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	<title>Quest for the True North</title>
	<link>http://sunchoke.net</link>
	<description>The world according to a traveler and beach bum.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My first Misa de Gallo</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/misa-de-gallo/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/misa-de-gallo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Misa de Gallo or Simbang Gabi is a traditional evening mass in the Philippines, held at the crack of dawn from December 16 to December 24. It&#8217;s very much a part of the Christmas celebration of Filipinos that people make it a point to be there everyday for nine days. I&#8217;m not Catholic, though, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cebu Bloggers Society Christmas Party</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/cebu-bloggers-society-christmas-party/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/cebu-bloggers-society-christmas-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Cebu Bloggers Society is hamming it up. Everyone is so enthusiastic about coming up with activities that I can barely keep up with the group! (My presence borders on being an apparition of sorts.) I did make it to our first Christmas Party last Saturday at the Jardin de Busay Estate. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belle de Jour comes to Cebu</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/belle-de-jour-cebu/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/belle-de-jour-cebu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[








I got converted to the Belle de Jour  way when a friend in Manila sent me a Belle de Jour planner last year as a random gift. I loved it from the moment I lifted it from the package. It was not like the other planners or organizers that I&#8217;ve had. It had an expense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-reliance</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/selfreliance/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/selfreliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am of the opinion that a parent should at some point be free of primary responsibility over a child. Say, when you are 18 freaking years old, you should already know how to feed yourself, do your own laundry, and wipe your own ass.
I know we Filipinos like bonding so much that we tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Geek Dinners now in Cebu!</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/girl-geek-dinners-cebu/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/girl-geek-dinners-cebu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

A couple of months ago, a lady in Germany sent me an e-mail and introduced me to the Girl Geek Dinner movement. She was coming to Cebu and needed help in setting up the first Girl Geek Dinner in Asia (in Asia!). She was scouting for girls in Cebu who were into technology and who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephanie Meyer is LDS!</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/twilight-mania-stephanie-meyer-lds/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/twilight-mania-stephanie-meyer-lds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I swear, LDS people are so queer that it is so easy to tell if someone is LDS. When David Archuleta and Brooke White sang their hearts out on American Idol Season 7, people suspected that they were LDS, even though the two did not talk about their beliefs on the show. The people were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oy, I am proud!</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/oy-proud/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/oy-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I went mural-painting with some people from the company some Saturdays ago, and these were the fruit of our labor.



You can find those murals at the Guizo Elementary School in Mandaue City.  
We didn&#8217;t get to work on the mural for the stage because there were few of us volunteers and we ran out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to a new and better webhost</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/search-webhost/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/search-webhost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lost count of the number of times that my server was down, and customer support is almost always never available. I am pissed. At first, it was easy to brush off. But then when you can&#8217;t access your blog most of the day, and then it happens many times a week, then moving out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Proposition 8</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/proposition-8/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/proposition-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If bothers me to see that its supporters are defaming our temple in Los Angeles. I was an activist, I know how ugly protests can get. The temple may not be special to them, but it is to us.
Marriage is sacred. I have my beliefs about marriage and how it should be done. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight, and my long absence</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/twilight-long-absence/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/twilight-long-absence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, it is November already! It&#8217;s been a long time since something has kept me from the Internet this long. This time the culprit is a gorgeous vampire named Edward Cullen.  
The truth is, I got caught up with work. But the rest of my time was spent reading the Twilight books and whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PhotoHunt: Scary</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/photohunt-scary/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/photohunt-scary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[the good earth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brace yourself, because even I, don&#8217;t like looking at this photo:


See the green coils around the tree?
These are green tree pythons or Morelia viridis. They are a non-venomous, arboreal (refers to animals that live in trees) snake species found in Indonesia, the island of New Guinea, and Australia. They like coiling around tree branches to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Filipino Club Fellowship Night</title>
		<link>http://sunchoke.net/digital-filipino-club-fellowship-night/</link>
		<comments>http://sunchoke.net/digital-filipino-club-fellowship-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stoxbnx3</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the blogging community in Cebu is finally kicking off and starting to catch up with the communities in Manila and Davao. I hadn&#8217;t seen that many bloggers in Cebu until Thursday night at the Digital Filipino Club Fellowship Night.
The event started with a buffet dinner at the Teatro Casino of the Waterfront [...]]]></description>
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