A Deecoded Life

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Happy Birthday Tyne and Ervyn!

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Watch the funny videos we made for them below. For Tyne’s, we actually used our own voices. First we recorded our voices singing our revised version of Shayne Ward’s “That’s Our Goal” then we mounted my camera on one of the pipes near the ceiling (thanks to my wonderful spider tripod, my best investment ever) […]

As If Love Could Be Measured in Likes

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Validation. It used to be from text messages. If our cellphone didn’t beep in a long while or if we checked it after leaving it stowed away somewhere for hours and the screen is blank, devoid of message notifications or missed calls, we’d get a heavy feeling in our chest and think, “nobody loves me!” […]

Sana Ngayong Pasko Music Video

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I shot and edited a music video of Michael Buble’s song “Home” starring Ervyn but it couldn’t be uploaded on YouTube due to music copyright issues so I uploaded the video for downloading here instead. I also decided to use some of the footage (scenes shot all over Singapore) to make a music video using […]

Park Music Videos

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Parks apparently cause us to make music videos. Can I just say that Cate is a really good performer? In the second video, I was the “singer” yet she stole the show. 😀 Here’s one in Ang Mo Kio Park, shot on the same day as Terror at the Park. And this was shot today […]

My Second Movie

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Previously on DeeCoded: I attended “Writing for the Screen: Behind the Writer’s Desk,” a talk given by Singapore’s award-winning directer Wee Li Lin in October. At the end of the session, the director asked the participants if they wanted to volunteer as unpaid extras for her upcoming low-budget feature film so that they could have […]

Our Horromedy: Terror at the Park

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Cate, Ervyn and I were jogging in Ang Mo Kio Park this afternoon when the forest inspired us to make an impromptu movie ala Blair Witch. Impromptu meaning there wasn’t even a script, we just rolled the camera and started running and screaming all over the place. Once we got home, that’s when we thought […]

Shoe Junkie Bag

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I love this shoe bag that came as a freebie in an Elle magazine. Perfect bag to store flip-flops that you can slip into after work. Fits snugly into your bag and looks prettier than cellophane.

No Regrets: My Mother’s Story

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Now I’ve Steve Jobs’s speech about how the dots only connect when you look back and I even had my own epiphany about how a picture only looks clear when you’ve stepped back and seen it from a distance instead of pressed up against your nose. But when you’re not “there” yet, it’s not quite […]

Bye Romilie Rosalie Ronalie (Karaoke)

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I can’t believe Rome is leaving P&G. But she’s doing it to go back home and be with her daughter, so it’s a good call. April asked me to record a video for her and I did one better: a karaoke of a “personalized song” for her, since she and I were the lyricist partners […]