A Deecoded Life

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The Early Bird Catches the Promo Fares

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Yesterday, I got this in my email: Keso’s wedding in Manila, where I am to be bridesmaid, is inclusive of those dates, so I decided to visit their site and buy myself tickets. I knew it was going to be difficult because based on previous experiences, the site has a tendency to be be really […]

Meant to Know Each Other

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Over lunch today, Yves and I discovered that we had been teammates in P&G’s 2005 teambuilding held in Subic. We had crossed paths and didn’t even know (or remember) each other. This is definitely proof that we had always been meant to be acquainted. different teams wore different color hawaiian pants I wore blue Yves […]

The Ramen Girls

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I met the “ramen girls” for lunch at our favorite ramen place for lunch – Marutama Ra-men. It serves the best-tasting ramen and seasoned egg I have ever had. It was raining – the perfect weather for ramen. It also meant that we had to ride a cab from UE Square to Liang Court even […]

Saved from Geocities

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Geocities is closing. The end of an era. I wonder if there will come a time that Blogspot will, too? God I hope not. Anyway, I never had a Geocities site, but my friend Flisha did. I remember how zip.to/flisha was one of the sites I always visited whenever I had a chance to rent […]

Best Filipino Food in Singapore

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Years ago, if someone asked me what my favorite cuisine was, I’d reply that I wasn’t sure, maybe Italian or Chinese and that Mexican food ain’t bad, too. That was before I left my country. Now, when someone asks me what my favorite cuisine is, my answer is a resounding “Filipino food!” Thank goodness we […]

Le-CHI Flan

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Chi is getting married next year and is increasingly getting worried about domestic life like the pain of childbirth and how she doesn’t know how to cook. A couple of weeks ago, I offered to teach her how to cook sinigang. But when she saw how uncertain I was at the start, she feared that […]

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 […]