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my friends in EC know what is my opinion about the Palestinian-Israeli issue, but this time I want to share with you all the words of a man who is living in Gaza, is a doctor and volunteer from Norway his name is Mads Gilbert.This is a open letter he made for the United states president.

Open letter from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a physician working in Gaza

Dearest friends,

Last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dy

Writing Prompt ~Third Conditional

If I had known that learn a second language is so good I would have started learning sooner. It's as if another mind get into your brain when you learn it and you begin to look at the world from new perspectives. It's magic! If I had noticed how enriching it is to be able to talk to people from different cultures before, I would have made friends as much as possible in several language learning social networks. Reading is a great passion that I didn't know I had

Eid ul-Fitr or Id-Ul-Fitr, often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadhan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Its being celebrated on Tuesday the 29th July in my country. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "to break the fast" (and can also mean "nature", from the word "fitrah") and so symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period. Eid ul-Fitr starts the day after Ramadan ends, and is verified by the sighting of the new moon. Muslims give mon

The recent controversy over UPSC, civil services exam is a debatable issue which is politicized by political leaders and parties for their parochial interests in Hindi and regional speaking belts. What these leaders and astray students do not understand is that Civil services exam is not a “welfare scheme”, but the most difficult and respected exam of the country.

The accusation on UPSC of being biased toward English has a fundamental fallacy. These students do not understand (and probably do not

Writing Prompt ~ Second Conditional

If I inherited a zoo, I would think about the best way to keep all the animals comfortably adapted to the life inside a limited environment. For that I would first enlarge the zoo's area. If I could, I would bring the plants, food and climate of their original regions.  How it would be really amazing! The animals would live as if they were living in their natural home. If experts in animal behaviour worked in my zoo, I would ask for them to treat the animals wi

Writing Prompt ~ First Conditional

Dear Jack and Miguel,

Daddy and mom will make a business trip on this weekend and you will stay at your beloved grandparent's home. I hope the things go well there during this period. If you keep silent and calm at night, we will give you brand new toys. All of you know grandma and grandpa need a quiet place to rest. We will bring to you new computers if you do your bed as soon as you wake up. Don't forget to have a bath everyday, because if you to take a shower,

A GAME WITH OWN FATE

Part Two 

Meanwhile he was watching the movie, he heard some noise outside. Of course, he knew he couldn´t open the door and go there, since his death might be waiting for him with open arms. On the other hand he was since the early childhood very curious and again his curiousity was trying to beat him. This time he had to be more careful, he realized that it is a matter of life now to open the door and to go outside. He won´t do it at any cost. He sat down on the sofa and dec

A GAME WITH OWN FATE 

Part One

It was cold midnight and his apartment was almost lost in the darkness. Something woke him up but he was unable to identify what it was. When he opened eyes, he saw in the corner of the bedroom white shining mysterious person. Suddenly only feelings like insecurity and curiousity occupied his mind. It was female and she gave him impression she was an angel, anyway he couldn´t deny he felt scared of her and didn´t know what to expect. She was giving him her hand but h

I noticed that usually, when something goes wrong somewhere else, the United States is either blamed for it or called out to help and intervene.  I understand that there are times when war is inevitable so I am not going to question why our troops need to be out there although I also understand that we here have enough problems in our own backyard that also need serious attention and some cleaning up.  So when our young men and women in the military are sent out abroad and forced to fight in som

My friend has a dog called Toby.

Toby is sensitive to cats……Last week, my friend decided to go on a trip, so she left Toby to me, because we have a big yard, when I brought Toby to the yard, he sat calmly at one corner…..after a short time, the bell rang, it was another friend with a kitten asking me to keep her kitten while she was on trip, she told that her kitten ( Pishi) liked to tease dogs and for this, I must keep Pishi away from the dogs…..As soon as I brought Pishi into the yard, she bega

My dear friends, this is my first post I've been here since last year but I have not posted any articles, today I am going to write something for first time please accept it.

        A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog.

        Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.    

"Where are you from?"
"I am from the sea."
"The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" an

Chapter -4 Flabbergasted

Both Shweta and Ranika slept at 11.00pm, the train would leave them at New Delhi platform at 8.30am

It was around 6.00am, last station left before New Delhi, Shweta waked up and asked Ranika to wake up and they both packed their luggages.

At 7.00am shweta made a call spoke “ Honey I will be in Delhi soon”
Eargerly waiting to meet you.. Please leave your home now & come to pick me up at exact time.

Love you.

Shweta would be was waiting at New Delhi Platform to pick her up.

This summer I spent ten days by the lake Balaton in Hungary. It was great holiday with little bit tropical weather but we all enjoyed it a lot. Balaton is not any small pond, it is the biggest lake in the central Europe with its length 70 km and width 24 km. If u want to go around the whole lake it would take you I guess few days since it is 200 km.

Hungary isn´t so far away from the Czech republic, even though the language is totally different and pronounciation doesn´t give me any logical sense

Those memories were great when my mind took me to school days  

Dad was polishing my shoes & busy making my bag.

I was so very  lazy

 Mom was shouting take breakfast

Then the watch was moving so very fast .

It was so frequent to miss the schoolbus with rolled breakfast

I often had desire if I had a free class,

I shouted hurrah whenever I found any of my Teacher absent in the class,

When Teacher hold me with ears while my talking in between of the class,

When friends in the first period shared what’s spec

I Feel shame to be a part of this double standard so called civilized society.

This is the harsh reality and horrible face of so called modern and civilized societies they didn't see the 700 death and nearly 4000 injured innocent people of Gaza but off course they did see and feel concerned the Hamas handmade rockets fire on Israel. I was stunned when UN secretary appeal Hamas to stop rocket fires and defend Israel. Now I understand that right of defend is allowed only for US and Israel’s support

I find this to be an interesting idea.  As a bibliophile, I find the idea intriguing, and I'll try to find some of these books to add to my reading "Bucket List".

This is from a news article I read.  The link follows to her website / blog and I am copying and pasting her suggested list.  It looks like one must click each country name to see which book she chose to read however. As Time permits I'll try to get a short list of the books she actually wrote and highlight them in Orange as I have done

Chapter -3 Two Perspectives

Ranika was depressed while sharing about her divorce.

Shweta said “ Ranika let’s have a dinner

Ranika Said “ Sure Shweta I have brought Aloo Parathas. Would you like to have some?

Shweta said “Thanks Ranika I have Pooha, please have it.

Shweta said “ Ranika I guess you a good cook but I am poor in it

Shweta – But he cooks so well and soon I will eat some of his dishes.

Ranika – Cool ! My husband never entered to Kitchen. He had only ordered

Shweta – oh Really !

Ranika – Man a

Third time. Here I am to give a try with: GET OVER, GET RID OF, GET THROUGH and GET OUT. So, let me know if I made mistakes getting right my post. Thanks!

Mrs Jones was robbed last week. Everything happened while she was walking on the sidewalk near to the downtown of her homecity.Suddenly two burglars took her light rose purse out that day. She ended up getting so nervous she fall down on the concrete ground breaking one of her ankles. Now, she's on hospital and has one foot completely immobilis

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I can't sing and groove like Shakira.

I can never draw or paint a Mona Lisa.

I'm not as brilliant as Einstein.

I wish I could write like Mark Twain.

Sometimes I wonder what if I were a doctor, a pilot

A business tycoon or an astronaut?

But fate couldn't even turn me into an artist.

Once in a while it makes me into a small-time philanthropist.

Life didn't mold me into an icon.

Throw back Thursday, had a camera called Ikon.

Now realizing what I missed and all  that I never will be

Still, my life is comp

Writing Prompt ~ Forgetting Articles

My neighbour has lots of pets in his backyard. As far as I know, he has a bunny, a parrot, a dog, a cat, a hamster, a guinea pig and some couples of parakeets and cockatiels. The bunny and the hamster spend all day munching on lots of pieces of lettuce along with carrots. They're very quiet and don't disturb your owner at all. The dog and the cat are very troubled, they seem to be addicted to go after each other in a ceaseless fight. They are really problemati