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		<title>Pleasures in Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of butter on warm, almost hot, toast
Writing with a smooth fountain pen on quality paper
Crisp cool cotton sheets as you awake
The comfort of a morning hug
Standing still, as the world turns crazy with activity
Being alone, at peace, slowly remembering who you are
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		<title>The Practice of Pioneering</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often said to my close friends, that I don&#8217;t like doing things that fall short of excellence. Thus I check, double check, reconsider, redraft, rewrite before doing or releasing anything. I think and think again, of what to say, how to say it, and how to do things to a high level of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=274&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Busyness and Burdens, Grace and Friends</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post was in June, and so much has happened since then. It is not an understatement to say that this has been the most significant time of my life&#8230; for one, I got married! And this has changed my life in beautiful ways.
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		<title>Of Heroes and Heroism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk of late about &#8216;heroes&#8217;. It has been a like a whirlwind occurring around me, and changes in weather always make you reconsider if what you are wearing is sufficient and suitable for what will follow. 
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		<title>Diary of a Sociology Student: Finding Your Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post, a reflection on postgraduate life, I expressed surprise at the pain involved in intellectual work. It is indeed difficult, arduous, and uncertain. I found it hard to accept this truth, because I had been seeing the act of reading and writing as liberating &#8211; as mental escapes from the demanding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=254&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a Sociology Student: Why does everything seem so hard?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Returning to postgraduate studies has been difficult. I have been on leave from my thesis for about a year and a half. As I try to think and write with academic rigour, I feel like I am trying to wade through molasses. Why am I not running lithe and smooth, like an athlete? Why do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=247&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Ordinary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world that exalts performance. We reward the best, the fastest, the smartest, the most talented. We give prizes for the first, second and third places. Any competitor knows that anything below these is meaningless, worthy only of a token of ‘consolation’. We admire those who make it to the top. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=243&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lessons about our relationship with God that we need to learn repeatedly. It seems that God throws us different problems just to see if we have learnt our lessons well. Do we really trust Him? Does He really care what happens to us? Can we really depend on him, even if we cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=234&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editing Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We present edited versions of ourselves to the world. 
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		<title>In Defense of Dreaming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was child, I was often rebuked for dreaming. 
People would chastise me frequently, sighing at my absent-mindedness. They called me Alice in Wonderland and seemed to feel it was their moral duty to bring me back to reality. Dreaming was a waste a time, they said. It was unproductive. I should be studying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alicenah.wordpress.com&blog=621185&post=227&subd=alicenah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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