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	<title>Sans Serif...</title>
	
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		<title>The Day The Interpol Comes A-calling</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/08/10/the-day-the-interpol-came-a-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My heart skipped a beat when the caller &#8212; a Gobala something &#8212; introduced himself as someone representing Interpol Singapore. He went on reading out my residential address and asked where exactly the place was.
&#8220;Excuse me, who are you, again?&#8221; I asked him.
&#8220;I am&#8230;&#8221; he mentioned the Gobala something and said that he was &#8220;representing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back In Business</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/07/10/back-to-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long period of inactivity, this Sans Serif blog may finally see a more regular update from now on, possibly at the rate of two to three posts a week, covering any topic that whims my fancies.
Random Posts

August 5, 2007 &#8212; Merdeka Reflection: Tun Ghafar Baba &#8220;The Million-Million&#8221; Man
June 11, 2008 &#8212; The Perils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me and the Ghost of Cheras</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/03/11/me-and-the-ghost-of-cheras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offbeat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I HAD THE the feeling there was something wrong with the intermediate double-storey terrace house which the agent showed me a week after we &#8212; me and the family &#8212; arrived in KL from Singapore in November 2007.
For one thing, even in the guise of the fresh paint, the house had all the tell-tale signs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dari Permatang Sampai Kuala, Singgah Di Bukit ke Batang Ai… BN dan PR Tetap Lawan Sampai (Pen)Siang(an)</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/03/06/dari-permatang-sampai-ke-kuala-naik-dua-bukit-turun-ke-batang-ai-bn-dan-pr-tetap-lawan-sampai-pensiangan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offbeat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is good to see that people have not lost their sense of humour in this time of economic gloom and less-than-normal political situation.
I bet by now many would have cracked and flogged the dua bukit satu batang jokes and all its wacky variants and still find it hilarious even after listening to them day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Fatherland” by Robert Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/02/24/fatherland-by-robert-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books and Reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2002, a friend returning from a trip abroad asked me if I wanted anything from the country he was visiting &#8212; a magazine or something, he said.
I told him that that wasn&#8217;t necessary but if he insisted, a book would do. At that time, I had just started to pick up reading as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sans Serif Is Upgraded To Wordpress 2.7</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/01/25/sans-serif-is-upgraded-to-wordpress-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.7 today. I should have done so several weeks ago but for some reasons, I feel uneasy each time I upgrade my blogs.
It seems everything is okay. No skewed  page, no dropped sidebar&#8230;
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October 15, 2008 &#8212; Peralihan Kuasa&#8230; Lu Cakap Apa Ni?
June 2, 2008 &#8212; Journalism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Photo: Morning Jog</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2009/01/24/random-photo-morning-jog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it ironic that most people who jog at sunrise are those already in their sunset &#8212; old people panting and sweating in the dying dawn.

This old man (picture, below) is not jogging; he is just walking, in slow, excruciating strides. He could very well be me a couple of decades in the future&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On A Two-Week Leave</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/12/21/on-a-two-week-leave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/12/21/on-a-two-week-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am taking a two-week leave starting tomorrow to go back to my kampung in Sabah. Will be offline most of the time during the period.
In the meantime, enjoy the good old blues by John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchel. These guys are awesome, don&#8217;t you think so?
Random Posts

October 21, 2007 &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, What The Heck… Imagine No More For It Will Be Pointless</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/12/18/oh-what-the-heck-imagine-no-more-for-it-will-be-pointless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/12/18/oh-what-the-heck-imagine-no-more-for-it-will-be-pointless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offbeat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Close your eyes and imagine, for a while, that dinosaurs are still roaming our jungles and plains, with T-Rex thundering past, hunting smaller dinosaurs and occasionally human, and Brontosaurus chomping tree leaves by the riverbanks and giant birds swooping down from mountains afar.
What the heck, open your eyes. Imagine no more for it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times’ 100 Notable Books Of 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/28/new-york-times-100-notable-books-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/28/new-york-times-100-notable-books-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle & Hobby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you like books or just fancy reading one once in a while, then maybe you can take a look at one of these books which made it to the list of the New York Times&#8217; 100 Notable Books of 2008.
One of the books in the list, titled &#8220;Atmospheric Disturbances&#8221; by Rivka Galchen, tells the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tide Is Turning Back</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/19/tide-is-turning-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/19/tide-is-turning-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to Roger Waters&#8217; &#8220;Tide Is Turning&#8221;, one of my all-time favourite songs, on the morning of March 9, the day I woke up to a changed Malaysia.
I used to think the world was flat, the song says. &#8220;Rarely threw my hat into the crowd.&#8221; It goes on, &#8220;I felt I had used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Football: Malaysia is Still Burrowing Out of the Crypt</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/15/football-malaysia-is-still-burrowing-out-of-the-crypt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/15/football-malaysia-is-still-burrowing-out-of-the-crypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve forgotten that we have a national football team. When I think of Malaysian football, all that I can recall were names like James Wong, Hassan Sani, R. Arumugam, Soh Chin Aun, Mokhtar Dahari, Santokh Singh, Zainal Abidin Hassan, Dollah Salleh&#8230; 
Last year, I wrote a story about Malaysian football from the point of view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore Moves A Step Closer To Legalising Euthanasia?</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/04/singapore-moves-a-step-closer-to-legalising-euthanasia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/04/singapore-moves-a-step-closer-to-legalising-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

No, not at all, the government says. What the government &#8212; its Health Ministry, at least &#8212; is contemplating is to &#8220;broach the idea&#8221; of making changes to the Advance Medical Directive, or living will, which instructs doctors &#8220;not to artificially prolong the life of a terminally-ill patient with machines,&#8221; the Straits Times reported.
The island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Teach or Not to Teach Mathematics and Science in English?</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/02/to-teach-or-not-to-teach-mathematics-and-science-in-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/02/to-teach-or-not-to-teach-mathematics-and-science-in-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the English version of my previous entry &#8220;Ajar atau Tidak Ajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris?&#8221;  This is a crude translation anyway; don&#8217;t blame me, I&#8217;m a product of the system.

The Berita Harian newspaper reported today that the government would decide next year whether to continue with the policy to teach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajar atau Tidak Ajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris?</title>
		<link>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/02/ajar-atau-tidak-ajar-matematik-dan-sains-dalam-bi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jsawatan.com/2008/11/02/ajar-atau-tidak-ajar-matematik-dan-sains-dalam-bi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson Sawatan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jsawatan.com/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: The English version of this entry is available in a separate entry, here!]
Akhbar Berita Harian hari ini melaporkan bahawa kerajaan akan membuat keputusan pada tahun depan sama ada meneruskan pengajaran subjek Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris.
Menurut Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan Datuk Razali Ismail, kementerian akan membuat keputusan itu selepas penelitian oleh kabinet, dengan mengambil [...]]]></description>
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