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		<title>Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot remember the first time I took writing seriously, as much as I could not remember when I had enjoyed my first cup of coffee, or first danced when no one was watching.
The implications of this forgetfulness are serious, if not life-shattering as a writer, for it may mean that writing, to me; has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=217&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FAQs (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that you stopped writing since March. Where did you go?
I was on a trip to the moon and back, and it took me a while to find my footing after being afloat for so many months. Words just couldn&#8217;t come out of my mouth, and neither could they transmit from my brain to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=213&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Chooses You</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/art-chooses-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story of a writer from Singapore who, as a teenager, has a big dream of getting away from her homeland for a while and pursue studies abroad.
She knew exactly where she wanted to go. The US. And not just any university. It has to be Harvard.
So, she spent weeks and months preparing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=206&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God of the Gallows</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/god-of-the-gallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Armstrong is no longer a stranger in the religio-literary world. Often embroiled in controversy for her writings about religions, especially in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, she is both loved and hated by the respective communities for telling histories and consequences of faiths to an already troubled world.
Armstrong, formerly a Catholic nun, has also been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=202&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to our Perak Sultan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To our benevolent Sultan Azlan Shah,
I am a born-bred Perakian. Batu Gajah was my home for the first four years of my life before my family shifted to Ipoh where we still stay in.
I have always loved Ipoh as a hometown, although I am now working in KL. This is the city where I meet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=201&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you hear, O Palestine?</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/do-you-hear-o-palestine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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A message of reconciliation, redemption and hope
Isaiah 40

40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord&#8217;s hand
double for all her sins.
3 A voice cries: 
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=199&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OnAsia 2008</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/192/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the final night of the 4th Angkor Photography Festival last November, I had the privilege (among many other privileges) to watch an incredibly well-curated set of photo slideshows by Sujong Song.
The projection is by OnAsia agency, where 10 Asian photojournalists documented various Asian societies and stories. Special thanks to Li Wei for putting them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=192&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just five days before year 2008 drew its curtains, air raids and missiles tore the Gaza strip, where thousands of Palestinians have called home, in spite of being the apex of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Chinese has an old saying that goes like these- “Bullets are blind”, describing aptly the stray missiles that more often hit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=189&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How time flies</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/how-time-flies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How time flies&#8230;&#8221; is perhaps the phrase most used everywhere these days. In cities and towns, villages, buses, train rides and lunch meetings, people start conversations with this very line, which is usually then recipocrated by vigorous nods and smiles, or a dramatic exclaimation of &#8220;I know!&#8221;
Then, the real conversations begin, each person reminiscing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=184&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing</title>
		<link>http://yyennie.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/crossing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The imagery of slavery is just like arsenic, each dosage hits you harder each time you take it,&#8221; William Wilberforce, slave abolitionist, said to his friend William Pitt in the film &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221;.
Dear friends,
                     I am raising to you the issue which is like arsenic to me- the slavery of North Koreans under a ruthless regime. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yyennie.wordpress.com&blog=444831&post=171&subd=yyennie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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