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		<title>A Christmas post&#8230; sort of.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short of being called the Gringe who stole Christmas I for one have never been very fond of the season. Blame it on the impossibly hard-to-avoid traffic and the crush of people in the malls spending their hard-earned money like there&#8217;s no tomorrow. I would probably have made Ebeneezer Scrooge proud because as far as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=6025&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life during the Martial LAw era: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life goes on Contrary to what most young people today think, the martial law years wasn’t exactly the “dark years”, as some would have it. To anyone reading the history books or the countless articles written about those years, it might have sounded scary enough living under the rule of a dictator, but that was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=6016&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life during the Martial Law era: part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life during the Martial Law era: part 1 The Darkness falls The first inkling many people had that something definitely was amiss that morning was the eerie silence of the airwaves. For the first time since the last world war, the radios were silent; it crackled with neither the sound of music nor that of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=6014&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adieu, good friend&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/adieu-good-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a rather sad news this morning, and I couldn&#8217;t help but shed a few tears. And that was only after the initial shock. A friend &#8212; a very close friend actually, from my short list of friends &#8212; from long ago, when things weren&#8217;t as complicated and hectic as it is nowadays, died [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=6007&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50&#8230; and it sucks</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/50-and-it-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Hugo once said that &#8220;forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age&#8221;. And yet another great man, Mark Twain, I believe, quoted that &#8221; age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don&#8217;t mind, it doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;. Well, in a few days time (June 22 in case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5985&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untitled</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/untitled-58/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You really gotta hand it to the Japanese, not only are they so stoic, even in the midst of  a devastation, they are so disciplined in fact that, even after the double whammy they received from mother nature, there were no reports of mob rule even in the temporary shelters. People were actually lining up, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5993&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car woes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/car-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a couple of good reason for me &#8212; or for any motorist for that matter &#8212; to exterminate with extreme prejudice those  frigging Jeepney drivers and wipe them off the face of this planet&#8230; Oh yes, those are my car&#8217;s driver&#8217;s and rear passenger doors&#8230; after getting plowed by an errant jeepney. It happened [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5975&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 years after</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/25-years-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon my French but… Crap, has it been 25 years already? Has it really been that long since Juan de la Cruz finally said good riddance to Da Apo, the shoe lady and their entire family and entourage, as they fled to sunny Hawaii courtesy of the US Air Force? Everything about that historic event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5971&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CNY 2011</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/cny-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the multitude of Chinese people across the globe &#8212; and that’s including their billion-strong cousins in the economic powerhouse that is the Middle Kingdom (that’s China to the uninitiated) &#8212; today will mark yet another auspicious day, as they welcome the year 4709, or more popularly known as the Year of the Rabbit, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5962&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Buses and bombs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://snglguy.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/of-buses-and-bombs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought it was safe to take public transportation amidst the strikes, robberies and bus drivers from hell, THIS happens&#8230; As if the impending fuel and fare increase wasn&#8217;t enough to ruin your day, some A-hole decided to make an already stressful day more stressful by sowing fear and panic among the populace. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snglguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6395999&amp;post=5957&amp;subd=snglguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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