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		<title>cooking to the next level</title>
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i&#8217;ve always been interested in cooking. and i don&#8217;t want to boast, but my family really knows how to cook good food. (it&#8217;s quite evident in our sizes.) but since my family usually have household help, we just sit down on the table and eat. and those times that we didn&#8217;t have any household help, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/03/cooking-to-the-next-level/</link>
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		<title>waiting on love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the pressure of being with someone, especially when you are in your mid-20&#8217;s is getting stronger. you tell yourself that you love being single and that you don&#8217;t need someone in your life right now; but deep inside you, you long to be with someone. you tell yourself that you don&#8217;t need a complicated life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/03/waiting-on-love/</link>
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		<title>feeling blue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[have you ever felt sad but you have no idea why? well, i feel like that. i don&#8217;t know if i&#8217;m homesick, or if i miss someone or i&#8217;m just having those mood swings that you associate with hormones. but then, i just had my period a week ago.. i&#8217;m not that sure if there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/02/feeling-blue/</link>
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		<title>adrian&#8217;s sayonara&#8230; the second time around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[adrian, a friend from church, first came to japan on 2007. he was here for a year-long assignment in his company. though he came here on January 2007, we only got to meet him middle of the year. he&#8217;s attending the Sunday morning mass, while we&#8217;re attending the Saturday anticipated mass. After a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/02/adrians-sayonara-the-second-time-around/</link>
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		<title>save up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve been here in japan for more than 4 years, but i still don&#8217;t have any savings. people find it hard to believe, and sometimes i do too.
but looking back, i finally understood why. aside from helping out with the finances at home, i had this mentality of &#8220;spend to be happy&#8221;.
everyone knows very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/02/save-up/</link>
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		<title>lost in the translation.. again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m in this &#8220;situation&#8221; again wherein i was lost in translation. i try to prove to myself that i could, that i would. but time and again, i was proven wrong. i&#8217;m grateful that they&#8217;re giving me some slack here, but i feel terrible inside. i mean, c&#8217;mon! i&#8217;ve been here for more than 4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/01/lost-in-translation-again/</link>
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		<title>gone and back again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before anything else..
AKEMASHITE OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
my holiday in the philippines was so wonderful. people say that it was because i had a 3-week long vacation at home. but then again, it&#8217;s not about the duration that made it different. it&#8217;s the people i met and the things i did during those days that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2010/01/gone-and-back-again/</link>
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		<title>this is it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told myself that i would settle &#8220;things&#8221; before i leave for the Philippines. I told myself that I should start the new year right and with a clean slate, so I had to do this before I ran out of time.
But what are the things that I need to tell her? Do I really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2009/12/this-is-it/</link>
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		<title>JLPT 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) will be held in Japan and different parts of the world on Sunday, December 6. The JLPT, or Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken in Japanese, was annually held until this year when they made it twice a year.
There are 5 levels, with level 4 as the lowest and level 1 the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2009/12/jlpt-2009/</link>
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		<title>the truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;the truth shall set you free.&#8221; does it?
if you&#8217;re the one who&#8217;s telling, the truth might set you free. but if you&#8217;re on the receiving end, what would you do with the truth that you&#8217;ve just heard? will it also give you the freedom that the other person achieved?
as i&#8217;ve read my sister&#8217;s entry about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brewingthoughts.net/2009/12/the-truth/</link>
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