Launch of ... i3's "READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge 2012"
by Mags, 3 January 2012
iCUBED.us' "READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge"
New year's resolutions are usually all about self-improvement, so this year to start off the year with a positive spin, I'd like to CHALLENGE anyone wanting to improve their English language competency, their general knowledge AND, increase their discipline and attention span without too much effort ... to join me in our iCUBED.us READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge 2012...
Submit your NUTRITIOUS and EASY recipes to the NaNoWriMo COOKBOOK fundraiser (due before 1st September)
by !Baha, 30 June 2011
For you budding authors out there, the website devoted to helping you get past writers block by turning the month of November into the default WRITE A BOOK MONTH has come up with a novel (*grin) way to raise some money to cover their cost of operations ... They've decided to publish and sell a Cookbook ~ YAY! One of my favorite types of books...
READABILITY: The Fact that Boys Score Lower on Reading Tests, Doesn't Mean Boys Can't Read...
by !Baha, 27 April 2011
A series of studies published reporting a real decline in reading in American teens, and lower performance by boys in reading tests does NOT mean that boys are hardwired against reading, nor are they innately less interested in reading as an activity than girls.
Like the typewriter, the movable type printing press in the video above, harken back to a time when mistakes were more costly to fix, and so each decision to take any action required MUCH MORE THOUGHT, MUCH MORE PLANNING, MUCH MORE EXPERT KNOW-HOW.
WHAT DO THEY MEAN ? ... check out these funny, naughty(?), sentences that have unintended meanings
by !Baha, 2 March 2011
Here at iCUBED.us we put much emphasis on "writing better English", by holding contests and looking for opportunities to engage students in English-language learning activities, because it's all too easy to write sentences that have UNINTENDED meanings. *smile
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "Good Writing Makes A Difference" Part 12/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Is news of the DEMISE OF COMMON SENSE much exaggerated? YOU DECIDE...
posted by !Baha, 28 January 2011
This humorous, yet true OBITUARY FOR COMMON SENSE, is an internet legend, with many authors, but legend has it that it was first printed in the London Times newspaper. Read it and let us know WHAT can be done to bring back Common Sense to a world in need...
An obituary printed in the London Times for Common Sense
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "QUOTES and ATTRIBUTIONS" Part 10/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "Good Writing vs. Correct Writing" Part 9/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "Verb Tenses"... Part 8/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "misunderstood words"... Part 7/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "Redundancy"... Part 6/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "Apostrophe"... Part 5/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH: "The, A, An" ... Part 4/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
BEST-SELLERS FOR A REASON: Steig Larsson's MILLENNIUM TRILOGY
THE MAN BEHIND LISBETH SALANDER
by !Baha, 18 November 2010
I'm totally hero worshipping STEIG LARSSON! Why?
Here's a writer who has managed to write "pot boilers", can't-put-them-down-till-I'm-done crime-mystery novels, each over 600 pages long, with incredibly well-fleshed out characters, gripping plots, AND they have palpable educational value!
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH : "Where Alpha Is Beyond Time???" ... Part 3/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH : "Order VS Orders" ... Part 2/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
Barry Kalb's WRITE BETTER ENGLISH : "Use Fewer Plastic Bags" ... Part 1/12
English is the language of international commerce and communication. You Can Write Better English (an 82 page book by Barry Kalb) is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.
WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL? Do it in NOVEMBER with NaNoWriMo, says ChrisW-18
by ChrisW-18, 28 October 2010
November is National Novel Writing Month, or as participants more fondly refer to it, NaNoWriMo. The basic concept is simple: start and finish a 50,000-word novel in the month of November.
A WHOLESOME LIFE... by Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization
by Jack Sim
18 October 2010
At the age of 40, I realized that our average lifespan is 80, and half my life has gone. A wonderful wife, 4 lovely kids, some savings, no mortgage and business was going OK.
But is money the currency of life?
No. The real currency of life is TIME. You cannot save time, you must spend it before it's gone.
Do I want to exchange the 14,300 remaining days (40yrs X 365days) of my life for material pursuit?
Singapore's Minister Mentor, LEE KUAN-YEW's eulogy for his wife ...
"The Last Farewell to my Wife" -Lee Kuan-Yew
October 06, 2010
Ancient peoples developed and ritualized mourning practices to express the shared grief of family and friends, and together show not fear or distaste for death, but respect for the dead one; and to give comfort to the living who will miss the deceased. I recall the ritual mourning when my maternal grandmother died some 75 years ago. For five nights the family would gather to sing her praises and wail and mourn at her departure, led by a practiced professional mourner.
ValerieW-17 on "Why I can’t stop reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
by ValerieW-17, 25 January 2010
Just for the record, I would like to state that I have never been a fan of neither children nor children’s literature. I am known to cringe in the mere presence of kids---I’m sure you can imagine what happens when the inevitable screaming and/or crying begins. Reading The Little Prince for my French class last year was a painful experience due to its lack of resonance with me (I’m sure the fact hat it was written in French didn’t help either!) Despite all this, however, I still consider Diary of a Wimpy Kid one of my favourite book series.
IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: Reading George Orwell's "ANIMAL FARM" (1945)
by Mags, 26 October 2009 (republished on 19 January 2010)
We're republishing this blog because the issue of climate change is still a battle which we have yet to win and this blog perhaps more than any other iCUBED.us has published expresses our collective frustration...
THE END OF AN ERA! DOULOS – The World’s Oldest Ocean-Going Passenger Ship To Stop Sailing
By Nomadic Chris, 29 December 2009
Do all good things come to an end?
Why is the good ship Doulos docking permanently?
The service of non-profit organisation GBA Ships’ vessel Doulos will come to an end on 31st December 2009. The final port of call is Singapore. (Details below). But fear not floating book ship lovers! The Logos Hope is still sailing the seven seas to bring good book, education and supplies to people in need all around the world.
KavidhaN-20 pips, "How I Resisted TWILIGHT's Charms, I read it!"
by KavidhaN-20, 3 December 2009
IS TWILIGHT, WORTH THE HYPE?
Everyone seems to have an opinion about TWILIGHT these days.
From Miley Cyrus to Adam Lambert, even Robert Pattinson, and my next door neighbor; people are either for, or against it. It has caught on like wildfire and the question I have is… does it really live up to its hype?
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