PalePurple

@PalePurple (157)

Philippines • Age 60

Joined myLot 13 years ago

'No need to be ONE, because you are the ONE.'

PalePurple's Activity

Duty Free Shops in the Philippines

Graceekwenx @Graceekwenx (3160) • Philippines 22 Jan 12

To my filipino friends, i do not understand why and how duty free shops thrive in here? For sure, these shops dont get filled up by the public as only balikbayans are allowed to shop in there. There are more sales clerks there...

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PalePurple Hi Grace, Let me greet you first Kung Hei Fat Choi! as it is the celebration of the Chinese New Year today - January 23, 2012. I believe the Duty Free shops all over the world, including that of the Philippines are bound by certain local and national...

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Do you re-use baggies or any other type of bag?

ladym33 @ladym33 (10979) • United States 6 Jan 12

They were having a discussion on the radio today about re-using plastic sandwich baggies. One of the DJ's said he does it all the time and the other thought it was disgusting. I have been guilty of re-using baggies before but I...

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PalePurple There was an ordinance in our city encouraging the use of paper bags and paper products on groceries and most establishments. Although plastic bags are still used on products like fish, meat and other wet products we are encouraged to recycle their use or...

6 Jan 12

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Be guided with your conscience.

nicanorr @nicanorr (1789) • Philippines 5 Jan 12

You live in the farm. Travel is usually by foot trails snaking along borders of field crops. One day while traveling home on foot fresh from attending a mass in town, you were confronted with a big problem caused by the fast...

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PalePurple Both are actually perilous. No matter which way you take there will always be trials and consequences along the way. Trust your instinct. God has given us wisdom as shield to things that we will encounter along the way.

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Philippine BPO in serious threat with US anti-outsourcing bill?

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 5 Jan 12

The Philippine call center industry was one of the major industry nowadays. We are listed as one of the best Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) place in the world because of the quality of service and with English as our second...

bpo

call center

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Ban Happy Meal Toys?

tessah @tessah (6617) • United States 4 Jan 12

san fransisco passed an ordinance banning toys with fast food chains kids meals stating it makes kids desire unhealthy...

lousy parents

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PalePurple Hi Tessah, I just hope the ones who made those advertisements for kids would realize that. But then again its the parents' role on GOOD PARENTING that over rules what you would like your kids take. In my country there was this slogan from the advertising...

5 Jan 12

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Pick-up Lines

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 5 Jan 12

Pick up lines are conversational openers and are usually funny. Often I see and hear jokes embedded in most pick up lines. But sometimes the funny side became a not so very nice fun stuff. Last Christmas, in one of my civic...

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Help! I Need Extra ...

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 3 Jan 12

Sometimes whenever we are faced with a dilemma that if we only have this and that, we could have done something or remedy a problem or incident. Utterance like: "How I wish I have another set of eyes at the back of my head so that...

extra body parts

extra gadgets

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PalePurple Well, why not? Angels don't look stupid and they are adorable. But put away the angelic look, would it be nice if really we have pair of wings so that we could go places without using smoke emitting vehicles polluting our environment?

3 Jan 12

The Best in Your Place

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 3 Jan 12

If you will be an ambassador to your place and you will recommend which places to visit to, which places will you recommend and why? Recently, the Palawan Underground River was voted as one of the New 7 Wonders of the world...

beautiful travel spots

cave

palawan

palawan subterranean river

palawan underground river

underground cave

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Help! I Need Extra ...

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 3 Jan 12

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Last Day: What Will You Do?

PalePurple @PalePurple (157) • Philippines 3 Jan 12

When you browsed the internet, you will see that there are many articles written about 2012 as the end of the world. We all know that NO ONE of us knows when will be the end of the world, neither can we tell what will happen...

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Does pregrent ladies buy and wear special clothing to protect radios?

yongwyu @yongwyu (42) • China 28 Dec 11

Hi, things like this in China. The anti-radios clothing makes an good profit/industry here. It's extremly expensive. Ladies who are pregrent will buy and wear this to protect babies. Lab engineer who works related with Radio...

daily life

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PalePurple We're almost through with the year 2011 and 2012 is just around the corner. This year the world population is around 7 Billion and China is the largest if not one of the largest populated country on earth. Do you think there will be high rate of death rate for...

28 Dec 11

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My Girlfriend makes me Crazy...

russell_21 @russell_21 (210) • India 27 Dec 11

Recently my Girlfriend has started acting a bit strange. Whenever we call each other...the conversation ends up in a fight. This is causing serious problems because now her voice itself irritates me. I don't know when this is...

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PalePurple Hi russel, I think you need to have space first. Let it pass. Then have a thought of what causes the problem and work on it. Try to also have a talk with each other and LISTEN to what she will tell you that make her irritated quickly. Acknowledge YOUR...

28 Dec 11

Have You ever found something under your bed?

Ifamous @ifa225 (14461) • Indonesia 27 Dec 11

Hi all something surprising? something that you never thought about? please hare ..

bed

sleep

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PalePurple There are few things beneath my bed like my slippers and a rag. Sometimes my blanket when I keep on kicking them til it fell. But nothing that I don't expect finding. he..he...he.. not even a monster beneath my bed.

28 Dec 11

So many cockroaches...

lady Di @lady1993 (27224) • Philippines 28 Dec 11

It flooded in our neighborhood so my mom was worried that one of our septic tanks became full so she checked it and took out the cover of the small hole and out comes dozens of cockroaches, big and small, winged and non winged....

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PalePurple An effective and simplest way to kill cockroaches is water with powder detergent soap. Mix 1 part detergent to 3 parts of water. Put the solution in a bottle sprayer. Spray on areas where cockroaches frequent or you can spray directly on them. The active...

28 Dec 11

All the water is in our neighborhood

lady Di @lady1993 (27224) • Philippines 28 Dec 11

Gosh, a company and a hospital, plus rich people pumped or dumped (don't know the term) their water down to us, so our place looks like a sea now- in some parts the water has reached the waist... The water has become dirty...

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PalePurple Are you from Metro Cebu lady1993? I hope your condition goes better and that you and your family are safe. I also do hope the local and national officials are now getting ways to make people safe because of these typhoons (hurricanes) plus the ITCZs brought by...

28 Dec 11

There is no Limitation to Forgiveness

kaichoukebz @kaichoukebz (1190) • Philippines 27 Dec 11

My dear mylotters, is there limitation to your forgiveness? Me, there is limitation to my forgiveness. Sometimes, I cannot forgive a person when he/she committed mistake on me especially when he/she is not sincere with his/her...

forgiveness

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PalePurple 'Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.' When the Lord say these words from the cross, He does not mean saying them to the Roman soldiers who did harm to him while He was dying on the cross. Who could ever bear all the hardships and yet...

28 Dec 11

How I became happy. What about you?

brucemcclendon @brucemcclendon (56) • United States 22 Dec 11

In college we studied a truth in sociology that sometimes a person must be removed from their milieu (surroundings, culture, family, environment, etc.) in order to get relief from what ails them; from what stresses them; from what...

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PalePurple We have the same experience. I had this 'workaholic syndrome' ever since I started working 25 years ago. All piled up to my mental and physical state - stress, depression, culture shock, etc. After I retired from my office work career, I remember on the first...

22 Dec 11