The next step

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.