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		<title>Cranberry Muffins</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=158411</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Warning: this is a rant.



 

Cranberry muffins - sour and yummy. I love it. No other kinds of muffins come remotely close to the rich taste of Cranberry muffins.

Screw chocolate (chips) and blueberry muffins and their cloying sweetness.

Screw banana nuts muffins and their pretentious crunchiness.

Screw carrot muffins and their .... well, carrot muffins are just plain bad. 

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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:19:21 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Stupid GRE</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=157843</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I am taking the General GRE on October 31st. I have been trying to learn new words for two months.

Today I opened the book I bought from Princeton Review (contains practice questions), did some of them, and my feeling right now can be described by the following pictorial representation.

 

I am doomed. :(

Here's an example (analogies):

 


Here's a second example (I copied the ...</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:14:07 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Can't They...</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=157451</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Seriously. If they can make something like this and sell it for around (say) 500~1000 dollars, I am there.

A while ago there was the fad known as the iPad. Nowadays it seemed that many different companies are following suit for a keyboardless mobile device with a touchscreen.

I have used touchscreens before. They are kind of fancy when you first use them as the interactions is a lot diffe...</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:06:42 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>TBBT Season 4 Episode 1</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=156892</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I have to say the show is still excellent as ever (despite some hate for the third season). It was really funny.

 

It's funny that Amy on the show is set to be a neurobiologist. The actress for Amy, Mayim Bialik, actually has a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. 

Which brings to the point of Kaley Cuoco, the actress for Penny. As you may or may not have heard, she recently broke her leg du...</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:10:27 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Baked Potatos</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=154597</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Love them.

So yea, these days I am having a slight addiction to baked potatos - although this undeniably relates to my laziness to cook a proper meal, I nevertheless think it's a very nice thing to eat.

Currently I am eating them plain - no salt, no oil, nothing but potato. I am a light eater and I find potato naturally flavourful. If you have any other ways to eat these... please share! ...</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:48:47 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>FF6 O_o</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=153900</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>So, I was bored and wanted to find something to do. I was reminded of the fact that a lot of people mentioned FF6 to be the (best?) FF to play in my other blog, so I thought I'd try it.

Then I thought maybe I should blog it for fun. I don't know if anyone will bother to read it, but it's pretty fun just to write about it... so meh.

So here we go. This is what I got so far. 

Due to the ...</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:42:19 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>The Protoss Language</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=153298</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>This is just a random thought.

While the Starcraft Lore does not say this, I assume the English language (or the language of your installation of Starcraft) of the Starcraft Universe originated from Earth... but the Protoss is probably NOT from Earth... by this logic, I believe English is not the native language for the Protoss.

We already know that certain units, e.g. Dark Templar, utter...</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:45:20 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Fun Discovery in FF14</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=153002</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I almost forgot to blog this.

I don't claim I am the first to discover this; it's pretty obvious. But I think it's &quot;interesting&quot; enough that I will share it.

If you played the FF14 beta, you would know that you have a lot of choices over the visual features of your character. One option is on the matter of &quot;Face&quot; (there are 4 types). It turned out that this feature has...</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:42:10 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Square [Enix] I hate you!</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=152926</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>EDIT: I think the text should be fixed now!


After looking around for all of my saves, I realized I have spent waayyyyyyy too much time playing various Final Fantasy games.

While I am aware they exist, I play mostly without guides and I tend to learn to play the game myself. In my opinion, for a single-player game, all the fun of the game is about learning how to play it. There were some...</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:47:30 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffee Crisp is awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=148240</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I just want to devote this blog to mention the fact that Coffee Crisp is awesome!

 


YUM YUM</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:20:43 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Help! Need to recall a website...</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=147151</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Hi everyone.

I used to know this certain website a few years ago, but nowadays I forgot. I hope someone knows it.

Here's what this website does. It allows you to upload pictures; but more importantly, it provide you with a link, such that each time a RANDOM picture out of the ones you uploaded gets displayed.

It's a really cool feature when you use signatures (pictures) for other forum...</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:18:39 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Frustration</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=145597</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description> 


I wanted to make instant coffee in my office (at school). 

I brought everything (kettle, instant coffee, coffee mate aka powdered milk, mug, etc.) to my office only to forget to bring a spoon. 

Now I can't move instant coffee into my mug. I cannot stir the coffee either.

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUIt was extremely frustrating. 

Has this happened to you before (making an elaborate pla...</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:25:46 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Help: spelling</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=144112</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I suddenly recalled a word which I can't spell and it is really bothering me.

If you watched the Big Bang Theory, there was one episode which Sheldon got stuck on a problem and decided to go to find a common job believing that it would help him to find the solution (he referred to how Einstein devised most of the theory of relativity while working in a patent's office). He went to an agent t...</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:46:48 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>I can't wait until September</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=141639</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I can't wait until September; school starts in September.
I can't wait until September; the Big Bang Theory is returning in September.
I can't wait until September; the Gundam 00 Movie is coming in September.
I can't wait until September; Proleague is returning in September.
I can't wait until September; Pokemon Black/White is coming in September.

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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:42:22 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>My dad bought a Steelseries mousepad</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=141293</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>No, he is not an avid gamer (in fact not a gamer at all), now stop being jealous of me.

Anyways, he has been lacking a mousepad for a few months because the mouse does not work well on the new desk he got. Today he finally decided to buy a real mousepad instead of using his old cardboard, so he went to Bestbuy...

 

When he came back he showed me what he bought - a mousepad from Steelse...</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:41:26 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>Alcohol is distasteful</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=137186</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Today I tried some beer yet again. Similar to the last 10 times I consumed some form of alcohol, it tasted awful. Seriously awful.

Let's start with beer. The taste of ethanol aside (more on this below), it is very bitter. Yuck.

Then there is wine. Sourness in drinks is something I am generally OK with, but in combination of ethanol? Yuck.

I never tried anything else before. Presumably ...</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:59:50 +0900</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=137186</guid>
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		<title>(pla)guuuu!? - a comment about MBC commentators</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=135862</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Who do you think have more energy? The Spanish commentators for WC (GGGGOOOAAAALLL!!!) or the MBC commentators(plaGGGUUUUUUU!!!)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI3pX0a6Gso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpuv7VPb2rA

In my opinion, the MBC commentators showed just as much energy as the Spanish, even though a plague means far less for the MBC staffs than a goal in the 115th minute for th...</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:12:46 +0900</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=135862</guid>
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		<title>Diet Medicine?</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=134092</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>Hi everyone, I need some advices.

I hate to sound cliched, but I want to lose weight. I count my calories and exercise 45 minutes a day. Well, the recents were not very significant, let's put it that way.

I think I also need some external boosts - some sort of diet pills, maybe, if they exist at all. But I am totally lost on this because I don't know anything about weight loss medicines.....</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:19:25 +0900</pubDate>
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		<title>I've Caught a Shiny Pokemon!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=133409</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>This is a continuation of the previous blog here.

I CAUGHT A SHINY POKEMON!!!

Today is Wednesday, so I thought I should go catch some Pokemon using the Hoenn Sound. 

I was Route 36 (Hoenn Sound - Plusle and Minun), I tried to step on the grass first before using the Pokegear. And then...


A SHINY HOOTHOOT APPEARED!
 


I was overjoyed!

Unfortunately, Hoothoot and its evoluti...</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:35:14 +0900</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=133409</guid>
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		<title>I've Never Caught a Shiny Pokemon</title>
		<link>http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=132869</link>
		<author>illu</author>
		<description>I have played so many hours of Pokemon in Crystal, Ruby, Platinum, and Soulsilver, and guess what? I have never caught a shiny pokemon.

According to bulbapedia, the chance of getting a shiny pokemon is about 1/8000? Well, during the playthroughs I have probably seen thousands of wild pokemons already, and not a single shiny one. :(

On a different thought, the chance of winning the jackpot...</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:01:44 +0900</pubDate>
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