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	<title>Lily's Blog, Dragon Absconded!</title>
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	<description>Baking Until I Drop</description>
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		<title>Ahem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly I&#8217;ve dropped&#8230;
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2010/02/19/ahem/</link>
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		<title>i have another nephew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[woohooo
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2010/01/01/i-have-another-nephew/</link>
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		<title>Dinner tonight!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re inviting family over and cooking.
When&#8217;s the last time we did that?
I DON&#8217;T KNOW!
I wish Chennette was here, but we&#8217;re balancing the timing because although Big Sis is due end of the year, people are thinking she can come ANYTIME!
And Chennette isn&#8217;t coming until say&#8230;.the 1st?
So, we can&#8217;t wait.
So I made the baklava last night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/12/20/dinner-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Dear Food Network, I have a show idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Food Network,
I have a show idea!
And it will satisfy a couple of your most important criteria:

be simple and thus appeal to the lowest common denominator
can feature one of your most favourite hosts (Rachael Ray)
and be done in 30 minutes or less (sometimes)

It will also satisfy one of my needs/desires/cravings or what have you.
Are you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/12/03/dear-food-network-i-have-a-show-idea/</link>
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		<title>Eid Mubarak!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, go read Chennette&#8217;s post.
We made good stuff and she took pictures with my camera which hasn&#8217;t been cleared in&#8230;um more than 7 weeks?
I&#8217;m really beat these days because&#8230;guess what?
I&#8217;m working!
Finally a paycheque (hmm I thought they said I would get paid yesterday but haven&#8217;t seen it yet)!
And I&#8217;m oh so tired.
Well, I felt very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/11/26/eid-mubarak/</link>
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		<title>Will a Trini (or Tobagonian) make Hajj again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you see the news tonight?
Many years ago (when my parents first made Hajj), the Saudi embassy used to send emissaries to process passports and visas for the pilgrims going to Saudi Arabia for Hajj.
For various political reasons (so went the talk), they stopped coming. So the embassy in Caracas, Venezuela was assigned to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/11/03/will-a-trini-or-tobagonian-make-hajj-again/</link>
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		<title>T&amp;T vs NSW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[can&#8217;t watch
Airtel Champions League 20/20 Cricket Final
Edit: *sniffle*
I guess at least we only ever lost to each other?
*sniffle*
Congrats NSW Blues. Still love you T&#38;T.
*sniffle*
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/10/23/tt-vs-nsw/</link>
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		<title>T&amp;T playing in 20/20 tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope we win.
Can you believe this article? Nobody locally was willing to sponsor them??!
It&#8217;s horrendous.
Or maybe quite believable. I wasn&#8217;t paying much attention and didn&#8217;t know we were playing until I woke up one morning and mom and dad were like look we&#8217;re playing. If you know me, when I wake up, I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/10/17/tt-playing-in-2020-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>You know you&#8217;re really desperate for a new computer when&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re really desperate for a new computer when the ones at PriceSmart are starting to look good.
Talk about instant gratification.
My powerbook isn&#8217;t quite dead yeat but it has vertical red lines running through it from start-up and then when (if) it loads the GUI there&#8217;s a box of vertical hashes following the mouse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/10/09/you-know-youre-really-desperate-for-a-new-computer-when/</link>
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		<title>Goug&#232;res: 1; Lilandra: 0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*sigh*
Well, I&#8217;ve never even made puffs before.
I burnt 1/4.
Furthermore, next time, we only make one of the recipe, maybe twice&#8230;five? you got to be kidding me.
On a happy note, mom&#8217;s layered chicken biryani tasted great. Usually chicken biryani is&#8230;well&#8230;you know so-so&#8230;okay&#8230;but can&#8217;t compete with lamb, goat or maybe even beef&#8230;
This chicken biryani tasted just as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/09/19/gougres-1-lilandra-0/</link>
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		<title>The Low-Key &#8216;Id Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone was coming to help mom make &#8220;traditional&#8221; sweets (eg barfi, gulab jamoon, kurma, rasgullah, laddoo, halwah etc) this year. Initially our plan was one traditional, one fried thing, one other sweet and one savoury.
When a villager volunteered to come help, I enthusiastically said yes (because I know, as much as mom always says yes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/09/18/the-low-key-id-menu/</link>
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		<title>Ramadan Mubarak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan started last night with the sighting of the moon and then the first Tarawih.
And thus today is the first day of fasting. I&#8217;m hoping this year, Insha Allah I can fast the whole month (or almost). We didn&#8217;t even discuss paying < a href="http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2008/09/03/ramadan-2-suhur/">fidiya for me this year and so I am cautiously optimistic!
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/08/22/ramadan-mubarak/</link>
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		<title>Fridge Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I went downstairs tonight and had need of an egg. There are a couple eggs in the fridge that have little cracks in it so I took one of those out and figured I&#8217;d see if it was okay.
I cracked it open and it was kinda&#8230;
Well have you ever seen a frozen raw egg? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/08/05/fridge-woes/</link>
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		<title>Down with Debbie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That is all I have to say.
Yes. I know you know what I mean.
Shameful, huh?
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/07/26/down-with-debbie/</link>
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		<title>Land of Cute Little Hatchbacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been on an extra-long blogging break&#8230;taking few pictures and uploading none; haven&#8217;t even finished my hajj adventures. 
But now, refreshed from a month-long vacation in England (and maybe finally sleeping properly), I hopefully will start back baking more often.
But you know&#8230;it&#8217;s like almost everybody drives these itsy-bitsy (and some not-so itsy-bitsy) hatchbacks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/05/10/land-of-cute-little-hatchbacks/</link>
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		<title>Was I ready for Hajj?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want you to think hajj is only about the travel to and from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
But unfortunately, due to all the stress and worries, our heads were in a turmoil and I was worried that I would never be in the right frame of mind to make an accepted Hajj. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/01/23/was-i-ready-for-hajj/</link>
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		<title>On Leaving for Hajj</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We left on Sunday morning with some trepidation as we had only collected our passports with visas the day before. 
The preceding week was very stressful as there was still some doubt that our first group (we had been split into two as we were such a large group) would be able to make hajj. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/01/23/on-leaving-for-hajj/</link>
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		<title>A House for Mr Biswas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we were leaving Makkah, en route to Madinah, we saw some &#8220;houses&#8221;. There were quite a lot of them in fact, unfinished, roofless, windowless, doorless, abandoned structures.
One of them, about two to three hours into the drive, had BISWAS written on the side, in capital letters! Unfortunately I have no photographic evidence (we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2009/01/05/a-house-for-mr-biswas/</link>
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		<title>The problem with travelling for a whole month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home again. We reached our house around 2 pm yesterday and by 2 pm today had already returned from a trip to the doctor and pharmacy.
Travelling for so long makes it hard to distinguish between the days&#8230;the passage of night is hard,
All donations of food especially got and home cooked would be highly appreciated.
P.S. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2008/12/30/the-problem-with-travelling-for-a-whole-month/</link>
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		<title>al madinah al munawarah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in madinah. Leaving in about a week&#8217;s time. Hajj finished about a week ago. Tired and a bit sick. Thinking about shopping. Want anything? ;-)
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		<link>http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2008/12/21/madinah-al-munawarah/</link>
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