A Deecoded Life

{Expat Diaries} Lost in Translation

November 7, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 20 Comments

One of the biggest struggles of a new expat has got to be conversation. I’m lucky that I moved to a country where most people can speak English fluently (just like the Philippines, I’d like to point out), but they have a different accent compared to ours, so it still wasn’t easy. I clearly remember […]

Betchie Bye Golly Wow

November 4, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 7 Comments

She’s out of my life…She’s out of my life…And I don’t know whether to laugh or cryI don’t know whether to live or dieAnd it cuts like a knife…She’s out of my life… Okay, so maybe that song is a tad exaggerrated. It is true that my friend Betchie is out of my (Singapore) life, […]

7 Photos, 7 Quotes Challenge

November 2, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 13 Comments

I was pleased when Emma of Adventures of a London Kiwi invited me to participate in this challenge. I am a huge fan of quotes AND photographs, so I’m sure you understand why this is like being invited to a party with all my favorite food AND people. Win-win. 😉 All pictures are mine, and […]

Dating Diaries: a Boy in a Bar

November 1, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 18 Comments

Kids, this is NOT the story of how I met your father. (But funnily, it is somehow the story of how I met How I Met Your Mother.) To tell this story well, I need to take a page from how Ted Mosby does it and start from the very beginning, which means I will have […]

Halloween Party 2013

October 30, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 16 Comments

For the first time ever, we (my hometown friends) decided to throw a halloween party. I suggested it after Elma said we should get together more often, and to my delight, everyone agreed and was more than happy to dress up and even came up with halloween decorations and food! Anne, our host, decorated her […]

River Safari: Pandas in Singapore

October 29, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 37 Comments

Today I am going to talk about being a tourist in the same country where I live. There is a new tourist attraction called River Safari Singapore, Asia’s first and only river-themed wildlife park. Unfortunately since it’s so new, the river part (where you get to ride a boat on the river, how cool is […]

Escape Plan {Movie Review}

October 26, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 2 Comments

When my friend Dred invited me to watch Escape Plan, I had no idea what it was and wasn’t sure I wanted to watch it when she said it starred Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who are known for hard core action films. I loved Arnold, with Terminator 2 being our most watched VHS tape […]

Ivy’s Farewell @ K Box Karaoke

October 24, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 10 Comments

Kids, this is the funny story of how I met Ivy. We were batch mates, meaning we started work on the same day which was the first day of a week-long training session. On said day, we both snuck out to the sandwich shop during break time to grab some grub. When I saw the […]

A Solo Gold Class Cinema Experience (Review)

October 23, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 20 Comments

Last Friday night, I found out that I needed to pick up my camera from Canon on Saturday, so since I was going all the way to Vivo City anyway, might as well make the most of my trip, right? A movie was definitely in order, and I had just the movie in mind – Gravity. […]

Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream {Foodee}

October 21, 2013 by Dee @ A Deecoded Life 13 Comments

So let’s talk about an incredible phenomenon I just witnessed over the weekend. The Saturday before the last, I was wandering around Vivo City when I happened to notice this outside Candy Empire: So I thought, wow, they’re selling Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream here now? So I went inside to take a look. I was going to […]