Passenger Tales

One of the biggest questions teenagers face is how to get rid of acne. I am lucky that although I had pimples they were not acne. Until now I still occasionally have pimples especially when I have too many late nights in a row. What I wanted to be rid of were the […]

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I saw the news about the C130 airplane that crashed in the Davao Gulf the other day. I was saddened by the news because it is another air tragedy that haunts the Philippine Air Force. There is a general feeling that the Air Force men do not die in combat but through equipment […]

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This month we moved to our new building. It is not yet finished with the fourth floor still under construction. We had a lot of misgivings about making the move at this time because the infrastructure is not yet complete. There are no phone lines and no Internet connection, which are very important […]

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Before the September 11 tragedy, I did not know that there was such a thing as travel insurance. Then just after the tragedy, travel became a bit more costly because not only did insurance become mandatory but also expensive. I was glad that after a while, travel insurance became voluntary, especially when traveling […]

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I was reading Oceans of Fire by Christina Feehan in the jeepney earlier this afternoon while waiting for the jeepney to be filled up. It was a hot day and there were no conversations inside while the bored passengers waited. The silence was broken by a very unexpected sound, the squawking and flapping of […]

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A few years ago, one of my former officemates invited me to attend a networking seminar. I am not fond of attending such seminars because I am not good at marketing or sales so I just find it a waste of time. However, since she was very insistent and so positive about it, […]

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My friend Judc is trying her hand at sales. She has a friend who is selling KIA cars and for every successful referral she will get a commission. She does not let the fact that they are both in different countries get in the way of doing business. That is the beauty […]

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Yesterday in the jeepney, the girl in front of me tore open the candy wrapper. She threw the small piece of the wrapper out the window then after eating the candy, threw the rest of the wrapper out also. Since the jeepney was moving fast, the girl beside her caught the wrapper. She […]

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We were in the Business Center of Sejon Hotel in Korea, working on our reflection for the day. when I overheard an American couple say to the hotel staff, “Where can I go (site) where there are normal letters (alphabets as opposed to Korean script)?” Good thing the staff did not say, “But these […]

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I remember back in high school I was fond of watching this local sitcom “Abangan ang Susunod na Kabanata”, a satire about Philippine society. One of the memorable characters, played by Nova Villa, was a social climbing middle-class housewife. All her furniture was wrapped in plastic cover to preserve them. If she […]

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