1 Year Anniversary

8 Dec is our first anniversary. I had an exceptionally enjoyable weekend. Both of us found a new haunt together. Nothing beats the new VivoCity and it's GV. We use to go Great World City cos of the lesser crowd on weekend, and the extremely comfortable seats in the cinema. But more to the fact that we both didn't like crowded places. (ie. unless there are lots of cute boys to look at). We spend our friday and sunday roaming Vivo and saturday was at taka shopping. It was a bit frustrating on Friday, cos we couldn't really find a nice place to have dinner. Both of us didn't make prior reservations anywhere. I was thinking of not making it too much of a celebration actually.. Too much fireworks kills off the stars. I thought we just wanted to quietly mark the special occasion. After walking up and down we decided to eat the doll up japanese restaurant. It was nice. We had prawn tempura, soft-shell crab, nigiri sushi, grilled eel and beef thingie.. a bit pricey but was quite worth it. We had seats overlooking the harbourfront and view can be breath taking at night. Chatted for quite a while until 930pm++ before deciding to leave.

After dinner, we took a walk down habourfront, poked fun a bit at the decor. They have a gigantic snow man and looking like a bowling pin, and a flower tree that looks more evil and poisonous than enchanted. Nice breezy breeze... :) Drove back to his place to exchange AnniGifts. It's really fun to exchange presents with him. I love surprising him and vice versa. It's interesting what kind of gifts we buy for each other. He's always buying something which I thought I might get it myself in the future, or something which I didn't know that I needed it, or something which I will find of good use in my life. We would always be there to discover and try to provide for each other's needs.

After spending a year plus plus with him and with seeing him almost every other day and most weekend. We went through a lot of chatting and talking, many heated discussions, some thorny arguments and a few major quarrels.. I have learnt many things from him and about him. I am very thankful that we made it for this one year. He has been most patient and tolerant towards me. And I am beginning to see that the hard nut isn't that tough to crack after all. I guess we can both agree it's because of age and maturity. Our temperaments and moods, feelings and thoughts on our experiences in life, cannot carry us off our feet that easily anymore. We think more logically with our heads and exerts a firm control on emotions, better I think. I'm beginning to realize what it means to just cherish the moment and make it work better for us. That's the most important I wish to have in our relationship. To make right for the present, to be able to talk about things and communicate everything objectively, to know when to stand firm and when to let go.

It's amazing that through this 1 year, there are quite a few things in a relationship that I have had never knew about... and also putting in practice those oft talked about formulas to work out love. It's never easy to make things perfect. But it's the cherishing of the moment and loving of each other with as little conditions as possible, which really make things happen.

Semplice Simon