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	<title>Random Musings and Nicknacks</title>
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		<title>Distracting Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn&#8217;t do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a pretty good chance I am going to live a long life.  My genetics say so &#8211; my grandmother is 91 years old, and the hospital staff say she looks really good for her age.  My grandfather turned 93 a month ago, and in the last year had two major surgeries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wuxi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a nice, long sleep (and noticing that I woke up a bit later each morning &#8211; I was almost adapted to the timezone now &#8211; in bed by 9, up by 6.  Just in time to go home and become jetlagged once again), we repeated the regular morning routine of making coffee, getting on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Morning After</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it turns out I was awake to ring in the New Year after all.  At some point during the night the constant explosions achieved a crescendo that reached down into my dreams and dragged me awake.  It sounded to me like World War III had broken out &#8211; loud explosions, quiet explosions, machine gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a full house on New Year&#8217;s Eve &#8211; Ling and I, of course, Ling&#8217;s Mom and Lu Gang, Simon, Lu Yan, and Lu Yan&#8217;s husband Pei Ming.  Oh and Do-Do, Lu Yan and family&#8217;s toy poodle who took a strong dislike to me 2 years ago and seemed to have carried it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day of the Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is it &#8211; the day of the big night.  The Lunar New Year celebration in China, with the year of the snake coming in.  A time to eat, drink, and spend with family.  But that&#8217;s tonight.  Today it&#8217;s time for a newer tradition &#8211; frenzied consumerism that rivals Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the Great Migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started to compose this last night while sitting in a German bar in a hotel with a Russian name, in China while listening to a Fillipino girl band (live) singing Stayin&#8217; Alive while also watching a Michael Buble video on the TV.  So please excuse me if today&#8217;s article seems a bit weird [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concerning Shanghai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My impression of Shanghai is that it is a city unique from the rest of China. I understand that this is reflected in the Shanghainese attitude toward the rest of the country, and the country&#8217;s attitude toward them. 
Some if this is certainly due to its history &#8211; like Macau and Hong Kong it felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghai Day 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a completely unique experience today. Sitting in a restaurant, in China, we were unable to get rice. We ordered it, then reminded them to bring it. Then asked again, and again, and again &#8211; it took over an hour before they finally remembered to bring it. It was a nice restaurant, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghai &#8211; Day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the utility of having a native speaker with you, even when on English speaking tours &#8211; that&#8217;s something I learned today. We decided to take one of the hop on hop of tour buses around the city &#8211; actually it was a network of buses. The people working on the tour spent an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghai Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bit of a word about our morning routine. It feels odd to be sitting in a high end liquor store (which is the translation of the Chinese term for a hotel) boiling all water like we were on a campsite, but that&#8217;s the way it goes.  I was a little bit rusty, since last time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghai Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 3 AM local time as I write this. We came back to the hotel at 2 in the afternoon for a nap, which extended to 2 in the morning when we actually managed to wake up. That&#8217;s jet lag. 
First a word about our hotel &#8211; we are staying at the Radisson New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The flight to Shanghai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made it to Shanghai. 18 hours after we walked into YVR we sat down in our hotel room. 
This was not the most direct trip we&#8217;ve ever had, but it wasn&#8217;t bad. The plan had been to get up at 6AM, finish cleaning and have dad pick us up at 730 -he would drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reputation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Friday evening, and our anniversary.  I had just finished changing into my bike clothes, ready to get on the bike and head home from work, when Ling called.
She asked if I wanted to drive home with her, and I knew she heard the hesitation in my voice as I said yes &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I always the last to know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ling and I went to see the movie &#8220;Prometheus&#8221; when it was released (somewhere close to opening weekend).  I enjoyed the movie, but my most vivid memory was actually one of the previews &#8211; it was purported to be &#8220;five minutes from Ang Lee&#8217;s upcoming movie &#8216;Life of Pi&#8217;&#8221;.  I have a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise in our front garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are under the bushes in our front garden beside the driveway!!! I totally missed them until my husband pointed out to me.  I was really thrilled. I had been dreaming about taking photos of this type of mushrooms for a long time &#8211; Finally, finally the opportunity came&#8230; I snapped many pictures and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing the season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home, I&#8217;ve had a nice, hot, long shower, a nap, am wrapped up in my bathrobe and think I have finally defrosted enough to describe what I did today.
A friend texted me last night &#8211; he and his wife were planning to bike up Cypress mountain today, and wondered if I wanted to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Hortons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Happy Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a fitting picture for today&#8217;s theme but i post it anyway.

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		<title>Season of Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psalms 126: 5 &#8211; 6
5      May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!
6	He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

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