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		<title>Not All Things Handmade Are The Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. Fanboy-ism is often prevalent in a field of products, brands or universe of characters where very few competitors (or enemies in fiction, such as comics) exist. I&#8217;ll admit it: I used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pursue Excellence &#8216;Til It Hurts &#8211; Because That&#8217;s What It Always Takes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellence &#8211; and the pursuit of it &#8211; truly grab me emotionally. It&#8217;s why I like what I like. It&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been interested in the hobbies and pursuits that I&#8217;ve done. It&#8217;s what I have sought in my professional life, and what I am now trying to build. It&#8217;s how I gauge cars, knives, guns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did The Gig Match the Job Posting? Hmm&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing some pretty intensive cleaning around my home, and I came upon some old job postings. These are postings for jobs that I applied for, interviewed for, and got. It&#8217;s interesting now to look back on the postings to see just how the gigs matched the postings&#8230; or not. I&#8217;ve got two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Takes More Than a Slogan on a T-Shirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace is not something you can capture on a t-shirt and it isn&#8217;t something anyone can decree &#8211; not unless they impose themselves on others by force, and imposed peace is not peace in the truest sense. I passed by a young man on the street todaywith a t-shirt saying “No War. Peace.” It reminded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Takes a Step Backwards by Removing Bike Lanes for the 1st Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Javis lanes, as well as Pharmacy and Birchmount officially dead. Separated network will be built.” “Toronto City Council voted just before its lunch break Wednesday to spend more than $400,000 removing about eight kilometres of bike lanes that had been installed during the previous term of City Council.” The City of Toronto today took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIXI Toronto has Serious Problems: They Don&#8217;t Know What They&#8217;re Doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First impressions are important. Unfortunately, my first impressions with BIXI bikes in Toronto are not positive at all. Due to the Canada Post strike and lockout, BIXI cannot mail out new member kits. The kits are important because they contain the BIXI key that members must use to check out bikes at the automated bike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our General Ignorance About War &amp; International Politics Leaves Us Vulnerable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.&#8221; &#8211; Sun Tzu War has always been a part of human history, and utopian dreams aside, always will be. Sometimes wars are just and necessary, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t Accept Supermarket Sushi-Like Products Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2011/i-cant-accept-supermarket-sushi-like-products-anymore/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-cant-accept-supermarket-sushi-like-products-anymore</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at T&#38;T Supermarket yesterday and, as always, walked past the sushi counter near the entrance. As usual, it was teeming with people, all going through the boxes of sushi-like products, eagerly snapping them up and putting them into their rolling baskets. I saw kids energetically asking their parents if they could choose this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the Prices for A-La-Carte Sushi Gouging Or Are They Reasonable?</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2011/are-the-prices-for-a-la-carte-sushi-gouging-or-are-they-reasonable/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-the-prices-for-a-la-carte-sushi-gouging-or-are-they-reasonable</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making sushi takes effort and fresh, high quality seafood doesn&#8217;t come cheap. It&#8217;s easy to look at the price for real sushi &#8211; which means I&#8217;m not counting the all-you-can-eat mock variety &#8211; and reel from the cost for a-la-carte nigiri sushi. $4 for two pieces? $6? $9? Yep, you&#8217;ll see up to $9 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stereotypical Asian Parenting Is A Relic Ill-Suited To The Modern World</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2011/stereotypical-asian-parenting-is-a-relic-ill-suited-to-the-modern-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stereotypical-asian-parenting-is-a-relic-ill-suited-to-the-modern-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Chua&#8217;s article in the Wall Street Journal about asian parenting has me thinking about the differences between the way I and many of my Asian friends were raised, and how I see many non-Asian kids were raised. To begin with, I think Amy Chua &#8211; a Yale law professor, no less &#8211; takes a [...]]]></description>
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