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Book Review: The Last Song and All of Nick’s Books

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When my friends Chi and Ngangi asked me what I wanted for my birthday present, I asked for Nicholas Sparks’s latest book, The Last Song. What’s different about this book compared to all his others is that he first completed the screenplay before the book and that he wrote it specifically for Miley Cyrus. Here […]

Catching Fire {Book Review}

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I did what I said yesterday and started reading Catching Fire, book 2 in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy, today. I started in the afternoon and finished about an hour ago, just in time for me to watch The Mentalist on channel 5. Here’s the story from the dust jacket: Against all odds, Katniss has […]

The Hunger Games {Book Review}

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Look what I ordered from the library. I say “ordered” because I didn’t pick them off the shelves. After reading rave reviews about them from Gim and Gio (hey, their names both start with the same letters), I just had to search for them in Singapore National library’s online portal. Turns out they have some […]

He Just Hasn’t Met Her Yet

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For Tatsie’s birthday, we decided to make a music video of Michael Buble’s Haven’t Met You Yet, her future boyfriend’s song for her. Ervyn played the part of the future boyfriend. We copied some portions of the actual music video, including the location, which is a grocery store. We also shot some scenes in the […]

My Second Movie

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Previously on DeeCoded: I attended “Writing for the Screen: Behind the Writer’s Desk,” a talk given by Singapore’s award-winning directer Wee Li Lin in October. At the end of the session, the director asked the participants if they wanted to volunteer as unpaid extras for her upcoming low-budget feature film so that they could have […]

My First Movie

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“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 – […]

Have A Little Faith {Book Review}

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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 […]

Gleek Phase

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I love Glee. That makes me a “gleek” – the term they coined for Glee geeks. Glee got to me when I watched the first episode and Will resigned from teaching to be an accountant because he needed to provide for his family and Emma countered with, “But provide what, exactly? The understanding that money […]

30 Going on 13

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Tatsie watched the movie 13 Going on 30 tonight. I’ve always loved that movie. It’s a funny, feel-good romance with a good “moral lesson” and Jennifer plays such a convincing 13-year-old trapped in a 30-year-old’s body. Here is the complete synopsis of the movie (I’m too lazy to write my own right now). Jenna was […]

Paris 36 {Movie Review}

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I would like to thank the Singapore 25th French Film Festival for for being in existence and for showing the movie Paris 36 and also Mademoiselles Betchie and Arlyn for inviting me to watch that film with them tonight. It’s only the second French film I’ve seen (the first one being Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie […]