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		<title>The Division of Gravity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and you learn that &#8230; you really can endure &#8230; that you really are strong &#8230; and you really do have worth &#8230; &#8230; grateful for the beauty of the author&#8217;s heart &#8230; Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1730&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Validating Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always loved me some drama. Where most people, after a long and busy day, prefer to chill in front of the TV with a romantic comedy, I prefer to chill with a crime investigation. Anything goes &#8211; CSI, Prime Suspect, Law &#38; Order &#8211; so long as there is dead people, and you don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1624&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yearning for Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve caught a bug. The kind that makes you yearn. In fact, I yearn so much lately that going about my everyday business now feels as though I am pulling a tractor all by myself. All of a sudden, I wish I could eject myself from my life, and place me instead flat-out on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Expectations: Backbreaking Burden of Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I was a foreigner, living someplace on my own, like you. But this is China and I am Chinese. I don&#8217;t have a choice because I am poor. I can only do what is expected of me, what is acceptable and proper in the eyes of my family members. I am supposed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1471&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Self: Seize Your Epiphanies, Won&#8217;t You?!</title>
		<link>http://alterismus.com/2012/01/13/dear-self-seize-your-epiphanies-wont-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first two weeks of 2012 have welcomed me with warmth and I am happy to have a number of excitements to look forward to this month. First off, I am about to partake in another New Year&#8217;s celebration. Living in China means I get to do that twice, ha! While I certainly am western [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moments to Savour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back my mother and I had an interesting conversation on the subject of growing up. As your life moves forward, especially if you bear sole responsibility for any changes that occur in it, I find you begin to have this split vision of who you are as a person. With my parents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1458&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rejuvenating Powers of Solitary Confinement</title>
		<link>http://alterismus.com/2011/12/28/rejuvenating-powers-of-solitary-confinement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether somebody gives up on you, or you yourself choose to walk, an ending never feels like a win-win situation. Even when the decision is your own, you will be hurting, questioning how right you were in your judgment. You may also feel like you have failed, like you have not done enough to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=1139&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mind is a Battlefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the most arduous one to navigate, too. It may not be all that obvious (what with such scarce number of posts here) but I blog every waking hour of every day. Reason you don&#8217;t see it? My day job. Or maybe that&#8217;s a lie. No, no, I am not about to launch into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=993&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Jack Tripper. What You Can Learn From the Eyeless Cat.</title>
		<link>http://alterismus.com/2011/12/05/the-tale-of-jack-tripper-what-you-can-learn-from-the-eyeless-cat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say I love animals is an understatement. Balanced people love them. I&#8217;ve never known myself balanced. I harbor immeasurable amounts of adoration for everybody fluffy, tiny and cute. I no longer notice how many times I stop on the sidewalk on my way to work to just be able to look at that tiny chihuahua, sporting a bumble bee outfit, a little while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=922&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding the Winter Blues</title>
		<link>http://alterismus.com/2011/11/24/avoiding-the-winter-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no denying it any more&#8230; This week it&#8217;s definitely official. We have arrived at winter at last. Effective immediately the numbers of laowais in active mode are bound to begin plummeting. Most of us are going to enter that I&#8217;m-barely-conscious state in which we travel to and from our offices strictly on autopilot, clinging to our Starbucks, Costa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterismus.com&amp;blog=15011971&amp;post=555&amp;subd=shangology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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