Back in college, our org moderator put up a challenge – we were supposed to do a number of random acts of kindness within a certain span of time. I don’t remember the specifics, but notes were part of the assignment. Signed notes of appreciation for friends and family were simple and common enough. The […]
Funny Furniture Adventures
Adventure 1: The Side Table in the Bus and MRT Yesterday I invited Cate to go to Ikea with me so that I could buy a bolster pillow and side table for me as well as a full length mirror for our room. So we headed to Tampines MRT station to ride the free shuttle […]
Drills and Thrills
Today we had to climb down 14 floors worth of stairs for our fire drill. My legs were shaking by the time I got down. A good thing I had worn flats in preparation for this event. When this had happened back in P&G, I was wearing stilettos. No wait..that wasn’t during the fire drill. […]
Missing My Penguin
Today was one lazy Saturday spent cooped up in our bedroom watching Pushing Daisies on someone’s laptop. When Peter hugged Cate’s teddy bear, I suddenly missed my own cuddly stuffed pet who is still in a bag I left in my old office back in the Philippines. Last Valentine’s day, we organized an exchange gifts […]
Royce Nama Chocolates: Little Drops of Heaven
When I got my first paycheck, I decided to treat my Singapore family to the most raved about chocolates which happened to have a store in Suntec City – Royce. Last time my former officemate Adette was here, she was looking for some to buy as pasalubong. Turns out she had bought the wrong thing. […]
How was Your Day?
Peter was telling Cate and me about his trip to the ministry of manpower last night. Our entire family was on its way to Fair Price to shop for groceries then. Suddenly he broke off in midsentence, saying, “But I shouldn’t be talking about this.” “Why not?” Cate and I asked. “Because I should be […]
Terrible F1 Accident
Ahehe. I know, I know. Corny! I did get a small glimpse of the F1 race, though. A very faraway glimpse from our office in Raffles Place, where I saw the extent of the roads blocked off for this event, and an up-close view in Suntec City, where I got to see them racing by, […]
Hougang Saan
Theme song: Hougang saan hougang kailan… Cate and I finally moved into our flat in Hougang Central yesterday. Gelle, Joey and Peter had moved in last Monday. Addiction to the Twilight series made us want to call ourselves the Cullens. Hahaha. And so tonight, the “Cullens” decided to “hunt” in the nearby Punggol park. Okay, […]
Lah-sang
“Having here, take away?” The girl behind the food counter asks me. In other words, dine in or take out? This is only one of the seemingly unusual yet commonly heard phrases here in Singapore. Take this question from one of my teammates. “Try to approve. Can?” My other teammate’s answer: “Cannot.” But the most […]
Malled In
I’m ecstatic. We found an HDB flat at the most ideal spot – just a stone’s throw away from two malls, the Hougang MRT station and a bus stop! Nevermind that it’s on the third floor of a building that has no elevators (the exercise will do us good) and that it’s furnished with everything […]
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