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Dear Johan,

It has been a long time since I was at your company in wonderful travels all over the amazing places of the world. Maybe we haven't met each other for 2 years, right?! I want to say I intend to drop in you next month if you allow me to do that. I want  to visit you so we can update our delayed conversations, since it has been a long time since we talked about our plans to know all the places we can before dying. You know, I am planning on going to Japan this wint

"Wao, at last I am being able to place myself behind the wheel, great!" " so, no worries...now I can drive myself where I wish to go". This was Tintin's first expression on that special day.

Then she was driving in a jovial mood. Suddenly a awful situation arrived. ' Oh...what is it, it seems there is something in my right ear and it is tickling...what can i do now?" There was no way but to stop her car. She made a halt besides a  splendid house. She got off hurriedly and start to find a cotton b

Find new friends as much as u can, but never forget old ones, because, new friends are like silver and old friends are like gold.

a person has a lion ,a cow and a bundle of grass,He wants to go the other side of the river but he can take one thing at a time in a small boat..would you guide him to shift all , 

The ocean falls quiet. The fullness of the day now empties into the abyss. The fish, they sleep, at rest, in the bosom of King Neptune. Their Protector, their Saviour. The day is almost done, the creatures of the night, now it's their time to shine. We drift off to slumber, another day will awaken us from our sleep. A brand new day, a day of new beginnings, a day to meet all that challenges us. 

How many objects:

The girl had twenty-five flowers and seven candles, but she was puzzled how to distribute these objects and whom she would give them to, because she had only one boy friend. Luckily the friend came to see her with one large cake and a card.

"What is this cake for?" She asked him.

"Your seventeenth birth is going to be celebrated next week. I will not be here on that day, so I decided to bring the cake today and celebrate your 17th birthday" Her friend told her.

"But I have only sev

Van Halen is a big rock band. They were famous for doing pranks like throwing TVs from the windows of hotels in the 80's during their grory days. I hear that they demanded in their concerts contract that M＆M's chocolates without the brown ones had to be prepared backstage. If they saw even one brown chocolater backstage, they made a great fuss and smashed up their backstage. Were they overindulgent and arrogant ?

The answer is "No". They checked if there were any brown chocolates backstage when

 Now I understood! = Any word never stands alone!  It is always bound to another word, like a magnet!  We must remember this when we are trying to make a sentence.

Example: "Water" is a simple liquid idea... and... suddenly it can change to  a huge  "Waterfall" or a tiny "Raindrop".

So, let's practise "How to use Chunks of Language" in order to memorize any new word. I will study it from EC-Vocabulary-Collocations: Visit the site: 

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/collocations.htm

Do you work in the garden? Do you like plants and fruit trees?It's a nice activity outdoors and people who deal with it are easy going ,calm and creative. They never stop working and trying to explore new approaches towards nature
and its secrets.When mother nature offers them its fruits they feel proud and happy.Next to nature few people complain because it's their home and the place of their origin.So let's go back to nature and free our minds of any trouble.

Discussion Question: As the society develops, a large number of single older women emerge. Usually these women are well educated, have good jobs and taking appearances. Yet they are called "Leftover Lady" in modern China. What do you think of "Leftover Lady"(LOL)? What makes them leftover? Do you accept "Blind Dates"?

Ministry of Education promulgated 171 new Chinese words in August, 2007, among which "Leftover Lady" is included. Leftover Lady is a girl who has passed so-called marriageable age a

ACROSS THE PLAINS 

Where ever life does take me

I have a place to call my home

I close my eyes and dream a dream

And there my heart does roam

I see me standing on the plains

Gazing out across the land

My family all are by my side

All together we will stand

Looking far out to the mountains

Through the sparsely scattered trees

I see the golden sun does set

I feel the gentle twilight breeze

Many kings will have their kingdoms

Many sailors will have the sea

I belong to this vast land

It’s the only place for me

I

Bismillah..

This is my first blog since I join the English club. I like reading other members blog but I don't have courage to make my own and publish it. but now I'm trying to learn to write something cause, I will cannot doing anything if I don't try and start to do it.

May I Introduce my self, my name is Rahayu Rachmatullah. I come from Indonesia, south east Asia. If you know Bali, Bali is an Island in Indonesia. but I don't live in Bali, I live in a city next to Jakarta, the capital city of In

Listen To News: Russian Punk Members Released ~ 24 December 2013

Discussion Question: These women were scheduled to be released in March 2014. Do you think their early release was likely planned to prevent protests during the Olympics? Why do protests often take place at the Olympics Games?

  As far as I notice about this case I suppose the Russian government wanted really to avoid troubles during the hosting of the Winter Olympics Games in the city of Sochi in February 2014.

  I don't give total r

We all have been through this life stuff, problems we faced and all, we just try to do things better for ourselves also others. But sometimes as we have our ways to cope things differently, tho it may turns out to be a good solution, people can't see it the way we see it, so then they put some sort of vitriols on us. The thing is there are ways to face this kind of situation to react a little bit more calmly and no need to boost up our wasted-energy responding people who just always judge us as

Listen To News: China Eases Population Control ~ 31 December 2013

Discussion Question: Do you think a baby boom in China is the answer to the country's aging population problem?

  It's a controversial question to solve. But, I think this policy should be seen  like a temporary one, that is, a restricted  policy to be a very dangerous try to give effectiveness to the country's progress noticed over past few years.

   Maybe other short-term policies could be taken into account in order to reach the g

This new year bring a hope

To have a better life

The past never return

But the memory always return

The mind keep the best

But the sadness never be the best

It will remain a wounded heart

Only a sincere affection will touch the heart

To remove the sorrow

Is the happiness come tomorrow?

No one know that’s the misery of life.

My imagination and destination is u

U m telling you d truth

Plz my heart has no direction

U looked like u d one for me

But u used me

U left with ua friend

Im ok with out u

This thing is is not new for u

Im gonna be alright

I still have u r reflection in my heart

N mah feeling  r with u

U happened to me as a lash

I cant forget you as a bash

Spate of  u r love

Yah ur memories r magnificent n reminiscent

Um pious towards you 

I don't care wat u call me everywhere i go i got caught into ur conviction

I don't know y

"Giving n Receiving"

God created His most beautiful creation “us” the human being, and adorned “us’ with “Relations”. All relations; Blood or the ones we make ourselves like “friendship” or “love” based on emotions. It is in our instinct, to make relations or to strengthen the existing ones, we give and take presents. So to maintain the equilibrium between emotional relations ‘giving and receiving’ is the formula. Love is possibly the most powerful and potentially the most beautiful gift we give