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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to

this's my voice

-Nadiyah-

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Salim's photo : A father's gift to his restless son...

January 17th 2011

Snowy Monday, -17’c


“English learners do not need to study grammar.” I have seen this sentence quite often on English club and some other English-teaching websites. In my view, English learners need to know grammar. First, imagine you are talking among English native speakers and are making many mistakes grammatically. Don’t you feel humiliated? Second, what would English speakers think? Don’t they think we are destroying their language? Do we like someone ruin our mother tongu

Seeing the topic of the writing challenge of this month,I was very enthusiastic at first,but I have to admit,that later on I was pondering over a lot:what to write?

To tell the truth I don't really feel myself confident and experienced a lot,to give good advices to anyone.

As I am in my thirties now,looking back on my twenties at the moment,I wish I had done a lot of things differentely.

Of course there are a few things too,that I am satisfied with as it is presently,the most important of them is b

I come back from Egypt. It was one of the best journey of my life! We visited Black desert, White desert, spend two nights outdoor, watched oasises, practiced windsurfing. I tasted a very delicious egyptian dish - koshary and I would like to try to prepare it at home.

Recipe of Koshary

Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add 1 cup white rice and fry about 3 minutes. Add 1 cup rice and 3 cups water and salt. Bring to a boil and cook until the rice is tender, about 2

Hi, everybody!

It's nice to meet all

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*I don't think facebook will be shut down because people are addicted to it. It's like a day without meal.

*Even I was not interested in this site but my friends insist me to join it. They told me that we will be in contact with that.

*According to me in past when mobile phones ,telecommunication was not common that time also people  used to had friends.

*Yes friend circle was very much restricted, but bonding is very strong.friends go to houses to meet friends and joy of meeting face to face,m

About eight years ago, one of my relatives gave me her pet Cupid that she just bought from a pet store because it was the time she would give birth to her first baby, she then decided to give him to me in that she worried the baby might suffer from allergy owing to animal’s fur. Since then, I learned how to take care of a cat as I never had that experience before. Here are some little tips I’ve acquired and experienced from getting along with Cupid. Hope it would help for those who may want to

Hi All EC friends I wanted to share with u my experiance on skype conference as tara asked me to talk about it , it can maybe helpful for some friends who want improve their english speaking ,

first i was so shy to speak english as many members here who dont feel confident when they speak english with foreigners but I rememberd once when Teacher Nadira encouraged me to speak with her on skype ,

it was my first time i speak english on voice chat , it was great because we started to add some friends

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.

In bid black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am :D

January 15, a common day for others, a special day for my family.it's my father's birthday.

it's very cold ,the min temperature was -12,but i still felt warmer in my hear.

in china,the parents' birthday is an important occasion.whatever you are doing something,or wherever you are,everyone tries his best going back home to have a reunion with the whole family.

i think most of chinese enjoys it.

it is the custom here.when someone is on his birthday,people usually eats noodles. this custom has a specia

Do you love and appreciate yourself?

Appreciating ourselves helps us to be focussed with a positive direction. We have to love ourself by giving reward and praise for our each success.

Stan Goldberg Ph. D., Professor from San Francisco University USA concludes in his observation the past twenty five years, the 10 important principles for one to have success! One of the 10 principles is giving reward,  like the celebration of success by treating or giving gift to one self. If it is done correctly

What is the second conditional?

The second conditional is a structure used for talking about unreal situations in the present or in the future. That is the reason why sometimes it's also called as the present unreal conditional.

We use it to talk about a situation that is not real or is unlikely to occur and the imaginary consequences that follow such an unreal situation.

The structure of a second conditional sentence :-

A second conditional sentence consists of two clauses;

1. an if clause

2. a m

I am the one who hates cooking dialogues at the mainly part of her life but at the rest of her life finds herself while cooking...

I was born in İstanbul where I love so much and my family as well. Their story begins in Pera’s vicinity, center around Haydar district in Unkapanı-Fatih area and in Eyüp – Topçular, some of their life still continues and partial of them ended. Having been existed and still living in old İstanbul where settled in historic peninsula granted me privileged. Very differe

Its getting annoying, how the society try to force phones onto us. You would expect that when you make appointment to doctor over internet, then you don't need to own a phone.. wrong! The partition of your contact informations for phone number is mandatory to fill in the web.. why can't they just accept only e-mail?

Every time I log into Internet bank. A popup window appears. Asking me to fix my contact information.. but I can only ignore it, since I can't save/change my contact information, wit