A Deecoded Life

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More Than Just Eye Candied Apple

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While I love Alexe, my macbook, I have to admit that I do have some issues with being a Mac owner, since I’ve been a PC user ever since I became computer-literate and have never even touched a Mac before I bought her. I have had to adjust a lot. Like on my keyboard, the […]

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 […]

30 Going on 13

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Tatsie watched the movie 13 Going on 30 tonight. I’ve always loved that movie. It’s a funny, feel-good romance with a good “moral lesson” and Jennifer plays such a convincing 13-year-old trapped in a 30-year-old’s body. Here is the complete synopsis of the movie (I’m too lazy to write my own right now). Jenna was […]

Recipe: Pork Potapples

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Some people find cooking therapeutic. I’m one of those people, though I’m not sure why that is so. Like earlier, I cooked and nearly cried when the oil started dancing high in the pan and I couldn’t prevent the pork chop from getting burned because I was too scared to go near it, then I […]

My Precious G-Tec Pen

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Last Monday I found myself in Providence, a huge bookstore in Ion Orchard. They had shelf upon shelf of pens of all sizes and colors and brands. There must have been several thousands in there (not that I bothered to actually count) and other people would have been confused as to which pen to choose, […]

Prom Disasters

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I came across my High School prom pictures and can’t help but cringe. What the hell was I thinking?? Disaster #1: Junior Prom. In our school, juniors were supposed to dress in baby pink for the prom. My mom brought me to her seamstress where we pored over dress designs on magazines and catalogues. I […]

Paris 36 {Movie Review}

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I would like to thank the Singapore 25th French Film Festival for for being in existence and for showing the movie Paris 36 and also Mademoiselles Betchie and Arlyn for inviting me to watch that film with them tonight. It’s only the second French film I’ve seen (the first one being Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie […]

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 […]

Julie and Julia {Movie Review}

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Julie and Julia was a wonderful movie based on two true stories. Julie is a woman whose life seems to be going nowhere. One night, she and her husband come up with a challenge for her and she decides: “I’ll cook my way through the Julia Child cook book and write a blog about it. […]

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 […]