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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>
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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&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=543&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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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		<description><![CDATA[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&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=542&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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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		<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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=541&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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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		<description><![CDATA[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!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=540&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=539&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=536&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=535&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=534&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=533&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=528&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=525&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 so there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=518&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=514&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=499&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=452&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=447&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=433&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=432&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=428&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=423&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=415&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=414&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Away</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=408&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=407&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=403&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Where have all the young men gone?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/where-have-all-the-young-men-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the frenzy of the preparations for tomorrow&#8217;s Bar Examinations, the third of four grueling Sundays, I pause to remember a young man I never got to meet but nonetheless has touched our lives in so many ways. 2nd Lt. Ariel Toledo was interred this morning in his native Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur. The honor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=390&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Destination unknown&#8230;&#8221; [The Eraserheads, &#8220;Saturn Return&#8221;]</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/destination-unknown-the-eraserheads-saturn-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone (SMS, email, thoughts)who helped usher in the fourth decade (panic, panic) of this little life with a glad heart. Orson Welles once wrote that “we’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion that we’re not alone.” Dark thoughts on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=388&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life continues&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, back in UP Law, a piece written by Veronica Shoffstall made the rounds of egroups (before Yahoo bought it to become Yahoo Groups). A line that stuck went (and I hope my memory still hasn&#8217;t failed me): &#8220;&#8230;you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=387&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elevators are evil!</title>
		<link>http://elenacardinez.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/elevators-are-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fast chalking up horrors that shake up our tidy little lives. Five minutes ago, fear manifested itself in the eternity that I found myself in an elevator that got stuck at the 22nd floor. On the brighter side, at least I got to push that alarm button for the first time and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=377&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A best friend&#8217;s wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I wrote about an amazing race of sorts between Joy, Ceres and me. (Anne, if you are reading this, I represented your interests. He he.) The race was to find The One &#8211; and make sure we have his ring on our fingers. The race, for the moment, has been brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elenacardinez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=290974&amp;post=376&amp;subd=elenacardinez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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