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		<title>My Birth month with no blogging&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a group of friends that coined the phrase &#8211; &#8216;birth month&#8217;&#8230;cause you can never celebrate enough of &#8220;you&#8221;&#8230;well one friend in particular &#8211; who I miss terribly. I&#8217;d like to say that my lack of posting in May was due to whooping it up for May, my birth month &#8211; and I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to my office&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note that there are no less than 4 calendars in some form seen here on what is a half view of my desk. One of said calendars is NOT the brown notebook lying on the desk. They are as follows: One day planner in the foreground for both personal and school-related items. One flip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>80 days&#8230;relief if not resolution.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleepy Sundays are great. This tiger just wants to take a long nap&#8230;wake me up when I&#8217;m home Toto. That is all.]]></description>
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		<title>88 days to go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 is a lucky number in China&#8230;it is time for some of this luck, coupled with the fact that it is indeed my year &#8211; The Year of the Tiger roared in this Valentine&#8217;s February 14th &#8211; to rub off on me! On that day I was sitting in a hammock on Koh Payam beach&#8230;which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seafood savouriness in &#8216;Ramshackle Town&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musecruz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we finally got around to taking the scooter out to the nearby fishing village or as our friend Drew likes to call it &#8216;Ramshackle Town&#8217;. From what I can see on the web, this fishing hub provides most of the fresh catch for all of the restaurants in Cha-am and even nearby Hua-Hin. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of Thai Massage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musecruz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we go&#8230;second Thai massage&#8230;fifth massage in Asia. Let me tell you good cheap massaging- it is NOT getting old. This massage was less acrobatic and more instinctual than the last one I had here. Less pain&#8230;more relaxation. More creams, more attention to detail, more ritual&#8230;just &#8230;more. Not that the last massage I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepping for the beach &#8211; in China.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So going to Thailand means going to the beach&#8230;going to the beach means showing off flesh&#8230;showing off flesh for women means prepping of the flesh. The flesh needs to look its best and be shown off in its best light &#8212; this means among many things such as waxing, shaving, pedicures, and a host of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand. Take 2!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musecruz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me just post some visuals as that is always a crowd pleaser! Food requires it&#8217;s own post. It is cheap, it is good and it is EVERYWHERE! But I think I gotta go for a sunset dip in the Gulf of Siam, excuse me.]]></description>
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		<title>china gal in Thailand.</title>
		<link>http://www.mariajcruz.com/blog/?p=269</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musecruz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[4 days so far in Thailand&#8230;the food is fantastic and the scenery even more so, even though I have got a really bad cold (It was already peculating before I left China)  that had me spend most of one whole day inside, with the caveat that I could still see the waves lapping up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scenery&#8230;upon request. Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>musecruz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more friends and family and random Russian readers come upon my blog&#8230;I welcome all your comments and critiques, with love of course. I just got my first request in today from Toronto &#8211; where my dear friend is experiencing the same weather as me &#8211; sunny and cold &#8211; albeit I&#8217;d guess less polluted. [...]]]></description>
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