A Deecoded Life

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December Birthdays

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Our Midnight Surprise for Ervyn log cake + ice cream + faux wine + gifts a toast to the birthday boy Tyne’s Birthday Party Tyne posing with her pandan cake & lavish feast prepared by her brother it’s Ervyn’s birthday too with the first batch of guests Our Midnight Surprise for Tatsie cake + cupcakes […]

All I Want for Christmas is Mine!

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Remember that stuffed chipmunk I fell in love with at the Chi and Anoop’s place? The one that I was hugging so fiercely in our “All I want for Christmas” music video? Well I have one of my own now, with his very own teeny santa hat, thanks to Chi and Anoop! Apparently it pays […]

Felices Pascua for ZC Santas in Singapore

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We hometown friends decided to have our Christmas party at Chi and AA’s beautiful flat last Sunday. It was early because certain people (and by “people” I actually mean just one person) are going home on the 10th. We got our secret santas online and brought pot luck food. Our house volunteered to bring spaghetti and […]

Easy to Go There

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One thing I love about Singapore is how organized their commute system is. You can use just one EZlink card to pay for all your fares, and you can “top up” your card at all train stations. You can call to book a cab to pick you up at any time of the day. All […]

Chi’s Peanuts and AA’s Shrimps

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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

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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

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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

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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), […]

Three Things I Can’t Resist

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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 […]