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Are you in your teens, twenties, or thirties? Are you in your forties, fifties or sixties? Think back to your life ten years ago. What age bracket were you in then? What did you wish you knew then that you know now? This month, let's share some advice with people who are younger than ourselves. Your blog post could help younger readers. It may also help you realize how much you have grown in the last few years.

Your Task: 

1. Choose one role that you play in life (father, artist, teacher, computer

In the early of this month, at the new year's eve exactly, is one of my special ones. My boy ( 7 years old) gave me questions: what is the special of the new year? is the names of the months are different from the last year, or the days change or the numbers on the calendar is different? He asked me while watching the new calendar of 2011.

its better to be alone rather than abad compppany

Benjamin Franklin used to say that "if you like your life don't waste your time because it's the material your life is made of". I totally agree with this quotation, it's one hundrend percent true. Unfortunately, very often we waste our time by sleeping too much, doing needless things or just sitting in front of computer serfing global net without any aim (it's very actual for the XXI century). Turn your head back to your past and answer the question: was your time been spent in the most useful

Some think how they can benefit from their relationship and who can gain more. The one who gains more is a winner and the other who gains a little is a loser. Another type of relationship is the one you always have to be careful about what you are saying and what you are doing since the other party may be angry, sad or simply does not like what you are saying or doing. But, such relationships do not last long and usually break down.
 

In a fulfilling relationship, two parties open up their hearts

Relations...

Getting deep into those-

Makes me feel the hollowness.

Kept a light for those;

But in vain.

More stumpy blackness surrounded.

About to hold those hands;

Soon the unfathomable depth-

Held me tightly.

Subtle voice made my solace.

Looked around;

And found the self there.

A blaze leads my way.

Somebody said " it's your soul";

But i doubted...  

                         For sure, most of us know that any language deals with four skills ,namely listening ,speaking,reading and writing .Two skills dealing with the input : listening and reading while the other two  remaining  skills dealing with the output.Let me clarify! let's take the  baby ,s/he is born with no specific  phonological or linguistic system .That  is to say ,the baby is not born speaking a certain language but s/he acquires it from the surrounding.And if you take ,for insta

it returns to 9 years ago

I can remember the days of first year of university. the very quite and depressing evenings that

I used to go English Classes. just for one thing. going out and travel all over the world to study and

work.

and now is the time

April 09 2011 is great day for me. to respond all hard times that I had in Tabriz

to respond my self  and .......

 the day that Toefl test will be passed with a high score

Wish me luck

dear freinds

         In Vietnam, Feb the 3rd, 2011 will be the Tet Holiday (Lunar New Year). Do you know that we celebrate New Year based on Lunar callendar, not the first of Jan like westen countries, so jostling to buy and face a very expensive bus ticket is worthy to concern ^^, and even tired or dangerous to go in shopping mall and amusement park arround these crowded days. I had to buy ticket to go back my hometown nearly 1 month ago to be sure that I have a seat on bus. Gathering with family is the ha

Hope everybody had an amazing new year celebrations.But for few people the first day of the 'Happy new year' turned out to be different.

I went to home with a lot of excitement and joy to celebrate the new year day with my family, but 1st Jan turned out to be a grieving day for us. On 1st Jan early morning(I was half asleep) I overheard my father talking to my brother about my relative,(name : chandu, my Brother-in-law.Elder brother of my brother's wife) that he died in a car accident.

It happene

My diary

January 7th 2011

Friday

Which one improvement can I make to impact my English studies the most? My answer is writing and my reasons come as follows:

1- Almost most universities and companies in Canada test writing ability. It is not important if you have PhD or you are a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, etc, you must pass the writing test relatively well.

 2-Writing is a good way to review all new vocabularies. To write well, I have to know many vocabularies. Making a list of all new words a

The following photos were taken on our former president's official residence established in 1950. 

After 46 years, now it is allowed citizens to visit. Here is like a big garden or a forest.

chrysanthemum

Many parents would bring their children to here.

 The pine tree is one of my favorites. 

 Hope you enjoy these flowers.

Do you know what the word  mnemonic stands for?

I wasn't aware of the meaning of it either,as in my language it isn't a habit to memorize things in mnemonics.

Mnemonic is a learning technique that aids memory.

They can aid memorisation of very many types of information.

Thanks to Mr.Joseph's email,that I got today about the colours of the rainbow,I know about this memorisation helping device already.

He mentioned that we can remark the colours of the rainbow with the aid of a mnemonic,-hope he won't

a small park that is on the way to my destination

 The delicate metal statue caught my eyes. 

The path allows people to take a walk or go biking. Biking is one of the popular sports in Taiwan. You may see a group of bikers or a family bike on the streets on holidays.

The sweet bird I found beside the path.

I will keep you posted the rest of the photos in two or three posts.  

I saw a very inspiring and positive coverage in this evening news,and it made me somewhat happy,albeit I don't know this man....

His name is Ted Williams,and he  was a homeless man living on the streets of Colombus,Ohio,in the US,but  fortunately it is a past now,because he was proffered a job by a radio station after that     someone  had uploaded his "golden voice" on the internet.

You can check out his really unique and nice organ of his voice under this link:

http://www.okmagazine.com/2011/01/t

Mary Christmas to all Orthodox Christians. Let this great inspiring Holiday will bring peace and harmony to souls and hearts!

My Diary,
January 6th 2011
Thursday

I was always angry at people who give up easily criticizing them for not being so strong to achieve what they long for. Now, I think I became like those whom I criticized before. However, I would like to be stronger this year not being sorry for my past mistakes and not being worried for future. I would like to do my best at this moment to achieve my goals. As such, I have decided to write either a blog or a paragraph or even a sentence every day for about 15 m