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Various famous people have given their definition of an enquiring mind — from Confucious to Bruce Lee. I think a sense of curiosity is a prerequisite for a journalist.

Some readers and listeners wanted to know more about my travels to England and Scotland after my last column, and after Patty Arroyo and I briefly discussing the trip on her morning show on The Wave 105.1 FM, before we tackled other topics for Business Bites, as the segment is called.

What would make you surrender your mobile phone? How about a free bottle of wine with your meal in a restaurant?

Tourist visitors are sensitive to what they perceive as gratuitous price hikes.

I appear to have hit a nerve with the column item on the Dropdown that didn’t feature Guam in the April issue of the Journal, until I politely complained.

We live in a world where you are often asked to verify that you are in fact who you say you are.

One thing my fellow countrymen of the British Empire were very good at was introducing and perpetuating a bureaucracy.

If you are a single person living alone, there may be one advantage — there’s nobody to argue with if you leave the lights on in a room.