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		<title>I ran away to Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally cracked last week. After three months of working full time while juggling all my regular clients, writing my weekly column, going out practically every night, and sleeping 4 - 5 hours most days, 2 hours twice a week, and 8 hours once a week, my body just couldn't take it anymore. Not only did I catch a nasty cold that shrouded my mind and filled my trash with tissues, but I could barely open my eyes long enough to hit the snooze button each night I was supposed to wake up early to work. I finally felt like I needed a break from New York. It's a good thing I had a trip planned to see Stefan in Boston during his visit from Germany.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/travel/i-ran-away-to-boston/</link>
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		<title>Google Upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would it surprise you to know that up until about a two week agos I never owned a smart phone? Yep. It's true. The girl who's been blogging for over four years, is an early adopter of social media platforms, was an organizer for WordCamp: Developers, has a respectable Twitter following, organizes weekly events on Facebook, manages online advertising campaigns for clients, attends Meetups at least a few times a year, and most importantly has the worst direction in the entire world and will take twice as long getting anywhere without a GPS, did not have a smart phone. Why? The short answer is that I didn't think I needed one.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/random-thoughts/google-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>C’était un jeudi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ang is constantly amazed at how lucky I am, and for good reason. I always happen to meet the best people and my life's events often sound like they're taken straight out of a movie. Sometimes I get worried because I can't really believe that any of it is real and I keep expecting something horrible to happen because there's no way anyone could have such consistently good luck!]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/travel/cetait-un-jeudi/</link>
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		<title>Metropolitan Bartending contest winner: Jen who loves chocolate martinis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The drinks were mixed and the winner has been drawn! Congratulations to Jen who left a comment on March 16th about how she loves chocolate martinis! 

Jen has won Flair Bartending Classes for herself and a friend from Metropolitan Bartending School, valued at $250.

Thank you to everyone who participated in my first contest on www.annychih.com. A special thanks also goes out to Stephanie from Metropolitan Bartending School for making all of this happen!

For more chances to win bartending classes and learn tricks of the trade, follow @metro_bar on Twitter or friend them on Facebook.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/contests-and-giveaways/metropolitan-bartending-contest-winner-jen-who-loves-chocolate-martinis/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to my new life! I hope you love it as much as I do.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the girls are coming to visit soon, I've been looking into cheap travel deals and compiling a list of places I want to take them to. Most of the places I plan on taking them to are hangouts that I frequent on a regular basis with my friends here. In the mix are also some restaurants that we found through Dinner Club NYC (which I still need to write about), cool underground bars, and of course the museums and parks in the area.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/new-york/welcome-to-my-new-life-i-hope-you-love-it-as-much-as-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Win Flair Bartending classes at Metropolitan Bartending School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are three ways to enter to win a duo of Flair Bartending classes from Metropolitan Bartending School. Each option gives you one entry into the contest (maximum three entries per person) and each entry must be submitted on or before 12:00 AM PST April 14, 2012. You do not need to live in Vancouver to win, but you will need to be in the city to claim your prize.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/contests-and-giveaways/win-flair-bartending-classes-at-metropolitan-bartending-school/</link>
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		<title>A transient place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is always a part of me that stays tied to home, but at the same time I'm not sure I could ever go back. A woman I had met on the Staten Island ferry had told me that I should stay in New York because just one year here can change a person. I didn't need an entire year. But while I'm no longer the same and can't go back to where I was, I don't feel like I'm where I want to be just yet. It seems like a gross generalization, but I think it's safe to say that most people in New York feel the same way because most people here are from somewhere else and are likely to continue moving on.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/travel/a-transient-place/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Dinner Club NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a full table, we were able to order just about everything on the menu.  For starters, we ordered crostini miisti (prosciutto and mozzarella tomato Gorgonzola and mushrooms), pladina con proscuitto, and cozze (sauteed mussels with white wine and chopped tomatoes) to share. We also began the night with a bottle of Prosecco (which turned into two) and a bottle of red. For mains, we had multiple orders of Tagliatelle al ragu, ravioli al formaggio, gnocchi di patate, spinach gnocchi, fusilli con calamari, and a couple of other pasta dishes that I can't find on the menu. ]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/new-york/introducing-dinner-club-nyc/</link>
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		<title>A New York calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really should be sleeping right now because I have to get up for work in three and a half hours, but that in itself is something that deserves a blog post of its own. Since I've been surviving on an average of five or six hours of sleep every night in New York and I really need to get as much sleep as I can on weekdays, I'm going to have to give you a really quick rundown of what I've been up to.]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/travel/a-new-york-calendar/</link>
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		<title>Recap of random adventures in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've started this post and deleted it, only to start again, and delete again. New York is a difficult place to write about because it's always different. I've been here for six days now, and I've had incredible highs and crummy lows, captivating conversations with heaps of interesting people, and solitary afternoons spent walking along the boardwalk. I've felt like the luckiest person in the entire world looking down on the city from a rooftop bar surrounded by amazing people, and as if I'm too small to matter in the grand scheme of things while talking to a stranger over brunch. The city is made of an eclectic mix of people and you never know if you're going to be sitting next to an opera singer at a juice bar, dancing next to a rocket engineer from Italy at a cute bar / nail salon, going to a haunted house with a Jersey boy, having lunch with a partner of an asset management firm who just flew back from Bermuda, getting to know a lawyer / UN intern over drinks, or even making random street conversation with a Russian speaking African-American bouncer who is in the midst of writing a book about the city. You can't even begin to expect any of these things, but I've found myself in all of these surprising situations and more! So where do I begin?]]></description>
		<link>http://annychih.com/travel/recap-of-random-adventures-in-new-york/</link>
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