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Dear MyEC Members, 

Today I have a special request! We need a few volunteers to help out in the MyEC Video Gallery. As I mentioned a few months ago, the video gallery needs to be cleaned up! I truly believe that this space has great potential. Videos such as this one and this one can be very useful for practising English. 

Nadiyah has done an excellent job with the MyEC Photo Gallery. Most photos on MyEC have appropriate titles. They often have descriptions and tags, too. Nadiyah comes up with int

Each morning I write a list of things I want to achieve in the day, it is called a "to do" list, simply because they are things I want to do.

Not everyone does it, but it helps me to stay focussed. 

I sometimes also write a long term to do list. On this list I write long term objectives, this includes things that take much longer to achieve. An example of what I once wrote on the long term list was to visit Egypt. Of course, it is impossible to decide in the morning then accomplish something like

Story About My Painting - Deep In Borneo

Once in my life, I wanted to take a break of usual life and take a look at monkey pot...deep in the jungle in Borneo.

I saw a bed of monkey pot. It was the time when i was in Borneo Island. Joining a trail with some friends, to meet up with nomadic native, a tribe called Penan.

It was deep in the jungle in place called Long Seang, which rarely heard even to the locals. We were there to experience the other side of human life.

I saw a bed of monkey pot. It was

You may know the story of the old man who had two sons long ago.

The sons decided that they wanted their inheritance right away so the father divided his property between them. One son stayed at home and worked to increase his property and help his father.

The other son went far away and wasted his money on many things and did not find ways to increase it. After years passed he had no money and only the clothes on his back. So, he came home to his family.

The father welcomed his son who had been lo

I am sitting down here, beside the computer, wanna to write something. It was a long time ago,when i wrote my first blog here.Today i went to the Job Fair hold by the goverment, did not plan to send out any resume,so did not bring any resume in my bag, came there just for a lookimg, to find out what kind of person are needed in human labour market, so i would like to come out a summary for what i had saw. Frist, there is a big demand in manufacturing industry in Chendu, Sichuan, for the factorie

A few months ago I joined a Choral Society. I wanted to make some new friends and I love to sing.

We are preparing for a performance which will take place on Saturday the 5th May. 

We are singing a 3 medleys:

1. Westside story
2. Les Miserable
3. Fiddler on the roof

and four other songs

1. Over the rainbow
2. Ain't Misbehavin'
3. Night and Day
4. 's wonderful

There are other songs too, ones that are being sung by soloists. I don't know which songs they are singing.

We are preparing our costumes for the event. The men will wear

Sunday is often called "The day of rest", stemming from the Bible, it is a day when most people do not have to go to work.  Some Christians still observe it as a rest day, but not all. It doesn't make anyone any less religious nor does it open them up for condemnation, because they don't rest, it's just the way things have evolved. It is a family day usually, but not always.

My Sundays are different every week. I like the times when I have somewhere to vist, or when someone is visiting me; I also

This week I had a chance to visit a theatre. I can’t do it often because of my busy life. So it was a great event for me. And it isn’t surprisingly, as there were some important reasons for it. First of all, the performance was given in a new-built theatre for the first time after the opening. It is the theatre for young spectators but it gives performances for adults as well. A new building is magnificent. The next reason was the performance itself. It was a premiere of the well-known Russian n

Recently, I've read a short story named <what the water feels like to the fishes>.

I have to say that is really an amazing short story, the author shows his talented language skill.

I am just a beginner english student, and just start to reading some english articles. However, I really feel the charming part of english language indeedly.

I used to think that chinese language is the most amazing language (no offensive , i know each language is amazing). Finally, I GOT SHOCKED because of amazing eng

When fire starts burning,
Wind intensify it.
Fire burns the wind and create water,
Water flows and understand the healing,
and always remains peaceful.
Fire ignites and lighten the earth,
with his fiery spirit.
Fire burns the earth and water fertile it.
Wind breezes and gives life,
At the end when fire starts dying,
Earth consume it inside and never let it die.
It's a pain and trauma of both.
Fire is lightest and has no weight.
Fire cannot be corrupted because it is pure.
Fire is the energy and

!!~BEHOLD~!!

FuNnY FrId@Y # 15

1. Outside

2. Married

3. Idiots

4. Weight loss

5. Waste of time

6. Family Problems

Two men, one American and an Indian were sitting in a bar drinking shot after shot.  The Indian man said to the American, You know my parents are forcing me to get married to this so called homely girl from a village whom I haven't even met once. We call this arranged marriage.  I don't want to marry a woman whom I don't love... I told them that openly and now have a hell lot of family probl

What? You said good bye at the end of War theory? You aim high and disappoint so easily. – Radha reading my war theory and given me surprised look.

What’s the point of staying there? After writing such a long blog, people still living there in groups, and It hurts me most of the time that only 58,045 peoples from all over the world in MyEC and they find a good place, then here same group theory. – I explained Radha of the reason of leaving.

Well, I’m checking there you have lots of friends and fan

Every Thursday I spend time at a local charity sharing my skills and experience in community support and development. A community can be as big or small as you like. The communities I generally work with are charities, community groups, social housing providers or local authorities.

I am a Social Anthropologist so have expertise in how communities work. The specific work I do could be anything from research or consultation; designing projects to help different sectors of a community work together

Here is a fun contest that all MyEC bloggers can enter! Review the "How to Learn English" Bloggers Competition here. Follow the rules and you could win an English course in San Francisco or an iPad 3. (Note: This contest is not associated with EnglishClub in any way.)

Infographic via the KIC Blog.

My Entry(I'd like to win an iPad 3!)

I've reviewed Kaplan's "How to Learn English" infographic (above) carefully. I recently became interested in infographics thanks to Pinterest. Pinterest is a new soc

Be beautiful from the inside you see a beautiful universe and be good people see the good but then you will not attract a magnet, but your character to be good friends, we who determine the quality of those who gathered around us because of our way of thinking so beware.

D. Amjad Korhh

Man...the most interesting creature ever (at least for me)...sometimes I feel confused about it...why are we so different...if a lot of people said that the most complicated one is woman but I don't think so...sometimes, it is Man...why can I say so?...cos I feel harder than a man in the matter of understanding...when the Man finds out that a woman is in a bad mood...just try to make her calm and give her a big love and hug..she will recover soon...but once it happens to the man...He decides to

This weekend I am going to be talking to teachers about the "Learning English Video Project". This is a set of 7 short films about learning English. Each film takes place in a different country. I am going to show teachers an example from the film "Thoughts from Brazil".

I think MyEC members will like "Thoughts from Brazil".  It features some teens who use sites such as Facebook or MySpace to practice English. 

Will you take part in an online video lesson with me? 

Feel free to do all 5 activities