i cant believe this photo

i cant believe my eyes when my friend show me these photos. it is me and my friends. now we all are aways from the mother land except one. i miss u all friends. we will one day go back to ours and serve the land.

Never-ending time!

i used to think that my school days in myanmar including the university days and B.E.H.S days were just a dream of my life cos i had never inspired the raw knowledge got from them and friendship i thought that had been already broken among stds. they might have been my prejustification! i thought they were ended up without meaning.
last night, my long lost friends come to meet me here and we talked abt the our childhood days that how we inspired each others and i happen to realise how completely out of kilter i am with my former thoughts.......................
they were real. they exited......... i was there.........but undemanding-sounding ones..............sort of the free thinker with the valid point of view how useless they were and how vapid the sub.......

the word that makes my life short!

i am myanmar and inherently i got the dellima of "saying Yes". i just want to say no but "yes" always comes out of my mouth. when my friends out there ask to borrow money for lunch and if they ask me explain abt the manufacturing strategies, the internetworking and political economics, it may not be likely the problems within these contexts. but yet to the others, "yes" is the most dillema for me. according to my working nature, i need the long term plans and strategic goals for the determined future. so i always make them up, but when it comes to the day-to-days, i couldn't get the things ( priorities ) done. i know "Yes" can make my focus diffuse and only "No" can let me concentrate on my priorities. but i couldnt simply accomplish to say "No". why .......

some useful link for ur english

Reference Tools

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - follow this link to access 5 Cambridge dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Online Computing Dictionary
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/index.html

Oxford English Dictionary Online
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com/


Writing & Reading


Grammar

Big Dog’s Grammar – explanatory notes with quizzes
http://aliscot.com/bigdog

ELC Study Zone - 330 Grammar topics
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/
Grammar Help – rules, examples and interactive exercises on English grammar points
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/

Houghton Mifflin English – sentence and sentence problems (quizzes)
http://college.hmco.com/english/elibrary/sentence.html

On-line English Grammar - explains English grammar according to parts of speech
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm

The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation - an online resource by Jane Straus
http://www.grammarbook.com/


WebPages on Specific Grammatical Areas

Ambiguous Reference
http://www.yale.edu/bass/wp/ref.html

Mixed Constructions
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/niu/niu11.htm – explanatory notes and quizzes
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_6e.htm guidelines to avoid
mixed constructions

Modal Auxiliary
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/modal_quiz.htm quizzes

Modifier Placement
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm explanatory notes with two quizzes

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm explanatory notes
http://www.parkland.cc.il.us/h/wc/proagree.html short explanatory notes

Punctuation
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/col-semi.html semi-colon and colon
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm rules for comma usage

Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm
http://www.ualr.edu/~owl/sentencesense.htm

Subject Verb Agreement
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/kf/mc-svad.html quiz
http://www.agricola.umn.edu/owc/handouts/agreement.html subject verb agreement with
mass nouns, explanatory notes with examples
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm with PowerPoint presentation on Subject verb
agreement

Verb Tenses
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html tutorial on all verb tenses in English




Online Writing Labs

A+ Research and Writing Step by Step
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/stepfirst.htm

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Initiative – helps you create an e-thesis
http://etd.vt.edu/

Plagiarism and How To Avoid It - visit this site before writing your essay/dissertation/thesis!
http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab - contains useful resources for writers
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Sweetland Writing Center (The University of Michigan) – resources for graduate student writers
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/grad/resources.html

Writing Centers Online - online writing labs set up by American universities
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/faculty/dinchak/wrcenter.html


Specific Writing Skills

Paragraph Development
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/parag.html developing coherent paragraphs
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-comp.wm.txt building paragraphs
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-cause.wm.txt development by cause and
effect
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-comp.wm.txt development by comparison
and contrast

The Use of Transitional Words and Phrases
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/wrtstr6.htm transitional words and phrases
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm coherence: transitions between ideas
http://uwc.tamu.edu/handouts/transition.html a list of categorized transitions

Writing a Report
http://home.clara.net/teriwatson/study/report.html essential study guide--report writing
http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/student/tcs/trw1.html technical report writing for
engineering students

Writing a Summary
http://virtual.parkland.cc.il.us/studyskills/SummaryWriting/StepsinWriting.htm steps in
writing a summary
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/summary.html guidelines for writing a
summary
http://home1.t-online.de/home/kfmaas/summary1.html useful sentences for summaries




Reading Skills

Learning Skills Program-reading to comprehend and learn
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/psq5r.html

Learning Skills Program – Concept Mapping
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/map_ho.html

Learning Skills Program – How to Read University Texts or Journal Articles
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/Readtxt.html

Reading toward Writing
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/readingwriting.html


Speaking & Listening

Pronunciation

English Sounds - compare your English pronunciation to native speakers
http://www.fonetiks.org/

Sounds of English - uses diagrams and audio files to help you learn about American English
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/


Oral Presentation

Creating Online Presentations - guides you through the basic steps of creating presentations with PowerPoint 2002
http://www.microsoft.com/education/DOWNLOADS/Tutorials/online/PowerPoint2002.ppt

ITM Online Help Collection: PowerPoint 2000/01 – an excellent online tutorial prepared by the University of Wisconsin
http://www.uwec.edu/help/ppoint00.htm

Overcoming Speaking Anxiety - overcoming nervousness in presentations by L. Laskowski
http://www.ljlseminars.com/anxiety.htm

Technical Presentations – with Chemical Engineering examples
http://home.olemiss.edu/~cmprice/lectures/badpres.html

Ten Tips for Successful Public Speaking – learn how to control nervousness
http://www.toastmasters.org/tips.htm

Using Overhead Transparencies
http://www.ljlseminars.com/transp.htm

NUS Toastmasters’ Club
http://www.nustm.cjb.net

Listening Comprehension

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab - includes listening quizzes for a variety of levels
http://www.esl-lab.com/

The English Listening Lounge - American/ International English listening passages
http://www.EnglishListening.com


News

Newspapers

The Daily Telegraph - a British electronic newspaper
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Guardian - another British newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Electric New Paper - a local newspaper
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/

The Straits Times - the online edition of this local newspaper includes breaking news
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/

USA Today - an American electronic newspaper
http://www.usatoday.com/

The Washington Post - another American newspaper
http://washingtonpost.com/


Video/ Audio News

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk

CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/

MediaCorp News
http://cna.mediacorpnews.com/index_w.htm

VOA News - news in “Special English” on the Voice of America
http://www.voa.gov/stream/voa/english/spec/specengla.ram

NUSCast - live broadcast of news and NUS events. Available on the Intranet only
http://nuscast.nus.edu.sg/


Magazines

Asiaweek
http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/

Reader’s Digest
http://www.readersdigest.com

Time
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/current

Miscellaneous

Language Games

CNN’s News Quiz - answer questions about daily news and compete for prize drawings!
http://cnn.com/SEARCH/quiz/

Tongue Twister Database - tongue twisters for people who want to get rid of an accent
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html


Online Chat Room/ Discussion Forum

Dave's ESL Cafe Chat Central - a chat room supported by California State University, Northridge
http://www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi

ESL Discussion Center - online discussion forums for English learners
http://eslcafe.com/discussion/

did we take the advantage of the principles of market in the last decade

now in the ko yan naing aye flat, while waiting for his return and defending against my stomach desmostration. well now i am just thinking that did we make profit from the traditional principle of market focuses such as market leader, operational excellence ad customer primitives. i dont think so cos in the past decade we just passed, there's paradigm shift or sudden shock have happened. we have 9/11, defense reinvestment, counter terrorist, infrastructure renewal and demographic shift such and such........ that........ i will countinue later........................