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	<title>Kham&#039;s Blog &#187; General Ramblings</title>
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		<title>Baby Dragon Amigurumi</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2012/01/baby-dragon-amigurumi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fat Face & Me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to wish everyone a Happy Lunar New Year! May the Year of the Dragon will be a joyous and prosperous one for you all. With that I&#8217;d like to share this very cute baby dragon amigurumi that my girlfriend Xuan made. Check out her other creations at Fat Face &#038; Me. Source: Fat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye Macro Self Portrait</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2011/09/eye-macro-self-portrait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a new flash unit for my Canon SLR and have been playing around with it. Flash photography is a new thing for me so I&#8217;m very eager to learn more about it. Tonight I thought I&#8217;d be a bit creative and try to take an eye macro self portrait with reflection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milk Crate Man In Footscray</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2011/09/milk-crate-man-in-footscray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know that the typical milk crate has more uses than for just transporting milk. Turn one upside down and it becomes an instant seat. Furniture aside does anyone know what else milk crates are useful for? I&#8217;ll tell you &#8211; for building towering milk crate men that&#8217;s what. There are quite a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Day Play Fight In The Park</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2011/01/australia-day-play-fight-in-the-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Australia Day (26 January) we headed out to the local park in Melbourne&#8217;s Docklands for a barbecue lunch. For those not from here, a barbecue on Australia&#8217;s official national holiday is a good old tradition with Aussies all across the country having them. After lunch I thought it would be fun to try a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murray River Bucks Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/11/murray-river-bucks-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echuca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray River]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend all the boys headed up to Echuca/Moama for Nghia&#8217;s bucks. We stayed on a cosy houseboat which allowed us to travel along the Murray River while admiring the surrounding scenery. Luckily the weather was great too. As usual for a bucks we drank copious amounts of booze and got a bit silly. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Android Amigurumi Doll</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/09/google-android-amigurumi-doll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amigurumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After some encouragement I was able to convince my lovely girlfriend Xuan to make more of the incredibly cute &#8216;Andy the Android&#8217; amigurumi (Japanese for knitted or crocheted stuffed toy) dolls first shown on the Andy Android goes to Phuket post. The one below is the third one she has made but the first one we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Melbourne Show 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/09/royal-melbourne-show-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fond memories of showbags and dagwood dogs (a battered hot dog sausage on a stick) from my childhood days led me to this year&#8217;s Royal Melbourne Show. I hadn&#8217;t been to the show for over 10 years so I was quite excited about going this time. For those who don&#8217;t know the Royal Melbourne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Rain &amp; Hail Hits Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/03/heavy-rain-hail-hits-melbourne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/03/heavy-rain-hail-hits-melbourne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2010/03/its-back-to-melbourne-again/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2009/05/cute-little-squirrel-in-westferry-circus-gardens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.khamtran.com/2009/05/cute-little-squirrel-in-westferry-circus-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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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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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Photo Galleries]]></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>
		<link>http://www.khamtran.com/2008/06/yarra-river-at-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/11/melbourne-hook-turn/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/10/parked-on-lonsdale-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kham</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.khamtran.com/2007/08/back-at-home-in-melbourne/#comments</comments>
		<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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