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		<title>Photowalk: Cebu City Carbon Market</title>
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The Carbon Market is the oldest and biggest farmer&#8217;s market in Cebu City, located in the central Visayas region of the Philippines. Now over a hundred years old, the market was used to be the old Cebu Railway&#8217;s depot of coal. That is how the market got its name. The Carbon Market, known to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awa Odori: The Dance of the Fools</title>
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Awa Odori is a traditional dance festival originating in Tokushima City in 1586, when Lord Hachisuka Iemasa of Awa, the former name of Tokushima prefecture, hosted a celebration of the opening of Tokushima Castle. 
&#8220;The locals, having consumed a great amount of sake, began to drunkenly weave and stumble back and forth. Others picked up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/08/31/awa-odori-the-dance-of-the-fools/</link>
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		<title>Photowalk: Ginza, Shinbashi, and Akihabara</title>
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I met up with my friend Esa (aka @esa_raditya) last Sunday for a short photo walk. We walked from Ginza then down to Shinbashi, and hopped onto the Yamanote Line to Akihabara, where I also met Fernando (aka @HelloNavi) for the first time.
Also on that day, I met my photo and geek friends Jose (aka [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/08/27/photowalk-ginza-shinbashi-and-akihabara/</link>
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		<title>Marine Day: Hamaorisai in Chigasaki</title>
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Hamaorisai is held annually during the Marine Day (Umi-no-hi) in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa. Hamaorisai, which literally means &#8220;descend to the beach festival&#8221;, is a summer festival in which people take the mikoshi, or the portable Shinto shrine, into the sea.
The photos were taken from 4:00 to 7:00 in the morning on the 19th of July, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/07/21/marine-day-hamaorisai-in-chigasaki/</link>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/05/05/korea-day-2-part-3-chungmuro-subway-station/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/05/03/korea-day-2-part-2-n-seoul-tower/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://blog.jessleecuizon.com/2010/05/01/korea-day-2-part-1-seongnam-moran-market/</link>
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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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