A Deecoded Life

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How A Teacher Saved My Christmas

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My family is traveling to Cagayan de Oro to spend Christmas day with my mom’s sister, whom she hasn’t seen since 2001. It’s an 18-hour bumpy bus ride, but I wish I were on that trip with them. Christmas can do that to you. Seeing all those Facebook statuses about friends who are home for […]

Internet Archaelogists Find Ruins of Friendster Civilization

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“Hey look, the new Friendster looks nice,” Ervyn announced to me and Cate earlier tonight, angling his laptop screen towards us so we could see. “Yeah I saw it some time ago. It does look prettier,” I agreed. “Not impressed!” Cate replied, making a face. I have to agree with Cate though. Sure it has […]

Pizza Hut’s Spaghetti Aglio Olio

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Singapore’s Pizza Hut has just recently launched a line of pastas which they advertise to be just as good as an Italian restaurant’s. Yesterday I was craving my favorite pasta, spaghetti aglio olio (sauce consists entirely of minced or pressed garlic lightly sauteed in olive oil, plus hot pepper flakes), and decided to try Pizza […]

Barbie Dolls for Christmas

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I was strolling through Ang Mo Kio Hub’s Fairprice grocery store when I came across a shelf of Barbie dolls. It was all I could do to buy one… for myself! Barbie dolls were my favorite toys as a child. And they particularly symbolize Christmas to me because I got all of mine on this […]

Makeup Can Do Wonders

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When I was in high school, I frowned upon those who wore makeup and thought that I would never wear them. Obviously I was wrong. Now I rarely leave the house without any, and why not? Makeup can do wonders! Like take a look at this girl. At the start of the tutorial, this is […]

Singapore – a Christmas All Decked Out

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For a country that’s not Christian-dominated, Singapore is pretty decked out in Christmas decors, as you can see below. where I stole the title from Ion Orchard’s purple Christmas tree outside Ion Orchard Orchard Road Ngee Ann City Siam Paragon Tang’s Tang’s across Ion Orchard Centrepoint Centrepoint Orchard Road sidewalk musical ballet of the reindeers […]

Book Review: The Last Song and All of Nick’s Books

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When my friends Chi and Ngangi asked me what I wanted for my birthday present, I asked for Nicholas Sparks’s latest book, The Last Song. What’s different about this book compared to all his others is that he first completed the screenplay before the book and that he wrote it specifically for Miley Cyrus. Here […]

Catching Fire {Book Review}

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I did what I said yesterday and started reading Catching Fire, book 2 in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy, today. I started in the afternoon and finished about an hour ago, just in time for me to watch The Mentalist on channel 5. Here’s the story from the dust jacket: Against all odds, Katniss has […]