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	<title>Reflections of a Survivor &#187; General</title>
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		<title>Blog Moved&#8230;Please update the URL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog has moved.
Please update your bookmarks/blogrolls.
The new URL is http://ros.alexisleon.com/
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		<title>Reflections and Resolutions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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As 2009 reaches its final hours and as we welcome 2010 with great hope, anticipation and enthusiasm, it is essential that we look back and reflect upon what happened in 2009. 
Was the year good? Did I achieve the goals that I set during the beginning of 2009? How many of the 2009 resolutions were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time to Read&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you love reading? Are you a book lover? How important is reading to you? Would you feel bad or starve if you miss your daily dose of words and stories? 
If the answer to the above questions is affirmative, then please answer the next question. Do you get as much time as you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghajini&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my pet peeves about today&#8217;s educational systems is that learning is no longer fun. The workload the students have, even in kindergarten and lower primary is staggering. They don&#8217;t have time to play as the number of subjects and amount of material they have to study is far beyond their capacity. 
When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.&#8221;
- Orhan Pamuk (The Black Book) &#8211; 
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		<title>Motivation and Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2009/05/09/motivation-and-inspiration.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I read two amazing books—The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby and Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan.
Bauby was the editor-in-chief of Elle—the famous fashion magazine. On December 8, 1995, he had a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you are feeling sad&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2009/03/31/when-you-are-feeling-sad.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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Once in a while I feel very sad and get depressed; no big deal—everybody get depressed once in a while!
The trigger for the depression could anyone of the myriad reasons that I have—body pain, inability to do what I want to, something that I did, something that I didn&#8217;t do, something that I should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exotic Birds from Swarovski</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two exotic birds&#8211;Pair of Kingfishers and Bee-eaters&#8211;from the Daniel Swarovski Paradise Collection. Simply awesome!

The pair of Kingfishers in Blue Turquoise, Aquamarine, Sun and clear crystal is designed by Anton Hirzinger and has approximately 20 parts. 

The pair of Bee-eaters in Peridot crystal with heads in smoked Topaz crystal with accents in Jonquil and Indicolite crystal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Water Plant from Bali&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2009/02/26/a-water-plant-from-bali.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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A water plant with small beautiful white flowers (I don&#8217;t know its name) that a friend brought from Bali; thriving well in our pond.
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		<title>Letter from Warren Buffet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Warren Buffet, the world renowned financial guru shares some of his thoughts. I feel that this is excellent advice and worth reading, especially in this time of financial crisis.

We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has [...]]]></description>
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