amylan

@amylan (187)

France • Age 37

Joined myLot 15 years ago

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Friends drifting apart

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85146) • Shingle Springs, California 9 Jun 09

People do drift apart over time. It's just natural. You grow up, move away, get different interests, make new friends, etc. Sometimes the relationship becomes one sided and one person is making all the effort. At what point do you...

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amylan Ye,the one-sided thing's never gonna last long, but I still used to question myself why it ends up this way. I mean, the zero efforts mean that they just let me go and they find the whole losing connection thing quite natural. Maybe I'm just too emotional;...

10 Jun 09

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Who pay your college tuition fees?

amylan @amylan (187) • France 4 Jun 09

Hi Mylotters, here's a issue just came up to me: the tuition fee of the master program that i'm going to apply this year has just been doubled thus become rediculously expensive, so I'm thinking about how to finance my next 2...

college

education

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amylan Hi agrim, seems that you guys have a really preferential price for the high education. Basically in my culture it's the parents to afford the educational costs as long as it's within their capacity. My parents have offered to pay my tuitition fees including...

6 Jun 09

Forbes Magazine Names Angelina Jolia More Powerful than Oprah

lelin1123 @lelin1123 (15595) • Puerto Rico 5 Jun 09

Ok I don't understand how this happened. LOL LOL LOL - There is no way that Angelina is more powerful than Oprah. Oprah has her own talk show, magazine, girls school in Africa. She will have I believe her own network come next...

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amylan I admit that Oprah is a great woman and she's done a great job in her talk show that influences many people deeply. But the case is her programs are seldom broadcasted outside North America, while a film could be sold around the world, be watched again and...

6 Jun 09

Would you tattoo someone's name on you?

katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 5 Jun 09

When I was young I remember a conversation between some adult friends of mine. They were discussing the topic of getting someone's name tattooed on your body. One friend said she'd never do that, not even her child's name just...

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amylan Thanks:-) Usually people say that time will fix everything, but that never works for me, 'cause I possess almost photographic memories and extradinarily detailed sensations so I don't see any chance to forget him, or forget my own feelings. The tattoo is just...

5 Jun 09

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VAT tax coming to America?

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 1 Jun 09

We all know the economy is spinning around the drain, but how bad is it? Well, Washington Policy Makers are looking at a new tax called a VAT tax, short for "value-added tax". It is a...

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amylan Here The point is that Obama doesn't account on enlarging consumption on internal market to drag the whole economy up. His stimulating package includes a concrete plan to spur on investment and retailings? Sure not. You're right what he plans will curb the...

5 Jun 09

Please respond: How many words which you known do you have?

thankyou_0126 @thankyou_0126 (16) • China 5 Jun 09

I am not the native speaker of English, a lot of people say that it is enough to know 5,000 to 7,000 words. I want to know, for the native speakers of English, you know how many words.

learning english

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amylan That's true. The vocabulary one employs in speaking and much smaller than the one used in writing, and there's huge gaps between daily, professional and academic utilition of words. I've once taken the GRE tests and the required vocabulary amounts to nearly...

5 Jun 09

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Who pay your college tuition fees?

amylan @amylan (187) • France 4 Jun 09

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amylan Good to hear that! An earlier planning is always benefiting. Just a little question: By the educational plan you mean by a kind of social safety program or a muturel funds? I myself had one when I was little, where my parents paid monthly and I finally got...

5 Jun 09

What was the last vacation spot you visited and how was it?

trinee @trinee (514) • Trinidad And Tobago 4 Jun 09

I visited Barbados in March and what a beautiful place. It is a small island in the caribbean and a popular tourist spot. "The Gap" is probably one of the most frequented spots for tourists and you can scuba dive, snorkle and...

favourite spots

fun

travel

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amylan Ye I see. For me, enjoying drinking does need an atmosphere goes with it:-)

4 Jun 09

Do you get frustated at the thought that you don't have enough money?

subha12 @subha12 (18441) • India 3 Jun 09

I have seen many times few of my friends getting very frustrated that there are not enough money with them. When the others, with less capability just earning so much. It was not there with me. I lead a simple life. But I have...

money

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amylan I totally understand your feelings. One of the truth of life is sometimes you do need to wait for a chance, which could never comes. I can tell that you're a person sticking and loyal to your mind and try to make the best of yourself, so don't give up, you're...

4 Jun 09

Do You Speak French ???

always_natalia @always_natalia (444) • Indonesia 2 Jun 09

I think French is a very interesting language and I always want to learn it, especially after I watched some great French movies like Asterix and Obelix, Taxi, etc. But too bad I still don't have enough time to join the French...

french

learn

speak

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amylan Bon courage! I suggest you start with a basic textbook including a audio track to learn the rules of spelling an prononciation of French then you'll find things become much easies. Watching some TVs or movies with simple dialogues is good strategy 'cause you...

4 Jun 09

were you ever find a job when you was a college student?

fwangaa @fwangaa (3057) • China 1 Jun 09

were you find a job to earning extra money when you was a student? why you do that? were you earn a lot of money ? were you study a lot when you are working?

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amylan Well here you assume that part-time job won't go well with studies but unfortunately that's not necessarily the case, and I've done excellent work in my studies. In fact, a full-time internship is required in my college and it counts for several credits as a...

3 Jun 09

favorite perfume

pamfloyd51 @pamfloyd51 (136) • United States 1 Jun 09

my favorite perfume is realaties. i have been in line in a store & people behind me that i don't even know would tell me how good i smelled & wanted to know what kind of perfume i was wearing. my husband luvs it on me. it is...

favorite perfume

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amylan Well the series of Salvador Dali parfums were dedicated to this great artist so they're 'independently' fabricated, but Lancome is one of the most prestigous parfum babricators in the world and Miracle is actually one of their calssics. The commercial was...

3 Jun 09

Loving and being "IN LOVE"

laydee @laydee (12798) • Philippines 1 Jun 09

Do you believe there is a difference between loving someone and being "in love"? Enlighten me friends. Hmmm... Loving may be like how we love our family, we love them because we're a family. But being 'In love' is like a...

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amylan True, it could be so sad but it happens all the time 'cause love is not an object that you can trade for. Love is love, is the great overwhelming emotions deep within one's heart. I don't love just to exchange for being loved.That's pointless.

3 Jun 09

How do you arranges songs in your player? By alphobet order? Types? Singers?

amylan @amylan (187) • France 1 Jun 09

I've got over 400 songs/pieces of music in my MP3 players and I've tried several ways to get them well organized. My player allow to play all the pieces in one file so at first I named my files like ' pop', 'classical''rock' etc...

mp3

music

music player

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amylan Exactly. I'm a rather emotional person and sometimes I do need the music that fits my mood. And evens songs of the same genre or same bands could have totally different emotions...that's my problem here.

2 Jun 09

are persons around you have higher education?

fwangaa @fwangaa (3057) • China 1 Jun 09

not many persons around me have higher education. which the difference between the persons who ever educated less or more? are more educated person more clever? why?

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amylan I agree. Life experiences countribute determines how a person perceive things and higher education is just part of that. Basically people around me all go to colleges or graduate school but that doesn't necessarily means we have things shared in common.Some...

1 Jun 09

How some people are shaming Islam

TerribleMan @TerribleMan (579) • India 31 May 09

Nowday, it has becoming quite common for many non-muslim to point an acusing finger at Islam. In a way, they may not be wrong. There fears are justified. The problem is there are muslim terrorists. They are few in number. But...

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amylan I agree. Here in Europe islamic migrants have become more and more an issue and this is rather a social and economic concern. Islamic people keep on rushing in, taking advantages of established welfare systems, busy giving birth but not educating their kids,...

1 Jun 09