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World Book Day Finds

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So yesterday was World Book Day, and Singapore’s National Library held a book exchange event. For every book you give, you can get one in exchange. So last Friday, I lugged 8 old books that I had to the Cheng San Library and got 8 coupons for them, and the day after that, headed to […]

Culture Overload

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I don’t know who first discovered cultures, but I thank him from the bottom of my heart. They’re one of the few things I love that are actually good for my body, and I don’t mind gobbling them up as often as I can. But if the saying “too much of anything is bad” is […]

When I Fell In Love with Sushi

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I am not supposed to be a fan of sushi or sashimi. I am not a fan of raw fish unless it’s in the form of kilawin (or ceviche, as it is known in South America), which does not really taste raw because the vinegar’s acidity “cooks” the fish. But last Tuesday when my former […]

Balikbayan ’09

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Visited my home country, the Philippines, for the first time since I started working in Singapore. I made sure to book meet-ups with most people I missed, and as a result, I had an event-filled nine days of vacation (from March 28 – April 5). Highlights: I would like to thank my sponsor, AA, who […]

KFC’s Oriental Chicken Salad

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I was craving for salad for lunch, and was supposed to head for Pepper Lunch and have a shake-shake salad but got waylaid because I needed to get something from Guardian. KFC was nearby, and that’s where I got a salad instead – their oriental chicken salad. I ordered it ala carte because I already […]

Areglohing with a Machine

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In our office we use the MindAlign application for internal chat. One of its main differences from Sametime and Microsoft Communicator is that it has channels that one can join in, much like the MIRC of olden days. These channels are usually created for work groups, like our team has one so that we can […]

Meet Alexe Mac

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I couldn’t sit still the whole day because I was so excited for work to be over and I could rush over to the IT show in Suntec and finally buy a laptop worthy of my childhood dreams. While I was still studying, we could not afford a computer, so I used up all my […]

Three Poems, Three Performances

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Imagine that your Literature teacher had given you a group task to come up with a creative way of presenting the poem below, how would you do it? Children’s HourHenry Wadsworth LongfellowBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour. […]

Magic Babe

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For last Valentine’s Day’s exchange gift, Cate and I received entrance tickets to The Arena club in Clarke Quay for February 28. We thought it was just an ordinary night club, but when I finally got around to finding out where it was, I discovered that this club housed the first permanent illusion show in […]

Bad Gifters

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I was talking to a new friend about books, and she asked me if I had already read The Lovely Bones. I said no, and she proceeded to tell me about how that had been her gift to her mother for one Christmas, but that she had read the book before wrapping it on Christmas […]