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	<title>Stanfords Finest &#187; Bangkok</title>
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		<title>Inception</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am walking along Gloucester Road, Kensington. I just met a hero in my profession and she likes me. She smiled warmly and we spoke at length about my hopes and fears. I met her colleague and he escorted me to a pub in East London. Inside people laughed and drank and sat around relaxed on this late August Friday afternoon. We laughed as we spoke for some three hours about our profession. I waved goodbye and got the tube home. I walk down a tree lined street where badge cars and young families jostle with tourists as shops and cafes sprawl into the arteries of London a warm brezzy air encapsulating the whole scene. I will be working with this lady. I know it. This will be a chance that I will not get again. 

KICK 

I am in Bahrain. I sit at my desk my head cloudy with frustration and broken promises. I have been here almost two years. The Isolation. The Frustration. I am working in the south of the island and my days are endless and repetitive. Somehow my family is with me but sometimes they disappear. I am frustrated. I want to go but the worlds economies have gone to shit and I will be fired here. There are no new jobs. There are no new options. I must sit it out here alone. Every day the same. The weather the same. The long drive. The covered ladies. The scary locals. No drinks. No pork. No rights. No fun. Nowhere to go, Nothing to do. No culture. No signs of life apart form a pool. And a big car. That’s all. That’s life. I get up and I want to go back to sleep again. 

KICK

I am in Asia. I live in a small box with my wife and our young son. Sometimes I am in China but mostly Hong Kong. I am out of place. I miss London. I love Asia. I walk along the MTR station and go back to our home. The streets teem with life. The air thick. I am happy here. Work is different. The people are cold but I love them. This is a new world. This is a new dawn. My wife asks me how my day was and I explain my frustrations but there is something to keep me here. My friends and my closeness to Bangkok. This is my life. 

KICK

I am in London. I am walking along High Street, Kensington. I meet a friend and we go to pub. Inside people laughed and drank and sat around relaxed on this late August Friday afternoon. We laughed as we spoke for some three hours about our  lives. I waved goodbye and got the tube home. I walk down a tree lined street where badge cars and young families jostle with tourists as shops and cafes sprawl into the arteries of London a warm breezy air encapsulating the whole scene. I will miss my friends. I know it. This will be a chance that I will get again. One day. 

KICK

I awake. I am in Bahrain. I fly to London in September. The dream is over. 
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		<title>Protected: Cycles</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2010/03/cycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<title>Thailand to the edge of panic</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2010/03/thailand-to-the-edge-of-panic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been meaning to write this since November of last year but maybe now is the time &#8211; the eve of the red shirted hoards descending on Bangkok with the next 24 hours. Thailand is on the brink &#8211; the brink of self-destruction. Thaksin Shinawatra the ousted Prime Minister of Thailand, democratically elected natch, is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Was it a Dream Come True?</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/09/was-it-a-dream-come-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<title>Protected: war is over</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/09/war-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<title>Protected: 53 days and counting</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/07/53-days-and-counting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Time Of Your Life</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/01/the-time-of-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please excuse this rather self indulgent post but I want to just record the things that have happened to me as I don&#8217;t think they will happen to me in the same way or at the same pace ever again and I know I will forget it all as time goes by so its A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corrupt Cops and Crack Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/01/corrupt-cops-and-crack-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With corruption you know where you stand. Much vilified I am a Big Fan. Take last Thursday for example. This time in Bangkok I have taken to driving around one of the family cars rather than using taxis or the Dreaded Driver. This has opened up the city to me but also made me more [...]]]></description>
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