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	<title>random thoughts...from steven</title>
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		<title>children &#8211; to have or not to have, that is the question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate on starting a family and having kids is one that will continue to plague us for many many years. There is no &#8220;fix it&#8221; solution out there simply because it&#8217;s about personal choice and short of making it law, we can never control what people do or do not want.
 
The Singapore government has thrown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/steven-chia/?p=140</link>
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		<title>this is where I&#8217;ve been&#8230;home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you&#8217;re wondering where I&#8217;ve been and why I&#8217;ve been misssing from work. Well, believe it or not, I got hit with HFMD. Yep, that&#8217;s Hand Foot Mouth Disease, the thing they say only kids under the age of ten largely get. So what am I doing with it?!!!
My daughter caught it first and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/steven-chia/?p=143</link>
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		<title>singapore national service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I&#8217;ve started this blog, I&#8217;ve written about quite a variety of things but over time I&#8217;ve noticed that none are as popular as the one I wrote about my time in national service. I think it&#8217;s because every guy has to go through it in Singapore and so it&#8217;s a topic that will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/steven-chia/?p=110</link>
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		<title>My Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a strange coincidence, over the past few months I have come across a few people in Singapore who have told me that they want to instill patriotism in people. And it&#8217;s not just talk, they mean to do so with actual programmes.
 
I thought and I still think it&#8217;s an interesting agenda to have. After all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/steven-chia/?p=118</link>
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		<title>speak your mind &#8211; literally!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you could not control yourself such that your every thought would be spoken out loud. Imagine that! It would be a very scary world and chances are you&#8217;d have no friends because they would hear the good and bad things you think about them! And the thing is &#8211; most of the time, the thoughts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/steven-chia/?p=107</link>
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