If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa
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Tweet (and quote) of the day:
"Teach your children to be happy. Don't buy them things to be happy".
Discussion Question: Do you think these types of man-made barriers will protect the Netherlands from future storm surges resulting from global warming?
Looking at the question in a positive mood, I believe the human technology is evolving everyday. On this side, I think whilst the technology improvement human ability is in progress to overcome the incredible strenghts nature has, men has the power in its hands to control the natural effects provoked by own devastation.
Being more practical,
I am sure you have known IQ, EQ and FQ, but do you also know SQ? Giggling, let me tell you the secret.
SQ is short for Shape Quotient. Shape Quotient? I will explain it in Mickey's way.
The so-called SQ means your ability to control your body and your health. I'm healthy therefore I am; I am shaped therefore I am. There goes a Chinese saying, the body is the capital of revolution. It's the most primitive capital.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of human society, there are more and more people
After writing blogs about dogs and cats, it seems unfair not to write a blog dedicated to a mouse. You have to admit that Mickey Mouse is cute too. LOL
Did You Know?
1. Mickey Mouse
Did you know that the most popular mouse is the Mickey Mouse? LOL. I think our ⊱ Mickey ⊰ will become the second most popular 'mouse' after this. There are few selected fun facts about Mickey Mouse that I want to share with you guys.
a. When the late Walt Disney drew a mouse, he wanted to call it as Mortimer Mouse. Howev
I'm impressed how the government has raised the cost of life in some capital cities of my country. The transport cost is rising! That way I am going to have to ask for a pay rise to get to I work. By the way, the company which I'm employed is really worried about the serious price rises that have affected the local economy. What causes the company in its turn also raises the prices of its products on the market. Even though all that crisis, the company is at the same time raising funds to cont
Welcome to Chongqing and visit the love ladder
This touching and uplifting story of the couple who lived happily in a cave for fifty years after they ran off together due to criticism from their family and community is a true story.
His name is Liu Guojiang[刘国江]while her name is Xu Chaoqing[徐朝清]. He was born in 1930s in Chongqing, China and died in 2007. The cave the couple eloped to and lived in is in Jiangjin County, Southern ChongQing Municipality.
Liu Guojiang carved over 6000 steps up the mou
Besides teaching English, I teach violin (fiddle) to beginners of all ages all around the world. See Pauline Lerner's Violin Studio and the page on my personal website called Violin / Fiddle Teacher for Beginners of All Ages.
I love and play almost all kinds of music. I grew up listening to European - American classical music, and I still love it. That's where my musical roots are. I also love, play, and listen to other forms of music including folk / traditional, bluegrass, Celtic, world, ethnic
In India the phrases black money and white money are widely used to mean 'illegally earned money' and 'legally earned money' respectively. If you look up these phrases in dictionaries, you will not see them in any of them because such phrases do not exist in real English. The word black and white collocate with tea and coffee (we can say black tea or white tea) but they do not collocate with money.
Likewisewise, Indians drink strong tea and light tea. Strong tea is used in real English as strong
Here's a fun Halloween activity that we can do online. Grab a partner and some colouring utensils. Let's draw!
1) Draw a monster. Use as much detail as you can!
2) Pick an online partner from MyEC.
3) Record (or write) instructions about how to draw your monster/alien, and send it to your partner. Don't show your picture to your partner (yet!). You can also give instructions via the chat room or Skype/Facetime. Describe your picture to your partner. Be specific!
4) Take a photograph of your pict
I am new here. just four days ago open my account to learn English or thrive with EC member.
Today I faced a problem in EC chat room and want to share with you EC members by focusing myth story.How do I start? Why is it always difficult to start something? I wonder why?Nevertheless, I am going to start it this way. It was an interesting story for me. It was a story of a girl and her family and the society where exist the bad person who belongs to a decent family but their works make them down an
TEAM WORK - WORKS
What is Team work
The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goad. Team work is often a crucial part of a business, as it is often necessary for colleagues to work well together, trying their best in any circumstance. Team work means that people will try to co-operate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals.
The word biblical means 'relating to the Bible' or 'in the Bible'. But if you know a girl or a woman in the biblical sense, it means that you have had sex with her. Remember that the idiom know someone in the biblical sense means 'to have had sex with someone'. You can also use way in place of sense.
Hi Richard, It's Sunday and I just arrived at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport . I will seek for a hotel to check me in after I write this postcard for you. Right now the sky is completely cloudy here. The temperature revolves around 0° Celsius. Tomorrow is going to be a cold and snowy day and It's going to be like this until Friday according to the weather forecast. By the way, when going out the streets I am going to need to wear scarfs, coats and leather boots. I'm so glad for that, afte
Wait me on the other side
He suddenly fell down after farming. She was so worried than even at midnight she went down the mountain to ask her sons for help alone. That was her first time to walk on the stairs which were hand-carved by him. On the way downhill she slipped and fell for several times. At such an old age, she still kept walking on the stairs in the rainy midnight because she was scared. She was afraid…
He never got up after this tumble. After his death, his kids went through his thing
There are several types of marriage, one of them being a shotgun marriage. Have you heard of such a word?
A wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant is called a shotgun marriage or shotgun wedding.
This is an informal word.
The father of the girl who became pregnant out of wedlock might threaten the man who was responsible for her pregnancy into marrying her by saying that he (father) would shoot him (the man responsible) to death unless he married
I wanted to send Good Morning and Nice Day wishes to my Friends and Sisters here in EC....
So I asked the help of our Mr.Google....He showed me lots of fun filled Cards and GIFs......While enjoying them, I came across this Beautiful Rose...Instead of attracting my eyes with its beauty, it made my eyes filled with tears.....................
MISS YOU MY DEAR PURPLE BEAUTY................
MISSING YOUR FRAGRANCE MY DEAR LIL SIS.......
I just realised that there are a lot of idioms relating to dogs after I had written a blog about dogs. It does not seem fair, right? LOL. So I make my mission to write things about cats, and of course, only the great and wonderful things. LOL
Did You Know?
1. Fun Facts about Cats
Did you know that there are many fun facts about cats that most of us did not know. I would like to share some of them, and the rest you can search them yourselves. LOL. Well, maybe you can click this link to read some of
Hi guys, this time in my post related to the aviation world I wanna talk about some of the most known airlines in the present days. Practically all the countries of the world count on at least one airline and that same companies do care for passing on not just comfort, but also compassion and benign for its thousands of passengers that use air services daily. To start with, I'd put in the first position: Emirates Airlines.
Emirates Airlines is considered one of the world's top airlines because
1. The Infamous Durian -King of Fruits;
2. Writing Bug;
3. Rin Tin Tin - My English Hero;
5. Only In Malaysia;
7. My Traumatic Cat Experience;
8. Old Wives' Tale;
9. How to know your Diabetes Level;
10. A Malay Wedding - Part I : The Engagement;
11. A Malay Wedding - Part II : The Wedding
12. Fun With English - Some Mistakes That Really Made a Big Blunder;
