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'LOVE',  Strange Thy Name

“What do you think if someone very far away from you, says that she loves you in the very first conversation of her with you like I’m doing now?”

“I guess I shouldn’t believe her, I’d think that she is pulling my leg, I have firm belief that I should not pay any attention to such nonsense.”

“But believe me MI that I am the one who have been chasing you through all your writings, and has reached to the belief that you are the one whom I have been waiting for, you are the on

This is the RESULT of your quiz based on Lesson 9 (Prepositions of Place).  Percentage is computed by the following formula:  

                      Raw Score/Total Number of Items x 100 = %

CONGRATULATIONS to NIDA, ONEE-CHAN, I AM VIETNAMESE, MALKEET and SAMUEL who got the PERFECT score.  For those who were'nt able to make it, you still have your chance to shine in the next quiz.  Answer key is given to recheck your work.

ANSWER KEY

Dear Learners, 

Welcome to QUIZ 9.  If you think you are not ready 

This writing challenge reminds me of my mother who lives far from where I live. While I was trying to write something about my mother, this question came to my mind: Do all mothers deserve a hug? Don't get me wrong - I love my mother, and in fact, I just phoned her to see if she's happy about the May Day celebration. I'm not crazy or insane, either. While everybody seems to love their mother, there are people who don't think much of their mother. If the son/daughter is:

one of the multiple childr

Wishes For My Mother

I wish you to have 20/20 vision.   It has been 30 years since you lost the sight on your left eye, it just died the doctors said, even after a cornea transplant it didn’t last long for it had exhausted itself from the nights you sit under the dull yellow light of the lamp sewing native slippers which you sell to help with our family’s expenses because dad’s salary was just not enough to feed seven children. Your world became bleak and almost formless because you always insist

Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - their Lord will guide them because of their faith. Beneath them rivers will flow in the Gardens of Pleasure
Holy Quran
Surat Yunus 10:9

Do you know how it feels.....when a half of your soul is fly away?

Do you know how it feels......when you realize you don't have any chance to see them anymore?

I know how it feels, ....Believe me it's more than the deepest sorrow, beyond your imagination,

No words in this world are enough to describe it.
Tears drop like a river in the rain season,
Stinging,

Believe me, I know how it feels....
It is like drowning in a deep river, Dark, sinking further and further away..
I know how it feels...
It is like

1- Human hair and nails are composed of the same material, the substance known as «Keriatin».

2- Before the discovery of overall anesthesia by using drugs, surgeons were forced to hit the patient by a solid machine on the back of his head in order that to lose consciousness until they could finish the surgery.

3- When you speak, you are using between 70 and 80 different muscle.

4- Physicist Albert Einstein was finding difficulty in pronunciation until he reached the age of nine; his parents and his

HOW I LEARNED READING:

Prior to my school age I used to ask my mother to read story books for me. My mother had just the basic knowledge of reciting Holy Quraan, she also could read small books in our native language. Once she asked me why I would not learn how to read if I was so interested in stories. Then she taught how to read Urdu, which I learned prior to going school. My mother bought the very first book of learning Urdu Alphabets, their combination in twos or more letters to make words. M

Why should other countries be fussy about Indonesian policy related with the excecution? I think, it's not only in Indonesia that has such policy (execution), but also many other countries. Yet, why is it only in Indonesia that this matter become a big problem? Well, since I'm only a citizen, I can't help but just say that IT'S SHAMELESS. It's our internal policy, every country has also their own internal policy. I think other countries shouldn't interfere on it.

Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, May 10. Last year many of you wrote beautiful pieces about your fathers for Father's Day. We even made a Father's Day collection. This month, I'd like to do the same for and about mothers! 

Here are some possible writing topics to explore in May. I will not assign a special format or assignment for this topic. You can choose any of the topics below (or choose your own related topic) and write a blog however you please. Then we will make a Mother's Day collect

Hi .....l,

How are you? It's a cool day. Birds have been chirping, tress are in blossom, yes, it is Summer here! And, I have been waiting for a long time to get a letter from you.

May be, you are busy, may be you have been trying to get a better job. But, is it the only reason to be  silent for so long?

Well, here I am doing good. I am also busy with my own life and study. But, my health condition is  not too good. I have been suffering from fever and cold since last week. Though I am taking medici

She didn’t answer my call…no reply on all of my message to her…

Mmm…she might be busy with her works now, maybe she had a meeting with all of her clients or she has been  busy with her father that was hospitalized.

But 3 days?? Come on….I feel something intrigued me…did I do something wrong to her? This is not her to be honest, something wasn’t right here….She hates me? but why? Those kind of thought keep ring around my head after 3 days with no news.

She read my messages but she didn’t reply me, a

It was eighteen years ago on a Holy Wednesday in the middle of the Holy Week that a disturbance interrupted the mood of that Lenten Season, lent of course is a time of temperance and even emotions should be kept at bay, now added to this gloomy atmosphere was an ominous old wives’ tale that goes, “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe”, but something affected the quality of that day, for on that Wednesday, a little girl made her way into our lives and grabbed our hearts so that all of a sudden Easter

Writing Prompt ~ Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Mrs. Jane: "Good morning, Della! I have been searching for a candidate like you all week by seeing your resume. Now, I want you introduce yourself, time is yours.."

Dellamitha: "Good morning, Madam! Thank you. My name is Dellamitha Arifiah. I like teaching very much. I have been teaching Mathematics for over three years privately. I have been studying Mathematics in the university of ABC for four years and I will have been graduated by the end of t

Where exactly this term come from? and what was the reason behind it? i wonder...mmhhh..

as I know Lie is bad, and white is the opposite of Black and Black tend to be identified as "BAD"

so WHITE LIE equal to GOOD LIE, what if we lie for someone's sake or for our own sake? will that be considered as a WHITE LIE?

what if we lied something for instance : " I wanna do my HW in my friend's house" but the fact is we went out for a movie, could it be considered as a WHITE LIE?

Can anyone describe how to c

This is the RESULT of your quiz based on Lesson 8 (Prepositions of Time).  Percentage is computed by the following formula:  

                      Raw Score/Total Number of Items x 100 = %

CONGRATULATIONS to RATU, HA NGUYEN, NIDA, NEW MEMBER, RABAB and MALKEET who got the PERFECT score.  For those who were'nt able to make it, you still have your chance to shine in the next quiz.  Answer key is given to recheck your work.

ANSWER KEY

Dear Learners,

Welcome to QUIZ 8.  If you think you are not ready to

Last year, I got fever for a week, I vomited, I felt nausea, diarrhea, and also an extreme headache. The honey I consume as usual was run out, so I went to a doctor. She said that I got Typhus symptom, and I was given an antibiotic. The day after, I vomited all more than before. Then, I stopped consuming the antibiotic given. I remembered that I ever had been given antibiotic but I didn't consume all. My headache was relieved of the pain a little. But, three days later, my eyes were yellowish. I