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What's up? Have you ever wondered what is your most indispensable possession and why? Well,for me,I have a whole collection of Manchester United's posters from different countries and continents.

My uncle is a Manchester United's fan and he travels all around the world for business purposes and he often buy me stuffs. Rare things are posters are hard to get and I think it is impossible to get in Singapore.

My room is also full of wallpapers from New Zealand which were bought by me in Malaysia during the holidays.Sometimes,I also persuade my mother to bring me to other parts of the world just to collect some posters.XD

~Sza

What is sports?

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors.

In British English, sporting activities are commonly denoted by the collective noun "sport". In American English, "sports" is more used. In all English dialects, "sports" is the term used for more than one specific sport. For example, "football and swimming are my favourite sports", would sound natural to all English speakers, whereas "I enjoy sport" would sound less natural than "I enjoy sports" to North Americans.

The term "sport" is sometimes extended to encompass all competitive activities, regardless of the level of physical activity. Both games of skill and motor sport exhibit many of the characteristics of physical sports, such as skill, sportsmanship, and at the highest levels, even professional sponsorship associated with physical sports. Air sports, billiards, bridge, chess, motorcycle racing, and powerboating are all recognized as sports by the International Olympic Committee with their world governing bodies represented in the Association of the IOC Recognised International Sports Federations.^[7]

What is vocabulary?

The vocabulary of a person is defined either as the set of all words that are understood by that person or the set of all words likely to be used by that person when constructing new sentences. Even though the two words are synonymous, "curse" is a regular part of the vocabulary of most native English speakers while "imprecate" is not.

The richness of a person's vocabulary is popularly thought to be a reflection of either intelligence or level of education. Accordingly, many standardised tests, such as the SAT, have questions that test vocabulary.

English Vocabulary

It is widely circulated that the English language has the largest vocabulary of any language, but this claim is difficult to formulate precisely, and essentially impossible to prove.^[1]

The Oxford English Dictionary lists a total of 171,476 words with an additional 47,156 obsolete and 9,500 derivative words as subentries, giving almost a quarter of a million words in the English language, even when technical terms, place names and multiple word senses are excluded.^[2] Clearly, therefore, any individual's vocabulary must necessarily consist of only a small subset of the total possible vocabulary of the language. One estimate, by David Crystal, is that the average college graduate has an active vocabulary of 60,000 words and an additional passive vocabulary of 75,000 words.^[3]

Increasing the size of one's vocabulary, also called vocabulary building, is an important part of both learning a language and improving one's skills in a language in which one is already proficient.

Vocabulary Acquisition and games

There are many ways to improve vocabulary, one however seems to stand above the rest, it is called Motor Imaging.(Casale, 1985, Casale & Manzo, 1983) See also reading skills acquisition. Many adults find vocabulary building to be a fun and educational activity, as evidenced by the popularity of "word-a-day" services. This is also reflected in the popularity of the charity website FreeRice, which employs a donation model based upon a vocabulary-building word game.

The nights I spent in my car >> Reader's Digest

Hey,hey

What's up?Did you subscribe to Reader's Digest?If you did,you probably have read an article about a woman spending almost 9 months in her car.That was one of the most interesting article that I read in the magazine.

The article was about this woman who became bankrupt spending 9 months sleeping in her car.Sometimes,she would get out and buy snacks to refresh herself.She won't spend two nights in exactly the same spot because she knew people would be very suspicious.

This charming woman then made a blog and posted some posts about her life.She though that blogs were useless because there are millions of blogs and if she was selected,then it would be a miracle.However,the next day,when she checked in her blog,she was surprised to see a lot of response and comments to her posts.She then got a job with big pays.Now she's one of the most richest woman in the world !

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