Category: Tips

  • Get Savvier, Save Your Brain Now

    Brain- the single matter worth saving at any cost.

  • Top 12 Job Websites in Dubai

    Want to work in Dubai? Or simply want to have a glimpse of the types of job opportunities in the UAE? Check out these hot job websites.

  • Write Right!

    Wanna have a great vacation? Thinking of a fun escapade? It’s the best time to write the right stuff! Make the most of your precious holidays by aiming for the prizes offered by Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for your exemplary literary works! Confident writing in English? Then this category with diverse genres suits you. English…

  • How to be Prosperous

    There are solid ways to becoming prosperous. Grasp them now. Build these pillars, now. Do you know that there are pillars, generally eight principles, that we can rely on to be prosperous? If you don’t know this yet, then it’s the best time to shake hands with James Allen. What are the Pillars of Prosperity? They…

  • A Gift of Cheer

    Bust the Leading Disease: WORRY. Declare war against worry today. My father once said: “in life, forethought wins, just like it is in Chess.” But lately, I’ve realized that too much forethought kills. No mental attitude is more disastrous to personal achievement, personal happiness, and personal usefulness in the world, than worry, and its twin sister, despondency (a…

  • How to Talk Right

    Is there really a right way of talking? Can we actually know how to listen and respond accurately? Is there a hope our conversations won’t end up frustratingly empty, banal, or worse yet, useless? Paul Grice proposed four maxims by which we can gauge conversations. Before you frown or get cynical, give his maxims a…

  • Meet Mr. Word Star!

    What makes one a star? Florists hinted me I must be one. ASTER (a flower shaped like star) is my birthmonth flower. Yet lately, I learned that “ASTER” doesn’t always do one any good, like dis-ASTER. Image Courtesy of goodreads.com “Dis” means “against” and “ASTER” is a Greek word for “star”. People in the ancient times…

  • Scammer Alert!

    Five missed calls from five of my relatives. Oh, I didn’t want to hear them grumble so I didn’t call back. My, when I got home, I came to know they were “emergency calls”. This guy calls himself “George Smith”. He is close to his fifties, widower, with a ten-year old son. To further feed…

  • Top 10 Challenges of Online English Teaching

    Are you ready for the challenges of teaching English online?  Or do you presently strive to successfully teach English online? Perhaps knowing the foes and woes of holding virtual English classes will help us deliver the best counterblows. Below listed some your fellow Online English Teacher learns and shares. 1. Personality Mismatch “Jeong” is a…

  • Top 5 Erroneously Qualified Adjectives

    Do you wonder which powerful adjectives lose their impact when qualified? Let’s stop being guilty and clean up our posts by killing the unnecessary intensifiers (more, most, a lot of, etc.) that sap the strengths of describing words. Try going over the list (you could even add more) and vow not to make these mistakes…