thank you

for making me laugh. for wiping my tears. for driving me home. for all the pretty flowers. for loving the things i love. for making me happy. for being happy for me. for holding my hands. for watching my back. for walking with me. for asking me to be your wife. for the eight lovely years and for the rest of our lives.

{seven}

shall we sail away?
just you and me.

If i were a piece of clothing, I would be a cardigan. My collection of cardigans has increased dramatically with my entrance into teacherhood. I'm definitely not complaining because I love cardigans and it gives me an excuse to add to my collection. I love how they are so pretty and soft and yet so functional. They keep me cozy in the staff room..prim in classes..proper enough for formal sessions..dressy enough for a date. And most of all...I love how they make me feel so snuggly and feminine.

On another note.

On this day.

Happy anniversary.

March was a busy month for the the boy and I so celebrating our big SIX came later. The evening started with a bouquet of daisies- reminiscent of the first blooms i recieved from the boy. We went back to club street, hoping to have dinner at Union Bar where we celebrated our one yr anniversary. BUT, the restaurant was gone! so we headed down to SENSO instead. Really really pretty. i love the deep red and beige hues. so italian. so cozy.

We turned 6!

first step into the seventh

Paint the skies with love

It didn't seem that long ago when little bear entered my life. It didn't seem that long ago when we walked back from Newton hawker centre and you held my hands. It didn't seem that long ago when i'd take the 45 minute bus ride to your place every saturday. It didn't seem that long ago when silly bear entered your life. It didn't seem that long ago when we would lunch in school and you would fetch me home after late nights at law link. It didn't seem that long ago when your night was my day and my endless summer became your freezing winter. It sure didn't seem that long ago when you serenaded me along the coast of Amalfi as the waves crash into the honey stars rocks.

Six years on and I thank the Lord that I'm just as deliriously in love with you as before, if not more. How do you survive me for all this time, i wonder. i guess you're also a fool. Fools for love, we are. (:

Jan 2008

pulled a muscle in the rib in the midst of all the coughing. Doc's painkiller is uber strong. Lasts for close to 12 hours before pain resumes. Conversations with you over the phone in my loopy state of mind is kindda funny. It's nice to know that after all this time, i'm still deliriously crazy about you and knowing you feel the same way too.Happy anniversary, special boy.

:: Happy crazy anniversary ::

68 months......

really sounds like an installment plan

:: match of a lifetime ::

:: Here's to Five & a half years ::

23rd April 2007

61 months.

this shall be the last 23rd without you.

8 months. 225 days. leading to this moment.

15 days and it'll be a sweet sweet reunion.

Ola Barcelona. airport reunions ala LOVE ACTUALLY. Love it.

let's walk the tightrope together

without a safety net...

and when we fall

and we will fall

let's fall forever...

entwined.

~

Jason Reeves

Coming home to
the sweetest surprise
right at the door
the postman left it
feeling the love from
9000 miles away.

a note rolled up in a silver string

love and affection along it brings

tulips and roses, peach and pink

5 years have passed by in a wink

Soon it will be before we meet

till then my love, we made it

~

:: penguin and hippo ::

I never get tired of saying this.

:: Happy Anniversary ::

Thank You Lord.

* 23rd December *

Happy anniversary sweetheart. Thanks for surprising me yesterday. thank you Peggy and Chris for going all out! for being so so sweet! love ya both!both of you made me cry in public!! i will remember that forever! the frame is on my desk now, the centerpiece. loving it! =)

as for you... haha i dreamt abt you last night! won't be talking to you much over the next 3 weeks... you being in new york and all. please take good care! stay cute! and have a whale of a time! now that my plans of going New York is not materializing.. and i must admit i love SPAIN! i still hope to ride with you on the horse carriages through the streets of New York in future.

:: 9325 miles ::

:: love ::

4 and a half years

54 months

1642 days

39408 hours

2364480 mins

141868800 sec

~
9325 miles.

From all of us to you! Happy Anniversary sweetie! We miss you!

here

It hurts to see you sad.

i wish i am right there with you.

all i want to do now is to give you a hug.

love you.

~

i hope this day will bring you a smile.

Here for you.

Always.

~
Happy Anniversary.

Captivated

i know there's still 1 more month...but knowing that you're leaving for japan first on the 20th, I'm starting to MISS YOU ALREADY. Do you know you're my little rock? God is my big rock. You are my little one. I feel lost, that you're not going to be by my side for 10 months. i'm expecting the torrent of tears... the sudden realization that you're gone. these few days have not been easy... trying to prepare my heart, but it is a struggle... getting emotional... tearing up even over dinner... the little things... even finding time together is so hard with our individual committments over the holidays. each day we're together, i can't bear to leave you at the end of it.... counting down the days... I'm scared... so scared when i see the year ahead of me. so daunting. so many changes. so many people are gone.

and YOU'RE LEAVING... 6 days earlier than the original plan... that means 1 week less. gosh. selfish as it seems, I wish the world would disappear just for a moment... just for a while.... so i can hold you in my arms and listen to the slow beating of your heart...just for that moment.... and i'm so thankful that God has been so sweet...I LOVE YOU. As for now... recapturing our dates and making new memories have been MAGICAL...

all those times.. cruising in your car...

2004: my sweet 20 at Fullerton & Esplanade

2005: Your 22nd Birthday @ Oriental

2005 Christmas
2006: 4 year anniversary at Chijmes

2006 - keeping me company while i mug @ law lib

2006: double date -- bowling at marina

I carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

~ ~

e.e cummings

23rd March

Thank you dear for...
the first bouquet of daisies...
those random roses...
the surprise of lilies that came through the door that morning....
wonderfully orchestrating a picnic by the lake...
my first cable car ride...
holding my hand as we snorkel even when you wanted to explore on your own...
the plenty of rides home... at 3 am in the morning
midnight porridge... countless pratas n ice milk tea...
eating sushi with me though you don't enjoy sashimi....
putting up with my mood swings...& my goldfish memory..
your goldfish memory too...
carrying my laptop during my shoe shopping frenzy...
booking movie tickets....
for loving my silliness... clumsiness... dopeyness....
for reading the papers with me...
toasting bread and making soup...
calling even though it's late and you're tired...
being so smart... so thoughtful and so wise...
holding my hand through it all...
those nice long walks to serangoon gardens....
your reassurance at the squeeze of your hand...
your beautiful voice...
bringing pooky into my life....
embracing a family of bears....duckling... turtle... cat.... and a penguin... all 11 of them...
being so passionate about God, life, family and friends...
giving in to me and being the first to say sorry even when i'm in the wrong...
waiting... simply waiting for me on so many occasions...
being there...
for your unfailing love in all my ugliness...

Thank you for loving me...
Thank you for being you these 4 years.

fireflies dance

Kiss me out of the bearded barley

Nightly beside the green green grass

Swing swing swing the spinning step

You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

~~~

Oh kiss me beneath the milky twilight

Lead me out on the moonlit floor

Lift your open hand

Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance

Silver moon’s sparkling

So kiss me

~~~

Kiss me down by the broken tree

swing me upon it’s hanging tire

Bring bring bring your flowered hat

We’ll take the trail marked on your father’s map

~~~

Oh kiss me beneath the milky twilight

Lead me out on the moonlit floor

Lift your open hand

Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance

Silver moon’s sparkling

So kiss me

~~

i could stay forever like this...

sitting in the car...

singing...

you driving...

past the lights...

then it dawned on me

i'm so happy

i have everything

blessed

the real meaning

on a night like this

Bliss

Happy Anniversary dear...

In dreams, the perfect love

has a smile, a voice, a touch

that seem meant just for you.

~

In dreams, the perfect love

is tender and giving,

always knowing just what to say,

to make you feel wanted,

just what to do

to make you feel loved...

~

In dreams, the perfect love

is that one person with whom you can let go

and be yourself,

the one who makes you feel

completely alive

just by being near.

~

I'm luckier than most people

because I don't have to dream

anymore...

~

I found you.

~ ~ ~ Tracy Donovan