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How long should we wait for others to live up to our expectations?

Listen to a story. A family of tortoises went on a picnic. They packed food and set out to a place they had selected, behind the hills. When they reached the spot, they unpacked their picnic basket. They found they had forgotten to bring salt. Food without salt is tasteless. The youngest tortoise being faster than the others, was asked to go back and get salt.

The youngest objected. What if in the meantime the snacks were eaten up

taling about animals:

dog: affetionate, noisy, friendly, dirty,intelligent

cat: not as friendly as dog, independent, quiet,clean

cute little bird: beautiful,clean, small

turtle: clean, small, intelligent

talking about music:

would you be interested in me helping you to buy one？

 I really would like your help, i know almost nothing about jazz.

how much time can you find to help me?

talking about job:

did you know there is a position for account manager opening up at my company?

set up the interview (arrange

Tonight, on the TV news i heard a topic i wish to debate here with you.

Have you ever heard about Rozita Iza? Rozita is a young Argentinian cow, which once adult will produce milk with similar caracteristics to woman milk. This is at least the ambition of scientists from Argentina and China.

The idea of the scientists is to improve the milk produced by cows that has deficiencies for humans. They, therefore, introduced into the genome of Rosita 2 genes, important for human nutrition. Two protei

HMM, let me see, how to start my bolg will be more attractive! hehe

Maybe telling a story as a preface?

Long long time ago, there were a little girl like to raise pets, she uesed to raise France snail, small duck, cute chicken, even sparrow. But she was not a good breeder at all, all the pets she had ever raised all died. What a pity!

After all the failures of trying to raise a pet up, the girl hated pets. She didn't want to a pet anymore until she grew up to became an adult.

However, time is a go

My Dad, you're my inspiration and I want to thank you....

  for showing us love.

  for raising us up as responsible and God-fearing individuals.

  for dedicating your life in taking care of us.

  for helping us reach our potentials and work on our goals.

  for treating us equally, even though I and my siblings have different opinions.

  for correcting my reason when I was being irrational.

  for supporting my decisions on what I have to do with my life and career.

  for believing in me.

  for giving me a

TambakRejo is one of some beach in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia. it is located south Blitar, approximately 40 km from City.We can see the beauty ot the beach from some side. when early we arrived there, so that we saw the beach by first face. in this face we would amount of traditonal boat lined up along of beach.we would enjoy baked tuna by black sambal.

if we would see beauty of the beach by other side we have to wade the flow of wave that had be small like, but it is not too deep. when low tid

You will never know how wonderful today for me !

In the morning, MAVERICKS won their first champin of NBA finals! How amazing it is !

Finally, their dream come true after more than 13 years! They deserve it becuase of their hard-work, perseverance! It is a absolutely exhilarating moment for all MARVERICKERS!

And, dirk, who is the leader of this team, also deserve the MVP! Let all the doubts from whatever go away! He deserve to be respected and admired! He is one of the greates basketball player i

Brad Patterson recently challenged teachers to interview members of their PLN. You remember what a PLN is, don't you? A PLN is a personal learning network. Here is a writing challenge that we did about PLN's. I wrote about a few people from mine. If you don't have a personal learning network, it's time to create one! 

I was interviewed by a member of my PLN a few weeks ago. I met Vladka at the IATEFL conference, but we already knew each other from twitter. Twitter is a great place for teachers t

It was tuesday, June 7, 2011, when I was back from my college and arrived in my boarding house. I entered my room and found a postcard lying in the floor. Oh wow, postcard from my friend in USA had arrived. I was so delight and then soon sent an email to him as a thankful saying.

Here the pictures of my postcard ^_^

The translate message :

Hello Ria!

This is the chapel I told you before (cadet chapel of US air force academy) . The inside is cool, right? It supposed can be placed by

is this the end...The end....??i hope not...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tore your hope apart
As they turn your dreams to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my dreams with endl

Happens that precious gems are hidden not only in a post but also in the comments below it, and deep diggers  become rewarded with finding them.