Lately, it's been Vietnam, a laudably reliable bastion of anti-religious sentiment or so I thought.
It started confounding me back when I was playing Red and Blue, waiting for Nintendo to inevitably (or so I thought) release a Pokemon game for their new 3D capable system.
It was a foolproof idea, or so I thought.
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But first I had a story to write -- or at least so I thought.
"At no time was I arrested or accused of anything, so I thought that was the end of it, " he said.
He burns where he has ridden to lunch, he fires the city in whose clubs he once gave toasts, oh yes, someone of the educated class, or so we thought, though I never was impressed!
I've never worked with a muse or thought, Oh, I am so inspired by her, because I'm not doing the collection for one woman.
"I never thought I'd see so much passion for sheets or Rubbermaid storage containers, " said Duncan Mac Naughton, the company's U.S. merchandising chief.
"I never thought I could make so much money fighting fake goods -- or that there are so many fakes out there, " says Wang, now 22.
"It was a little bit strange because a guy who comes to talk to you in a Tube station is always asking for something, so I thought he was looking for money or something like that, " he said.
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During my first show in Cairo, maybe four or five years ago, I remember one local comedian was so nervous because he thought he "might be arrested" by the government just for telling jokes.
No, I was never impressed, he was too spidery, too weak in his conversation, and badly composed in his dress, careless of his appearance, but for all that I thought quite civilized in having so little gift to dissemble or pretend what he did not feel.
When Shane Warne was out to a freakish catch from Geraint Jones, I must admit I thought it was going to be tough to survive another eight or so overs.
"I thought I was going to be a rock musician until I was 25 or so, " he says.
So capping or eliminating the exclusion from tax of health insurance benefits would be feasible sooner than I thought.
Twitter and Amex, I hope, have thought through the consequences and have limited the launch to a dozen or so big brands such as Best Buy, Virgin America, Sports Authority and Whole Foods.
Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.
For the next seven years of my military career, I let the army give me a new timepiece every couple of years or so and never gave watches much thought.
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