<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:50:42.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>malsecretion</title><subtitle type='html'>A place dedicated to those who are affected by arrested development...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113519393204480176</id><published>2005-12-21T11:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-21T11:38:52.093-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My life is apuppet show!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/1600/530689748[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/320/530689748%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever had the feeling of being controlled like a puppet?&lt;br /&gt;This is my story these days. I plan my tasks everyday, go over my plans times and make sure that everything is going to happen just as I have scheduled; but…&lt;br /&gt;There happens the unexpected from nowhere. So I have to switch to another plan. You know what? I am really tired of repeating to myself that “ this is the best for you”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113519393204480176?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113519393204480176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113519393204480176' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113519393204480176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113519393204480176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/12/my-life-is-apuppet-show.html' title='My life is apuppet show!'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113335266174011737</id><published>2005-11-30T04:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-30T04:11:01.963-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A lifetime contract</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/1600/marriage-contract[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/320/marriage-contract%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also signed the contract.&lt;br /&gt;Under “Terms and Conditions” it read: There is everything out there ; fame, power, ecstasy, passion, money, sex…&lt;br /&gt;Mesmerized by the glory of this mirage we all rushed into an agreement without paying attention to the last line that specified: “&lt;em&gt;This is a one way contract and can be dissolved at any time by any means including heart attack, car accident, cancer, earthquake, Katrina&lt;/em&gt;…”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113335266174011737?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113335266174011737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113335266174011737' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113335266174011737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113335266174011737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/lifetime-contract.html' title='A lifetime contract'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113294526893252212</id><published>2005-11-25T11:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-25T11:01:08.976-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Running out of time</title><content type='html'>I feel devoid of all the parameters that define me. I keep myself busy with stuff that may appear useful to others but can’t get rid of the threatening preoccupation of running out of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Completely unrelated: I am not sure whom I should hate you or myself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113294526893252212?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113294526893252212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113294526893252212' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113294526893252212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113294526893252212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/running-out-of-time.html' title='Running out of time'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113277849424591202</id><published>2005-11-23T12:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-23T12:41:34.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mournful Celebration</title><content type='html'>What did you wear? How was he? Where did you meet for the first time? Do you like him?…&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;And I can’t help asking…&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;And you can’t stop talking…&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But I don’t hear you anymore drowned in the obsession of losing you and confused whether I should celebrate or mourn.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113277849424591202?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113277849424591202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113277849424591202' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113277849424591202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113277849424591202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/mournful-celebration.html' title='Mournful Celebration'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113242966136554215</id><published>2005-11-19T11:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-19T11:47:41.376-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Smile</title><content type='html'>The witch smiles at me again!I embrace it to feel the warmth before it is driven away.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113242966136554215?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113242966136554215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113242966136554215' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113242966136554215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113242966136554215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/smile.html' title='Smile'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113190810728808361</id><published>2005-11-13T10:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-13T10:55:07.300-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Irreversibility</title><content type='html'>I couldn’t help counting the pathologies while looking at his distorted face : tangentiality, verbigeration, flight of idea…&lt;br /&gt;He had definitely passed the line of irreversibility years ago and the image of him being a qualified engineer was high blurred in the mirror of time. Yet he insisted on getting the number of the woman who inspired the faintest hope of love in him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113190810728808361?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113190810728808361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113190810728808361' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113190810728808361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113190810728808361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/irreversibility.html' title='Irreversibility'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113152757758859721</id><published>2005-11-09T01:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-09T01:12:57.603-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Forgetfulness</title><content type='html'>It seems to me that the half life of my neurotransmitters is too short; so as a compensation my brain oversecretes them to maintain the plateau but finally it is fatigued and at this time I forget everything until I fetch myself a new stimulus;more colorful, more versatile. And I wonder whether this is an ability or a defect and I start thinking about the freedom of choice bestowed upon us again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113152757758859721?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113152757758859721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113152757758859721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113152757758859721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113152757758859721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/my-forgetfulness.html' title='My Forgetfulness'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113084177076405644</id><published>2005-11-01T02:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T02:42:50.773-08:00</updated><title type='text'>a, Parent again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/1600/MD-Scolding-b4.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/320/MD-Scolding-b4.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a&lt;em&gt; Parent&lt;/em&gt; again! It was ages I’d learned to stop criticizing myself on occasions I did something not so well accepted by others and even managed to laugh at those who considered me a “joke”. Actually I’d created a safety margin hard to be trespassed by most. But it’s a while the creature inside me, thought to be eradicated, has remerged eying every little thing I do and helping itself with a full course of criticism at the slightest opportunity. But I tell you I know how to make it enter a long hibernation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113084177076405644?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113084177076405644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113084177076405644' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113084177076405644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113084177076405644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/11/parent-again.html' title='a, Parent again'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113052655088650496</id><published>2005-10-28T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:09:10.896-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Circle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/1600/980476566[1].2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/320/980476566%5B1%5D.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the beginning we are at the center;we star&lt;em&gt; encroaching&lt;/em&gt; forward and push with all our might...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some time later,late enoguh though, we are at the center once more as if we were naild to it through a rubber band,hence the more the push the stronger the recoil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there any escape from the center at all?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113052655088650496?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113052655088650496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113052655088650496' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113052655088650496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113052655088650496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/10/circle.html' title='The Circle'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308350.post-113032069322898535</id><published>2005-10-26T02:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T02:58:13.233-07:00</updated><title type='text'>No Man's Land</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/1600/Desert.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1345/1788/320/Desert.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It's 49 hours 12 minutes that I have enterd &lt;em&gt;No Man's Land&lt;/em&gt;.What did I just mention?!Does time matter in No Man's Land?Or directions,or decisions? What about orientations... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18308350-113032069322898535?l=malsecretion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/feeds/113032069322898535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18308350&amp;postID=113032069322898535' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113032069322898535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18308350/posts/default/113032069322898535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://malsecretion.blogspot.com/2005/10/no-mans-land.html' title='No Man&apos;s Land'/><author><name>Dr a</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17697243265188698437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BEN/ab72464_b.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
