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Today (I waited for changing to new day to post this blog), September 2, 2013, is the 68^th anniversary Vietnam’s Indepence Day. The Declaration of independence of Vietnam was announced by the president Ho Chi Minh on September 2, 1945, in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square.

There are  many activities and cultural events organized to celebrate this day including granting amnesty for prisoners. The national flags ( my avatar) have been hung up everywhere these days . 

I just got the congratulations from Noaslpl

You may have noticed the Tags when you were publishing a blog post. Tags are just some of the key words from your blogs. Some members may add “correction” or “corrections” to the tags, which means they will appreciate corrections made by other members (usually, English teachers, native English speakers or advanced learners).

Some members, however,  may find it embarrassing to be corrected that way (in public) - they may send their blogs to a teacher for correction (in private). 

I just tried to ma

 When I was a child, I intended to be a pilot of  modern airplanes. Let me explain: I have always liked the exciting world of aviation: modern aircrafts, great airlines and respectful aeronautical industries like Airbus or Boeing, by the way, keep on being them, the most preferred factories  by me,  when it comes to the production of airplanes. I even started a collection of airplane magazines called "Flap Magazine" in my young ages, that today, unfortunately, is finished up.

  Nowadays, my plans

Dear Captain,

I bet you have seen the sunset for many times. Just now I was sitting on the bench in the garden of the hospital and witnessing the sun to set downhill. After a tired day, Mr. Sun looked pale and climbed up the top of the mountains in the west laboriously, like an old man who got cardiopathy limping home slowly.

Darkness then leaked into the air, just as a drop of ink dripped into the clean water. My mood turned gloomy as the night fell. The pity was a knife and twisted my heart. Fay

     Dear EC friends,this is my first time to join a writing challenge here. And believe me, it took me 2 days to write my blog.  

     When I was a child my dream is to become a teacher. My teachers in my elementary grades influence me a lot. I see teachers way back then as perfect person. But when I grow up, ambition of becoming a teacher was replaced to become a nurse. I like to see their uniforms, all white from head to toe. That's my only reason behind choosing a nurse as my profession. It i

War is a crime against humanity.

It brings death and destruction.

It brings pain and sorrow.....and tears.

It may make some people feel victorious,

but it never brings happiness.

Let's imagine for a moment,

that someone has attacked your beloved homeland,

or any place on earth where you are residing.

Let's imagine for a moment,

the fear that has started to surround you upon hearing such a heart wrenching news.

Let's imagine for a moment....just a single moment,

Someone is about to shoot your beloved mother

Well..i want to ask you something.

                                                     How many times do you LAUGH on the day?

                                                                                 okay ..another question

                                                     How many times do you seek for Laughing everyday?

Do you see the red words ?...yeah this blog is about laughing,humor,smiling..........anything makes you happy..

Humor and laughing are infectious .When you laugh the who

  Hello guys, I'm here writing one more  blog (BTW, a tiny post) to let for you a set of valuable tips on improving of English I readed and enjoyed a lot. Sincerely I hope you enjoy them too, and try to follow, at least, some of them. There are 101 super-interesting advices for boosting your English learning and motivate yourself to proceed even, when you're can be a bit desmotivated. The link is down this post.They were found on the blog < easierlearn.blogspot.com.br>. It worth checking out ind

The waiting to departure is the hardest feeling which makes Hussan different from others .Hussan sees everything in a dissimilar way , he has talked to himself since he approached forty, always heave sighs as if the weight of the world lies on his shoulder , saying” it's time to stop before the end of the road , to ponder a lot.
Hassan’s eyes as same as others, but he looks at things in his own way .He focuses on the vanished things deeply .Such things inspire him swiftly , for instance he gazes

Hi everyone! 

Today I had another amazing day :) 

Sunflower was moving in the wind ;) It took me 3 times to make this picture :) 

When I just entered the garden I couldn't stop looking around! So many kinds and forms of flowers :) And those wonderful colors :) 

And plenty of bees ... The biggest bee that I have ever seen :) 

Here is the link to my album on Facebook ... 

Botanic Garden

What a familiar topic! I've been asked so many times about my dream by different people whether family and friends or just acquaintances or even strangers. Often I feel shy to tell them my real dream. Gradually my dream becomes a secret of myself and I lock it in my deep heart.

What a nice challenge! I feel like taking it and speak out my secret. Maybe it sounds just like a joke to you, but I mean it. I want to grow old safely and become a learnt granny who has rich stories to tell.

Life is full o

I have a Dream

When I was a child, my dream kept on changing. One day, I wanted to be a policewoman, another day a soldier, and yet another day, I wanted to be a doctor. Living in a village with a few modern facilities such as electricity and television (at that time only a few houses had a television), my exposure to the world was through books and teachers. To be a policewoman or a soldier was such an honoured profession in my parents' eyes that I wanted to be one. Then, through the classes, I

This post had been edited to include several expressions/idioms given by Gil Gaudia, Ph.D. Tara Benwell and Gabriel Sowrian. 

Isn't it interesting that the name 'John' is so generic that two well-known phrases use it?  I wonder if there are other names that are used generically?. Thank you Gil Gaudia, Ph.D.  for the corrections. 

Did You Know?

1. Dear John Letter

Did you know that a 'Dear John letter' means the end of a relationship. Basically it's a letter from a woman to her boyfriend or husband t

In 24 hours in an adult body, the heart beats 103,689 times. Blood travels 168000000 miles.Respiration happens 23,040 times.438 cubic feet of air is inhaled. 3.25 pounds of food is eaten.4800 woords are spoken . 750 muscles are moved.Nails grow 0.00046 inch. Hair grows .01714 inch . And  7000000 brain cells are exercised!

This week marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. MLK delivered his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC 50 years ago. 

I visited the exact location where MLK delivered his famous speech just a few weeks ago with my family. Taking the kids to the site where MLK delivered his speech was a very memorable experience for me. I took short video clips of my children telling me their own dreams for the future. Thanks to people like MLK who

This is such a heartwarming and feel good story. Peggy Shafer and Muriel Cowley, both seventy nine years old, had been writing to each other since they were both ten years old young girls. They had been writing to each other telling stories about their lives, school, siblings, hobbies and such since the World War II. Please click here to read their full and amazing story.

Soon both Peggy and Muriel found out that they had many things in common, thus formed a strong and long lasting friendship thr

Dear Captain,

I dreamed a weird dream last night. It's about the sea, but different from the real sea.

In my dream, the sea wasn't blue. It was bright white, just like the snow. Even though it was sunny during the daytime, but at night there wasn't a star, nor clouds and the moon. They fell onto the sea, and were in a hypnosis by the voice of the sea waves. I was also sleeping on the sea. I wondered why I didn't sink into the waters.

While I was thinking the reason why I was floating on the sea, th

Hi all!

I'm a Vietnamese and I have been learnt English for long time, formerly I very interested in English though I can read English quite fluently, but I still can't listen, speak or write anything fluently even those skill of mine(listening, speaking, writing) so bad. So I gradually don't feel interested in English...

Fortunately, recently, i felt interest in it, i can read more fluently, i can write and listen better thought I still not yet speak English but I believe I can speak fluently a d

Surly You have seen fiction films like Spielberg or something like that ,That's systems able to read your mind,Today I have faced   a site that truly deserves call it the most artificial intelligence .

 You have  to choose a character real or unreal from around the world , including artist, athlete, politician, even Gods in cartoon ,everything ,melman ,Cinderella,Obama ,Ahmadinejad ,LOL Ant , elephant,everything and he will tell you what you choose :D and this system with asking 10 till 20 questi