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	<title>La Bigueña</title>
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	<description>How does it feel? / To be on your own / With no direction home / Like a complete unknown / Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan (1965)</description>
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		<title>Sunsets and Genetics</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/sunsets-and-genetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is divided up between people who like to watch the sunset and people who don&#8217;t. People like you are never happy. You&#8217;re anxious, Type A, egocentric perfectionist who can&#8217;t sit still and die alone with a million bucks and a thousand regrets. The people who can relax, enjoy the sunset, hold hands at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=543&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Enigmatic Macabebes</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/the-enigmatic-macabebes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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My draft on the blog launching of Pampanga Governor Ed Panlilio last Saturday has been sidetracked by my fascination with the tour given to by the Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies of the Holy Angel University in Pampanga.
Two (2) panels on the &#8220;Enigmatic Macabebes&#8221; caught my attention.  On one side was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=542&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Enigmatic Macabebes</media:title>
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		<title>For A While</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/for-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ilocos Sur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I leave you, it doesn’t mean I love you any less. – “Keep Me In Your Heart” by Warren Zevon (2003).
A good friend lent me his bootleg DVD copy of Boston Legal a couple of months ago. We have drifted apart, though, and I dread finishing off the series. James Spader, who reminds me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=541&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Jay!</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/happy-birthday-jay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The birthday boy describes himself (from his Facebook account) as: &#8220;Generic&#8230; work-in-progress&#8230; values family and relationships&#8230; upholds honesty, humily and sincerity.&#8221;
To me, he is a blessing and one of the most genteel men I will ever meet.  Happy birthday, kapatid and congratulations again on the Masters!
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		<title>Shifting Sand</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/shifting-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An SMS from a friend:
Sand taught me one thing: You cannot hold too many things, no matter what you do to make them stay and no matter how much they want to stay, the wind will always blow them away.  So learn to let go and choose carefully which you want to stay, because like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=539&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God bless the broken road&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/god-bless-the-broken-road/</link>
		<comments>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/god-bless-the-broken-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elenacardinez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow will be a good friend&#8217;s despedida to mark the advent of his new beginning elsewhere.    
Though our meetings have been too few, he, along with others I&#8217;ve been blessed to meet, has negated all misgivings I had with the opposite sex. Despite the wall of doubt that years of watching one&#8217;s heart splinter into pieces have built, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=536&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lines from Boston Legal</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/lines-from-boston-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elenacardinez</dc:creator>
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Don&#8217;t try to get in my head, you won&#8217;t like the mess.
People in love lose their grip.
As you age, you only get more beautiful.
I&#8217;d take a friend over a wife anytime.

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		<title>Shortest Fairy Tale</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/shortest-fairy-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Akel sent this.  (And no, Darren ading ko, this is so not a bad case of sour grapes. I miss you guys!) :
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl &#8216;Will you marry me?&#8217;
The girl said:&#8217;NO!&#8217;
And the girl lived happily ever-after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank martinis, always had a clean house, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=534&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Sentimental</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/getting-sentimental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Found myself missing Pagudpud and this song kept playing in my head all day:
Never thought I&#8217;d fall, but when I hear you call,
I&#8217;m getting sentimental over you.
Things you say and do just thrill me through and through,
I&#8217;m getting sentimental over you.
I thought I was happy I could live without love,
Now I must admit, love is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=533&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Borns</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/first-borns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember writing about the difficult road that first-borns have to face all their lives. The ruthless scrutiny that we must brave often forces us to live a lonely life of either forever pleasing the world or of withdrawing from it.
At an age when I should be past bearing my own first-born, I have lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=528&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rest for the Weary</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/rest-for-the-weary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Periods of inactivity are necessary &#8211; a pen that is always writing ends up losing the awareness of what it is doing.  So let it rest whenever possible, and concern yourself with living &#8230; When you return to the business of writing, you will find a happy pen with all its strength intact.&#8221; &#8211; Paolo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=525&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers for Wilson Czar</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/prayers-for-wilson-czar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this post from Rev. Willie Jones Ducusin.  Please include Wilson Czar in your prayers.  Rev. Jones:
Please help us pray for my brother, Wilson Czar.  He got into an accident. He had a small fracture on the skull.  Thank God, the neurologist Dr. Espinosa assured that it will heal, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=518&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNP&#8217;s New Lawyers</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/unps-new-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to our new UNP lawyers &#8211; Noel Pastor from San Ildefonso, Mylene Reyes from Vigan City and Arlyne Rialubin from San Vicente.
Cheers too for Anna Acena from Vigan, old friends Angela Along and Dashell Yancha, and Alfred Pagayatan, younger brother of a UP Law classmate.
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		<title>True Norths</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/true-norths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on a cold bus on a long eight hour trip to Metro Manila, but a comment I just saw on a post I wrote last November is warming me real good &#8211; &#8220;and friends reappear from nowhere&#8221; &#8211; from a sorority sister, dear friend, fitness guru, Bar review partner, wonderful mother and wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=499&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Better let somebody love you&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/better-let-somebody-love-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; before it&#8217;s too late.&#8221;
Desperado. There are numerous renditions of this song. The Eagles version remains my favorite, though. Listening to it now as I try to forget my aching back en route to Manila. 
Some friends say that the song is fast becoming the story of my life. For this year &#8211; the year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=452&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Status: Single!</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/status-single/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Ate Jo Barahan (Thanks te. Be strong, our prayers will be with you.):
Status: SINGLE! 21 Reasons to enjoy the state you&#8217;re in
By: Ginger E. McFarland
Okay, gals, let&#8217;s face it. Some days living alone just plain stinks. When you&#8217;re single, there&#8217;s no one to take care of you when you&#8217;re ill, no one to cuddle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=447&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Partings and New Years</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/of-partings-and-new-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you again to Prof. Ted Te for sharing this to us.  Very timely as we struggle to find words to say farewell to the old year and well, other goodbyes we stubbornly refuse to make (again in boldface are words we would have highlighted on paper):
Saying Goodbye
James F. Donelan, S.J.
Goodbyes have always been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=433&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was it a Merry Little Christmas?</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/was-it-a-merry-little-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was wailing about spending Christmas Day without a significant other when a friend sent a text message that He Whose Birth We Remember was born to die alone. That shook off the whatever blues clouded my Christmas Day.
We are never truly &#8220;loveless.&#8221; It&#8217;s a shame that as we grow older, we tend to delimit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=432&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convention of those wounded in love</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/convention-of-those-wounded-in-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Paolo Coelho&#8217;s recent Warrior of the Light issue:

General provisions:
A – Whereas the saying “all  is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct;
B – Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battle field, but until now no convention has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=428&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JENESYS Forms</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/jenesys-forms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To young friends who have signified interest in the JENESYS Program, here are the forms you&#8217;ll need:
jenesys-application-form-1.doc
voluntirapplixform.doc
For other details, please fell free to drop a line.  Commissioner Benjie Oliva of the National Youth Commission (NYC) said the deadline is on December 31, 2007.  Good luck, adings.
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		<title>JAPAN &#8211; EAST ASIA NETWORK OF EXCHANGE FOR STUDENTS AND YOUTHS (JENESYS) PROGRAM</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/japan-east-asia-network-of-exchange-for-students-and-youths-jenesys-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an email of NYC Commissioner Benjie Oliva:

Greetings!
 
The National Youth Commission, by virtue of Republic Act 8044 The Youth in Nation Building Act, is the sole policy making coordinating body of all youth related institutions, programs, projects, and activities of the government. We are also tasked to administer youth exchanges and all foreign sponsored [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=415&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Really starting &#8216;em young</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/really-starting-em-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have heard of vote-buying in varying degrees, but during the last Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, it was the first time (and hopefully, the last) that I have heard of a losing candidate who went after the people who didn&#8217;t vote for him for a refund of sorts.
To be fair, it wasn&#8217;t the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=414&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anthem for the Moment</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/anthem-for-the-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this Sergio Mendes song. It speaks of a curse I could not simply shake off.  I am guilty, as charged:
Was it something in the rain
Or a chance of love again
That made me explain
The secrets of my soul
I guess I only needed
Someone to hold
But I was gone without a trace
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		<title>Fly Away</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/fly-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that a good friend already flew away without saying goodbye. This one&#8217;s for you, kabsat:
&#8220;When will you be home?&#8221; she asks
as we watch the planes take off
We both know we have no clear answer to where my dreams may lead
She&#8217;s watched me as i crawled and stumbled
As a child, she was my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=408&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting them young</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/starting-them-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pausing for a few reminders to SK voters:

Go out and vote tomorrow.
If they give you money, accept.  I am certain it came from public coffers anyway.
Listen to your conscience and listen well.
Think of your children and your children&#8217;s children.  You owe them.

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		<title>&#8220;You won&#8217;t look at me&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/you-wont-look-at-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My anthem for the moment:
Look out the window at that rainstorm!
I&#8217;ve let the wind blow up a brainstorm.
And now I&#8217;m wond&#8217;ring whether weather like this gets you, too.
It may go on like this for hours.
Too late in fall for  April showers.
So while we&#8217;re caught here,
Got a thought or two I need to share with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=406&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/related/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was about to sleep when I checked the Philippine Daily Inquirer and came across several disturbing breaking news.  I am listing the headlines with their dates of posting: 

 Quake hits Papua New Guinea / 11:58pm (Mla time) 10/09/2007
5.4 magnitude quake hits Laoag / 04:51pm (Mla time) 10/09/2007
Moderate quake hits northern Japan / 08:00am (Mla time) 10/09/2007
Magnitude 6.0 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=403&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sea of bitterness</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/sea-of-bitterness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What&#8217;s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.&#8221;
&#8211; Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
I was christened Maria Elena.  &#8220;Elena&#8221;, as most baby-naming books and sites would tell us, means &#8220;light&#8221; or bearer of light.  &#8220;Maria&#8221; is an altogether different story.
I was expecting references to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=402&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;And I won&#8217;t be there&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/and-i-wont-be-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many things that I know I should write about but there&#8217;s a certain sadness that I simply could not shake off. Like a hovering dark cloud that just would not go away, it has taunted me for several days already.   This is my &#8220;rain, rain go away&#8221; song.  Perhaps, if I sing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=401&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words I wish were mine</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/words-i-wish-were-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I wanted to write a good piece for my Bar babies.  Three days have gone and I still am at a loss for words.
Providence led me to find this post written by a UP College of Law professor (I was blessed to have been in his class exactly ten years ago this year):
&#8220;As the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&blog=290974&post=393&subd=elenacardinez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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