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	<title><![CDATA[Ex-Offenders, My Opinion, And The Process Of Accepting]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[written by mohdazhar. __________ Easier said than done. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to the topic of accepting ex-offenders back into the society. Personally, I …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:01:05 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Facebook and The End Of Privacy]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[written by mohdazhar. ______ Even free has its price. Ironic it may seem but this is the reality of today&#8217;s info-centric society. We have lost almost all of our coyness, and replaced it with a newfound openness online. This habit slowly turns us into social media addicts. We get too comfortable with telling our Facebook ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:03:18 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Pampers: A Short Story]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Daim sat on the brown couch, his hands freed, legs crossed and eyes still. A half-burnt cigarette squatted in a bowl beside him, the rest of it already amidst the evening breeze. In front, Daim&#8217;s father fidgeted incessantly. He shifted to his right, then left, then right again, as if undecided of his final sleeping ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:40:57 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Singapore Lions A Bore To Watch]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[knock knock. who&#8217;s there? singapore. singapore who? singapore lio - *slams door* _____________ I regret watching the LIVE telecast of the Singapore &#8211; Myanmar match yesterday evening. I am sure I wasted about two hours of my life. Our Lions were toothless, lethargic and unbelievably static. In other words, BORING. (For the record, they had ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:49:53 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Proud Of My Baba]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[funny it is. when you can talk so highly of her. when you can go out so often with her. when you can hold so tightly the petite hands of her. but not him. -your very own father. ______ Every morning without fail, my 55-year-old Baba (father) will dispatch me to work with his motorbike. ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:19 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Being A Good Listener]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Bullets spinning. Heart beating. Tears flowing. Mouths screaming. - crickets singing. _______ A good listener works in two ways. First, you acknowledge the complaints with full empathy. Second, you dispense sound advice as a closure. Mastering both techniques assists you in achieving your ultimate goal &#8211; helping a friend in need. The first four lines ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:48:20 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Sleeping Boy And His Mum]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The mum fights back. Her neck dragged downwards. Curving her spine afterwards. - the boy in his own world. ___ I was on my way back home in the train. Sitting across me was a little boy sleeping, his head resting on his mum&#8217;s left thigh. Judging from the plastic bags placed in front of ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:24:57 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Street Gangs, Choppers And Knives]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[I have been following  the recent developments about the rise of street gang activities in Singapore. It all started with the widely-reported murder of Darren Ng, 19, at Downtown East late …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:38:15 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Wind And The Tree]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The tree stood still. As lonely as a dead body. Only the ants, the soil, the birds. To keep it company.  And then a gush of wind flew by. Head on from the east. The branches bent, th …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:07:42 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Respect The LOWS Of Society]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>sir_mohd_azhar</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[don&#8217;t hit the fly - he prays with his hands and with his feet* _____  Being compassionate to the people of lower status than us is difficult. There is no way we can completely understand how they feel about their adversities. There is no chance that we are in their shoes at the same ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:22:43 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Dol’s First Date (Prologue)]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a boy undergoing puberty, Dol is learning to live with the rapid changes of his body. His first mission is to date the girl of his dreams. This short novel, packed with shoals of teenage sarcasm and stereotype, follows Dol before, during and after his first date.&#8221; ___ Written by azhar. I hate mirrors. ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:33:19 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Death Of Privacy]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Walls no longer only have ears; they have eyes too. Whatever you do are probably recorded secretly by insidious hands. The compromising videos are then shared online. They may turn viral, forming a gathering humiliation around you. What is worse is that you can do nothing afterward. This was the exact scenario which preceded the ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:20:02 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[MY THOUGHTS On MM Lee’s Eulogy To His Wife]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, let me be frank with you &#8211; I never knew about the contributions of the late Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. In fact, I could not even recall the last time I noticed her presence, b …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:31:02 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Hospital Poem]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[written by mohdazhar.   Disclaimer: The poem below is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to it is truly unintentional and coincidental. The classic scenario. And yes, we hate to give in.  …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:18:51 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Following The Crowd? Don’t.]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Think back about the time when you were busy choosing the courses for your tertiary studies. Reminisce h ow your parents would advise you to make the decision based on your interests, and …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:32:52 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Behind The Burning Of Quran]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Attention, attention, attention. That is what religious fanatic and bigot, Terry Jones from the Dove World Outreach Center, seeks when he proposed a plan to burn copies of the holy book of …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:55:36 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[2 Ways To Handle Difficult Patients]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[1. Ignore him. Don&#8217;t utter a word or a letter. 2. The easy way: get to know him better.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:11:20 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Sweet And Sour Fish]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>sir_mohd_azhar</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Whenever a plate of sweet and sour fish is laid out on my dining table, I can&#8217;t help but joke that the creator couldn&#8217;t make up her mind whether to make it sweet or sour. And s …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:07:05 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Ramadan: First Step To Becoming A Better Person]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>sir_mohd_azhar</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[To become a totally different person this Ramadan is an ambitious, if not unrealistic, idea. Although some may argue that it is possible, lets face the fact: one month is an inadequate tim …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:42:14 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Does Your Girlfriend CONTROL You?]]></title>
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	<dc:creator>sir_mohd_azhar</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[You wake up one morning, check your phone inbox and find a message from a close friend. It is an invitation to a party in the evening. You inform your girlfriend about it, expecting a &#82 …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:12:17 +0800</pubDate>
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