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		<title>Tanabata: The Wish Festival</title>
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Tanabata is a popular celebration in Japan which is, in modern times, held on the the first weekend of July. Also known as wish festival, Tanabata is derived from the Chinese star festival, Qi Xi (&#19971;&#22805; &#8220;The Night of Sevens&#8221;)&#65294;
It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/07/06/tanabata-the-wish-festival/</link>
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		<title>Korea &#8212; Day 3 Part 1: Deoksugung Palace &amp; Namsangol Hanok Village</title>
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Day 3.
Deoksugung, also known as Gyeongun-gung, Deoksugung Palace, or Deoksu Palace, is a walled compound of palaces that was inhabited by various Korean royalties until the Japanese occupation of Korea around the turn of the 20th century. &#8212; Wikipedia


The buildings are of varying construction, including some of natural cryptomeria wood, painted wood, and stucco.

Deoksugung was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/05/17/korea-day-3-part-1-deoksugung-palace-namsangol-hanok-village/</link>
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		<title>Korea &#8212; Day 2 Part 3: Chungmuro Subway Station</title>
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This is the coolest station I&#8217;ve seen in Seoul Metro. It feels like you&#8217;re in a cave.
Chungmuro Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 3 and Line 4. Both the Line 3 and 4 platforms are located in Chungmuro-4-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul. This station is named after the road under which it passes, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korea &#8212; Day 2 Part 2: N Seoul Tower</title>
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N Seoul Tower is a communication and observation tower located in Namsan Mountain, central Seoul, South Korea. Built in 1969, and opened to the public in 1980, the tower has been a symbol of Seoul and measures 236.7 m (777 ft) in height (from the base) and tops out at 479.7 m (1,574 ft) above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korea &#8212; Day 2 Part 1: Seongnam Moran Market</title>
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2010 April 29th. 
I was planning to go to Gwangjang Market just in downtown Seoul, but I got a tip from someone working in the guest house (where I am staying), that the biggest market in Korea is taking place on this day. The market, which has over 1200 merchants coming from all over Korea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korea &#8211; Day 1: The Adventure Finding the Guest House</title>
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Annyong haseyo!
On Wednesday, I arrived in Seoul late in the afternoon. I came here with just a backpack and a note with a list of guest houses with contact numbers. I didn&#8217;t make any reservation for my accommodation prior to the trip. So first thing I did after coming out of  the Incheon Airport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project</title>
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Last Sunday, April 18th, Soleil Provence, together with 260 volunteers, celebrated Earth Day with it&#8217;s 2nd Beach Clean-up in Kugenuma Beach, Fujisawa. The clean-up started at 11:00am and ended at 1:30pm.
The volunteers were formed into groups and were scattered along Kugenuma beach. In this photo, Enoshima is seen in the background.


A volunteer bringing a plastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/04/22/fujisawa-beach-cleaning-project/</link>
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		<title>One Afternoon in Shinagawa Station</title>
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Last week, I spent an hour shooting around Shinagawa station after getting my engineer visa renewed for another year in Japan. The station was not too crowded (well, it wasn&#8217;t in the rush hours), but still, you can see a lot of people mostly in suits, rushing towards to, and away from the station.
This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/04/15/one-afternoon-in-shinagawa-station/</link>
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		<title>Hanami 2010</title>
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Hanami is a Japanese tradition of enjoying the view of flowers especially the sakura or cherry blossoms during spring season. The word &#8216;hanami&#8217; is almost synonymous to outdoor picnicking or partying.
(Hanami was first used as a term analogous to cherry blossom viewing in the Heian era novel Tale of Genji. Whilst a wisteria viewing party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/04/13/hanami-2010/</link>
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		<title>R&#234;ve d&#8217;Herbert at Roppongi Art Night</title>
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&#8220;The parade of the white balloon people!&#8221;
Last weekend at the Roppongi Art Night, I&#8217;ve witnessed an amazing dream-like street performance by Compagnie des Quidams. The whole act is called &#8220;R&#234;ve d&#8217;Herbert&#8220;, which means &#8220;Herbert&#8217;s Dream&#8220;. 
&#8220;The slim, human-like shadow-beings, wander around the streets seeking out light. In the quiet of night, these figures gesture to [...]]]></description>
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