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The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the 22 Olympic Winter Games, are being held in Sochi, Russia, from February 6 to 23. Over 2,500 athletes representing 90 nations are competing for gold, silver and bronze medals in 98 events.

MY EC 's members are also preparing for these games. 

Inna is participating in Gymnastic. So she is trying hard to get the Gold medal in this Olympics.

Dimas I don't know about him -:) Is he running for cake or Gold ? -:)

Cheetah will participate in cycling -:)

Here

Halina's Blog

(The phrases on the left are incorrect, the ones on the right are correct)

1: Nip it in the butt vs. Nip it in the bud

2: I could care less vs. I couldn’t care less

3: One in the same vs.One and the same

4: You’ve got another thing coming vs. You’ve got another think coming

5: Each one worse than the next vs. Each one worse than the last

6: On accident vs. By accident

7: Statue of limitations vs. Statute of limitations

8: For all intensive purposes vs. For all intents and purposes

9: He did good vs. He d

 Sri lanka celebrated-her 66th Anniversary from the colonial British Empire  today 4th February 2014

We got our independence and sovereignty on February 4th 1948, with no blood shed, the transaction was peaceful and the Island was handed to the first Prime Minister of Ceylon(as It was known formerly) Mr D.S,Senenayake amidst much pomp and splendor.

Up to  this day the celebrations are held  as grandeur and with  religious blessings  from all communities  over the soverignity of our country. 

We b

Interesting Facts in Easy English: The Army That Saved The Olympics

Discussion Question: Though snow machines are more reliable than Mother Nature, cold temperatures are still required to keep artificial snow from melting. Do you think global warming will put an end to the Winter Olympics in your lifetime?

  It goes without saying we're living the hardest times for Mother Nature keep its auto-ability of adaptation in a world increasingly hot. So, if humankind really wants to carry on walking towar

Writing Challenge: Story By Numbers

  Here's my story for this month's Writing Challenge. Thank you to Marisa for introducing us to The Giant Storymaker and Tara for presenting such a nice activity proposal . This story uses words and phrases found with #93.

 My Story: The Mistake's Suitcase

Character: a Polish immigrant; 

Place: greenhouse

Situation: a bomb threat

Objects: the wrong suitcase

  Once upon a time , there was a Polish immigrant called Matias who was passionate about gardening. He lived i

Three things in life that can destroy a man/woman:

ALCOHL

PRIDE

ANGER

Three things in life that are most valuable:

• LOVE

• SELF CONFIDENT

• FRIENDS

This is another continuation of My Perth Diary.

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

Day Three : 31st Dec 2013

Day Four : 1st Jan 2014

Happy new year, everyone. After a late night celebrating the new year in Mandurah, we decided to take it easy today. Everyone woke up late. We had not decide where to go, what to do. We will just go with the flow.

We agreed to meet up at the hotel lobby at about 9.30 am. After contemplating a few places and browsing through the map, we decided to go to the N

The recent turmoil in the heart of India i.e. Delhi has left no person unbaffled. No one can deny that there is a churn in politics and power equations are changing faster than ever before. There is a paradigm shift in perception about politics in almost every stratum of the society. The fervor of new politics is hovering over India and rules of games are re-written. 

       History is testimony that when ever some maiden came into politics, anticipations about its course of actions were hard to

Okay life sucks many times, I think we agree about that. But you've got also lot of reasons to feel happy, such as:

1. Eat chocolate. Or cookies. Or even better: chocolate cookies!

2. Take a picture of your feet. Why? I don't know, but it seems that's very popular. And it's just something silly to do! so you'll smile thinking: "omg why am i doing this silly stuff??".

3. Dance! That's the best way to cheer up yourself (and you can also work out, so win win) But yeah, I know what are you gonna say: '

Do you know about Bitcoin? This is virtual money which is circulated on the internet. This money isn't emitted by most central banks. I don't know the detail, but this money is made by mathmatics on some computers. I didn't know about this money until recently, when I heard a news story about its jump in worth. One Bitcoin was worth of one dollar in the beginning of 2013, but it was worth twelve hundreds dollars at the end of 2013. Its worth increased twelve hundreds times.
This money has some m

Here is my another attempt.  This time I chose number 17:

Character: A pilot.

Place: a funfair

Situation: driving a car without knowing how:

Object: a Horse saddle

25 SECONDS – THE EXTRACT OF LIFE.

Razi a cadet pilot was on a training flight.  He was normally following the instructions of his trainer in the control room, diving, flying higher then getting low altitude. Suddenly he detected that something was wrong with his plane, because it started jerking.  He felt that as he was sitting on a horse

In spite of my fervor of travelling escort to many fold when I found same fanaticism in my hubby too. Every year we plan to visit a new place. He wants me to explore all the places which I never had seen before in my life. This time, we had designed our sabbatical in Nainital. Apart from Travelling, Driving is the second great obsession about my husband.

Reaching a place through own car was far beyond a fantastic adventure we had together. Left home by 4 in evening as we had downloaded a route ma

A Game to Play # Jumbled Words by Darius

Hello Friends :)

Can you guess what is the correct sentence?

"THING, NO, IS, IS, INTEGRITY, RIGHT, WHEN, THE, WATCHING, DOING, ONE" 

Note: The winner is one who can find the correct sentence before the other players.

     *********************************************************************

Answer:

Answered by Ensieh

Well done Ensieh!

You are the winner :)

I think, Corruption is a term that refers the unethical utilization of the things (it can be anything like: Money, Power, Natural resources, authority, technical resources etc.). But here, The main question is that why people do this? Generally, We blame to Politicians,Bureaucrats or Businessman for the corruption, while reality is something different.

Do you people think we are not corrupt? Do you people think we do't use the things beyond its limit. Of course! We do,but we think that, that's no

My ten-year-old daughter was excited to take this month's writing challenge, too! She wrote this story tonight. She surprised me when she said: "It's a love story." 

A Love Story by JP

a length of rope
a strange light shining in the dark
a full restaurant
a divorced couple

About a week ago, a young man named Bob brought his wife, Lindsey, to a restaurant. He wanted to do something special with her because that night was the night when he was going to announce that he loved somebody else. Yes, it ha

Click here http://thedoghousediaries.com/large/5414.png to see a larger picture (so you can check it out better)

Did you know your country leads the stuff this picture shows? What do you think about it?

By the way, if you're travelling to US, beware of lawnmowers!!

      Why   do  people  like  gossiping?

People  sometimes  like  to  talk  about  personal  or  private  affairs  of  others.  Perhaps  because  they  themselves  feel  insecure  or  unsatisfied  towards  a  particular  person  and  his  or  her  behaviour.

There's no  doubt  that  words  can  hurt. You  need  to  be  careful  to  what  you  say. If  you  haven't  heard it  from  a reliable  source ,  you  could  be  spreading  lies.

So when  it  comes  to  use  harmful  gossip  think  it  over  a

"Writing Challenge: Story by Numbers".

The number I chose is 21

Character: A man on the run (‘me’)

Place:        A hall of mirror

Situation:  Falling in love with an stranger

Object:      An empty fridge

 THERE IS NO LOVE WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY:

 This is the story of ‘me’ (‘me’ can be everyone or anyone, ‘me’ just a representation).

 I saw her on the road.   I found myself staring at her.  May be because of the warmth of my sight, I felt a jerk in her slim flexible body, (she might be a belly dancer).  Sh