  a long time.  But once I had to go to the hospital where the doctor/s diagnosed the problem. This type of hole is called ASD (Atrium Septal Defect).   After the general physician, I was referred to a heart specialist.  He told me that if the hole is small, they could mend it by ASD Plasty.   This is a procedure by which they enter a cable along with camera in to the body and take the cable

LITERATURE:

Basically literature is defined as a collection of written work of language through different periods and different cultures by authors and scholars. The advent of writing marked a great step in human civilization for many reasons such as transmitting knowledge, ideas, events and even feelings.

It teaches us to listen carefully and look deeply attempting to understand more than the meaning that we see from the surface. Literature plays an important role in the religions too. The Qura'a

WARRANTY:

The battery set is warranted against manufacturing defect due to a faulty workmanship for a period of two years from the date of supply.  If the capacity of any battery/cell falls below 87% of the specified capacity within two year of service life, the cell will be repaired free of cost or will be replaced with a new one, if it is not found economical to repair. Our warranty is subjected to proper use and maintenance of the batteries as per the laid down maintenance standard.  A book of

Yes, I mean 'determiners' by 'articles'. A/an is called 'indefinite article', while 'the' is called 'definite article'. 

Articles can be so tricky to use, though. Sometimes you need to put an indefinite article before a noun or noun group, while sometimes you should use a definite article instead, or don't use anything, which is callled 'zero article'.  

You say 'the Great Wall', 'the BBC', 'the University of London' but 'Hyde Park', 'CNN', 'Beijing University'. 'In prison' and 'in a prison' don't

This is what I found in my e-mail box this morning, sent by my cousin Anthony from Canada:

Here is a display of the charms  of Mathematics

                                    1 x 8 + 1 = 9

                                  12 x 8 + 2 = 98

                                123 x 8 + 3 = 987

                               1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876

                             12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765

                           123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654

                         1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543

 "I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."

- Woody Allen

Nice try! I'm sure it's the black humor talking, Allen. Death happens sooner or later. And you'll be there, pal. Some famous people lived a quiet life. But their deaths caused quite a stir. So did their dying utterances. You can't help but notice that some of these distinguished artists' last words encapsulate their personas, you know?

#1 Alfred Hitchcock

"One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exact