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NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof offers ’15 tips for traveling to even the roughest of countries.’
Here’s number 10. ‘Don’t wear a nice watch, for that suggests a fat wallet and also makes a target. I learned that lesson on my first trip to the Philippines: a robber with a machete had just encountered a Japanese businessman with a Rolex — who now, alas, has only one hand.’
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June 1st, 2009 at 15:04
Like this doesn’t happen. One Ateneo student was shot in the head when she refused to give up her laptop in a jeep robbery. Recently, I almost got shot when armed men robbed me of my camera in an FX.
June 1st, 2009 at 23:06
Funny. The last time I heard a version of the machete story, it happened in Indonesia.
June 2nd, 2009 at 02:31
Hey-hey, new Pinoy reference alert. A new episode of ‘The Simpsons’ features Krusty the Clown, suggesting a ‘repackaging’ of faulty home pregnancy tests and ‘selling them to the Philippines’ as coffee stirrers. We’re on a roll.