A Deecoded Life

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The Ramen Girls

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I met the “ramen girls” for lunch at our favorite ramen place for lunch – Marutama Ra-men. It serves the best-tasting ramen and seasoned egg I have ever had. It was raining – the perfect weather for ramen. It also meant that we had to ride a cab from UE Square to Liang Court even […]

Saved from Geocities

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Geocities is closing. The end of an era. I wonder if there will come a time that Blogspot will, too? God I hope not. Anyway, I never had a Geocities site, but my friend Flisha did. I remember how zip.to/flisha was one of the sites I always visited whenever I had a chance to rent […]

My Best Achievements

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Yves posted her individual pics on the “red carpet” with each of her guests and painstakingly wrote a caption explaining how she knew each one. Below is mine: Heidee:H! I have a lot of things to say. Wait..ill be right back..naiiyak ako eh..mag ‘session’ muna ako..haha!You are an epitome of “cool-ness”. You are a person […]

Under My Umbrella

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I forgot my umbrella in Church today. Argh. I wish it’d still be at the umbrella rack when I go back next Sunday. I’m too lazy to go back right now and it’s too pretty for me to let it go just like that. If I don’t find it, I would probably buy a new […]

Gleek Phase

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I love Glee. That makes me a “gleek” – the term they coined for Glee geeks. Glee got to me when I watched the first episode and Will resigned from teaching to be an accountant because he needed to provide for his family and Emma countered with, “But provide what, exactly? The understanding that money […]

Yves’s XXX: A Limited Engagement

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Yves turned thirty today, and she threw a celebration at her condo’s function hall. Aside from being her makeup artist, I was also in charge of the program, making the audio-visual presentations, and being one of two hosts. I made two videos using iMovie. The first one is a compilation of pictures from Yves’s childhood […]

Facebook Overload

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I read this article about Facebook Addiction. It says that psychologists are now probing a new kind of addiction called Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage “overtakes” daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the […]

Best Filipino Food in Singapore

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Years ago, if someone asked me what my favorite cuisine was, I’d reply that I wasn’t sure, maybe Italian or Chinese and that Mexican food ain’t bad, too. That was before I left my country. Now, when someone asks me what my favorite cuisine is, my answer is a resounding “Filipino food!” Thank goodness we […]

Le-CHI Flan

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Chi is getting married next year and is increasingly getting worried about domestic life like the pain of childbirth and how she doesn’t know how to cook. A couple of weeks ago, I offered to teach her how to cook sinigang. But when she saw how uncertain I was at the start, she feared that […]

Make Up Artist Me

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Last Sunday, Yves was going to have her second batch pictorial for her 30th birthday and asked if I could do her makeup. Not sure why she thought I’d make a good makeup artist. I told Yves that I had never put makeup on other people before, but I realized that wasn’t true. There was […]