figurativeme

@figurativeme (1089)

Philippines • Age 68

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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dreams and consequences

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 24 Mar 12

I don’t really go for beauty contests but I respect those who do and especially those who actually join beauty contests. I know someone who joined a recent beauty contest in our city and won third runner up. She came to visit...

life a gamble

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2 people

happy grateful people

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 18 Mar 12

I got interested in the concept of gratitude and out of curiosity searched the net. Was amazed when I found out that there are research studies done on gratitude and they are interesting and informative. For instance, people...

grateful and happy

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vanished reply

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 17 Mar 12

It is frustrating to reply to a comment with full effort and gusto and when you press submit you get a blank. Here I am trying to recall what I have previously written but it is never the same. I am trying to catch the feeling...

frustrating

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2 people

missed gratitude

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 17 Mar 12

I just could not get this incident out of my mind. We have a graduate who was a beneficiary of a full scholarship from a private sponsor when in college. She was also an academic scholar. She now works at a five star hotel. She...

gratitude and politics

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1 person

knowing a host country

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 15 Mar 12

I just saw this video at youtube of Jimmy, a foreigner who lives in the Philippines for 3.5 years and still does I suppoe (and I wonder why after all that he said), showing 20 reasons why he dislikes the Philippines (which is also...

respect and decency

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2 people

stress like a thief in the night

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 15 Mar 12

Hello mylotters... I read somewhere that stress creeps up in us like a thief in the night. Scary if one is not aware that the everyday stress that one experiences is slowly but surely eating our system up. Now I listen to my...

stress and distress

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embarrassments

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 11 Mar 12

I just committed a faux pas this afternoon. I was invited to judge in a children’s piano recital (though this surprised me having to judge for a recital—just could not refuse an insistent friend) and was not informed what to...

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clothes make the man

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 10 Mar 12

Hello mylotters.... I was browsing on articles about fashion when I came across the line that… “those who adapt their wardrobe to ‘fit in’ with their company succeed faster in terms of upward mobility.” Interesting thought...

clothes and success

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text messaging

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 9 Mar 12

Never really fully realized the effect of texting to people until now. On the matter of abbreviating words, at least. I take charge of scholarships in our school and I was delayed in submitting our proposal to this one...

misunderstood

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life as notches

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 4 Mar 12

I recently met an old classmate and she made a remark which made me think…and frown at the same time. The frown really was more due to amusement than anything. She asked us if we noticed how our body changes at some exact point...

life notches

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class reunions

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 4 Mar 12

I attended a class reunion last night. But before I did, it took a lot of thinking whether to go or not to go. I Am not really one to attend class reunions unfailingly. I miss a lot of reunions. So it was really a contest of pros...

class reunion

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2 people

coming back

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 4 Mar 12

Haven't been here at mylot for quite some time. A long time, I think. But last night's class reunion made me think of coming back. Felt my way back at mylot by responding to a couple of entries. Didn't know that coming back could...

an awkward coming back

7 responses

life tragedy

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 7 Jun 11

I had a depressing tale of a colleague who recently suffered a stroke. The stroke affected her brain and paralyzed half of her body. Though she has a physical therapist helping her to recuperate, I was told her condition was...

depressing news

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1 person

private vs public hospitals

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 6 Jun 11

A parent of one of our working student died of heart seizure in a private hospital. The private hospital was the nearest hospital where the parents of the working student live. The working student is poor and we helped in securing...

hospital service

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1 person

the unfeeling healing profession

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 6 Jun 11

The profession of healing should be more than healing the body. I thought of this while watching House, a TV series which is one of those which I watch regularly. In reality, patients are treated as numbers or cases,...

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2 people

pride and downfall

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 1 Jun 11

Perhaps it is true that Pride can be the cause of one’s downfall. I had this colleague, a unit head, who is now in bad grace with the administration due to his refusal to accept a newly hired personnel in his office. The new...

pride

stubborn

flirty girl

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 1 Jun 11

Would you go into an argument with a girl who is insistently flirting with your boyfriend or would you just ignore and trust your boyfriend to stay true to you? I had this experience before when I was younger (Ugh! So...

trust in boyfriend

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2 people

losing individuality in fashion

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 31 May 11

I was doing some reading on fashion and I came across one article which is interesting in that it says the most important quality of fashion is individuality, among others. That we tend to forget this aspect of fashion when we...

individuality

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fashion

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 31 May 11

There are those of us who would claim that we are not fashionable but functional in our choice of clothes to wear. That we do not care what we wear. But, could it be that however much we deny to be fashionable, in reality we...

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changing office physical arrangements

figurativeme @figurativeme (1089) • Philippines 30 May 11

I work in the academe and each time that we have an employee appointed to head an office, office physical arrangements would be changed by the person and I often wonder why. It could be because of personal preference. In my...

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