Have you ever wondered what a girl is actually saying? Have you ever wondered why girls are so complicated? Well, sometimes, because we like dropping hints.
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Marcella Purnama
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Marcella Purnama is a blogger and author of What I Wish I Had Known: And Other Lessons You Learned in Your Twenties. She is currently obsessed with finding the best recipe for bread rolls and keeping her sixteen plants alive.
Do you have your favourite birthday? Is it when you were eight, with lots of colourful presents? Is it when you were 17, with your friends throwing a birthday surprise to you? Have you had a birthday that you wish to forget?
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CAN you go the distance? Marcella Purnama gets personal about long distance relationships and their chances of success.
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I used to be a non-believer of long distance relationships. I felt they were too tough and no one could ever withstand the hardship of not being able to be with the one you love physically.
Throughout high school I said to myself, “I don’t want to be in a long distance relationship. Not now, not ever.”
I congratulated those who were in one because I could imagine how hard it would be.
Then when graduation came and all of my high school friends scattered across the universe, I saw those long distance couples crumble. One by one, they broke up – until no one was left.
Moving onto my university life, I made new friends. I listened to those who were still trying to make their long distance relationships work, encouraged others. Saw the pre-wedding videos of those who made it through.
Then, I met someone.
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If anyone ever tells you that the courting period is the best thing in a relationship, I would call him a big, fat liar. Why? For me, it is the second worst thing after breaking-up.
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What’s Wrecked all about? Jeff Goins said in his book that it means to be outside of our comfort zone. That there’s something bigger in life than just working your ass off to graduate, get a car, and get married. That the world’s broken. And you can make a difference.
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Are you scared to make choices that would possibly have failures inside the equation? I am. But I’m learning to believe not only in God, but in myself.
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If someone asks me, what’s the kind of guy you’d like to date, I’ll be rolling my eyes and say, “Well, how many types of guys are there?”
Here are my top 13 types of guys. Because I’m a fan of movies, I’ll make reference to a movie character for each of the types.
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WHEN you fall for someone who’s already taken, should you let your head or your heart rule? Meld columnist Marcella Purnama asks.
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There are no exactly two alike women in this world. However, doing categorisation is sometimes useful (or fun) to do.
When you befriend someone, do you unconsciously categorise him or her as belonging to a group? Sometimes, I do.
So I begin to ask myself: what about the girls that guys date? Every girl is different, but is there any typical ‘girlfriend’ group that they belong to?
Let’s find out.
Here are my 13 types of girls that guys date, and because I’m a fan of movies, for each of the type I’ll make reference to a movie character.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is not your ordinary novel. Why? Because it’s written from the point of view of an Asperger’s.
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