Gelle and I hung out at the Chi’s and AA’s flat this afternoon. Chi boiled peanuts in their kitchen and we were all surprised to find out for the first time that it takes some 2-3 hours to cook boiled peanuts. In the living room, we watched Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, an old international […]
Pump and Spize and Everything Nize
Last night I met up with the UE Square girls. Our meeting was a popular restaurant named Spize the Makan Place. I had never been there, before, though, so I took a cab to get there and the following conversation ensued between me and the driver. Me: 409 River Valley Road, please.Driver: Do you know […]
Bella Strikes Again
Cate used to call me Bella. Not because I’m best friends with werewolves or obsessed with good-looking vampires but because I am so terribly clumsy. I’m always tripping all over my feet and I don’t know why. Yesterday, it happened again, outside the mall Wisma Atria in Orchard. I was just walking at a normal […]
Sacking for Charity
Yesterday we volunteered to help pack donated goods for the victims of calamities in the Philippines. I’m touched that the Mercy Relief organization, though based in Singapore, would help my home country. It’s still the same volunteer org that we worked for last time. We headed to a warehouse in Toa Payoh (after getting lost), […]
Can You Please Check If the Water is Running?
When I was in High School, before caller ID was invented, my neighbor used to prank her friends by making me call them and say, “Hello, this is the water district. Can you please check if your water is running?” After that person had checked and come back and said yes it was, I’d then […]
Three Things I Can’t Resist
The first text message I got when I turned on my cellphone in Singapore was from the library, informing me that the book I had reserved was ready for pick up. So this afternoon, I gathered all the books I had borrowed previously and swung by the Ang Mo Kio public library, a good 15 […]
Our Newest Hangout
Chi and AA moved into a new flat with one of their friends and we checked the place out on the first day of this month. The place is fabulous! So excited to have it as our newest hangout place. Tonight, we went back to the place when AA threw a housewarming party for her […]
College Sweethearts
Yesterday, two of my College classmates changed their status to “in a relationship” in Facebook and were soon inundated with happy comments from their common friends, including me. It was a surprise because even though they had the same personalities, they didn’t exactly revolve in the same circles except for the classroom. So I have […]
A Busload of Bus Memories
This morning, I saw a video of a burning Guiwan bus terminal on Facebook. According to an article, the fire happened last Monday and razed the old place to the ground. That terminal has been around forever and is probably way overdue for a replacement but still, it is our city’s only bus depot. How will […]
Halloween Twins
This afternoon, Cate and I met a new acquaintance who asked us if we were sisters. It’s a question we get asked a lot, actually, from Thais to Singaporeans to Filipinos. So I thought about taking a picture of us together using my laptop’s Photobooth to blog about it. And that was how it started, […]
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