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OVERSEAS. Her husband works overseas and hopes to join him soon but from the looks of it, it will take months before she can put her traveling papers in order.

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Usually, when I arrive at an event a little too early, I would go to a coffee shop, I would get a cup of coffee, review my lessons and prepare for the training engagement.

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Toto was a totally normal boy, and was paddling in the sea one day when a sea urchin stung him.

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POPULAR? A lawyer was driving early dawn one Saturday when the car he was following slowed down in front of a hotel. As he waited for the car to get going, he saw sexy looking women sprint toward the car and engage the driver in conversation.

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A pawnshop here lost about P300,000 in cash, a laptop and assorted jewelry to four men who booked three rooms in an inn last Dec. 28 and from there bored a hole to an adjoining clothing store and then to the establishment.

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It isn’t even a week since the deadly shootings inside a courtroom in Cebu City, where the gunman, Canadian John Pope was able to bring in several handguns even with the presence of “security guards”, now we have a robbery on a jewelry store inside a mall that has several entry points, all with “security guards”!

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On the phone, Jonathan Ames talks… very… slowly. He answers questions with great deliberation, as you’d expect someone who specializes in crafting words to do.

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Maybe because I went back to work, I began reading business books again. There I was fiddling through The 4-Hour Workweek, written by Timothy Ferriss, not sure if I liked it or not, until I hit a chapter about work being also a source of happiness.

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Usually, when I arrive at an event a little too early, I would go to a coffee shop, I would get a cup of coffee, review my lessons and prepare for the training engagement.

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Toto was a totally normal boy, and was paddling in the sea one day when a sea urchin stung him.

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A pawnshop here lost about P300,000 in cash, a laptop and assorted jewelry to four men who booked three rooms in an inn last Dec. 28 and from there bored a hole to an adjoining clothing store and then to the establishment.

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On the phone, Jonathan Ames talks… very… slowly. He answers questions with great deliberation, as you’d expect someone who specializes in crafting words to do.

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Maybe because I went back to work, I began reading business books again. There I was fiddling through The 4-Hour Workweek, written by Timothy Ferriss, not sure if I liked it or not, until I hit a chapter about work being also a source of happiness.

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