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The other day it was brought up in EC chat that shall is used in asking permission. At that moment I thought about it for a minute and said I didn't think shall was ever used in a question for permission. This lead me to look into it further and I found my thinking was correct. I could find no examples of shall being used in this way. So where did they get this idea from? It was from the construction such as: Shall I open a window?.
At first glance I can see how this is taken as asking someone f

I have so many talented idol-singers, which i end up listen to their songs almost everday repeatedly. For me to listen a song is not so much needed to be specifically expert on something, for example understanding lyrics and such things, but it's simply trying to listen to its song and i don't know why i feel so excited suddenly with the tone, lyrics , voice ,etc if i know and like the singer. I believe that every person has different idol-singers that he/she fonds of. But some of you have the u

Dear Captain,

My summer holiday has terminated and now I am back to school again. It's so nice to see my roommates. This term we'll take an internship.

Fay came to visit me with her son who could walk and talk now. Hehehe, I am happy that little kid likes me. You know, I enjoy kids' love to me as I also love them so much. We three took a walk on my campus in the afternoon. It was a beautiful afternoon. When they left, the little kid gave me a few flying kisses! I was so surprised and delightful. F

 Interesting Facts In Easy English: The Spanish Flu Did Not Originate In Spain

 Discussion Question: Do you think a pandemic of this size will happen again? If yes, how will it be different? If no, why not?

    For certain, we'll have another pandemic in the future, once the viruses are always in often evolution whereas the science is a step behind , trying to beat them.

  I believe the difference in the next generation of viruses that we will face hereafter are the dimensions and seriousness.

  May

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
~Rumi — 

- Optimist thinks glass is half full.

- Pessimist thinks glass is half empty.

- Realist thinks the glass is half filled.

- Alcoholic thinks that someone should drink the vodka in the glass already.

- Critic thinks the glass is ugly.

- Philosopher thinks the relationship of the glass and the liquied in it should be thoroughly inspected from multiple points of views.

- American thinks the drink in the glass should be sugared and that his double XXL fries should arrive already.

- Cynicist doesn't even bel

Dear Captain,

Before I have to move away, I went to visit some good friends. Jingjing begged me to visit her after I leave her as often as I can, and I promised her I would.

I told Jingjing a story about a bird and a frog as she asked. It narrated a frog who lived in a desert well had an argument with a bird who was tired and thirsty that stopped on the well. The frog insisted that the sky was as big as the mouth of the well while the bird said it was much larger than the well mouth. The frog told

I am harmonious with you

don't say  you are proud and timid

don't say I am obliged

I am harmonious with you

you know it

you understood it at the beginnig

However I am laughing instead you  are surly

you don't run out of 

you are impudent

you are obstinate you are playing with people and me

I can't pass from you and don't think about you

I can't lose love

Yes I don't change my saying

Because I chose you by love

I am harmonious with you

Be kind with me

Belong to me

change me as I want and you want 

Dear Captain,

I am a bit sad now. I should be happy, but... Mom and dad decided to move to another city and settle down there at the end of this year when that house is completely furnitured.

I am sorta fed up with moving house. In the past, we have moved three times. And I feel homeless in my heart. I can not make sure where my final and stable home is. There isn't a place where I can put all my memories. That can be a reason I want to live a sea life like you. Stay at a place, or wander from cov

It's been a while since I write anything. My work load seemed to be getting heavier, and by the end of the day, my mind was just too tired to do anything else. But I realised that I really missed writing, and trying to come up with coherent English sentences. Trying to make sense some flitting ideas and putting them into a sentence, and then a paragraph was a challenge that I never thought I will ever enjoyed. 

So I thought, what the heck, and took long and deep breath (instead of drink, LOL. I d

I found my friend in the Net course.... what is it? What I am talking about?Well actually I've skipped something... seven month experience and it is so long to summarize...

The Net course is a special training that my great leader and coach organized for the enthusiasm Lerner like me... I was only a beginner student and had met some of my Skype friend! only chat! That was my alien friend that came back to talk to me for two month! Haha so extrasensory experience!

And it has been after that co

I like to watch movies. A list of my favorite movies is given bellow. There is no movie on action, sifi, comedy, horror in this list. But I love to watch all these genres too. If you didn’t watch any one of the list, give it a watch!

Shawshank Redemption

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Oscar Winner)

Sounds of Music

My Fair Ladies

Meet Me in St. Louis

Singing in the Rain

Guess who’s coming to Dinner (Katharine Hepburn)

The Rainmaker (Katharine Hepburn)

Summer Time (Katharine Hepburn)

Say it Isn’t So!

The

WHAT DO DREAM MEAN TO US?

DREAMS ARE THAT THING WHICH KEEPING US BELIEVING THAT ALL OBSTACLES COULD BE PASS THROUGH.DREAMS ARE THE COLORS YOU ADD TO A PICTURE TO BE BEAUTIFUL.DREAMS ARE FEEDING US WITH DETERMINATION TO BREAK DOWN THE WALLS THAT HAD ALWAYS EXISTED.DREAMS ARE A PART OF WHO WHO WE ARE . DREAMS ARE HOW WE STAY PRODUCTIVE.

WHAT DO DREAMS MEAN TO YOU ?

I LOOK FORWARD HEARING YOUR COMMENTS .

TAKE CARE 

BASSAM 

 Interesting Facts in Easy English: Race Car Is A Palindrome

Discussion Question: Which do you prefer, playing with numbers and numerical puzzles, or playing with letters and words? Give some reasons for your preference.

    Definitely, numbers and numerical games don't take part in my personal taste, although I consider them very important for all humankind. Imagine if we don't have a solid numerical system these days.  As society, we'd be in trouble, I suppose it was a complete shuffle in our ec