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	<description>We all have a story. What&#039;s yours?</description>
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		<title>Spending Time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The film comes to an end. I ask you if you liked it and you nod. We got off the sofa, cushions falling back onto the impressions our resting bodies had left. I turn the TV off and disconnect my laptop as you turn on the eyes. Are you hungry? I ask and you nod. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy at the Pavilion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another rainy day, another traffic jam. Life on the roads of Kuala Lumpur. I drive into the underground parking area of the mall, the usual turns, the usual row of parking bays. Three sets of escalators and I join the afternoon crowds. A couple of hours before the end of the working day. I head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Red Moleskine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fingers trace the textured cover, the pattern an assortment of paths a story may take. And I am filling this notebook you gave me with stories, with words, with ink on paper, with ferocious thoughts and fleeting thoughts and the idea that, one day, one of these stories may see print, that others may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Archuleta and the Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You race across the page, one typo after another to correct. There is one more story to submit and then it&#8217;s into the taxi already waiting and off to the airport. It&#8217;s a conference. Jakarta beckons. You await the smog that will hit you when you land, a physical presence to the very air of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy at the Pâtisserie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun bears down on me. It&#8217;s a rather hot afternoon. I enter the pâtisserie again and ask if I may have the table inside instead. Air-conditioning, always a boon given our weather. Of course, you say, smiling, please do. There are no other customers right now, so we start chatting. It&#8217;s the polite thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are driving along the highway from Skudai towards the city centre of Johor Bahru, away from the golf resort and heading towards your childhood favourite breakfast of chee cheong fun (and now mine). There are so many trees on either side of us &#8211; palm trees that I recognise and many others that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a framed photograph of you and your wife and your children. A boy, then a girl. A good number. A picture-perfect family, really. What more could one ask for? I&#8217;m sure your parents are pleased. I remember your father, an affable man. A couple of months after you first introduced me to him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klutz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You frown at me. Another bruise. Why are you so clumsy? you ask me. Why do you keep knocking into stuff and hurting yourself in your own home? I have no answer. I do not know. The furniture are where they always have been &#8211; the chairs and the table and the bookcases. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Pineapples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are paper pineapples blowing in the wind, hung from the rafters. They are red mostly; some are yellow. More red: streams of Chinese characters I do not recognise line the walls. This is typical Lunar New Year decor. The colours signal celebration, reunion and prosperity to come. There is a single persistent fly that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You stab at the pieces of salad &#8211; a lettuce leaf, a scrap of beef bacon &#8211; and you tell me about the battles you have had with your students, their teachers, the parents, the whole circus. Everyone has sky-high expectations these days, everyone wants only the best results, but no one seems to want [...]]]></description>
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