We are going to Bangkok tomorrow!

It’s our first trip to anywhere remotely further than Malaysia.

Why you never bring me anywhere?!?! Humph.

Methinks I am going to be very tired because I usually sleep late, but our flight leaves at 6.30am tomorrow morning. Haha.

Will be back on Monday night – plane touches down at 11.30pm – and then I need to be at a course by 8.30am on Tuesday morning. And Wednesday too. Argh.

L… Is for the way you look, at me

O… Is for the only one, I see

V… Is very very, extraordinary

E… Is even more than anyone that you adore…

The song L.O.V.E. by Nat King Cole has simple lyrics, and is perhaps somewhat cheesy, depending on how you look at it.

I was never one for soppy love songs – I always thought the heartbreak and sorrowful songs sounded more catchy.

I don’t know whether it’s age, or whether it’s just a different way of looking at things. While I may not yet be ready for marriage, to settle down totally and have all the related things that come with it like having a family and kids, etc, I have begun to look at things somewhat differently.

It’s difficult to find a guy who will set his pride aside

It’s difficult to find a guy who never loses his cool

It’s difficult to find a guy who believes in trying, and in trying again

It’s easy to take such guys for granted.

You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make me sad, you make me mad.

I’ve run away so many times but there has always been something to draw me back. Thank you for being that wonderful person, for being the nagging force I can’t get out of my mind, for being my best friend, for being there for me.

I love you.

I have 2 nieces and 1 nephew – 3+ years, and 2 just about a year old.

They are really cute.

And by cute, I don’t mean ugly but adorable, but rather, bundles of endearing, simply hilarious individuals that can bring people together like nothing or no one else can.

And even though I do not have kids of my own, and don’t experience the ‘downside’ – i.e. the screams, the tantrums, the sleepless nights, I do see how wonderfully rewarding it can be to have little shadows trailing in one’s footsteps.

And it’s also rather nice to see how fond my 3+ (going on 4) year old niece is of a certain individual – who is rather irritating at times to me, but also the one who has won my heart (at most times ) with persistence, and a quiet calm, completely unlike my highly irritable, explosive nature. That same persistence has won that little 4 year old over – and it looks like it will stay for at least a while to come – until her attention shifts over to something (or someone) – who can keep her attention and make her squeal with laughter.

I just told him yesterday that only 4 year olds like him because he can identify with them. He told me that 25 year olds like him too – and in 2010-26, 2011-27, 2012-28 year olds will. Rather annoying, but also immensely endearing.

…you start to hear that the people around you are all getting married. And then you know you’re really getting older when…

…you start to hear that those younger than you are getting married.

Then again, as I prepare to attend a number of weddings in the upcoming months, I realise ever more so that I love weddings and what they represent – love, hope, anticipation, and excitement for the future.

Sometimes, I think that’s what a lot of people need and sometimes neglect to recognise in life when external circumstances get them down – maybe all it takes is to change perspectives, look at life from a different angle, and tell oneself that tomorrow is a new day, it comes perfect and unclean, it brings renewed hope, and it hopes we have learnt something from yesterday.

Congratulations to all the lovely couples in the world who are getting engaged and married!