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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>Protected: 12th July</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/07/12th-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></category>
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		<title>The Long Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/01/the-long-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ayi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where am I? I am in a hotel and I can see the Bund and the Pearl Tower and the glistening lights of Shanghai. The last few days have been bad emotionally but I am now tired of the lingering and wishing to get stuck into my job in the Middle East. Sunday, like Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>too much too young</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2009/01/too-much-too-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What am I doing? I am sitting here alone in my flat. A flat that was once busy with life now silent and empty. My wife and son remain in Thailand so its my last weekend in Shanghai and I am going out with a bang. As I sit here I can see my sons [...]]]></description>
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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>The End</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2008/12/the-end-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2008/12/the-end-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bahrain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the two weeks that was. Two weeks in Bahrain and after a shaky start I have to say I&#8217;m quite attached to the place. I feel relaxed, things are easy and work is not cloaked in 5000 years of face saving and suspicion. You know, do this do that and if its wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea In The Sahara</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2008/12/tea-in-the-sahara/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2008/12/tea-in-the-sahara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bahrain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I flew out from Pudong on a cold, quiet Tuesday night. I said goodbye to my colleagues in the day and my wife and son in the evening which was very emotional. My son is now at an age where he recognises and knows people and he will miss me when it dawns on him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Death Of A Salesman</title>
		<link>http://www.stanfordsfinest.com/2008/12/death-of-a-salesman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jingjok</dc:creator>
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