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<title>Ping.sg  - Latest Pings From idyll</title>
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	<title><![CDATA[casinopia]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/casinopia</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[writing this from SH&#8217;s home again. for some reason i have never stayed at jean&#8217;s place for more than a week straight since i arrived in korea. and i seem to be sleeping in a lot of different beds: the serviced apt with marianne&#8217;s parents, jean&#8217;s place, the horse farm, the three hotels in japan, ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 19:57:15 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[on love.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/on-love--2</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[there&#8217;s still so much i have to learn, but i think this pretty much says it all. excerpt taken from here. The other side of the coin is this: fall in love. I didn’t say &#8220;be lov …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:21:03 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[back in seoul]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[was in japan over the weekend and arrived back in seoul this afternoon. i&#8217;d met SH&#8217;s parents when they came to singapore a few months&#8217; back, and they invited me to visit them when i came to korea, so i called his mum after clearing customs and everything, thinking that i would arrange my other ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:54:22 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[wwoofing notes]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/wwoofing-notes</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[things i can remember from my stay at the horse farm: fell in love (with sarangie) cleared horse dung from the stables; horse dung is HEAVY met two really cool and inspiring wwoofers learned a bit on how to handle horses picked up a bit of horse-riding skills saw how horses get their horseshoes changed ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:03:33 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[bye sarangie]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[today is my last night here at the farm and i will be returning to seoul right after breakfast tomorrow. spent a good 45 minutes with my fave horse saying goodbye, and gave her lots of goodbye kisses. the unnie wwoofer kept teasing me, saying that i&#8217;ve fallen crazily in love with the horse. heh ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:08:03 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[wanderers]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/wanderers</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[i met some really cool people on this trip. both my fellow wwoofers are amazingly cool, especially the girl! she&#8217;s like my role model or something. she&#8217;s quit her job four times in the past and went on a 6-month trip each time, backpacked all over the continents, and done all sorts of amazing cool ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:17:36 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[blur]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/lvdwjtpz</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[they days are passing by in a blur. i&#8217;m a bit lazy to blog but i guess i do want to record down my experiences. 12 may. road trip with one of the sons of my host&#8217;s friend; drove around from 10-7 pm. went to gangneung, samcheok, taebaek mountain, jeongseon, and finally back to jinbu. ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:19:47 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[i rode a horse today!]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[wow today was AMAZING! i got to learn how to ride a horse today, and it wasn&#8217;t those kind of horseriding that tourists usually get. i actually learned how to control the horse, how to hold the reins, how to tense and relax my thigh muscles according to the rhythm of the horse. it was ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:24:36 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[fences]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[i noticed that the fences of some of the horse enclosures (?) were pretty low, and that the horses could actually very easily jump over it if they wished to. it&#8217;s like the horses never thought of it, but simply accepted it as something that they should not / could not pass. or maybe they ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:31:59 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[wwoofer]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/wwoofer</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[i had dinner with my host&#8217;s friends–a bunch of hearty, interesting and cool aunties (ajummas) and uncles (ajusshis)–last night and my host, who has done a bit of wwoofing himself dur …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 06:35:38 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[back in korea.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/back-in-korea-</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s been a few days since i&#8217;ve been back. this mixed sense of familiarity and strangeness hits me every time i return. it&#8217;s like nothing has changed, yet everything has. the roads are the same, the buildings are the same, but a lot of the shops are different. moved out, moved in, or closed down. ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 08:56:43 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[back in korea.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/back-in-korea--2</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s been a few days since i&#8217;ve been back. this mixed sense of familiarity and strangeness hits me every time i return. it&#8217;s like nothing has changed, yet everything has. the roads are the same, the buildings are the same, but a lot of the shops are different. moved out, moved in, or closed down. ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 08:56:43 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[D-16 and D-36]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/D-16-and-D-36</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Change of plans&#8230; again. i guess I won&#8217;t be wwoofing at the community school this year after all. i was looking through the host list and saw a newly added host, and i clicked on it. here&#8217;s what it said: *All-year around: Feeding to horse feedstuff, riding a horse, reparing a ranch institution thing.. Because ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:46:56 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[D-32]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/zruicamp</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s 32 days before i step in a plane once more, and 33 days before i finally step on korean soil again. this year i will finally get to do what i wanted to do last year but didn&#8217;t due to the lack of time, which is to wwoof in korea. which i think is ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:34:42 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[D-32]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/fldjvqxm</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s 32 days before i step in a plane once more, and 33 days before i finally step on korean soil again. this year i will finally get to do what i wanted to do last year but didn&#8217;t due to the lack of time, which is to wwoof in korea. which i think is ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:34:42 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[leading the way]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/leading-the-way</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[had a good 2 hour talk with my very first student from the tuition centre today. he&#8217;d just returned from a 2-week holiday in korea and apparently had been thinking about his future during those 2 weeks. so basically during those 2 hours, he spoke completely in korean while i answered in a mixture of ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:46:40 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[office politics]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/office-politics-3</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[is there no way to avoid office politics at all? i&#8217;d thought that by getting away from the corporate world and moving into freelancing, i can avoid all the office politics that comes with the corporate world. unfortunately not, it seems. all i want to do is do my work and get paid, and live ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:42:12 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[matters of the heart]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/matters-of-the-heart</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[how does one discern friendship and companionship from romantic interest? how can you know for sure if you think of the other party as &#8220;just a friend&#8221; or if there is &#8220;something more&#8221;? i have a lot of close female friends whom i enjoy spending time with, and having good conversations with. i miss them ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:05:21 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[have you ever got drunk?]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/have-you-ever-got-drunk-</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[met up with someone yesterday, who had a favour to ask of me, and got very turned off by the things she said and her attitude. as a materialistic person, she chases branded goods and the high life. in her younger days, i guess you could say she was a party animal. so we were ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:36:51 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[have you ever got drunk?]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/have-you-ever-got-drunk--2</link>
	<dc:creator>idyll</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[met up with someone yesterday, who had a favour to ask of me, and got very turned off by the things she said and her attitude. as a materialistic person, she chases branded goods and the high life. in her younger days, i guess you could say she was a party animal. so we were ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:36:51 +0800</pubDate>
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