semicolonp

@semicolonp (518)

Philippines • Age 39

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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so waling-waling is our second national flower alongside ...

allen0187 @allen0187 (58582) • Philippines 4 Feb 13

sampaguita after senate bill no. 5655 was approved on the third and final reading. although i do agree with the points given by both senator edgardo angara and senator loren legarda about the passing of such a bill to update our...

national flower

national identity

sampaguita

senate of the philippines

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semicolonp Honestly? If this is something that will contribute to Filipinos being a more cohesive identity rather than just a bunch of people who just happened to live in the same space with some shared bloodlines in their veins, then I'm all for it. There is such a lack...

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Senate fight over some Biases and bonuses

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33121) • Philippines 21 Jan 13

Hello Lotters, Can't you believe what was going on the Senate these past few days? Minority's complaining why the salary for them isn't high. Even Senator Cayetano explained that most of these weren't even documented. Now...

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semicolonp I'm pretty sure that the Senate didn't vote him out of the Senate despite this because, 1) not only were they the ones who got the millions rather than the several hundred thousand pesos, but also 2) this is pretty much how our government works, so they're...

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Google will have a PHIL. Branch

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33121) • Philippines 22 Jan 13

Hello Lotters, That's a really great news, while their site is growing they are also spreading their branches through out Asia. sometimes it's kinda disguised blessing when China rejected Google because of these censorship...

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semicolonp That really is good news! I hope this means our IT-related community will get the boost they need. It's kind of sad to see so many awesome Filipinos struggling just because there's really either no awareness or support for our IT industry. Do you have any...

23 Jan 13

paymentsurf.com turned scam

dipak @dipak777 (177) • India 15 Jan 13

paymentsurf.com the autosurfing site turned scam. guys i joined this site few weeks ago.so,within weeks reach 40 dollars cash-out threshold. but,when i click on cash out link, they said to make cash-out request first i need...

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semicolonp Paymentsurf promises $0.35 for 240 sites viewed in a day. On an automatic surfing site. You technically don't even need to watch the sites you surf to earn hits so you're earning money for... having an internet connection and an account with them. The setup...

16 Jan 13

Pizza Hut houses the obese!

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27560) • Philippines 24 Nov 12

I waited for my daughter at Pizza Hut two nights in a row. As the parlor is filled with diners, I must, of course, order a little pizza and pasta, else the manager question my occupying a table when there's a long queue waiting to...

food

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semicolonp Uhm. It's Fast Food. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's being sold there. Fast food companies are business companies. Their MAIN objective is to sell products in order to profit. If the consumer continues to pay them for their products and services,...

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POEA very Strict Nowaday

HULYO @julyteen (13252) • Davao, Philippines 5 Sep 12

I don't know why the processing of POEA to all OFW changes lately. Before, when I went to Saudi Arabia. We are not required for Red Ribbon in our NBI clearance but not they need all NBI clearances should be authenticated to...

drama

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semicolonp I know it's most likely a burden to people who have to go through all the steps, but I'd just like to point out that authenticated NBI clearances ensure that someone isn't operating under false and fraudulent names and might lessen criminal activities that...

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Senator Sotto and Plagiarism

sophiaraine @sophiaraine (1113) • Philippines 5 Sep 12

It was all over the news and internet a couple of weeks ago or so. Senator Sotto had allegedly copied from a blog as part of his speech. In my point of view, Anyone can use any article, in this case, a blog article as part of...

plagiarism

senator sotto

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semicolonp Haha! I know he's getting the heat for these things, but I'm actually having fun imagining a bored and lazy researcher cruising the internet for potentially effective speeches. I don't know him well enough but he seems the type to rely on a different speech...

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what should i do? Break - up or Cool off?

delfajumamil @delfajumamil (62) • Philippines 5 Sep 12

Last Aug.29, 2012 my boyfriend and i celebrating our 33rd monthsary.. i am so happy that day eventhough were LDR ( Long Distance Relationship) i appreciated all of those..in our relationship we had no problem since in the...

saddest moment

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semicolonp That really is a hard decision to make. Since I don't know your boyfriend, I can't really gauge what kind of person he is but from my experience, people who fell into the cheating temptation is likely to fall into it again, especially with your circumstance,...

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Have you ever returned a gift/Did you ever think of sending it back ? xxx

Jane @jaiho2009 (39141) • Philippines 5 Sep 12

For whatever reason have you ever returned a gift? Or have you ever think of sending it back? Say,you have misunderstanding with the giver and a particular gift becomes an issue. Although the giver is not asking for it but...

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semicolonp The only time I've ever given back a gift was during a misunderstanding on who the receiver was. By which I mean, it was given to me when it was supposed to be for my cousin, haha! In terms of a falling out, a fight or a misunderstanding between people...

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What will you do if you know that your lover don't love you?

dreamsharmin @dreamsharmin (2281) • China 18 Feb 11

I know we all will get hurt then. But what kind of decision you will take. You love your partner very much but she/he doesn't love you. That you can see very clearly but your partner don't confess it because of some reason then...

confess

lover

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semicolonp I would most probably ask to have a clean break off at that point no matter how much it'll hurt. If it's come to the point where I can clearly see their emotions, then that means the relationship has spanned enough time for me to read my partner's...

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Do you read others' opinions when you participate in discussion in mylot?

smallsaozhou @smallsaozhou (827) • China 23 Jul 10

I am just curious about that.For me,I always read others' opinions as well when I write down my answers. Replies from other mylotters sometimes really give some extra and unexpected inspiration.Do you guys do the same like me? I...

mylot inspiration

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semicolonp I do, I do. It's a problem I'm trying to curb because I tend to be too much on the "reading discussions on mylot" spectrum that I often spend too many hours just reading discussions and not participating or posting my thoughts at all... which is bad...

23 Jul 10

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Groupism On Mylot ???

K.Rajib G. @krajibg (11922) • Guwahati, India 21 Jul 10

Groupism on mylot? Yes, just the other day one of my friends told me that if I were on mylot I should be careful of this. On query he told me that people over here are divided as American group, Canadian group, Philippine group,...

groupism and mylot

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semicolonp Well... I'm not all that attentive about stuff, so it COULD have happened and I just missed it because I don't enough attention, but more than "being in a group", I think it's more just that demographies matter in a certain sense. Like you and others have...

23 Jul 10

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Shojo recommendation?

olisaur @olisaur (1922) • United States 23 Jul 10

I was a huge anime fan throughout my pre-teenhood, but I've kind of drifted from it in the past couple of years. I think I feel like getting geeky and startiing watching a new series, but since I've been out of the anime loop for...

anime

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semicolonp I, unfortunately, haven't been up-to-date with the anime line up lately because of RL responsibilities so I haven't been able to watch this year's Spring lineup, nor last year's Winter lineup. I do try to follow (when I can) Ookiku Furikabutte but...

23 Jul 10

My Neobux turns me Off

dweebs_8000_j @dweebs_8000_j (885) • Philippines 23 Jul 10

My Neobux turns me Off..... How about you my fellow MyLooooters..... anyway, May God Bless Us All, Always.......... and More Power to all of Us.........

my neobux turns me off

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semicolonp Any particular reason why? There have already been a lot of discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of Neobux before, but why does it specifically turn YOU off? Can you elaborate on that maybe?

23 Jul 10

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Black Couple Reveal White Child??!!

advokatku @advokatku (4033) • Indonesia 20 Jul 10

I'm not sure and can't believe with this news, reported in the UK there is a husband-wife pair of black leather get their biological baby who was white-skinned, blue-eyed and blond?? This is extraordinary and more...

baby

black

couple

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semicolonp Well, uhm, I suck at genetics so I have no idea what I'm talking about, really. But when you brought this up, I wondered: if both parents had recessive genes from Caucasian family members up their family tree, can't that appear in their children? I mean,...

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Why some people don't like kids?

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 20 Jul 10

I just don't understand some people, why they don't like kids. A friend of mine especially, he told me that he doesn't kids around. They are jumpy, noisy, and he couldn't get a moment of quiet. I defend them, because they are...

children

friend

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semicolonp It boils down to preference, I think. There is nothing in the world that is universally liked, no matter how big a percentage the majority might be in the LIKED camp. Someone out there will always dislike something that someone else likes and children aren't...

20 Jul 10

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Do you like your name???

ANIME123 @ANIME123 (2466) • United States 20 Jul 10

Honestly do you really like your name or would you have rather be named something else. I would actually would have liked to be named something else something that everyone could pronounce you know. Well I could always change...

like your name born hate love parents

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semicolonp Yup! My mother is one of those people who believe names are somewhat prophetic - that is, that the names we hold somehow mirror a very prominent facet of our characters - and so when she gave birth to her children, she made sure to pick names that denote very...

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