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    <title>E=MC2</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.973</id>

    <published>2008-04-15T22:07:33Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-15T22:08:36Z</updated>

    <summary>The name of Mariah Carey&apos;s new album. Einstein must be rolling in his grave....</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The name of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/E-MC2-Mariah-Carey/dp/B000UMKCYC">Mariah Carey's new album</a>.</p>
<p>Einstein must be rolling in his grave.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>I Am Legend. Kinda.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.972</id>

    <published>2008-04-01T20:01:23Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-01T20:08:59Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[My dad once said to me "only a fool thinks he has enough time to make all&nbsp;his own mistakes". He first said that to me when I was quite young but it's stayed with me for a long time. Wise...]]></summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>My dad once said to me "only a fool thinks he has enough time to make all&nbsp;his own mistakes". He first said that to me when I was quite young but it's stayed with me for a long time. Wise words.</p>
<p>So today, in a moment of genius, my very own tell-the-children-quotable-for-years phrase popped into my head. Out of nowhere.</p>
<p>I give you:</p>
<p><strong>To be weird is a curse but being normal is worse.</strong></p>
<p>Learn it, live by it. A-thank you.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Food</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.971</id>

    <published>2008-03-24T20:44:14Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-24T20:49:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Food has been the theme of this Easter weekend and it has not only been about the chocolate. We had a dinner party with friends and family and I made Thai food; adventurous but thankfully not foolishly so. I&apos;m not...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Food has been the theme of this Easter weekend and it has not only been about the chocolate. We had a dinner party with friends and family and I made Thai food; adventurous but thankfully not foolishly so. I'm not used to eating such excessively rich food anymore&nbsp;and I'm surprised at how&nbsp;much I want to go back to healthy salads and weight training. Bring it on.</p>
<p>Still on the food theme, I'm watching <a href="http://www.deliaonline.com/">Delia</a>'s new show and laughing that they have Bjork music playing in the background. Hadn't pegged her as a Bjork fan.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>&quot;Like&quot;</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.970</id>

    <published>2008-03-07T13:24:00Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-07T13:24:24Z</updated>

    <summary>I like olives. But only in theory....</summary>
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        I like olives. But only in theory.
        
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<entry>
    <title>Big. Orange. Different.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.969</id>

    <published>2008-02-29T15:21:17Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-29T15:31:12Z</updated>

    <summary>So today we sampled the delights of Jamaica...well we had an ortanique. I think it was a team bonding exercise disguised as a citrus fruit; we had a makeshift assembly line going. One person would make the initial hole, the...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>So today we sampled the delights of Jamaica...well we had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangor">ortanique</a>. I think it was a team bonding exercise disguised as a citrus fruit; we had a makeshift assembly line going. One person would make the initial hole, the other peel it and of course, the pithy parts needed to be removed.</p>
<p>The verdict: not bitter, not too sweet. By far the best orangey-type thing I've had since <a href="http://www.j2o.co.uk/">Orange and Passionfruit flavoured J2O</a>.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>What a difference a letter makes</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.968</id>

    <published>2008-02-28T23:06:54Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-28T23:11:48Z</updated>

    <summary>I was spelling my colleague Anil&apos;s name over the phone to someone and he spelled it back to me as Anal. Web Anil, I feel one millionth of your pain....</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I was spelling my colleague Anil's name over the phone to someone and he spelled it back to me as Anal.</p>
<p>Web <a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil">Anil</a>, I feel one millionth of your pain.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>It&apos;s a Phrase I&apos;m going through</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.967</id>

    <published>2008-02-28T14:19:10Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-28T23:35:35Z</updated>

    <summary>You know when think you created a phrase but you didn&apos;t? That. Turns out I didn&apos;t create &quot;coolio&quot;. So I traded the creator of &quot;coolio&quot; for &quot;darnsarnit&quot; which is much more awesome. &quot;You ate all the bakar khani? Darnsarnit!&quot; &quot;Someone...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>You know when think you created a phrase but you didn't? That.</p>
<p>Turns out I didn't create "coolio". So I traded the creator of "coolio" for "darnsarnit" which is much more awesome.</p>
<p>"You ate all the bakar khani? Darnsarnit!"</p>
<p>"Someone stole my&nbsp;Toblerone.&nbsp;Darnsarnit!"</p>
<p>"I'm overusing the phrase darnsarnit.&nbsp;Feck."</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Year of the Rat</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.966</id>

    <published>2008-02-15T23:14:10Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-16T00:37:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Snowflake and I met up for our annual birthday trip into London last weekend. We planned it so it would coincide with Chinese New Year festivities that were bound to be taking place around London&apos;s Chinatown area in Soho. A...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Snowflake and I met up for our annual birthday trip into London last weekend. We planned it so it would coincide with Chinese New Year festivities that were bound to be taking place around London's Chinatown area in Soho. A couple of years ago we had stumbled upon the celebrations and though there wasn't much going on, there were some cute stalls and things around.</p>
<p>First of course, we had to choose an Obscure Tube Stop for another round of the Obscure Tube Stop Game. We chose <a href="http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st_james_park/">St. James's Park</a>&nbsp;and what a glorious day for a walk in the park and a natter on the park bench whilst watching the wildlife.</p>
<p>
<center><a title="DSCF3920 by Saima, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saima/2268001636/"><img height="375" alt="DSCF3920" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/2268001636_6f3f55dccc.jpg" width="500" /></a></center>
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<p>&nbsp;As we were walking around, Buckingham Palace kind of snuck up on us, as royal palaces tend to do, so we spied on the guards to see if Snowflake recognised any of them from her Armed Forces days.</p>
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<p></p>
<p>We eventually got to Leicester Square and there were mobs of people. Okay, London is a busy place but I have never seen so many people. We walked, nay slow shuffled around the various stalls (curiously there was one selling<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saima/2268008624/"> lost children</a>) and displays and then decided we were hungry. Lee Ho Fook is our favourite restaurant in Chinatown (they do awesome Kung Po prawns) but&nbsp;what with the queueing&nbsp;to get in, waiting for&nbsp;the other&nbsp;starter we ordered and the general poor service&nbsp;we may have to try another one next time. All around the whole food experience was about two and a half hours long.</p>
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<p>We finished the day off watching the fireworks display (noisiest fireworks ever) and then headed home.</p>
<p>Good trip, my man!</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Hall of Shame</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.saimasays.com/2008/02/i-nearly-bumped-into-rich.php" />
    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.965</id>

    <published>2008-02-07T22:18:59Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-07T22:36:55Z</updated>

    <summary>I nearly bumped into Rich Hall yesterday. He seemed a bit lost at the train station, frantically looking at the departures board and badly disguised in an Cubs baseball cap. I would have gone up to him and told him...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I nearly bumped into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Hall">Rich Hall</a> yesterday. He seemed a bit lost at the train station, frantically looking at the departures board and badly disguised in an Cubs baseball cap. I would have gone up to him and told him how much&nbsp;I enjoy his appearances on <a href="http://www.qi.com/">QI</a> but he looked terribly grumpy and I didn't want to be on the end of a scathing sarcastic retort from him. </p>
<p>That would have made a more interesting story however so perhaps next time I will.&nbsp;Anything for you, dear reader.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Relief</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.964</id>

    <published>2008-02-06T22:31:42Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-06T22:45:13Z</updated>

    <summary>So CIMA sent me an email today saying my name now appears on a website listing all the passed finalists. I get wonderfully surprised each time I remember or am reminded that I passed my final exam and NEVER HAVE...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>So <a href="http://www.cimaglobal.com/">CIMA</a> sent me an email today saying my name now appears on a website listing all the <a href="http://www.cimaglobal.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0AAAC544-0271EA3E/live/root.xsl/passedfinalistcongratulations.htm">passed finalists</a>. I get wonderfully surprised each time I remember or am reminded that I passed my final exam and NEVER HAVE TO DO ANOTHER EXAM AGAIN. It seems like yesterday when I started them but alas, it was <a href="http://www.saimasays.com/2004/03/hibernation.php">four years ago</a>.</p>
<p>Now to tackle all the things I was putting off until The Post Exam Years:</p>
<p>1) Learn to play the piano</p>
<p>...ummm...I forget the rest. I should have kept a list.</p>
<p>In other news, <a href="http://www.saimasays.com/images/Condoleezza%2520Rice.jpg">Condoleezza Rice</a> scares me. If we had a staring contest, she would win. Mainly because she could kill me with her Death Stare.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Chungawzay</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.963</id>

    <published>2008-02-02T00:36:57Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-02T00:52:56Z</updated>

    <summary>The name for pine nuts in Urdu. The word always made me chuckle when I was younger. It sounded like a rude word that you could get away with saying. It really is more fitting for the Punjabi language. I...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The name for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_nut">pine nuts</a> in Urdu. The word always made me chuckle when I was younger. It sounded like a rude word that you could get away with saying. It really is more fitting for the Punjabi language.</p>
<p>I didn't know till I Wiki'd it (is that now a valid verb?) that pine nuts isn't just a clever name. They actually come from under the little flaps on a pine cone. Well, I never.</p>
<p>So why&nbsp;is such a labour intensive nut so popular? I surveyed several people (okay, one people...person, So So, while he was eating pine nuts):</p>
<p>"Umm..I don't know...I just hadn't had them for ages so I thought I'd try them. They're not that great actually."</p>
<p>So, yeah. Mystery solved.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Movin&apos; On Type</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.saimasays.com/2008/01/movin-on-type.php" />
    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2008://1.962</id>

    <published>2008-01-31T00:30:06Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-31T00:40:18Z</updated>

    <summary>Trying to design templates in MT4 is like wrestling with Russian dolls. Widgets inside modules inside templates inside a cuckoo clock. Had this been 2002, when I had more time on my hands, I would have fought on but I&apos;m...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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    <category term="mt" label="mt" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="wordpress" label="wordpress" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Trying to design templates in <a href="http://www.movabletype.com/">MT4</a> is like wrestling with Russian dolls. Widgets inside modules inside templates inside a cuckoo clock. Had this been 2002, when I had more time on my hands, I would have fought on but I'm tired and may be ready to say goodbye to Movabletype. Yeah, I said it.</p>
<p>Hi <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a>?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a rather unconvincing transexual on Jerry Springer is fighting for her man who has a peroxide blonde mohawk and terrible dress sense. More importantly he keeps referring to her as a "him". That's just rude. Jerry, Jerry!</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Radio Silence</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.saimasays.com/2007/09/radio-silence.php" />
    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2007://1.961</id>

    <published>2007-09-24T08:30:51Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-25T21:49:03Z</updated>

    <summary>So it&apos;s been a while eh? Sorry old chap. I had to tell you about the last night hence the break in radio silence. I went to see A Seriously Funny Attempt To Get the Serious Fraud Office In the...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>So it's been a while eh? Sorry old chap.</p>

<p>I had to tell you about the last night hence the break in radio silence. I went to see <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/243377/">A Seriously Funny Attempt To Get the Serious Fraud Office In the Dock!</a> and the line up was heavenly:</p>

<p>Russell Brand<br />
Mark Thomas<br />
Omid Djalili<br />
Mark Steel<br />
Ed Byrne<br />
Josie Long<br />
Robin Ince<br />
Stewart Lee<br />
Jo Caulfield<br />
Simon Amstell<br />
Phil Nichol</p>

<p>Yep, Stewart Lee. I finally got to see my favourite comedian live and it was awesome. Though everyone else was outstandingly funny too and had me in fits of laughter throughout.</p>

<p>That wasn't the end of it however. There was a surprise special guest...Billy Bailey! Gosh, could it have been any more perfect?!</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Mess</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2007://1.960</id>

    <published>2007-07-06T23:16:58Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-25T21:49:03Z</updated>

    <summary>I need to clean up. Everything....</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I need to clean up. Everything.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Published Photographer - No doubt!</title>
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    <id>tag:www.saimasays.com,2007://1.959</id>

    <published>2007-06-30T11:18:02Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-25T21:49:03Z</updated>

    <summary>You may be interested to know that a photo I took has been used in the third edition of the Schmap London Guide. Rock on!...</summary>
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        <name>Saima</name>
        <uri>http://www.saimasays.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>You may be interested to know that a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saima/2211806/">photo I took</a> has been used in the third edition of the <a href="http://www.schmap.com/london/activities_regentspark/p=794/i=794_1.jpg">Schmap London Guide</a>. Rock on!</p>]]>
        
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