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		<title>Dumpling Workshop!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did the week go?! Sometimes it seems like everything is going smoothly, I am on top of my daughter&#8217;s progress at school, have a steady stream of care packages going to Afghanistan and know the general location of our toddler, and then something unexpected comes along and I get derailed. Which is what happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Little Abacist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citrus went to her first abacus class. These classes are popular in Singapore both for learning math and for developing &#8216;mental agility&#8217;. I signed her up on a whim, figuring that it was something unique to living in Asia and would be a tactile approach to learning math that she might enjoy. I liked that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/29/our-little-abacist/</link>
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		<title>A Singapore Chinese New Year: Steamboat and Lo Hei</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we had a Chinese New Year dinner with a few Singapore families. An authentic experience for a foreigner from the United States: steamboat, lo hei, Wii and Van Helsing. Despite having lived in Singapore for a couple years now, we have never tried steamboat. It is a fairly common dish here for a group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/29/a-singapore-chinese-new-year-steamboat-and-lo-hei/</link>
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		<title>CNY Shopping Center Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago we went to a Chinese New Year celebration at a shopping center where, previously, we had seen a few fun performances.  A low-key casual community event next door to a place we often go for noodle soup. I feel like my daughter has grown up at this the hawker stall. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/28/cny-shopping-center/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Road Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered today that Google Maps is able to give driving directions from Singapore to Kabul. It would only take about four days of non-stop driving (4,400 miles/7,100 kilometers). Singapore to Malaysia to Myanmar, and through Bangladesh and Northern India along the borders of Bhutan and Nepal.  Other than the last 1,000 miles through Pakistan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/26/fantasy-road-trip/</link>
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		<title>Happy Chinese New Year from Afghanistan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year from Camp Blackhorse, Afghanistan! Elysia received a large box of Chinese New Year candies and decorations from her sister &#8212; this lantern was pretty complicated to put together &#8212; and I sent another 16 pounds of treats for her to share with other servicemembers and her Afghan mentees. It is a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/22/happy-cny-from-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Happy Chinese New Year from Singapore!</title>
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		<title>Here Comes Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am at a pool party today and another father comes to me and says that he must tell me something that my six-year-old daughter said to his wife. &#8220;Uh oh,&#8221; I say, &#8220;Did she start talking about castration?&#8221; &#8220;No,” he says. &#8220;She told my wife that she already has three boyfriends.&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I said. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/21/here-comes-trouble/</link>
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		<title>Primary School Word of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citrus reads everything. For the past three months her face has been buried in books and it seems that many of our conversations are about how to spell words or explain their meaning. After our flight to Laos she told me she could spell &#8220;Fasten Seat Belt  While Seated&#8221; without looking and, when returning from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navalgazing.com/2012/01/18/primary-school-word-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>祝我生日快乐 (Happy Birthday to . . . Me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kids and I celebrated my birthday today by going to Din Tai Fung for dinner. We had a basket of their great xiaolongbau, Citrus and I each had about three bowls of hot and sour soup, Baby Lemon helped eat most of the noodles and my daughter finished off the spinach sauteed in garlic. [...]]]></description>
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