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On the third day of last Eid Mubarak, my niece got married. In this blog, I want to share with you the typical Malay wedding reception. This blog will be in two parts; Part One : The Engagement and Part Two : The Wedding

Part One : The Engagement

Before I tell you about the wedding itself, let me tell about the engagement ceremony. For a Malay lady, the engagement ceremony is elaborate and still as traditional as it was years ago. When a Malay man wants to ask a hand of marriage for a particular l

Next life,I will be a rose plant growing in your garden. Every day, you and your wife and your kids and your dog will play in the garden, you will laugh happily.When you and your family pass me, i will feel so happy. I will long out of the most beautiful leaves,blossom the most beautiful flowers to welcome you. Of course all the family won't know me. Even the most dear you won't know who I am. It will make me a little sad.But it doesn't matter. As long as i can see you, I will be the happiest pl

          A long, long time ago, over seven seas, seven mountains and seven rivers in the ancient land of Elam, somewhere between Anshan and Susa or maybe even farther, lived a young Prince in his magnificent castle overlooking picturesque valleys with blue skies high above and white clouds lazily floating in the warm wind blowing over green fields where rivers used to run.

    He was the happiest person on earth for he had met the love of his life. Not

Feeling alone though there are a lot of people around you is the worst feeling. Today is Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam. It's also the first festival I have joined in the US. No moon cake, no lanterns, no friends, no family ... I feel cold inside and outside. However, I can't share my feelings to anyone ... I don't know how to share but the most important thing is I don't really want anyone to know my feeling . Don't want to bother anyone. It's true that I always struggle myself ... I have just

Just because noaslpls told me that she really wanted to do more 'tests' (hehe) there is this fun and interesting quiz about the most common English Words. It is very easy and I'm sure you all really would like if you try it; this is how it works:

Go to this site: http://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/most-common-english-words-quiz.php

And then, you'll have 5 minutes to write the English words you think are the most used (write the words in the area marked "Enter word here:") The words can be nouns,

Kick a bad habit.

Leap across a fear.

Mention something uplifting.

 Never say never.

Open your mind and heart.

Pursue your innermost passions.

Quit complaining.

Restore your smile.

Set your sights high.

Trust yourself.

 Use all the day.

Value everything.

Waite until it feels right.

Express yourself.

Yank weeds from your mental garden.

Zoom into the now

This day is my best one day .. Why because my sister and  good friend Rabab come back to English club ... Welcome Rabab along time ago ... I feel we can enjoy again to improve our English language together and with our friends here ... Iam really all your friends miss you too much .. But now they feel happy like me ... Don.t go away again for long time .. English club is lighting now don.t get it darkness ...

Indonesia has been known as a country that has a lot of cultural diversity.  One of them  is an event wich held my hometown, Banyuwangi, East Java, the show was called Parade Gandrung Sewu.  Gandrung Sewu means a thousand of Gandrung Dancers, yeah that’s true, this event showed a thousand of Gandrung Dancers, wich is a traditional dance from Banyuwangi.  They’ll dancing ‘Gandrung’ at Pantai Boom, one of beach  in there.  How can they get a thousand Gandrung dancers? They were collected from the

 Hello guys, I'm Daniel, writing here this time to explain a question that for a long time I asked myself: What explains the fly of   airplanes? This question got better my understanding about the subject in my mind before I have read an article that answered this . So, I want to show for you what I've learnt from this reading, sharing with all of you here and now my observations about the airplane flying and, of course, making clear for who doesn't know the motivation for the aircrafts fly, the

A story of a man climbing enthusiasts decided to realize his dream of climbing the highest mountains of the world and the most dangerous. After many years of preparation and anticipation, he decided to make this adventure alone.

The journey began as planned and with everything was necessary to fulfill his dream. The hours passed without feeling, suddenly the night darkness came. He had almost reached the half-way where cannot retreat, may be the return is more difficult and dangerous than to comp

This is an old article I posted before but I lost it so I'm republishing it.

1- He said before being elected if Egyptians asked him to leave he would respect the Egyptians' will and leave. (He lied)

2-He swore to respect the constitution and the law. However, He issued a decree stripping the judiciary of the right to challenge his decisions. (He abused his power)

3- He promised that the constitution will represent all the Egyptians. However, only his party and his allies had participated in framin

I would like to know what question tag you will use for the following sentences:

She and you are responsible for the loss,

Let me see the film,

Let us go and see the film tonight,

What will happen in the Chinese internet in 1 minute?

Let me give you some examples you'll see.

1. Alipay deals with 6250 transactions;

2. Baidu Search searches for 3,470,000 times;

3. Sina Weibo has 95,000 micro blogs;

4. China Mobile earns 2,460,000 yuan...

What can happen in 1 minute in your daily life? ;-)

I want a partner to practise english anybody can?

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...I

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...II

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...III

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...IV

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...V

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...VI

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...VII

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...VIII

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...IX

Addition: Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Series 2

             Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Series 1

 The story is about a girl who lights a match and develops an unusual love of fire (see pyromania). When a flame accidentally touches her dress, she, along with her house, is burned to the ground. At the end she rises from the ashes to the sunshine.

I was all alone at home
Both of my parents were out
There before me I suddenly saw
a little box, nice to look at

Oh, I said, how pretty and nice
That must be a splendid toy
I strike a match
Like mother often did

Every time that I'm alone
I'm pulled t

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world:

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, ret

This is a the continuance of my previous blog about the Legend of The Princess of Ledang Mountain.

Continuance from Part I

With a heavy heart, Hang Tuah agreed to wait at the foot of the mountain. Tun Mamat and the rest of the warrior then proceed to hike the mountain. After a few more days, Tun Mamat noticed the surrounding of the mountain had changed. The weather was getting cooler and they can smell sweet smell of flowers all around. He then realised that they were no longer in the wild mounta

Dear Captain,

I have been waiting for my travel notebook coming back for a long time. It is a beautiful notebook and it is meaningful for me. I thought the friends-to-be would send it back to me on my birthday, yet there was not any news.

A month before I graduted from my former university, I sent out a travel notebook. Yeah, to strangers, and from different places. The notebook would stand for me and travel to the places I want to go. I planned to get to learn the customs of those places through

Hi, guys! 

This time I’ve chosen a list of 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language recommended by Mary, our fellow club member. I went through the list and found them very interesting. I learned a lot of new words, as a matter of fact! (Thank you, Mary!) I’ll make sure that they become part of my vocabulary, of course, with the help of MMT.  In my opinion, it would be a plus point if we know the pronunciation of these words. It’s because in order to enable us to use them effectively in o