He was a new face in the neighborhood and intuition told me not to smile back. In fact, I brought a pepper spray for joggers every day to stay secure even though it was the third time that I chanced upon him along the jogging path.

I have been working in a dog pound for a couple of years now and I have seen all kinds of wild dogs. We have been trained to protect ourselves from different sorts of stray and lost dogs.

It was in the news recently that a nurse who was on her way home one night was gang-raped. It affected me somehow since I am a nursing graduate, too, although I am now working as a customer service executive.

I needed to find stun guns for women for my sister who has an unidentified stalker. When I discovered an internet store that vends women’s self defense equipment, I purchased the Hottie Stun Gun for her.

I was a witness to a crime and the victim’s family wanted me to testify in a court hearing. The accused instructed someone to call my home to stop me from testifying against him. Another one was sent to hand me a letter with the same intention. And someone personally came to see me with the same purpose.

I accompanied a field trip of my homeroom class and we visited many factories found in the nearby city. Since we encountered much traffic, we were not done until late afternoon.

Some three years ago, a friend and I became business partners. But when I read this year’s financial report, I learned that some of our funds were not properly liquidated. This deeply troubled me.