“Are you teachers here?” the makeup artist asked me and Wee Kiong as she spritzed hairspray all around my head. “No,” Wee Kiong replied with a laugh. “We’re friends of Li Lin.” I nodded, thinking, wow, who would’ve thought that there would ever come a time when I could agree to such a statement – […]
Chi’s Peanuts and AA’s Shrimps
Gelle and I hung out at the Chi’s and AA’s flat this afternoon. Chi boiled peanuts in their kitchen and we were all surprised to find out for the first time that it takes some 2-3 hours to cook boiled peanuts. In the living room, we watched Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, an old international […]
Pump and Spize and Everything Nize
Last night I met up with the UE Square girls. Our meeting was a popular restaurant named Spize the Makan Place. I had never been there, before, though, so I took a cab to get there and the following conversation ensued between me and the driver. Me: 409 River Valley Road, please.Driver: Do you know […]
Bella Strikes Again
Cate used to call me Bella. Not because I’m best friends with werewolves or obsessed with good-looking vampires but because I am so terribly clumsy. I’m always tripping all over my feet and I don’t know why. Yesterday, it happened again, outside the mall Wisma Atria in Orchard. I was just walking at a normal […]
Sacking for Charity
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), […]
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 […]
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