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		<title>Masterchef Asia Ep 1 a disappointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After watching the various editions of Masterchef &#8212; UK, Australia, US, Canada &#8212; and enjoying them, I was really looking forward to Masterchef Asia. Episode 1 was however underwhelming. Where were the amazing flavours of Asia? The cook who was eliminated made confit chicken! What a wasted opportunity to show off her skills with Asian [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just Completed: Idaman Residence at Nusa Idaman, Nusajaya, Johor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three years after booking a unit at Nusa Idaman, we finally collected the keys. Apparently, we are among the first batch of owners to do so. We haven&#8217;t yet had the time to scrutinise everything, but we initially chose this project because it is a relatively low-density development. So &#8230; we are happy to see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A few thoughts on the US election</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks I&#8217;ve been following Clay Aiken&#8217;s campaign to gain a House seat in North Carolina. And along the way, I was intrigued by several issues. (1) Resistance to voter IDs. I get the concern that that&#8217;s a strategy to deny people access to their right to vote. But why can&#8217;t those who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>X-Factor 17 to 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the end, the judges made the right choices but did we really have to have all that manufactured drama on the way to those decisions? Choosing Dexter Haygood and then saddling him with that song and that presentation? He needed something more raw, gritty, that screams soul-deep pain &#8230; and he got vanilla. Kicking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>inSingapore: Oh the shame of it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I attended a free seminar series at Raffles City Convention Centre. It seemed like a great opportunity to find out about liver and colon health. And indeed all was fine &#8211; good speakers (specialists from local hospitals), comfortable venue &#8211; until &#8230; we broke for tea. The guests at the event, many of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>inSingapore: Shopping Trolley &#8220;Thieves&#8221;, or rather, &#8220;Borrowers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Now, I&#8217;ve heard of shopping trolleys being taken home by shoppers, leading to supermarkets having to send their staff to surrounding blocks to look for stray trolleys, and I&#8217;d seen these abandoned trolleys just left around the housing blocks. And I&#8217;ve always wondered: why haven&#8217;t I ever seen anyone wheeling their trolley home? Well, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Emotion&#8217; in church services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Christmas, I brought my friend to a cantata by an accomplished choir. At the end of it, she opined that the choir was excellent, but lacking emotion. This view highlights a thread I’ve noticed this year, one that seems to have arisen as a reaction against the kinds of practices increasingly being introduced into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Voicing your opinions shouldn&#8217;t be risky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch much TV these days, but for some reason, I switched on the TV last night&#8230; and caught part of Singapore Talking. First time I ever watched that show.  The topic was why teenagers don&#8217;t speak up. What caught my attention though was the response to an opinion by a member of the audience [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clay Aiken talks about new CD &#8220;Tried and True&#8221; (Decca promo vid)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good morning when you wake up to another promo vid for Clay Aiken&#8217;s forthcoming CD, &#8220;Tried and True&#8221;, and a good one too! We get video of the photo shoot for the album and more snippets from Clay&#8217;s PBS special.  Clay talks about the CD (musically, artistically, a &#8220;home&#8221; for him) and the taping [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sometimes timing is everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 14:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, I went to a department store to check out the bath towels on sale. So, I arrived, and they had just the type I liked at a great price, except that I really wanted dark-coloured ones. When asked, the salesperson blithely assured me that all the colours available are already on display. Disappointed, I left to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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