Here's one of my all-time favourite XKCDs (If you have no idea what it is, find out here. I love how the comics are full of such stunningly accurate observations of life, absurdly romantic moments, why-didn't-I-think-of-that moments. I love the alt text in-jokes. I love how this one, in particular, applies to the situation we find ourselves in. I bow to the master. Behold - sheer genius:
I suppose by now you've heard. We're officially engaged! If you must know, I popped the question in an uber-cool way. I was sprawled out on the sofa after dinner and wanted some pie. So I said woman, get yourself in the kitchen and get me some pie. And as she got up to do my bidding, I tossed her a ring. By the way, says I, you're marrying me. So macho. So cool. So untrue. The sprawled out on the sofa bit was right but what really happened was I'd prepared a bunch of flowers and a sketch of our wedding beforehand. And I asked her in the traditional way. And lucky you, I'm gonna show you what that sketch looks like. Feel special. Feel privileged. Feel free to point, laugh and say I draw worse than a five year old. But just remember this - it got me my woman. So nyaaaaaah!
Just looking through all the photos I've taken on my phone, which explains the sudden influx of random pictures. Last one, I promise - else I'll run out of cute bunny pictures to bribe you people with. Just couldn't resist this one because he really looks like he's posing for it. Ladies and gentlemen...Chicken Pie!
Happy days in Newquay...would you believe this was our dinner one of the nights? And that that's only one portion? Spinach was there to try to comfort our conscience
Lots of big things happening in our lives right now...I am now an employee of Genesis Communications. Not much has changed, I suppose, just the name on the paycheck, but I'm still not too sure how I feel about this. It's a bit of a wait and see situation, but hopefully it all works out well! It's a new opportunity, but it's also sad to see the end of Increase, a company that held all my loyalty.
Some of the other major events of my life I can't talk about yet, but watch this space! Big things are on their way!
It is said apparently that every little girl's dream is to have a perfect wedding.
Well, that is true in some cases - Justina was telling me about how this friend had been planning her wedding for 20 odd years in her 'wedding book' with everything all detailed out and her wedding day was nothing short of perfection.
Personally I never wanted to get married as a child. The idea of standing even 1 metre away from an icky, dirty boy was just impossible, what more to hold his hand and live in the same house.
I used to pick water bottle fights with those dirty Sam Tet boys in the bus ride back home. They were noisy, rude, rowdy..... you get the picture.
That said..
I grew up.
The hormones took over (rather unfortunately as I thought I would have been more than happy being a feminist spinster fighting for women rights whether they are reasonable or not).
Those icky boys became something else.
And I embarked on a journey called 'love'.
This journey took me everywhere (literally)! It was long and most of the time littered with heartache and sometimes, broken friendships.
That is until I was 'ICQ-ed' by this random guy with the nickname Soonami (what a lame nickname, right?)
Anyway, I ignored him first time around because I thought it was some boy who likes Tsunamis' and decided to mis-spell it.
I ignored him second time around because I was busy reading something.
But third time around (just as he was about to delete me if I still ignored him so he said), I was free and despite still not liking his nickname, I spoke to him and it just caught on.
As I got to know this boy with a nickname I don't like, I discovered that his surname is Soon - which would greatly explain Soonami. It is still a mis-spelled Tsunami but it did bring the level of 'lameness' down quite a bit.
Anyhow, we got to know each other and gradually fell in love.
I do admit it was rather hasty. Falling in love with someone over the internet isn't exactly always safe and you often don't get what you think is in front of you.
Somehow for us, it worked out reasonably right. Maybe it was fated for us to be together and our other differences we sorted out through arguments, time and comforts.
We still have differences - he is still a lot more paranoid than I would like him to not be, I have a temper he wish I didn't have, he thinks Hokkien food is nice, my Cantonese half thinks that my Hokkien half can't and shouldn't cook..
I still sulk when he says something wrong and blackmail him for hours.
He occasionally still tries to slip something through me by lying.
The list can be never-ending.
The important part however is that I know that at the end of the day, I would forgive and be forgiven and we both aim to start anew stronger and we love each other more.
We have been together 4 years 9 months and 22 days.
And I feel, my special boy would want to take the next step.... soon...
He knows that is what's missing (he hasn't asked..hint hint) and when he gets round to doing it, I will let you know, and we can then let you in into our little secret plan that has been in our minds for a while now.
Truly by Doug Hyde - one day we will have the money to buy this painting!
Why the Big Blog of Everything?
There are blogs of cute bunny pictures. Blogs of food and recipes. Blogs with pointless rambling. Blogs with rants. Writing blogs. Political commentary blogs. This is a blog with all of the above and more. The big, kiasu, my-blog-has-more-stuff-than-anyone-else's blog of everything.
Our happy early spring purple crocoses looking cheerful in the morning
