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		<title>Phone Calls And Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://gardenherb.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/phone-calls-and-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6535 6191.  Beware of timeshare and free gift scams if you get a call from this number.  Why?  Here&#8217;s a little experience I had yesterday.
While out on a job (attending a product launch, in fact) I got two missed calls from 65356191, within two minutes of each other.  Now when you&#8217;re a freelancer, you just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=260&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Leonid-Speckled Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shooting stars, shrieking astronomers and snail orgies.  After reading that this year&#8217;s Leonid meteor shower was going to be the most spectacular since 1998, I decided it was time I did the skywatching thing and went to see some shooting stars for myself.  As it happened, I wasn&#8217;t the only one with that idea.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=253&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very belatedly, this is a note to say that I am spending November occupied with trying to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.  I even set up a third blog to host that novel and all its related statistics (aptly named The Evil Novel) and put the NaNoWriMo 2009 web badge on both it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=247&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Defeating Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: the opinions expressed here do not necessarily make sense.
Are we killing ourselves with the drive to attain a &#8220;First World&#8221; economy?  For years now, it&#8217;s seemed that the one outstanding feature of &#8220;First World&#8221;-ism is prices that climb, climb, climb and never seem to come down to earth.
Just yesterday the Sunday Times featured the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=240&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Visit To KL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you mentally prepared for KL?&#8221;
That was what my father asked me when he heard that I was travelling to Kuala Lumpur on the 27th and 28th to attend the launch of Royal Selangor&#8217;s Autumn &#8216;09 collection.
I couldn&#8217;t understand the question.  Granted, it&#8217;s been quite a few years since I last left Singapore for work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=234&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Five Elements 01</media:title>
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		<title>Say Something About Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Dr Cai Mingjie, the molecular biology researcher who became a taxi driver?  I spent some time reading his blog at http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/, and what struck me was not so much the quality of his writing as the fact that he was sufficiently interested in and inspired by his job, to set down in detail the daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=230&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wedding Runner</title>
		<link>http://gardenherb.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-wedding-runner-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repeated from the words and worlds of mint.


Five months after posting the opening of this story here and nearly two years after I first conceived it, The Wedding Runner is complete.  (Says a lot about my productivity.)  Like so many of my short stories, the initial idea came from a dream I had &#8211; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=215&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blame The Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Re-reading some books from my bloated collection of science fiction and fantasy, I spotted a variety of egregious typographical errors including inaccurate spelling, dropped punctuation, poor grammar, disordered headings and even the repetition of entire fragments of text &#8211; all amounting to what some editing books term mechanical distraction.  They certainly distracted me from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=209&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been perennial complaints about how feature creep makes software bloated, filled with redundancies, bug-prone, requirement-heavy and generally unmanageable &#8211; in particular Microsoft&#8217;s OS and Office suite.  I realized recently, however, that feature creep isn&#8217;t just a bugbear of software.  It haunts so many aspects of daily life that it&#8217;s actually frightening.
Take, for example, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=206&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pick It Up, Because You Can</title>
		<link>http://gardenherb.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/pick-it-up-because-you-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mint Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 


I wish that people would put aside the pressure of work and studies and the whole rat race now and then; drop in on talks like these, mix with people whose interests are different from their own, pick up knowledge just for the joy of learning something new&#8230;


The setting was the Ngee Ann Auditorium, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenherb.wordpress.com&blog=1591882&post=202&subd=gardenherb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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