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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

Dear Captian,

What an amazing day! It snowed! Oh my! I am so excited! I've never seen a real snow before! Thank God! It's so pretty! The whole world where your eyes can reach was all white. It was like a pure white silk, smooth and bright, as well as catchy.

I just saw the snow in the movies and TV series before. I found myself fall in love with Fay's hometown. Hahaha, I had a snowball fight with my new roommates and also made a short snowman with them. I think I am a little dull at such games tha

You know what STRONG TEA is. The tea that is not strong is called LIGHT TEA in India, especially in Kerala. But they do not know that the word LIGHT does not collocate with TEA. You know that WEAK is the opposite of STRONG. The same WEAK actually collocates with TEA. Yes, you can say WEAK TEA, not LIGHT TEA.

From ordinary dictionaries you will not get information about collocations. To learn which word should be used with which word, you must depend on collocations dictionary. The best one of thi

The devine power has a main role for to arising the mankind and humanity ..Some people cant believe in their life the creation of world by god and they dont care even any religion they dont belive in heaven and hell  after death,..although  i meet rarely unfortunatelly i know  kinda persons..many time in my life i observed so many miracles from there and  here (  regarding media from tv ,you tube ,,,etc,,)sometimes i have doubts to belive  in  reality that miracles cuz i cant confide the materia

MyEC is getting close to 100,000 members. How should we celebrate this milestone? How many of you were here when we celebrated our 20,000th member? Some of us waited up through the night to find out who it would be! 

If you have any ideas for celebrating our 100,000th member, please leave a comment! We will need some members to help organize and plan the celebration! When do you think it will happen? Take a guess in the comments below, and share your ideas.

Life is a book in chapters three

The Past , the present and the Yet to Be,

The past has gone, it could not stay,

Its in your dreams of yesterday ,

Remembered , sometimes for its sadness ,

But also for its joy and gladness.

Live for the present , Live for today ,

So quickly does pass away .

Help one another along lifes path,

cheer them up , and make them laugh ,

For the past it soon will be ,

So live it now , its yours you see

But what about the Yet to Be ?

Its locked away,... God holds the key.

Hi everyone!

This started out as a Forum post, and after receiving a great suggestion by one of the readers I thought I might as well write a Blog about it. So here I am :)

My name is Heidi and I’m one of the teachers behind www-really-learn-english.com.

We have been working on a collection of stories and worksheets for ESL teachers and learners and thought that we might share it here with the readers and get your feedback on them!

This collection of ESL worksheets provides 4 illustrated stories for

The Beautiful Story of a Friendship.

On May 9, 2007 in the mountains of northern Albania, a wolf was captured and put in a pen. To feed him, his captors decided to give him a "live food", an old donkey who, exploited for many years by its owners, had become worthless. But what happened? The two became best friends. Their amazing story became public and 12.000 people had written to the government of Albania asking that the life of donkey be spared and the wolf released to the wild. Even the Albani

[ In Dr. Drakhshan's class ...... Suddenly his cell phone rings ]

- "  Hello, honey ! how r u ? ....... 

Aha ! Ok !... I'll buy that on the way to home.... " [ then hangs up ]

" He was my 4 y.o son... We've got a serious problem about him: can not speak Persian coz we've spoken with him in English,only and we don't know what to do for his school!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

What have u done to that boy, man ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U've replaced English instead of his mother's tongue

You know what they say about mistakes. Everybody makes them and you are no exception. Of course you will do what you can to avoid making a serious error, but sometimes they happen anyway. While your instinct may be to run away and hide, that is actually the worse thing you can do. Admitting your error, finding a way to fix it or at least taking an action that lessens its effects, will help restore your reputation.

It's important to accept responsibility for mistakes you may have made. Don't argue with the person who's correcting you, even if you think they're mistaken. Just say okay and that you'll pay closer attention to it in the future. You're not admitting fault, but you're not making an enemy either or being viewed as a difficult person.

This blog is an answer to Junco's Photo Challenge; September # 2 - Must Eat Dishes. Malaysians' favourite past time is eating, thus we have so many 'must eat dishes'. In addition, Malaysia is a melting pots of so many races and cultures and it reflects in our food. 

The 'must eat dishes' in Malaysia are:-

1. Satay

Satay is a skewered meats grilled on an open fire. The meats can be chicken, beef or other types of meats, but chicken satay and beef satay are still the most popular satay. Satay is serv