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		<title>Exhalations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a small window on the lower right of the screen gives me the treasured opportunity to peer into his world, to see strange cushions of hot vapour billowing out into the snowy air, as he bangs and clangs around the kitchen, always narrowly missing the coffee pot. from so far away, it is magical to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pemohonan yang Sedang Diproses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there are big portions of my life in which i forget that i am no longer 18. in these days, weeks, and sometimes months, i believe it is okay for me to fall unconditionally into deep thought and nostalgia, oblivious to the world and completely in harmony with my hopes, goals and state of being. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hair Like Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[when i was in standard one, my grandmother showed up outside my classroom at school, a little nervous and jittery, and asked to speak to me. it was a strange obtrusion, but i was quite pleased to see her nevertheless, so i hopped out of my seat very quickly and scurried to the door in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunset during Seminar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as i was sitting in seminar the other day, the sun was setting and slicing through the blinds, throwing onto the ground right at my feet a slender blade of golden evening sunlight. it was a simple and small sight that took my breath away, and it is such moments that hold before me, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirited Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[has it already been two months? two months since waking up in hong kong and realizing i was going to be late to the party, and after a flurry of champagne flutes, stumbling drunk out of the club onto hollywood road to find myself face to face with a shade of myself, still lingering shyly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost and Found</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2011/06/lost-and-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i just got home from a nice night out with two former colleagues at everyone&#8217;s favourite blog advertising network, and last night i had dinner with kim and gareth where kim cooked up a delicious storm of roast chicken, layered potatoes and meringue cookies. it&#8217;s always nice to reconnect with the blogosphere even if in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom For Secret Smiles</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2010/08/freedom-for-secret-smiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[for joe there&#8217;s something quite despicable about built-in furniture and the permanence they impose onto our beings, that tie us to them like gnarled roots do to soil, or viscous soil do to roots. there is an eyesore of a wardrobe attached like a fetus to the corners of my bedroom, and protest as i [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honesty</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2010/06/honesty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my undying cynicism of people&#8217;s intentions will one day be the death of me. it is a sort of cautious suspicion that appears to be rather useful artillery in this dog-eat-dog world that spins on an axis of the survival of the fittest&#8230; but as my own history will tell me &#8212; and i&#8217;m sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensory</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2010/04/sensory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it sometimes strikes me in a flash of blind panic, when i look up and everyone is unrecognizable, that time is running out and my vacation is likely to end. as these things don&#8217;t usually last more than a week or ten days, i must then absorb as much as i can from this new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When The Real Festivities Begin</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2010/02/when-the-real-festivities-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quaintly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s been a weekend of tiered festivities, what with chinese new year and valentines&#8217; day falling on the same day this year. Flushing, New York was redder and more boisterous than usual this weekend, with stalls of roses lining the streets and calls of 新年快乐! being jostled back and forth amongst the exuberant crowd. some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2009/12/snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Jumped Into Cold Water</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2009/11/i-jumped-into-cold-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radin&#8217;s show at Webster Hall. i went with some friends from school, but i left them because i&#8217;d found what i thought was the best seat in the house&#8211; some tall speakers right next to the stage, atop which i hastily clambered and found myself at eye-level with the man himself. i was thrilled at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rice-stealing Mouse</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2009/11/the-rice-stealing-mouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quaintly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[while walking through campus today, i saw a little kid pummeling down the walkway on his plastic tricycle, tilted forward like a colorful torpedo!, as his dad strolled alongside. i wanted to quickly bend and take a picture, yet it felt disrespectful of the moment, so i just walked and watched. when we all shored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brink</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2009/09/brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[red welts of semi-consciousness fleck my skin like gecko blinks, and i am bleakly wondering if i tripped or if i was dragged by the scruff of my contentment out of the shadow puppet cave, up the rabbit hole, past the second star to the right, and thrown here &#8212; here, corporeal, amidst these shiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Distance Relationships</title>
		<link>http://quaintly.net/2009/06/long-distance-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the mechanical whirring on the other side sounds like the incessant firing of a machine gun. a million imaginary bullets later, i have finally realized that the tugging sense of deja vu is nostalgic of the afterschool sounds of Counterstrike in the dingy cybercafes of Pandan Perdana and Damansara Jaya. occasionally the whirring is punctuated [...]]]></description>
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