From houseboy to resto owner

A CSW (commercial sex worker) who operates mainly by telephone calls her place a call center.

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This news here says two young lovers figured in an accident when their motorcycle fell into a deep ravine. That’s what they call falling in love?

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Time and time again Rep. Tom O says he’s not meddling in the BOPK affairs relative to the ABC elections. He’s not meddling, okay. He says so and that’s it.

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A humor writer calls Jesus Christ a workaholic. Why? After dying, He woke up on the third day to continue His work.

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Someone also called Jesus a Filipino. He says the name Jesus is Pinoy. And Jesus’ mother is Maria, also Pinoy. So also with His father, Jose.

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A woman taking part in a TV show was asked what she’ll do in 20 seconds with more than P700 million if she won it in lotto. She said stammering: “Eh, ano, bibili ang mga Levi’s jeans, tsaka .. tsaka ... ano pa ba.” Her time was up.

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She proved two things: It’s not easy to win P700 million in lotto. It’s not easy either to spend P700 M in 20 seconds.

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By the way ... Nato “Boy” Sanchez of Mandaue called up to ask: “Sir Jabat, unsa may sinultian sa Gensan?” I said: “Cebuano with a spinkling of mga mosulti og Ilonggo.” Boy wondered: “pero, di man lagi kamao mo Cebuano si Pacman. Tinagalog man lagi ang iyang sinulti-an bisan tua siya sa GenSan.”

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Rusty Abella left Cebu for the US when he was 17 years old as a houseboy of an American educator. He is now in his 60s and owns a drive-in resto in Oklahoma and a used car mart.

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Speaking in still fluent Cebuano, Rusty said to my personal reporter in Okla: “Daghan sad ko naagiang mga kapait sa kinabuhi.” He said he had been jailed on suspicion that he was a member of the notorious Latino gang in California, where he said he went to look for a job.

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Rusty (Rustico is his real name) has never returned to the Philippines since he left but he keeps himself abreast of the happenings at home, especially Cebu, through the Internet. He is married to a Mexican woman with whom he has two grownup children.

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Rusty’s success story has caught the interest of a Mexican journalist who intends to write a book about him.

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