As the year winds down to a close, I decided to jot down all the highlights that I had been too lazy to blog about this year. This was the year that I discovered multiply, so instead of taking time to articulate the events, I just clicked my camera and let the pictures tell the […]
Archives for December 2008
Ghost of Christmas Past
At the stroke of midnight, Gelle, Cate and I screamed excitedly for our presents. We exchanged packages and looked on as each tore the wrapping off to reveal the presents from the others. I felt like Cinderella that night, with both presents I got being shoes… pretty shoes, may I add. I was very happy […]
A Singaporean Christmas
Twas the day before Christmas, and at 10:30 AM, the big boss Patrick Huang sent an email, giving me two reasons to smile. The first reason was his name. No, it’s not a funny name, I just find it amusing that it sounds so much like the name of the big boss of the company […]
Songtwister
It started in my childhood. I had a notebook that I shared with my neighborhood friends Steph and Lenlen. It was like a scrapbook that held pictures we drew and songs we wrote. Songs whose lyrics we changed a bit so that it became our own… different but with no sense. Like changing the lyrics […]
Twilight {Movie Review}
Singapore has a lot of cinemas that show a lot of different movies at a time, unlike in Metro Manila wherein Greenbelt may show the same movie in all 6 of its cinemas. Still, Singapore cinemas lose to Manila’s in that their Hollywood movies are shown late. Take Twilight, for example, which the rest of […]
Austine in Singapore
My high school and college classmate Austine (who jokingly refers to himself as my son) came to Singapore to visit his girlfriend Tyne on her birthday, December 7. We celebrated said event at Tyne’s flat. Tyne and guests our itsy bitsy teeny weeny orange polka dot bikini gift The next day, we college classmates watched […]
Romantic Comedy Proposal
Joey needed to fly back to the Philippines on short notice, so Cate and I had to prepare our despedida for him on short notice too. While he and Gelle went to Suntec City to buy his gifts for his family, Cate and I hurriedly wrapped our Christmas gifts for him and set those and […]
Non-Christian Christmas
Yesterday, my teammate gleefully suggested that we hold a Christmas potluck on the 23rd. When everyone in our team was onboard, they decided to let the other team in on the plan. I wondered how they would react, since 2 of the 3 members in the other team are Muslims. I need not have worried. […]
Bolt (Movie Review)
It was a holiday last Monday, so we were free to go to the zoo with our latest guest, Austine. Unfortunately it rained really hard, so we decided to watch a movie in the cinema instead. It was my first time to watch a movie in a cinema in Singapore because for 10 Sing dollars […]
Rhea’s and April’s Stopover
Rhea and April ensured to book Sing Air for their trip home from Turkey so that they would have a stopover in Singapore and have the chance to meet Gelle and me. We spent yesterday talking our heads off, as promised. We also exchanged chocolates, had breakfast at the airport, shopped in Charles & Keith, […]