Today is the 30th of December, and my nose piercing is celebrating its first six months! I had never felt so myself before I got my nose pierced one warm summer evening (the one when Liza and I waved a farewell to each other for a while). Frankly, I had…

Fingers crossed, in a week, I will be finishing ‘East of Eden,’ and I cannot wait to start reading the book again when I have more time on my hands. Never have I ever been so disgruntled with the way I am treating the eye-opening piece of literature. It seems…

15 more minutes of MEMRISE, and 6 more new words: PEREMPTORY = a situation which you thing others should obey you SUBSCRIBE TO SMTH = share sth, subscribe and opinion TEPID = lukewarm EXCORIATE = to criticize harshly in the public WITHHELD FROM = deprived from One more week of…

The other day it occurred to me that we are supposed to spend 5/10/15 minutes on Memrise a day — not a week :)) Anyway, here are some words for you and for me (A song from ‘Rent’ Today 4 you // Tomorrow for me is playing in my head): …

With the classroom teaching practice we are going through now, my life has turned upside-down. However, I should not forget about my loyal (royal subject, thank you, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonathan Groff) friend MEMRISE. Here are some words from my today’s session: IRATE = furious,wrathful,outraged OBSEQUIOUS = blandish OR fawning, sycophantic,servile OBSTREPEROUS = noisy, vociferous, unruly TANTAMOUNT TO = equivalent to (wow!)

Should I apply for U.S. citizenship now? :) The questions seemed to be easy (we have touched upon them during our classes), so it took me less than two minutes to successfully complete the test. However, there was one question that I had no idea how to respond to; I got fortunate and guessed it. Now I know that if both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, the Speaker of the House becomes the President of the United States. Anyway, I L-O-V-E-D this assignment! It was engrossing to do!

I am taking advantage of the whole distant learning mode and savoring ‘East of Eden.’ Here are some words from the pages I have read. They are not numerous; however, I have encountered all of them (!!!) while listening to various podcasts and watching videos. …

My new session on Memrise turned out to be rather fruitful! I am eager to share with you some words that I especially relished! TO SHORE UP = to strengthen ,to support TO CONFOUND = to bewilder, to dumbfound, to perplex, to bemuse TO DENIGRATE = to scorn, to scoff, to disdain, to disparage, to critisize and to humiliate sb unfairly FEALTY = fidelity, adherence, allegience, loyalty Are not these words mind-blowing?

It is curious how sometimes my mind may go in the opposite direction and flip any situation. For example, the other day, while I was reading ‘East of Eden,’ I unearthed a quote: ‘Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.’ It was (and still is) evident that raising children is…