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		<title>Heavy Rain &amp; Hail Hits Melbourne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne was just hit by the most ferocious of storms that I have ever seen here. For around 15 minutes ferocious gusts of wind and heavy rain and hail bucketed down over Melbourne with some of the hail stones the size golf balls. People on the streets were frantically running for cover as small tree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Back To Melbourne&#8230; Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s already March 2010 and it&#8217;s definitely been way too long since my last post. Since coming back to Melbourne from London late October last year I&#8217;ve been so busy getting my life back on track and haven&#8217;t had much time to blog. I&#8217;ve got some time now so I thought I&#8217;d start the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cute Little Squirrel In Westferry Circus Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was walking through Westferry Circus Gardens today in Canary Wharf and saw this little squirrel scavenging for food in the trash bin and hopping around as squirrels do. I snapped away with my camera trying to get a few decent shots in which is never easy with squirrels since they rarely stay still for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Snow In Willesden</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2009/01/morning-snow-in-willesden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to see a beautiful light covering of snow in Willesden, the area in London where I currently live. Because it was so cold, minus 4 degrees Celsius to be exact, light snow feel instead of the usual misty rain that we usually get. It doesn&#8217;t snow that often here so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Melbourne Again</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2008/08/leaving-melbourne-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little over 12 months since I got back from my year living in Saigon and now it&#8217;s time to head off again. This time it&#8217;s across to the other side of the world to London. I&#8217;ll be travelling with my girlfriend Xuan and we&#8217;ll be basing ourselves there for a year long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2008/06/amanita-muscaria-mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Xuan and I were at Emerald Lake we stumbled across these little red mushrooms. We were both fascinated by them and ended up spending quite some time taking photographs. They kind of reminded me of the mushroom houses in the 1980s cartoon The Smurfs. The proper name for this species of mushroom or fungus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yarra River At Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we headed into the city in Melbourne to take some photos. Xuan had her brother&#8217;s old SLR and she wanted to experiment with some night photography. It also gave me a chance to play around with my new Canon IXUS 960 IS compact digital camera that I recently picked up. Although the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Hudsons Coffee</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2008/05/my-hudsons-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a new Canon IXUS 960 IS digital camera today which I&#8217;m absolutely wrapped about. I&#8217;ve been without a digital camera for about a month now since damaging my Canon IXY 1000 (aka Canon IXUS 900 Ti) holidaying in Thailand. Luckily the travel insurance covered it allowing me to get my hands on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seagulls In The Carpark</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/12/seagulls-in-the-carpark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had dinner with the missus in Footscray last night and while in the carpark we noticed all these seagulls just hanging around apparently not doing not much at all. I thought it looked a little weird. I know, you&#8217;re probably thinking, &#8216;Seagulls hanging around is just what they do. That&#8217;s not weird.&#8217; But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Melbourne Hook Turn</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/11/melbourne-hook-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting at the lights the other day and thought the look out of the car window would make for a good photo. The cars you see lined up are waiting to do a hook turn. For those who don&#8217;t know, a hook turn is a right turn made from the left side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parked On Lonsdale Street</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/10/parked-on-lonsdale-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was parked on Lonsdale Street in Melbourne last week waiting for my girlfriend to finish work and thought I&#8217;d take a few random photos of my surroundings. Trying not to look too much like a tourist I snapped away at whatever caught my eye. I pretty much just ended up with a few boring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back At Home In Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/08/back-at-home-in-melbourne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you already know I&#8217;m now back in Melbourne. After super fun and interesting year in Vietnam I decided it was time to head back home. It was sad to say goodbye to all the great friends I had made in Vietnam but at the same time I&#8217;m excited and enthusiastic about beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Afternoon In Saigon</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/07/early-afternoon-in-saigon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve already posted up two landscape photographs taken from my apartment of sunrise and sunset (blue hour to be more precise) in Saigon and thought it would be nice to make it a trio with one taken during the daylight hours. This one was taken at 2:00pm today and although the colours aren&#8217;t as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Hour In Saigon</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/06/blue-hour-in-saigon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At around 6:15pm today I looked out of the window of my apartment and noticed the sky was a beautiful blue colour so I just had to grab the digital camera and capture the moment. The blue hour, as I just discovered today, comes from a French expression which refers to the hour between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Saigon Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/06/saigon-sunrise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I end up going to bed just after sunrise after having a big night out on the town. An upside to this is I get to see some of the most spectacular sunrises from the 15th floor of my apartment in Binh Thanh district. Check out the photo I took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saigon Yellow Rose</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/02/saigon-yellow-rose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experimenting with taking close up shots of things with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W50 6.0 megapixel digital camera with the flash and macro option turned on. This has really produced some very interesting results and all without the aid of colour filters. I have posted my favourite photo that I took over the Tet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attempt At Being Artistic</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/01/attempt-at-being-artistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short post today. I just wanted to post up a few photo close ups I took recently. It&#8217;s just an attempt at being artistic and all. The first photo is of the base of a plant Amber gave me in December last year. It looks totally trippy doesn&#8217;t it? The second two are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Weeks In Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2006/12/two-weeks-in-melbourne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of my friends now know I&#8217;ve been in Melbourne now for over a week. Just a bit of break from the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City. It&#8217;s been great catching up with friends and seeing that everyone&#8217;s doing well and all. I missed out on Dede&#8217;s birthday at Philip Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevator Buttons Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2006/10/elevator-buttons-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it&#8217;s been a long time since my last post but hey I&#8217;ve been busy! Um well, not really. I&#8217;ve just been out and about in Saigon visiting the bars and clubs having fun meeting new people and making new friends. So yeah, I don&#8217;t have many new photos but here&#8217;s one I [...]]]></description>
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