A Deecoded Life

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A Creepy Love Story: Even Death Won’t Do Us Part

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I’ve been reading this interesting non-fiction book entitled Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox. The premise is about this woman who goes on a quest to find her soulmate by dating 80 men all over the world. I must say, I’m learning a lot of interesting stuff, like this tidbit: Verona was […]

Drippy Days Always Get Me Down

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“Rainy days and Mondays always get me down,” goes the song of the Carpenters. I suppose that is true for most people, but maybe not “always.” I like rainy days days when I don’t need to be anywhere but at home. It’s so wonderful to sleep in when it’s raining outside. Otherwise, I am not […]

Donut Bite (a Halloween Special)

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One of the pics we entered under Cate’s name in the Donut Empire photo challenge won a $50 donut voucher. Last night, we attended the halloween-themed awarding ceremony held in Tanjong Katong…or rather, I did. Gelle and Cate arrived after the ceremony was done, but still in time to load up on free-flowing donuts and […]

Keeping Kelly

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She was near tears, I could tell. But she tried her best to keep them at bay. Maybe it was because she did not want to ruin the face that her makeup artist had spent hours on perfecting. But it would not have mattered even if she had ruined the makeup. It would not have […]

Khatib Acoustic Night

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“Pinay?” This was the question that started my journey to Khatib to join an acoustic night which turned out to be a birthday celebration of two Pinays. I brought Cate along with me, and we ended up having a lot of fun. We were clapping and screaming just as hard as the people who actually […]

The Singapore Flyer

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My high school classmate Chi visited her sister AA, who is also working here. Yesterday, Cate and I rode the Singapore Flyer (the biggest observation wheel in the world) with them and Chi’s boyfriend Punch, who also came with her. I loved the view, but as usual, I wasn’t too crazy about the height. Damn […]

Climbers vs Jumpers

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While emailing with a friend about her current heart stories, I was reminded of another friend’s blog when she was in a similar situation a long time ago. So I dug up her old blog and decided to post a couple of her entries here just because they give me mixed feelings of wanting to […]

Random Acts of Kindness

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Back in college, our org moderator put up a challenge – we were supposed to do a number of random acts of kindness within a certain span of time. I don’t remember the specifics, but notes were part of the assignment. Signed notes of appreciation for friends and family were simple and common enough. The […]

Funny Furniture Adventures

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Adventure 1: The Side Table in the Bus and MRT Yesterday I invited Cate to go to Ikea with me so that I could buy a bolster pillow and side table for me as well as a full length mirror for our room. So we headed to Tampines MRT station to ride the free shuttle […]

Drills and Thrills

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Today we had to climb down 14 floors worth of stairs for our fire drill. My legs were shaking by the time I got down. A good thing I had worn flats in preparation for this event. When this had happened back in P&G, I was wearing stilettos. No wait..that wasn’t during the fire drill. […]