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		<title>The Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Words within words Blue sky under the clouds hiding The key lays within Words within words There was a man who lived by the ocean. Each day, he woke to the sound of the waves, to the song of the birds, to the whisper of the gentle breeze. Every day is just like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=351&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ika-siyam na Libro ni Bob Ong: Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maikling nobela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Babala: Ang entry na ito ay naglalaman ng spoilers. Kung wala kang idea na may bagong libro si Bob Ong (assuming na isa ka ring fan) at bigla kang napadaan sa Philippine literature section ng isang bookstore, sigurado akong mapapatingin ka ulit kung libro nga ba ni Bob ang nakita mo. Magdadalawang isip ka kung [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=340&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norwegian Wood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry contains spoilers. Norwegian Wood is the first Haruki Murakami novel that I’ve read. It is a love story, a departure from his usual surreal and enigmatic stories. I don’t read love stories but for Haruki, I make an exception (and also for Paulo Coelho). The story started when the Toru, the main protagonist, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=320&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What On Earth Have I Done? by Robert Fulghum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine (or might be 10 or 11) years ago, I saw Fulghum’s “Uh Oh” on our bookshelf at home. I assumed it was one of the books that my aunt (who also likes to read) left when she moved to Sydney. With nothing else on my reading lineup, I’ve picked it up and began to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=309&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Star and the Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first attempt to write a story. This is for someone I know who likes stars. In a forest unknown to man, there was a Tree who fell in love with a Star. Overwhelmed by this powerful inner force he was unable to comprehend and contain, the Tree began thinking of ways to make his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=302&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I remember you</title>
		<link>http://alvingalvan.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/i-remember-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember you&#8230; In a time when loneliness pervades, I remember you. Do you remember the song you&#8217;ve listened to a thousand times? The song that you&#8217;ve associated with me? I&#8217;ve been wishing (and still wish) that the story in that song is a reality we could both live in. Do you still listen to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=290&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foursome, L Na L and One Night Stand</title>
		<link>http://alvingalvan.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/foursome-l-na-l-and-one-night-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karl Kaufman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L Na L]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sabel Prado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, one of my best friends gave me and my other best friend a Christmas present like no other. That present came in the form of three thin books (a little over a hundred of pages each), with no fancy covers but with titles not usually seen at the bookshelves of bookstores [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=283&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ang mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan: Ika-8 libro ni Bob Ong</title>
		<link>http://alvingalvan.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/ang-mga-kaibigan-in-mama-susan-ika-8-libro-ni-bob-ong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[May mga posibleng spoilers ang entry na to.] Noong ginawa ko yung entry ko sa mas naunang libro ni Bob &#8212; &#8220;Kapitan Sino,&#8221; may komento ako na iniwasan kong ilagay sa blog entry na yon. Nilagay ko lamang ang mga bagay na sa tingin ko ay naging high point ng kwento. Ang hindi ko nabanggit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=268&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett</title>
		<link>http://alvingalvan.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/the-pillars-of-the-earth-by-ken-follett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cathedral]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kings, bishops, knights, pawns face each other into a tortuous battle for power. This historical novel is set during the period of The Anarchy and the assassination of Thomas Becket. The story is a smoothly flowing montage which tells of the lives of people from different walks of life brought together by fate and by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=235&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Life in Reverse: Benjamin’s Curious Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Galvan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movie Curious Case of Benjamin Button (based from S. Fitzgerald’s story), which I’ve seen last week, is about the extraordinary life of Benjamin Button as recounted through his diary. At the beginning of the movie, there was a sub-story of a blind man who made a big clock in honor of his son who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvingalvan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823158&amp;post=200&amp;subd=alvingalvan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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