Back in April of 2009, I wrote about how I crashed my Toyota Corolla Altis. Nine months later, I've finally had the auto body damage repaired. It was far less expensive than I expected and even less than it would normally cost to do the job locally.

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I won't question the allegation that SM City Pampanga is the longest shopping mall in the Philippines. I've walked among the many wings of the complex and I can sincerely say that it dwarfs many of the shopping malls I've been in – all around the globe. In fact, I spent two hours there just a couple of days ago.

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Yesterday was the last day I could renew my vehicle registration without being penalized. I renewed it at the last minute, so to speak, along with my liability insurance. I almost forgot about it, and I would have, had my wife not called and reminded me to get it taken care of.

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Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed. One day I suffered a mishap with my 2006 Toyota Corolla Altis and the next day, my narra wood bed collapsed.

Other things also happened, that I won't mention, to turn the last few days into a string of bad luck that I won't soon forget.

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When desktop, laptop (or notebook) computers generate errors, they can freeze up, crash, or whatever. When the computers in cars, trucks, and other vehicles generate errors, things can get extremely ugly really, really fast.

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I and my wife own (lock, stock and barrel) our 2006 Toyota Corolla Altis.

After I and my wife arrived in the Philippines in April of 2006, we relied on the local transportation to get around. We knew, however, that we'd need our own transportation eventually to effectively go where the jeepneys and trikes couldn't, or where it would be an extreme hassle NOT to use our own.

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