A Deecoded Life

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I Got Retrenched and I Liked It

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Yesterday’s checklist: *contract signed – check *employment pass approved – check *pre-employment medical exam – check Yep. After getting retrenched last May, I finally got a new job, a better one to replace the old. Now isn’t that totally awesome? Everything happened so fast, too, though it was really slow at the beginning. I had […]

Heering Accessorize 2009

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Last week, I joined a contest in Elle Magazine via their Facebook group and won a pair of tickets to the finale of Heering Accessorize 2009 – the world championship in fashion mixing and drink designing. Mixologists create a Heering cocktail inspired by a haute couture dress and designers create a Heering cocktail dress inspired […]

Archie Picks Veronica

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For seventy years, Archie has been torn between two best friends – rich brunette Veronica and blonde girl-next-door Betty. When word got out that he was finally planning to marry one of them, I wished it would be Betty. I have always liked Betty more than Ronnie for the same reason that I preferred Elizabeth […]

Bintan Lagoon Resort {Deetour}

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I did not want to go initially, but Cate was so convincing that in the end, I found myself in a ferry boat that took less than an hour to bring us to Bintan Lagoon Resort in Indonesia for an overnight stay starting yesterday. I’m glad I went, though! The view was breathtakingly beautiful. The resort […]

Photofunia

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I visited Photofunia for the first time and had a blast creating photos. this one’s my fave… my picture looks like it really belongs! here’s another billboard I’ve always called this particular pic “Vogue” and now it really is! I really ought to be an actress are my eyes as bleary as Sirius Black’s? ooh… […]

Weng Feliciano, Meet Weng Feliciano

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I had a funny encounter in Facebook today. Apparently I am acquainted with two people from different parts of the world who have the same first and last name. Well, nickname, actually, since the guy is named Roel and the girl is named Rowena. What a funny coincidence though.

Happy Birthday Rey!

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Today is the birthday of one of my oldest friends. I don’t mean by age, but by how long we’ve been friends; this is the 11th birthday he’ll be spending with me as his friend. While I had friends I knew way before him, not all of them are still friends with me after all […]

Another Marriage Proposal

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Here we go again! I’ve been avoiding logging into Skype to get away from pervs and weirdos, but when I finally log in again today to talk to Tina, I got another one: Below are some of the weirder opening lines I’ve encountered and ignored from different social networking sites. “Hey I saw your profile […]

Kate and Leopold {Movie Review}

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Yes, my Jackman-ia is not yet over, and I’ve spent the past days researching about him and downloading his pictures to use as my laptop’s wallpaper and watching his movies. I watched X-Men 1 and 2 online and found a DVD of Kate and Leopold in the library on the day I got retrenched. Let’s […]