Yesterday we volunteered to help pack donated goods for the victims of calamities in the Philippines. I’m touched that the Mercy Relief organization, though based in Singapore, would help my home country. It’s still the same volunteer org that we worked for last time. We headed to a warehouse in Toa Payoh (after getting lost), […]
Archives for November 2009
Can You Please Check If the Water is Running?
When I was in High School, before caller ID was invented, my neighbor used to prank her friends by making me call them and say, “Hello, this is the water district. Can you please check if your water is running?” After that person had checked and come back and said yes it was, I’d then […]
Happy Birthday Nald – A Decade of Friendship
It’s my dear friend Ronald’s birthday today, the tenth one he is celebrating with me as his friend. As a gift to him and a tribute to our decade of friendship, I decided to come up with the second edition of the college newsletter which we had co-founded, Balance $heet. Actually, it was just an […]
Online Secret Santa
We’re organizing a Christmas party for our friends here in Singapore. One of the agenda is the traditional Kris Kringle or Secret Santa or what we Zamboanguenos call manito-manita. Sending out the invite and getting people’s yes’s was easy enough, thanks to Facebook. My problem as the organizer was how to conduct the picking of […]
Have A Little Faith {Book Review}
I just finished Mitch Albom’s Have A Little Faith. It was a tearjerking good read, though not as good as his first, Tuesdays with Morrie. The synopsis from its jacket reads: What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully […]
Three Things I Can’t Resist
The first text message I got when I turned on my cellphone in Singapore was from the library, informing me that the book I had reserved was ready for pick up. So this afternoon, I gathered all the books I had borrowed previously and swung by the Ang Mo Kio public library, a good 15 […]
Our Newest Hangout
Chi and AA moved into a new flat with one of their friends and we checked the place out on the first day of this month. The place is fabulous! So excited to have it as our newest hangout place. Tonight, we went back to the place when AA threw a housewarming party for her […]
Bangkok ’09 Highlights
When I was not staying home or shopping as I mentioned previously, Chu or Jean managed to drag me around town. Here are the highlights. In the Siam Paragon Cinema lobby, with some sleeping stranger. Holding hands with a werewolf, Jacob Black. Staring match with a vampire, Edward Cullen. Pacute at some guy I don’t […]
Temptations in Thailand
Chu is wondering why I would rather stay home than scour the streets of Thailand. Reason 1: I’ve already been here and done that before. No need to do it again. Reason 2: I’m trying to avoid temptation. Whenever I go out, I end up spending. Why is everything so temptingly cheaper here? Argh! shopping […]
College Sweethearts
Yesterday, two of my College classmates changed their status to “in a relationship” in Facebook and were soon inundated with happy comments from their common friends, including me. It was a surprise because even though they had the same personalities, they didn’t exactly revolve in the same circles except for the classroom. So I have […]