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	<description>Stories by Kenny Mah</description>
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		<title>“Who we were isn&#8217;t lost before we were us”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days it&#8217;s sometimes hard to remember a time before we were together. Yesterday, we were watching &#8216;Man of Steel&#8217; with our friends. They brought a friend of theirs along for the movie, and she told me in passing, &#8220;I remember seeing you in the gym a few years ago.&#8221; Time was I used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing my latest article and I have Nick Caves and the Bad Seeds playing on my headphones. &#8216;No More Shall We Part&#8217; comes on, this classic, this sad song, this anthem of my twenties, and I wondered what it was like to go through such emotions, such deep pain, and produce art at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the best ideas I have had come when I discuss ideas with others. Sharing improves on the original. Why do so many of us hide and hoard our ideas then, as though they are gold and prone to theft by dragons, dwarves or hobbits? Ideas are free, I remind myself. Only the execution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of the family</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You won’t come back. I just know it.” “Mom … please … I will. I promise.” “But you won’t be … the same!” “No. I hope not.” &#8212; Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (1978) Taking the plunge I’m a Malaccan boy. A small town boy. KL is the Big City. Bright lights, fast cars, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember this line by Gordon Lish, his advice to fellow writer Amy Hempel: &#8220;Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.&#8221; And whenever I think of this line, I think of an answer, the obvious one: &#8220;Why, by trying, of course. By keeping at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are free to be as beautiful or as ugly as we want to be. That’s democracy. Freedom, however, comes from choosing to be happy &#8212; there&#8217;s nothing more beautiful than happiness, if you ask me &#8212; and to share this joy with others.]]></description>
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		<title>Fukin Mee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 10:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wok isn&#8217;t quite a wok; it&#8217;s a heavy saucepan. In it, the second batch of Fukin Mee (our friends&#8217; whimsical spelling of Hokkien Mee) is in the process of darkening with lard and a prayer it all works out. We are waiting, content to take pictures and offer encouragement. (&#8220;When is this gonna be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let us all celebrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KM: Happy Vesak! CW: I&#8217;m sorry but I don&#8217;t celebrate Vesak. KM: That&#8217;s not a problem. I meant it as an all-Malaysian greeting. The way I&#8217;d say &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and &#8220;Selamat Eid ul-Fitr&#8221; or &#8220;Blessed Diwali&#8221; though I may not be a Christian, Muslim or Hindu. We can share these greetings with all Malaysians; it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never ask why</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You text me: You are done with work and walking over to where I&#8217;m waiting for you. What&#8217;s next is what happens without fail daily: We ask each other what&#8217;s for dinner. It&#8217;s your turn. No, it&#8217;s YOUR turn. And so on. As we battle for the right not to decide the venue for our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having an amazing month. Travelling and exploring. Returning home to run a hundred different errands. A work meeting with my wonderful editor conducted over coffee, breakfast and lots of laughter. Our friends brighten our lives. And right now, as I wait for my better half to finish work so we may start celebrating [...]]]></description>
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