3rd Year

It's pretty weird but awesome to think that 3 years ago on this exact date Tien asked me to be his girlfriend at Orchard Central's Coffee Bean. 

I was showing him how to draw a whale on his hand so that when you hold something, it actually looked like the whale was eating it. He gave it a go, but surprised me when he wrote on his fingers, yes fingers, "Will you be my girlfriend?". 

In this 3 years, 2 years were made up of him being in the army and damn, those days were hard! But now that it's over, I wish he was back in. I loved the days when time spent meeting up was extremely precious and Sunday was the most dreaded day of the week where I would hold him and beg him not to go before he finally planted a kiss on my forehead and turned around to join the mass of botak heads and dark skinny faces. 

I will never forget the one time he had to go Taiwan for training and it clashed with his birthday, my birthday and the performance I had been training so many months for. I cried tirelessly for many days on end, until he finally decided that he would smash his toe and use that injury as an excuse to sit out on the trip. Haha! That definitely made me stop crying and instead beg him to go. 

Getting together wasn't easy. I met him when he was at the end of a very rebellious streak, so he had probation and complicated things like that. Before I even met his family, I had already quarreled with his brother and mother over the phone. But who knew, his family would turn out to be the most welcoming and warm family I've ever met, and also be the most precious thing I have taken away at the end of this 3 years?

I can't say our most recent year together has been smooth-sailing. Quarrels, time-outs and all that jazz... It has taken a huge toll on our relationship. I can't see our future, but I can just hope for what's best for both of us. 

Which girl doesn't love surprises? Yup, this guy does it all the time. Which girl doesn't love getting treated like she's the only girl in the world? Yup, he makes me feel that way (most of the time anyway). Of course, time does rob some of this romanticism but that's normal right? :)

Thank you for showering me endlessly with your love, Tien. Happy 3rd Year!