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		<title>Realisation of Self: Number 237</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Travel seems to afford people with alot of time for navel-gazing. I am no different. In fact, when I left Bangkok, Thailand for Yangon, Myanmar (or Rangoon, Burma, dependent on whether you recognise the name changes), I actually made a point of leaving my laptop behind, and trying to pack as few distractions as possible so that I could engage in both some good and intense gazing into my navel, as well as remove anything I could put between myself and the locals - to draw them in and me out, so to speak.]]></description>
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		<title>A Language Roadblock For Westerners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that "ma" can have at least 11 meanings?]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Myanmar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar - a country with no ATMs, a military junta, random bombings and an impending anniversary of an uprising. I sure can pick my travel destinations, can't I?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/09/preparing-for-myanmar/</link>
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		<title>A Lovely River, Just Don&#8217;t Drink The Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having never been to Venice, I would only be able to guess that it's the same kind of story there as it is here in Bangkok. At least, when it comes to the canals.

One of the most often overlooked forms of transport available in Bangkok, at least by tourists, is the Khlong Boat. Khlong, in Thai, means "canal", and in the same way as Venice relies on it's canals for the transport of people and goods throughout the city, so did Bangkok.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/09/just-dont-drink-the-water/</link>
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		<title>Most. Expensive. Tourist. Visa. Ever!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the wonders of WikiTravel, I realised that I need a Tourist Visa to enter India. Hooray. No big deal there, right? I have been through countries requiring pre-approved and issued Visas before - China and Vietnam. But, as with all things, assuming that it is simple almost always condemns it to being difficult, obscure and just generally frustrating.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Be Internationally Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Travelling overseas for a while? Want to be easily contacted from home during the journey? Want to save money on the, sometimes incredibly overpriced, long distance phone calls or low quality phone card services? Here are some tricks for you...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/06/how-to-be-internationally-local/</link>
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		<title>Never Trust The Fat People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, before anyone has a go at me for being size-ist, or for taking a swipe at the “gravitationally gifted”, this is just a basic generalisation I have arrived at and has only been tested within the confines of South-East Asia and even then, specifically Vietnam and Thailand. Besides, it makes for a catchy headline…
Having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/04/never-trust-the-fat-people/</link>
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		<title>An Expensive Lesson Learnt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After waking up at about 9AM, which was certainly earlier than most of the wake-up times I had enjoyed in China (but was certainly due to the earlier than usual bed time I had the night before), I decided that today would be a good day to try and find a copy of the Lonely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/03/an-expensive-lesson-learnt/</link>
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		<title>A City With Personality &#8211; But Maybe A Few Too Many Of Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first day running around Macau - a cemetery, shopping town, fortress, navigational exam, and more!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/01/multiple-personality-city-disorder/</link>
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		<title>Macau &#8211; China&#8217;s Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First night Macau.
First night outside of Australia.
First time to a sushi place.
First step of my journey.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.massrefraction.com/2009/01/macau-chinas-vegas/</link>
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