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	<title><![CDATA[China Rising]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[So Changi Airport has slipped a couple of notches. So what? We got Changi Airport Millionaire Game! You got or not? But seriously though, Shanghai Airport in our books is doing pretty well because when we got to immigration, an officer lifted a barricade for us and let us through without having to ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 23:11:00 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[When You Wake Up From The Singapore Dream]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[A month ago I was asked by this client if I wanted to be involved with a campaign for a retirement financial product. I was reluctant, until they told me of the story of Mr Leong, a former …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 09:52:08 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Your First Real Automobile]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t already read my friends’ accounts of their firsts, here are the links:  Melody Chen tells of her first bungy jump. It would already have been memorable before even consideri …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:29:46 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[You Never Forget Your First]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[The thing about being first time parents that always tugs at the heartstrings is the number of firsts you experience in a short span of time. I remember vividly the first time I mistook an …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 09:00:39 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Miss World Pans Asians By Favouring Pan-Asians]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Miss World Singapore, the pageant that gave Singapore the Boomzbalicious Ris Low in 2009, is looking for contestants who are “pan-Asian looking” for their 2012 event in the hope they’ll do …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:41:59 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Ways To The Heart]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Kai is making it very difficult for me to leave his room when I tuck him in to bed:  Me: Do you want to hug your pillow Kai?  Kai: Are you a pillow Papa?  Me: No. Why?  Kai: Cos I want to hug you, Papa!]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:42:42 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Shark Trivia That’s Not Trivial]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Naomi and I have not consumed shark fin for several years now (and it goes without saying that Kai doesn’t either), and we’re still trying to convince some older members of our families to …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:48:53 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Internet Is Cool]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Friday’s clear blue skies took me out of the office and onto the streets (for a nasi lemak and a beer). I took quite a few deep breaths and quite a few photos, some of which I posted on In …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:09:34 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Sick Of The Flu]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[There has to be several strains of flu going around, and there has to be an epidemic with one or all of them. I cannot possibly be sick for so many weeks — getting better then getting sick …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:00:37 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[When Quando Fails No Matter How Many Times You Say It]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I was inspired by this video I saw on FB the other day about nursing home patients who reacted very positively to music from their era and decided to try it out on my father who is convalescing in hospital.  The trouble with doing that was that my father was never known to like music ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:56:43 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Papa made up this song]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I felt strangely proud this morning when I drove Kai to preschool. The car stereo had yesterday switched to The Hossan Leong Show CD (in the CD changer since 2009). When I started the car after strapping him into his kiddie seat, this song started playing, and Kai was mesmerized, and when it ended, asked ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:44:46 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Easter bunnies]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Naomi made the most ingenious plans ever hatched in trying to keep two active but sick with flu kids (one 3 year old and one 4 year old) entertained throughout the Easter weekend.  Because …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:55:10 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[These three words]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[So our son wakes me up at 3am last night, asking to do potty. Not only that, he asks to be carried to the bathroom because “I don’t want to walk, you have to carry me, Papa”.  Then, while …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:34:37 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The day we lost half an hour]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[My first entry into the Singapore Memory site:  The year we followed West Malaysia into GMT +8:00 was the year I started secondary school.  We had until then been happily existing at GMT +7:30 when the government of Malaysia suddenly decided it would be a really good idea if both West and East Malaysia ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:14:22 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The bicycle kick that could]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I was asking mrbrown yesterday why a bicycle kick in football is called a bicycle kick. It doesn’t resemble a bicycle, and when the kicker executes it, even if correctly, it doesn’t look l …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:58:30 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[From the White Horse’s mouth]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I was enlisted in December 1988, just as the Army was changing their combat helmets from heavy steel to high tech Dupont Kevlar, and apart from my dog tags that said I was allergic to peni …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:43:30 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Who scared who?]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[That used to be the catch cry among some of my mates at uni. You could call it the Singlish version of “Who Dares Wins”, only it meant daring each other to do really stupid things, like go …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:56:38 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Best is in Days of Yore]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended the 126th ACS Founder’s Day Dinner and had fun catching up with my classmates (Class of ’85), discovered that Gerald Giam is an ACS boy (Class of ’93), as is Lam Pin …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:16:58 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Love is]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Love-is-2</link>
	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[We triple dated this Valentine’s night — Naomi and I, our friends Laurel & Sylvain, Kai and their daughter Alaia.  If you’d asked any of the adults if we’d have imagined ourselves spen …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Walking back from lunch]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Walking-back-from-lunch</link>
	<dc:creator>miyagi</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[There’s a rich seam of heritage around my office that I sometimes overlook and under appreciate:                                                                                           …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:50:03 +0800</pubDate>
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