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Well, my friends! I promised you the happy end and here you are! However, before reading the story, you are expected to read my usual introduction presenting and explaining your mistakes. Hope you will find a few minutes to look through them.

1. “She always gives me wise decisions.” As a matter of fact, people are used to saying words of advice rarely followed. We usually listen to advice, analyze it and make up our mind.
2. A thief wanted to take away a lady’s locket but when he saw her wearing only on

Hello guys, witches, zombies, sceletons and the rest, 

as Halloween is around the corner, it would be great to create here cool, scary atmosphere full of spooky moments, horror memories and terrifying imaginations!!! So... don't hesitate and let't just all gather and start our ..................  EC SCARY PARTY!

So, listen to me carefully but...wait, wait... fistly please turn back to check, if there isn't anybody standing behind you! Nothing? Are you sure? I bet you overheard something.. yeah it

I decided to teach English in Shenzhen last May, but long before I signed my contract, I knew exactly what I would be doing during Spring Festival. As classes came to an end for the semester, I watched my friends plan trips to beautiful beaches, but I wasn’t jealous of their vacation plans for a second… I was busy reminding my fiancé to bring my parka as we would be heading north: to Harbin.

The flight from Beijing to Harbin was only about two hours. I sat giddily on the plane and read about the

Hi, my friends! It is time to post one more grammar test, isn’t it? You know what to do! You should correct all the mistakes without changing the meaning of my sentences. This test is not easy but it is not the toughest I can propose. So, here you are!

1. At the bar I didn’t recognize the guy stared on me despite he rode the same with me cab.
2. We were standing by window and watched the falling down snow.
3. Serving the dinner, the committee went on to work.
4. I am sorry did not to follow your advice getting

OneeYes, Onee is now a blog moderator. Congratulations!

It makes sense we have an additional blog moderator -  there are so many blogs posted here on MyEC every day, and sometimes I have difficulty adding comments or moderating blogs.

Onee has been an active member here - she enjoys reading and commenting on blogs, and she has also published a lot of interesting blogs. I really appreciate it!

So, I'm sure Onee will make a great moderator. Do you think so?

Hi, my friends! You know every time I read your masterpieces before going to bed, I always see some weird nightmares. This time one of the expressions threw me back to the age of slavery. I don’t mind feeling a slave just for a change. So, here are the expressions that made my fantasy go so far.

1. “My brother tried to eat us out.” Why not if you did something wrong although brothers are usually quite merciful to their sisters. To eat somebody out means to scold, to reprimand, to call down. In fact,

Yes, I've been having difficulty adding comments. You may have experienced the same issue.

It may have something to do with NING by which MyEC is powered - it seems NING has always been making some changes here.

Sometimes I need to click on the 'Add Comment' twice or more times before I can see the comment. It can be so frustrating, though - I hope everything will be back on track again!

That's why I suggest you 'strike while the iron is hot' - in other words, I suggest you enjoy writing blogs or a

Hello everyone,

So, here is the writing challenge. I hope you will find it interesting and see it as an opportunity to share your great imaginative thoughts - Imaginative thoughts because topics are based on that - and also as an opportunity to write.

I also hope this can inspire members who for some reason have some hesitation writing or are lacking inspiration and that new members will feel encouraged too.

The task for the Writing Challenge are;

- Please choose one topic below as you may f

My dear friends! You know, since I joined EC, I have never slept well and I have seen a lot of different nightmares. This time my nightmare was mostly provoked by your typos. You know that English spelling is not a piece of cake. Only one wrong vowel may change the meaning of a word and a whole sentence. So, here are the words and expressions that made me see one more nightmare.

1. “A battle palm/leaves”.  What should I imagine reading it? I do imagine a very aggressive plant trying to put off with

What have you been learning from the university of life? Oh, sorry to confuse you with my question. If you haven’t encountered this expression yet, allow me to explain it in simple ways.

The phrase the ‘university of life’ does not exist at all. You cannot find it anywhere because it's not an academic institution or school. If people say this phrase, they are referring to their ‘life experiences’. In other words, it’s about a person who became wise or successful in a chosen field without taking a

Hi all!!!  I was looking around for something that you might enjoy and I found riddles!!!!   I so hope you will enjoy trying to guess them.  

(1)  It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?

(2)  What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

(3)  At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they

This night, after staying up late as usually chatting in EC chat room, I finally hit the hay and almost immediately fell asleep, but I was not inundated with the usual night time visions, the phantasmagory that followed was way different, it was the most weird dream I ever had.

  I found myself in an idyllic scenery - temple like building, all of white stone, broad streets running through lavish gardens, people joyfully discussing or just relaxing on the carpets of grass which seemed to spread ar

I bet you know what I'm trying to convey. Yes, I mean you can try to express the same idea in English with a different way, instead of the way that you may think is the only natural or right way.

For example, you can use 'amazing', 'excellent', 'fantastic', 'terrific', 'well down' or 'good job', instead of 'good' or 'nice'. You can say 'an extremely hot day' instead of 'a sweltering day' if you can't remember the word 'sweltering', which is what you really want to use.

It can be so monotonous, dul

Hi, my friends! In August we started playing The Wheel Of Fortune again and here are the words we guessed.

SQUEAMISH (adj) defines a person easily made to feel sick, faint, or disgusted, especially by unpleasant images or sensations.

Example: Lila is really squeamish about cats and she never visits my house just because I have one.  

Synonym:  FASTIDIOUS.

INDEFATIGABLE (adj) defines a person who never gives up even though he/she is tired of many failures.

Example: After several failures, misundersta

Hi, my friends! I'd like to think you are waiting for one more test. Today is Day of Knowledge in my country, the beginning of the academic year. So, here I am with your new task. This test is almost the same as previous. And you know what to do, don't you? You have to correct all the mistakes in each sentence. 

1. She had looked forward for him to come.
2. I didn’t see his coming and scared with his voice.
3. He stopped to study so that he would earn for living.
4. She forgot plugging off the iron and must ret

As I have told somewhere here in EC that I am in the habit of reading.  I do not have the interest to read any specific subject.  I read whatever is in my reach, even the scrap of paper I pick up from the floor to throw away.  This reading habit built a desire in me that I would write something, but what, I didn’t have any idea.  Once I happened to visit a shrine, it was/is situated on the beach.  I sat in a corner and looked at the crowds of the people men, women and children were coming payin

Time for new words guys!!

I have two beautiful words for beautiful women..

Comely: Adjective: Means attractive, good looking, someone who makes you feel pleasant when you look at them (mostly used for woman).

Pulchritude: Noun: Means Beauty.

Example: Her comely face was beaming with pulchritude and bounded everyone's eyes like with a magic spell.

Now you have to write a really small blog using these two words..

do not stress yourself, you can write just two paragraphs, you can write anything, story, j

Hi, my friends! You always make my day! No sooner had I returned to EC than you immediately enriched my great collection of your mistakes with a few fantastic expressions! Thank you very much! So, my nightmares are back! Hahaha! I have to admit borrowing some phrases and information from my personal correspondence with EC members. Many things I learned are not funny at all but they helped me think up the plot. As usual, I will not tell you the authors’ names but I believe they will recognize the