Yehey! One more item off my bucket list! Chi decided it was time we learned how to bake. AA found this recipe which we decided to follow (after all, you can’t go wrong with Hersheys, right?) and I found a video from Insightful Nana for good measure. Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour […]
Gelle Learns How to Drive… a Bike
“Let’s meet up over the weekend? Is there a good movie that’s showing?” I ask the girls in an email. “Let’s go biking in East Coast!” Chi responds, to everyone’s surprise. But we all eagerly agree with the idea. Something new from our typical dinner-then-eat-then-talk-for-hours routine. What fun! “Sorry guys but I don’t know how […]
Fifth Year Anniversary
I can’t believe it’s been five whole years since I wrote my first entry in this blog. Can’t believe that the most inconsistent girl in the world actually managed to maintain something for that long – churning out 800+ posts ain’t no joke. It was my friend Flisha who first told me that there is […]
I Believe in Dreams
Once upon a time in the faraway kingdom of ZC, a little 11-year-old girl had a dream – she wanted to be a writer. But she was too timid to fight for her dream, so she pursued it in secret, by writing on the pages of her diary. She would have liked to make a […]
Back in Hougang
Last Saturday, we were unceremoniously kicked out of our flat when our landlord found out that we were harboring an “illegal tenant.” He gave us a week to leave. See, we didn’t know that it was an offense because in Hougang we had let Tatsie and Dada live in our flat without informing anyone. But […]
ABS CBN Interview
I don’t really have time to blog because I’m supposed to be writing something else (which I will blog about one of these days if it turns out okay) but I just have to blog about this like right now. This afternoon, we were interviewed by ABS CBN’s Ryan Chua about absentee voting and the […]
Dee-cade in Retrospect
It hadn’t immediately occurred to me that when the clock struck midnight on December 31 of last year, it wouldn’t be just an ordinary year coming to a close but rather, the first decade of the 21st century. I only realized this about a few days ago when all these lists and awards started coming […]
My First Movie
“Are you teachers here?” the makeup artist asked me and Wee Kiong as she spritzed hairspray all around my head. “No,” Wee Kiong replied with a laugh. “We’re friends of Li Lin.” I nodded, thinking, wow, who would’ve thought that there would ever come a time when I could agree to such a statement – […]
Moving to Ang Mo Kio
Cate, Tatsie and I moved to our new flat in Ang Mo Kio last Sunday. We didn’t realize that we had sooo much stuff! We were afraid that they wouldn’t fit into the moving van that Tatsie had booked for 40 bucks but it turns out we need not have worried. The truck was so […]
My First Year Anniversary in Singapore
I can’t believe that it’s been more than a year since I wrote this (comments in teal have been added now): Top Things I’ll Miss in the Philippines (in no particular order): Pinoy chibog. Mangga with bagoong. Okra. Dinuguan. Kilawin. Inihaw na isda. Chicken inasal. Halo-halo. Tapsilog. Toyomansi. Fresh dalandan juice. Lansones. Isaw. Sinigang. Adobo. […]