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	<title>A Mother's Monologue</title>
	<link>http://mamapumpkin.com</link>
	<description>....Talk is cheap....take it with a pinch of salt!</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What Agama teachers say to their students</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/20/what-agama-teachers-say-to-their-students/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/20/what-agama-teachers-say-to-their-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin Learning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin City]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin Thoughts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bugger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Furious!!!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my 14 year old cousin told me of just 2 incidents where her Agama teacher (Religious teacher: she is Muslim, you see, so forced to take Agama classes in school) said things to her that were just totally absurd. I shan&#8217;t mention her school because I feel all schools have good and bad as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking for favours</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/asking-for-favours/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/asking-for-favours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[What's between my ears?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bugger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Anger Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/asking-for-favours/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where do you draw the line in asking someone for a favour?
I am generally ok with people asking me DIRECTLY to babysit, do some free work for them, water their plants whilst they are on holiday, run an errand for them or pick their kid up from school. Ask me and I will tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great webhosting options</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/great-webhosting-options/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/great-webhosting-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[And everything else]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/great-webhosting-options/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet has changed the face of business like you would never believe and any business that does not have a website, is as good as gone. EVERY business that wants to succeed must have a website!!! The world has changed. People no longer have time like they did before and if you wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post gone MIA</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/post-gone-mia/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/post-gone-mia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[On the way to madness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Furious!!!]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spooky]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/post-gone-mia/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time, I hadn&#8217;t been lucky enough to get some BGTV offers and suddenly, I got some yesterday. Thank you, God!! So today, I was busy making online sandwiches but funnily, the last filling lost it&#8217;s top layer of sandwich which was really, really strange!!! I went to my friend&#8217;s house and checked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No more birthday parties from here on</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/no-more-birthday-parties-from-here-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/no-more-birthday-parties-from-here-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[My Boring Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Small Pumpkin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/no-more-birthday-parties-from-here-on/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we decided last night, the Hubs and I. What would really make him happy, and me too really, is that we no longer attend the many birthday parties that we have taken Tee to in the past. She will just have to adjust and learn that we cannot attend the crazy 30 or so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing your wealth in tough times ahead</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/investing-your-wealth-in-tough-times-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/investing-your-wealth-in-tough-times-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[And everything else]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that apart from putting your money in the fixed deposit or buying equity shares, you can also invest in property or do some gold investing? The prices of gold doubled this year and whatever gold that you had bought in the 70s would have made you a tidy sum. At the Monex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping family out</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/helping-family-out/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/helping-family-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone has asked me to give their children some PMR history tuition and initially, I thought ok why not. They have no other option and I thought I could help a little. But after thinking more about it, I was asking myself, just when exactly am I going to find the time to do this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tee&#8217;s boring playdate</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/tees-boring-playdate/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/tees-boring-playdate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[toddler dramas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tots Activities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[My Boring Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[On the way to madness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Playgroup]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bugger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Simply Motherhood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Small Pumpkin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/tees-boring-playdate/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine needed some babysitting today so I welcomed her girl to come over to play with Tee.Tee was initially very excited asking every five minutes if she was on the way but things very soon changed when she arrived.

For the first hour of the morning, the little girl was whining and asking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New jewellery store at a high end location</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/new-jewellery-store-at-a-high-end-location/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/19/new-jewellery-store-at-a-high-end-location/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[And everything else]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my aunt told me that she was offered a job to run a designer costume jewellery store at a high end shopping mall in town. She said that her friend designs this jewellery herself and are beautiful. I wanted to know just how beautiful is beautiful when it has to turnover at least 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I called for a family meeting</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/i-called-for-a-family-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/i-called-for-a-family-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[What's between my ears?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Pumpkin life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/i-called-for-a-family-meeting/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I did, and guess what? Almost everyone was on defense mode. Who&#8217;s calling this meeting? Who&#8217;s part of the family? Why are we having a meeting? What have I done wrong?
I&#8217;d realised exactly then, that I should have reworded it and said Family PARTY, instead of Family MEETING. *sigh* We live and learn.
I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of family</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/the-importance-of-family/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/the-importance-of-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[What's between my ears?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/the-importance-of-family/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I have been thinking seriously about the family unit and what kind of family I want to build for Tee. As I come from a broken family and what the Hubs has isn&#8217;t exactly my ideal either, I will develop my own special family; all for the sake of Tee and hopefully, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furthering college studies</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/furthering-college-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/18/furthering-college-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[And everything else]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I always believe in improving myself constantly and whenever I get a chance, I am always looking to see how I can do so. A friend of mine, she used to learn a new skill every 6 months. First she took up dressmaking, then fencing, then pottery, then studied psychology despite already having a marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace 007</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/17/daniel-craig-in-quantum-of-solace-007/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/17/daniel-craig-in-quantum-of-solace-007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[What's between my ears?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People, Places and Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design and Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love Hollywood flicks as much as I love the deeper British productions because I love analysing creativity. Taking apart entire finished products and criticising them is what I was taught to do at University.
Quantum of Solace
The music at the beginning was already weak and that put me off - not catchy, not zany, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler bedtime rituals</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/17/toddler-bedtime-rituals/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/17/toddler-bedtime-rituals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tee, my little pumpkin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tots Activities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every night before we go to bed, we do something that Tee wants to do before we do a list of things that she doesn&#8217;t want to do. Like brushing her teeth and washing up, like getting changed into her pyjamas, like going to bed!!!
Tee is extremely creative and loves making things. Out of anything! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Planted Trees</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/16/the-man-who-planted-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/16/the-man-who-planted-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tots Activities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin Learning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pumpkin City]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Pumpkin life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Small Pumpkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We went to watch the above at the Actor&#8217;s Studio and got to sit right up front on stage itself where we got completely frozen drenched! But the advantage was that we got to sniff first hand the scents of lavender and woody musk from stage.

Everyone else who went for the play were terribly surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bling! Bling!</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/16/bling-bling/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/16/bling-bling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tee, my little pumpkin]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Any idea what Tee is looking at? Since she was 6 months old, my mother would take Tee to KLCC and show her all the diamonds and point out to all things bling. She even taught Tee how to pronounce Bulgari, Tiffany and Cartier, hehehe&#8230;..
And believe it or not, this love for diamonds has stuck! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home made chocolate cookies</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/home-made-chocolate-cookies/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/home-made-chocolate-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tee, my little pumpkin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tots Activities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Pumpkin life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cooking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/home-made-chocolate-cookies/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another boring day&#8230;..so I got out the old chocolates from the fridge that we hadn&#8217;t eaten and told Tee to cook them. You should have seen her eyes turn on. You know? Like a light switch. On-off-on-off. Bored, off. Cook chocolate, On!
We also melted some marshmallows but I wouldn&#8217;t recommend you try that. Very, very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Since we&#8217;re in dream shopping mode&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/since-were-in-dream-shopping-mode/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/since-were-in-dream-shopping-mode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I also wouldn&#8217;t mind owning some of these dresses :




Notice how they are all waistless and baggy????????????
They would suit my body perfectly. Sugar Daddy where????????


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		<title>I fell in love last night&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/i-fell-in-love-last-night/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/i-fell-in-love-last-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[My Boring Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pampering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[On the way to madness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[moolah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was with the Hubs on a date at a high end location and my attention all night (sad to say) was not on him. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love the Hubs more than anything else in the world, but there, right in front of me, amidst fabulous food and gay men, were the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling secrets at school</title>
		<link>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/telling-secrets-at-school/</link>
		<comments>http://mamapumpkin.com/2008/11/15/telling-secrets-at-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigpumpkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tee, my little pumpkin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[At playschool]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Tee&#8217;s teacher told me that she complained that she was really frustrated because her Mom made her do maths which she didn&#8217;t like. She said it was too difficult and she felt very frustrated! Then she said she was also bored of her Mother because her Mother talked too much all the time.  o_o

Just [...]]]></description>
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