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There is something very haunted in the bowels of Pasay City.

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Wee, sleekit, cow’ring, tim’rous beastie, O what a panic’s in thy breastie! This stanza from Burns, truly idiotic considering the situation I was in, kept swirling in my head as I paced about the hotel courtyard at three in the morning.

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Chances are, you’ve overlooked Taiwan for its behemoth of a neighbor to the west, or for its similarly miniscule neighbor a little ways south.

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