What is the biggest diasppointment to you lately?

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@youless (112100)
Guangzhou, China
November 16, 2007 12:26am CST
Lately it seems that our May holiday (Labour Holiday) will be shortened to one day. In the past we would have 7 days holiday. Now it will become to one day. Actually we are planning to visit my husband's family next year in this festival. Now perhaps we have to find another time but it is not easy... May is a good season for travelling and I hope to have longer vacation to relax even if I don't want to go anywhere. Now I am so disappointed and I hope this new rule won't be released.
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@julianarw (1521)
• Netherlands
16 Nov 07
My biggest disappointment to me lately that it is very difficult to find a job for me. Why? Because i just live in here for 3 years and my Dutch not good enough to work at the office again. At my own country, i worked as supervisor finance accounting dept. And in here?? I am full time mother ^_^;; I try to find a job but i don't want 5 days a week work. It is difficult for me to let other people babysit my son (15 months). So if want to work, i want part time maybe 2-3 times a week. Still difficult to find.... I hope next year is better....^_^;;
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
Your baby is still very little. It is good that you spend more time with him:) Your English is very good, perhaps you can also find the job easily.
@julianarw (1521)
• Netherlands
17 Nov 07
Thanks...i hope so.
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• Canada
17 Nov 07
Wow thats a big challenge. You seem to be doing it well. have you ever thought of doing daycare in your own home? My mom did that for a while before going back to work. this enabled her to look after us and make a bit of money.
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@spoiled311 (5500)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
well lemme see...i actually didn't dwell in the frustration part, but if there's one thing that i was expecting and wanted so bad, it is to have a baby. we have been trying to conceive these past months and last month i underwent medication. still no conception and period. it's november now. still no sign of anything. but we are waiting upon the Lord and He renews our strength each day. so i don't feel bad. i trust in His perfect timing. :-)
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• Canada
17 Nov 07
I know it's hard hun, but always have hope, don't give up! I was told for ten years that I couldn't have kids. In June of 2006 I gave birth to a happy, beautiful, healthy baby girl! Miracles happen every day! Just hang in there!
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
I hope soon you will have a cute and healthy baby:)
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
19 Nov 07
Hi youless, I understand that it was really a great disappointment that your well planned schedule was interrupted by the amended new public holiday rule. Hope that you still could find other days to visit your husband’s family. Yesterday night when I came back from my five days vacation I found that nearly half of my lovely vegetables at the backyard had been eaten by the nasty snails. I felt rather disappointed as my effort of planting them was wasted. I was still lucky that not all of the vegetables were gone.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
19 Nov 07
You really know how to joke! I couldn’t help laughing after reading your comment about eating the snail. Thanks for amusing me, my dear friend. But sorry I am not French and I won’t eat garden snails. Even they had eaten my plants I still didn’t kill them but threw them far away to another place.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 07
I am sorry to hear that. In French they eat snails, so if snails eat your lovely vegetables, then it's your turn to eat them:)
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@hillock (749)
• Qatar
20 Nov 07
i didnt know that snails eat veggies.. my worst enemy last winter is caterpillars! They did eat my veggies and its not nice to give out to your friends when they have lots of holes! jeez! ^-^
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• United States
16 Nov 07
Down to one day from 7?Bummer.they just cut it and they never told you why? I would be livid.I am so sorry.My biggest disappointment is that I can't see any hockey games that I would want to watch.Before the strike, there were games on ESPN and you could see many good games and it was free.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
Perhaps you can try to watch it via the net?
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• United States
17 Nov 07
D'oh.Who thinks of watching things on the net? Thanks.Watching things on my computer is so very new to me.
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@isaiah12 (416)
• United States
16 Nov 07
My biggest disappointment lately was my doctors appointment yesterday. I found out I have polyps, again! This makes three times now. It seems like lately every time I start getting back on track I have another health issue. Now I have to take care of this. I just want to be healthy and do what I want to do. Now with the holidays coming up I have tests to look forward to.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
It is not a serious problem, please don't worry about it. Have a great day, my dear friend.
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@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
17 Nov 07
The biggest disapointment is I founda really great job. The boss was nice, there were benefits. The pay was great. It was a good working environment but the one girl that worked with me was stress out and very rude to me so I had to leave the job.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
I still think you don't have to quit the job because of one bad colleague. I have realized that it is too hard to find an ideal job.
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• Canada
17 Nov 07
WEll if it was a big office or something I wouldn't have left my job but it was a one room office with 4 people working in it. Me, the rude girl, the rude girl's friend, and the boss. I didn't want to be in a negative environment since we all had to work so closely together.
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• India
17 Nov 07
Unemployed
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
I am sorry to hear that. I hope you will find a good job soon.
• Kuwait
17 Nov 07
Life has always something to cherries and to be disappointed but this kind of holidays pending, is this due to work demand or just for some adjustment for no reason?
@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 07
It is hard to explain why. You know not all officers are smart.
@meme0907 (3481)
• United States
18 Nov 07
Hey yl, Sorry to hear your vacation got cut short-make the most of the day you have maybe y'all could just relax at home & cook something on the grill +'s |:)
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 07
But with less vacations, it seems anything becomes to be less meaningless.
• India
16 Nov 07
We in India, have only one day as May holiday, and on what occasion will you get holidays in stretch like this, as for a week, in china. Take care.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
Thanks for your response.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
16 Nov 07
Hello youless. I hold the same opinion that the government is not supposed to cancel the long May holiday as this is the best time for those who work far away from their home to pay a visit to their family and friends. This is the only chance for them to do so. I feel so bad that the government wants to change the practice that I like. I don't care about having an extra holiday, but I care about the long and concentrated long May holiday. The government is stupid trying to change it against our will. Sighing. We could do nothing if they plan to.
@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
Totally agree with you. I am sighing too. I still have the hope this new policy won't come true. As there are some newspaper agencies bring up the against opinions.
@jiangli (363)
• China
17 Nov 07
The rocket team have loss three games! I feel so bad!
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
That's bad.
@hillock (749)
• Qatar
18 Nov 07
i was planning to go home for a while[just for a 1 month vacation!] but i couldnt anymore. it would cost me quite a big amount of money. and my sponsor is afraid i wont be going back here. im kinda disappointed to it cause i was really excited on it. maybe i could go home some other time!
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 07
So sad to hear that. I can understand it feels bad.
@Jasmine78 (135)
• United States
17 Nov 07
My present life. No many friends. Can not visit my parents. In a foreign country. Just for making money. Not happy.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
Perhaps you can try to contact them via the net. It is convenient and less expensive.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
16 Nov 07
reduction in the rate of payment at mylot, which drastically cut down our earnings.
@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
I absolutely agree with you.
@lucky_witch (2707)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
The biggest disappointment to me? hmmm.... a lot! There are certain things that I thought I would not do again or experience again, but it seems there are lots of bad decision that I make that lead to one disappointment to another. I guess that is how we live life and the important thing is we learn from every disappointments taht we have.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
It is good that you can think the positive way.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
Well, my biggest disappointment lately and probably the biggest in my entire life... is being told that the job i like or my dream job is coming to an end... after only 5 months... I started in August... and i declined other job offers that would pay more... but i chose this one because of the flexible hours and its nearness to my apartment... then just this week... the person who hired me told me that they are not going to push through with the project... I am so disappointed... but life goes on... so i need to move on...
@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
I am really sorry to hear that. I hope there will be better offer for you soon.
@I_LUV_U (2519)
• India
16 Nov 07
The latest disappointment, as i remember is the drop in my star rating. I've slipped down from 10 to 9. The only good news is, the reputation has'nt dropped more. It was 96 earlier and now I'm at 95. I'm sitting on the fence right now.:-)
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
Don't worry, I always rate people positive here. I hope it'll be helpful for you:)
@ayou82 (3450)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
the biggest is,cooperation from friends over a small project that really dissapoint me bigtime!
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Nov 07
I am sorry to hear that.
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
when my class schedules were changed and jumbled because of some encoding error in our registrar's office :-(
@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Nov 07
That's so bad.