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Monday, May 31, 2010
jauh
if you're happy & he know, you clap his hand!
Geeky side revealed
Nice to skip, eh? Can't do it often though. Must go tomorrow. Class photo! Ker-chek!
Don't think I'd be doing anything productive during holidays. Like surf net... and the Altador Cup Tournament of Neopets! No, seriously. I like. NEOPETS. My dirty little secret. Well not so secret anymore.
My team won last year. Krawk Island. Sigh. Does anyone even play neopets anymore? It's been 5 years I've played! :O
And then, there's also Pokemon:
Get the HeartGold version. And then there's a new version coming out. Black and White. 0.0
AND THEN, I SHOULD ALSO MAKE MY TAMAGOTCHI COME BACK ALIVE:
There's Tamagotchi Colour, but the Japs still hadn't decide to make an English version. Hmph!
When we immerse ourselves in entertainment like videogames and TV it's like being in a virtual world. And doing stuff in the virtual world is unproductive, of course.
I shall also sew and draw, for the sake of my ambition.
Now that I think about it, I don't want to sit wasting my time. OK. Fashion designer. I need to get out the sewing machine.
I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS.
berhati-hati
Wifely steps
The diamond ring was on my finger, the wedding date was set, the honeymoon flights had been booked – and so had my one-way ticket to Singapore. Marlon, who had gotten a kick-ass job in Singapore, had been based there for the entire four years we’d been dating. Since we both agreed that the Singapore dollar would give us a better financial head start in our shared life, the moment we had gotten engaged, moving there became a foregone conclusion.
The thing was, I didn’t want to move. I loved my life. I had a career that made me creatively fulfilled, ecstatically happy and financially rewarded, a tight-knit family of females with whom I shared everything, and a large, loving and irreplaceable network of friends (a choir, actually) made my life sparkling and vibrant.
Unlike many Filipinos who would leap at the chance to live and work abroad, I was staunchly in love with life in the Philippines – with our people, our beaches, our Salcedo markets and Cubao Expos and cheap finds at Landmark, and damned if I was going to give it up to start from scratch, jobless and friendless, in a country about the size of Quezon City.
After a while, I realized I had said yes without really making a choice. And that beyond putting on a brave face, what I really had to do to start our new life together with no fears, no doubts, was simply… choose.
So on October 4th, 2007, only two months and twenty-five days before our wedding date, I really, truly and freely chose to move to Singapore. I wrote Marlon this letter, excerpts of which I will share with you.
Dear Marlon,
This is what I see. I didn’t choose Singapore.
I chose you. I chose to be with you… no matter what that looks like.
Starting out, that was all I really wanted. I realized now, I’m finally getting what I really want.
Coming into this marriage, you are my biggest commitment. I’m not committed to where we’re going to live, what we’re going to do, how much we’re going to earn, what we’re going to do with it. I’m committed to you – my best friend, my partner, my husband, the one true love of my life. And I’m committed to being with you – finally, forever. With that commitment in place, the rest just follows. It’s just details. It’s just circumstances. So I can rattle around and drive myself nuts about circumstances. Or I can see that I’m finally getting something I want with all my heart. Something I said I’d have no matter what, damn the torpedoes. You. You in front of me on December 29, and by my side for the rest of my life.
So there’s nothing there for me to do, or be, just yet. That only means I haven’t created it yet – and that I still can. Thank you for giving me the space to do just that in our relationship. Thank you that my life as me, Deepa, doesn’t end when our marriage begins. Thank you, because I know creating my life and sharing it with you will be so much fun. Thank you, because whatever game I choose to play, having you on my team will enable to me to kick some serious ass.
Thank you, because who you are to me is someone who is worth it. Thank you for being such a beautiful person, in the face of whom a beautiful life is almost relatively easy to give up. Thank you for being the beautiful person who is the beginning of a beautiful life where I am moving to.
I love you. And I choose you.
Some have been fun – like learning to cook, assisted by my husband the kitchen god, or buying him a Playstation 3 for Christmas (to the horror of many wife friends), or simply allowing myself the joy of saying “Yes” when my husband says to me, “Let me take care of you”, or easing into the role of obsessive-compulsive itinerary planner for every trip and holiday (and both of us being peripatetic travelers, believe me there have been a lot).
Others have been challenging and difficult – like this past weekend, when Marlon and I found ourselves having a “who-would-have-thought-we’d-ever-be-here?” moment at the Great Wall of China. I, the sleep-till-noon-sloth, pushed myself to complete the entire trek up the mountainside, climbing hundreds of steps on a stone staircase with practically a vertical incline in a dress and Chucks, because I knew there was nothing more my adrenaline junkie husband wanted than to reach the top of the Great Wall.
And I know I – and my wonderful husband – wouldn’t have it any other way.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
.my best.
dear bye,
prince of persia
menonton [prince of persia] di klcc semalam.dan saya tidak mahu bercakap panjang mengenainya.korang pun tahu cerita ni sangat best kan? hihi.
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Housewife of a day
Baptism
I'VE DONE IT!!!!!!!!! :D
Baptism's done.
I don't remember waking up at 6 something this year. Only took 8 minutes to get ready! Spent about an hour waiting before leaving BSD, though.
Sleepy. Slept like a pig on the way home.
Wisma Eagles is big. Got dunk in a pool for a second, then change clothes. Gave short testimony.
It's nice to be "officially" Christian.
Still sleepy, thou. I can't take naps. :( If I do I'd have a 3 hour nap for the least. If that happens it'll be hard for me to sleep at night. MONDAYS. Monday Blues. Bleurgh
Saturday, May 29, 2010
the words win the photos
Paintball
Paintball at Tanamerah. Hot. Humid. Rained at the end. Soaked.
Face mask. Vest. Marker. BANG!
24 people. 5 matches. I skipped 2 matches though, because I was lazy. Ashamedly so.
Some of the people who paid deposit didn't show up. Dunno.
Had to wait for Kula. Our organizer apparently overslept.
Dylan wearing Kwok Shien's earphones. I freaked when Kwok Shien went "YO! YO! YO!!!" wearing those headphones. SERIOUSLY.
Worst injuries of the day:
James got Nazri by the neck. Poor guy. He didn't seem to notice it was that bad, though. Only when he looked at the photo. He was like, "Omg, are you serious?".
Desmond slid and got his knee scrapped.
I left unscathed, because I'm a pussy playing paintball. I was hiding by the tree the whole time. Bullets whizzed by. Got hit once in the leg, didn't feel much because it was far away, but the bullet did burst on my pants.
I admire Nicole for being good in sports and all these stuffs.
Went home with 9 people in Theng Seng's car. 6 in the backseat! Squashed with Kar Man in shotgun. Bet Ping Kuang would love to trade places with me. Lol. It was fun though.
I wish I could sleep and wake up at my own accord for tonight. Have to get up at 7, though.
Tomorrow is the day! Baptism!
i hearts Kyuru
awesome leather jacket right? (i bought for him ok! :X)
saw a long lost fren Aries. workin as beauty consultant watson. gosh! i swear i dun regonise her at all HAHAA! she saw Kyuru den totally regonise him but coulnd't with me. (den she said she knew me by my front teeth in the end. goodness! LOL i hate my teeth)
ya i miss him. sigh