A Deecoded Life

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I Had Always Been

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When people ask me why I keep a blog, I tell them that my #1 reason for doing so is to preserve my memories. See, the memory can be a tricky thing in that it can be selective in what it retains in its archives. But if I write it down while the moment is […]

Doubly Delicious

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I was in Wheelock Place the other day when I walked past The Big O and its counter of delicious looking cakes. In most other stores, I’d be really confused as to which to buy – cheesecake or chocolate mousse? Here, both of my favorites had been married into one slice – the Big O […]

Got Mercy?

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Cate, Tatsie, Gelle, Tyne, Dada and I volunteered to help collect donations for the victims of the typhoon Ketsana or Ondoy in South East Asia through the Mercy Relief organization. We stationed ourselves outside the Toa Payoh MRT station with our coin cans, giving stickers in exchange for donations (that’s how they do it here […]

Chocolate Cake Cravings

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Warning: if you are highly susceptible to irresistible food cravings when exposed to reading or visual material about food, please stop reading right now. That means you, Zenie. When RayC and AA were a week into their relationship, RayC sent AA an Awfully Chocolate cake. That’s the cake’s name, hence the capital letters. Awfully sweet […]

Tremor Tales

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At around 6pm this evening, I was ordering dinner in Jologs at the fourth floor of Lucky Plaza in Orchard Road, Singapore, when my vision started swimming and I thought I was just dizzy. Then I felt the table shaking and heard the people asking if we should head downstairs. Turns out we were in […]

Joey Turns Thirty

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In my favorite TV series Friends, there is an episode that shows what happened during their respective 30th birthdays. Joey’s reaction is hilarious, as you can see below. Last September 16, our real life Joey turned 30 himself. His wife Gelle cooked up a surprise for him and we guests hid in the darkness of […]

The Cab Driver’s Wife

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I was already running late for my farewell lunch yesterday, so I flagged a cab in the parking lot near our HDB. A few minutes later, the driver started talking to me, asking me where I was from, etc. I’m not really fond of engaging in small talk with strangers, so I answered all his […]

V Shaped Formation with V Nice People

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My UAPL Finance officemates held a farewell lunch for me at Tampopo, a Japanese restaurant in Liang Court. I ordered the black pig and barbeque pork ramen with tasty egg, which was quite nice, though I was able to finish less than half of the noodles because I can’t seem to take in too much […]

The Aligaga Place

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Yesterday was my last day in UAPL, so my lunch buddies said I could pick where I wanted to eat. I pondered where was the most memorable place that we had lunch and it came to me in a flash – “Let’s go to the aligaga place!” The place I was referring to is actually […]