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		<title>Story in a string: A kite maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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The old man let me squat next to him while continued drawing on the ground. As usual he did not speak any word. After several minutes, a glimpse of a shape appeared from the emptiness. It was a temple. A beautiful pagoda.
I sighed, “Wow….”
The old man looked at me, broke a chalk he held into two pieces and gave me one of them. In the next five minutes or so I found myself doodling next to him.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know you can draw.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know you can draw either,&#8221; I replied.
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		<title>Protected: Lucky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On Civic Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Please find below my keynote presentation at the 1st International Civic Space Conference, University of Indonesia, Depok, 3 August 2010.


Merlyna Lim on Civic Space (2010) on Prezi


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		<title>[Notes from &quot;Home&quot;] A copper spoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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“Why not you use my coffee spoon?” My father’s line sounded like a sweet surprising melody to my ears. I never heard it coming from his mouth before.
The copper spoon. A long slim brassy spoon. It appearance shows that it seems it was made for a perfect coffee spoon. It is sturdy and stirs well, easily reaches the bottom of any coffee glass/mug. My father is quite possessive about it. He never lets anybody use the spoon, though I – the only child in the house who shares his love ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fireworks, Life &amp; Ephemerality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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While I have been living in the U.S. for nearly five years, for some reasons, I was never around on July 4th, I was either in Asia or Europe. This year, I had gotten to taste the American experience in celebrating the Fourth of July weekend in a beautiful town of Burlington, VT. Good time with family and friends, barbecue dinner, summer picnic, and, of course, the splashiest and most thrilling part of the celebration: fireworks.
Every evening of the Fourth of July (and nights before), Americans gather at downtown or waterfront ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lotta updates&#8230; but first, new quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Lots of updates since my last posting: J had his successful concert with students at Indian Oasis Elementary School of the Tohono O&#8217;odham Nation (it was awesome);  my 2nd phase of the Ford funded field research will soon begin; my collaborative research (with computer science dept) on Blogtracker (Analyzing Social Media for Cultural Modeling) just got grant (yay!); with these two projects up and running I decided to create the Participatory Media Lab at ASU (the website isn&#8217;t launched yet, but here is the link); I was in Germany for 3.5 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses of the Past: Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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A month ago, I found two sketches from eight years ago. They were finished but uncolored. I took a little time of my evening brushing them with some watercolor. The above sketch is from the Court Street of downtown Athens, Ohio. And the one below is of the Baker Center of Ohio University at Athens. 
It gave me a sentimental feeling to look at these sketches. Eight years ago I came to the United States for the first time as a first year PhD student trying to survive unpredictable Dutch ...]]></description>
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		<title>Blog of The Rightful Place of Science Conference at CSPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 19:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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My institution, CSPO, is hosting &#8220;The Rightful Place of Science&#8221; Conference these coming four days (starting today). In addition to its formal website, I have set-up a dynamic and almost-real-time website, a digital companion, of the conference, so everybody interested in debates surrounding &#8220;placing science and technology for society&#8217;s pursuit of justice and equ(al)ity&#8221; can participate. 
Here is the blog:
CSPO.EVENTS.ASU.EDU
Enjoy and feel free to comment. Contact me if you also are interested in contributing to the blog. Any relevant posting is welcome. 
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		<title>Updating my &#8216;formal&#8217; website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Updating is not a difficult job, but oh well it&#8217;s not easy to not have a reason to not do it (triple negatives statement!!!). Having my better half left me for his job at the reservation this evening was a good reason to do this. Updating my super old website was an entertainment to amuse myself. Besides, I hadn&#8217;t updated it for 4.5 years&#8230;. oh actually 3.5 years, it&#8217;d been so dusty and needed an urgent cleaning work. 
So, here it is, after less than one hour updating job: my ...]]></description>
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		<title>sketchED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlim</dc:creator>
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My being a scholar takes me places. It gives me opportunities to meet people in various places. To be in most beautiful places in the world. To get to know men and women with wonderful hearts. To see beautiful faces of many children.  To learn to give and to be given. To love and be loved in return.
My scholarly life also gives me space and time to reflect. To contemplate and observe. To record. To doodle. To sketch.  To capture the essence of a moment, a scene, or ...]]></description>
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