A Deecoded Life

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The Definition of “Close Friend”

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I was bordering on the edge of insanity one afternoon because a certain invoice amounting to more than a million USD could not get posted due to some difference. The vendor would go bankrupt if we did not get it included in the payment run the next morning, so I sent off messages to different […]

What Stars do Best

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“Your emotions give you away, Yvaine, you must learn to control them. You’ve been glowing more brightly every day and I think you know why.” One of my friends once told me that if you’ll replace the name Yvaine with mine, that line from the movie Stardust would be so appropriate. Well that was me. […]

Bonifacio High Street

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Cate & Carl were in Manila for different reasons, so it was the job of their “localized” college classmates to give them a whirl about town last night. Rather than the usual Glorietta complex, we decided to show them the beautiful Bonifacio High Street. We had dinner at Abe, blended iced coffees at Coffee Bean […]

Risky Business

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We won our first paintball match during our company sportsfest. Our boss Nats asked me why I looked unhappy despite the win. I just told her that I was confused with the events, but the truth was, I was unhappy because I felt unfulfilled. I was still alive at the end of the game but […]

Love Makes the Difference

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An officemate read one of my blogs and said, “Ang galing mo magsulat ah!” (You write really well!) I thanked her and explained, “It’s because I love to write and when you love what you do, you tend to be good at it.” I realize that that is especially true of me. When I was still […]

Bangs and Boots

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I decided to wear boots. I think it goes well with my bangs, don’t you think? Gelle’s new digital curls look good on her, too. She was joke-complaining that nobody had noticed her new ‘do because I had completely overshadowed her. XD

The Y Chromosome {Book Review}

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It was around fourth grade when the X-Men and Sweet Valley Twins first became popular in our school, and I remember that an argument once erupted in our class as to which was better. The boys, naturally, were on the side of the mutants while the girls, also naturally, defended their blonde sixth grade characters. […]

The Ex Factor (But Last Night, I Remembered)

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Whenever officemates see the pictures of my ex, they always have the same reaction – laughter, a look of incredulity on their faces, then the question: “What on earth did you see in him??” Usually I just stutter, “Um..love is blind?” or else shrug, because in all honesty, after all these years, I had forgotten […]

Buiding Houses for Gawad Kalinga

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To help build houses for Gawad Kalinga was in my original list of hundred things to do before I die. Thankfully, I had the chance to slash that off my list! We headed to Baseco, where we would help build the P&G aral center for the poorest of the poor. I had fun shoveling and […]

Double Take

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Jenelyn and I woke up this morning and unintentionally picked near-identical outfits to wear to work. For most people this would spell disaster, but then again we’re not like most people. We took the opportunity to have a pictorial instead.