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No water, no food, nothing…What they had were just fears, darkness and a slim chance of survival. “Help…” with a feeble voice, Wenwen started to sob, she was scared. All these happened too suddenly  she didn’t even noticed what had happened. What she could remember was she was playing hide and seek with her cousins and she hid herself tightly in the dog house, which made her felt proud that she bet they couldn’t find her.

She couldn’t hear anyone. Where were her cousins? Where was granddad? Where

She is the one who knows it all

whenever you rise

whenever you fall

she is the one who knows it all

your all wise actions

your puerile reactions

she is the one who knows it all

the moments your rejoiced

the moments you sat poised

she is the one who knows it all

when you sobbed in solitude

when you outperformed with fortitude 

she is the one who knows it all

your wits, your traits

your passion in great

she is the one who knows it all

a teacher ,a mentor

 a guide you may call

who stands by your side

who gives you wi

Tie a yellow ribbon to the old oka tree

I'm coming home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter
Telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me, if you still want me
Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree
It's been three long years
Do you still want me
 If I don't see a ribbon around the old oak tree
 I'll stay on the bus, forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree
Bus drive

Many of you that may know me in here (EC Chat Room) know that the most strenuous exercises that I do are chewing my food and blinking my eyes. I am not an outdoor person. I would rather read books or just sleeping than walking in the park under the hot burning sun. 

So I was surprised even myself when a group of my friends invited me to join them climbing the Mount Kinabalu in Sabah and I said a BIG YES. It happened in 2007. I know.... I know ... you are going to say "But Noas, that was centuries

Following is a list of books selected by the readers of the BBC site as the best books.  I have indicated if I have read the book by writing "yes" beside it.  How many have you read?  Any favorites?

BBC Top 100

1.    The Lord of the Rings - Yes

2.    Pride and Prejudice -Yes

3.    His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman - Yes

4.   The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -    Yes

5.   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Yes

6.   To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – Yes

7.   Winnie the Pooh -

If you want to improve your spelling, visit the following link:

100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

Good luck! 

This blog is in response to one on oxford dictionaries' website  Does spelling matter? blog.oxforddictionaries.com?   You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling

If it ain't fixed don't break it! :)  

Though there are flaws in the system, I think it is important for there to be a system.  Today English is the lingua franca of the world.  So there needs to be some standardization for all the

The winning captions for this photo are :

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Hello my EC members,

For today's WW, I would like to invite you to give a c

     A pet peeve is something that always annoys you or makes you angry.

Example: Her pet peeve is when her brother doesn't put the cap back on the tootpaste. 

Guys, please tell me about your pet peeve and why it annoys you?

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I .have a set of images that I collected  from various sites!  Each one of them  teaches us a different spelling rule. There are 30 images in my collection now. I’m going to share with you one  at  a  time!  The images are not that clear,  thus making it illegible!  I decided to rewrite the text for you! Here's the first one:

SPELLING RULE #1

When a word ends  with a short  vowel  followed .by a consonant,  double the last consonant before adding ‘ed’

The girls skip.           The girls skipped.

A horse married a monkey and gave birth to a dragon.

Yes, the monkey is my lovely uncle. He is a very fun and interesting man-child. Oh, by the way, I am a horse too!

My little cousin the dragon is a very smart and tall girl, much taller than me now, though she is just a teenager. I’d like to say she is a real dragon, who is strong, ambitious and aggressive, who likes adventures just like my adorable uncle does. Hmm, like father, like daughter.

My aunty horse is a petite pretty woman, a wise and el

Writing - Basics

Each Paragraph should begin with a topic sentence.  It is a general statement that tells the reader what this paragraph is about and what the controlling idea is.  Everything in the paragraph should relate to that idea.  “If a sentence or idea in a paragraph does not relate to the main idea, the paragraph lacks unity.”  You want the idea to be general yet specific enough that you can talk about one subject or aspect.  If it is too general, your paragraph will be too long and cumb

    I'd like to describe a game which I played with my friends when I was child. It’s called “MIDIA”. The main rules of this game are that you throw a small stone that is smooth and flat, on the floor; this is traced first by a rectangular shape definite numbers from 1 to 7. You continue by throwing the stone down into number two, then you jump on one foot over the numbers until 7. Then, when you return, you move the stone to number one without touching the middle line between the rectangles one

To day, the trial to judge a farmer family in Haiphong city (Vietnam) commences. One year ago, they was seized and accused of "murder" and "resisting persons in the performance of their official duties". This tragedy began from wrong decisions of local state authorities at district where farmers have lived. Those decisions was promulgated to withdraw land of that family regardless they had hardly worked and spent enormous expense for years to build their farmland. 

Upon many years trying to claim

Brussels - Belgium

Here are some photos I took in Brussels - Belgium, the capital of my country but also of the European Union. The "Grand Place" (big square) is said to be the one of the most beautiful square of the world. I don't know if it is true, but whenever I go there, I am breathless in front of those amazing gothic style buildings. Since 1998, it is a UNESCO World heritage site. If you look closely to these photos, you will see that those wonderful buildings were made with stone lace.

Büy

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak,sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go

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My daughter had once asked me " Dad, if A=1, B= 2, C= 3,....Z=26.  Then do you know which word totals 100 " . As I knew the answer, I said, " It is ATTITUDE = 1+20+20+9+21+4+5 = 100"

The next thing that made me wonder was how many words are there in English that totals 100. I then had to do some research and found about 906 words that totals 100. The words are below separated by comma. See if you can add more;

absorbancy, acclimation, accuittance, accumulate, acenaphthene, achroous, acidophilin, a

“Why didn’t you lie to him? Why?” I bet I must be crazy at that time, I shouldn’t have asked her such a meaningless question, I shouldn’t…

They say 16 is a flower season of a girl, and 17 is rainy season. In my rainy season, I did cry a lot, because I lost my last relative on the earth. And now my heart is hollow, and I am waiting for the death to pick up me. Life without love is like in the hell, worse still no one even notices I am in the hell.

I am JJ, a girl of 19, and was born to die. I have

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