One Year Part Three - The Finale

Half a year back, I wrote about my Goddess and the Horny Devil's anniversary celebrations. Yes, that's how belated it is. In August last year, they did the finale of their 1 year anniversary celebration. It was a surprise planned for her. After a friend's wedding dinner, he told her they are going for a 1-day getaway, and asked her to have prepared her swimsuit. In her mind she was already prepared for Pulau Ubin stay.

Yes she still had wavy hair then, that's how long ago it was

Cheeky and refusing to tell her where they are going

One Year Part Two - Back to where we begun

Remember two posts back my Goddess said she wanted to change her hairstyle? Well, she started off with her hair colour. And for the second part, she wanted to curl her hair while waiting for it to grow. And so she wanted a Korean short hair curl look.

Like this, it looked really sweet.

Or this, modern and spunky.

This is quite sweet too.

One Year Part One - Picnic @ Marina Barrage

Tuesday 22 May was my Goddess and the Horny Devil's 1st year wedding anniversary. As it fell on a Tuesday, and due to some circumstances that my Goddess decided to not take leave on that day, they had a change of plans and did an early celebration the weekend before.

And so their celebration was broke down into 3 parts.

Part 1 was planned by my Goddess! The Great Cookout!

The Horny Devil kept complaining that my Goddess never fulfilled her duty as a wife and ever cooked once for him since she became Mrs Koo. And so on Sunday morning, my Goddess woke up bright and early, so unlike her usual sleep-until-the-sun-shines-on-her-butt time, and bought a whole truckload of groceries.

One year as Mrs Koo in the Making

It's going to my Goddess and the Horny Devil's first wedding anniversary soon!! How time flies! This also means that my Goddess has had short hair for a year - time for a change!

My Goddess can never stay in one hair style for long, she will either change her colour or the texture (straight or perm) or her hair length in one point of her life or another.

So to mark her one year as Mrs Koo, my Goddess has decided to change her look, first beginning with a different hair colour!

Instead of the usual havoc brown after so many years since uni, she went for the traditional black-brown, which is almost black if you see her indoors. 

Anyway, this was done at Exchange Hair Plus at Plaza Singapura. She bought the voucher from GroupOn since the location is near her office and it's cheap, $45 for colour + cut + blow. Luckily the hairstylist didn't take a close look at her voucher and swapped her cut for treatment. I'm sure the cut will turn out disastrous given the 'treatment' she was given.

First, upon reaching the place, she was asked to do a Lucky Dip. She picked up some $400 off hair treatment. 

The Horny Devil's 30th Bird-day

The Horny Devil recently celebrated his 30th birthday. 30 was a big thing to them as it is the big 3-0, whereby you are supposed to hit certain milestones as a full-grown adult already.

The Horny Devil had big expectations for my Goddess, especially after he planned a surprise V-day dinner for her. Furthermore, he has the perception that my Goddess would be so busy with her own things that she would do a lousy celebration for him.

Stress and wanting to do a good and memorable birthday celebration for him, she thought of letting him spend his big day to people who matter to him most - herself (of course!), his family and his friends.

Thanks to their tidy and comprehensive guest list, she got down the numbers of his friends and contacted them. She also went around searching for value-for-money hotels that fulfill the criteria:

1. Doesn't cost a bomb
2. Look luxurious and not cheapskate
3. Have a roof-top dining area that opens to late

Through her research, she realised there are so many cool boutique hotels in Singapore! Maybe they should start doing staycations more often to boost the Singapore economy!

Anyway, here's a recap of what happened over the weekend.

First, my Goddess told the Horny Devil that they are going out for a nice dinner on Sat night to celebrate his birthday.

And so, she borrowed her family's car and went to check in at the hotel first.

Chunky Chunk Fest

My Goddess had an exciting weekend just this week.

First on Saturday, she and her bff, Chewy went to have a free hair makeover, with compliments from Her World and Redken!

Okay, perhaps it wasn't totally complimentary. My Goddess had to take a cab down to the venue cos she was late. And the reason? She wanted to take the train via Bukit Batok then Jurong East and onto the East bound train. My Goddess hardly takes the train, and just this day that she decides to take the train, the MRT interchange at Jurong East just has to be under construction (!) And so she had to spend another 20 minutes on the shuttle bus from Jurong East to Clementi. By then she knew she will be late, and so took a cab down which costs her $16!! So actually the hair makeover actually is not free, but costs $16 :(

In a rush, my Goddess also didn't have much chance to take the before and after pics. I guess you should already know her messy before pic already anyway.

Hair being worked on and
looking like a poodle

Here's the after picture - more curls
(which the Horny Devil doesn't like)

After which, my Goddess, her bff and the Horny Devil headed down to Ben & Jerry's Chunkfest! My Goddess has always wanted to go down to the event each year but didn't do so in the end. This year, she finally made it! Unfortunately, there wasn't any free ice-cream giveaways. Only Moolah dollars for you to redeem B&J's goodies.

The event was really colourful and fun, and they had a good time taking crazy pics.

They bought 3 scoops of ice-cream to share - some maple flavour one, one is peacon and the last vanilla health bar.

It all looks the same from here

And here's how the Moolah looks like - damn cute

The ice-cream was fantastic, the setup was great. There were mats laid all over for people to sit around and enjoy the band performances. The bands weren't great unfortunately, but the ice-creams, great photo ops and fabulous company made up for it.

And yes, they love ice-cream and so do I!

Then on Sunday, my Goddess and the Horny Devil went for a marriage preparation seminar organised by SPH and MarriageCentral. Although topics covered were things that were already known, it surfaced the topics to the top of mind and there were some form of self-actualization in some ways.

For example, listening before talking, never use divorce in your arguments, respecting the difference between men and women, budgeting your finances, coming together to decide the spending ceiling to consult each other etc.

But some interesting things that were brought to light to my Goddess were, M actually decreases pleasure of S because the grip and hence sensual pleasure is different. And lubricants kill sperms, so if you are trying to conceive, do not use them.

The participants were also given a very useful guidebook which have several chapters covering the different areas of contention you will encounter with your spouse. There are what to do and not to dos, and pages of which you pledge your commitment in certain areas to each other.

Some good points include:

• Marriage only works when you don't expect the moon and stars to shine brightly all the time. Unnecessary expectations put unnecessarily strain on r/s.
• If you marry a sunflower, don't expect it to smell like a rose. Trying to change your spouse to suit you will only end up in great despair and frustration.
• Don't be frustrated if your spouse doesn't respond in the same way as you. Remember that his or her uniqueness is what attracted you in the first place.

These are really relevant and true points which we neglect all the time. Guess my Goddess will keep the guidebook with her, read it on and off, so as to keep the marriage (to-be) going. Along the way, if she reads some interesting points and have time to share with me, I will share them with you too.

Here's me/the Horny Devil signing off on a lighter note.

Peace!

I like the Feeling of Falling in Love

I like the feeling of falling in love.
It makes you feel so good.
I like the way butterflies flutter in your stomach.
The way your heart skips a beat when you meet the person you think you like.
I like the way you long to meet the person.
And how the day seems so long when you haven't meet.
I like the way you hope that time will stop when you are with that person.
And to guess whether that person feels the same way as you do.
Why is such a moment so short and fleeting?
Why does things have to turn stagnant?
How else can I experience this feeling again?
Except on occassions when you go on a trip or plan for the big day.
I would very much like to experience the feeling of falling in love all over again.

Apparently you don't feel the same as I do

I just came back from a trip.
I longed to share with you all the things that has happened.
I even planned to go to your office to give you a surprise visit.
You said you are meeting your friends, after I called you.
I wouldn't have known until I called.
Apparently you don't feel the same as I do.

Happily Ever After

Everytime I see a wedding album, a wedding photoshoot or pictures of a couple in their new love nest, I would feel very envious. I long for a wedding that officiates us as the one that will share each others' lives for better or worse, I long for a home to call our own, that I will go home happily to.

Somehow, the dream seems much farther away from reality. As we start our preparations, more hiccups and tiffs somehow just occurred. And surprisingly, they are not due to differences in how we want the wedding to be.

Is it that hard to love someone selflessly and wholesomely that you can just chuck away any pride that you have? Is it that difficult to live with someone who is just not the same as you?

I still long for that special wedding shoot that defines us as being a spontaneous and compatible couple. I still want that wedding vow that pronounces us as husband and wife, till death do us part. I still crave for that house that we share even if there are days I will grumble that the laundry and dishes are thrown all over the place, and that he will force me to go bathe when I'm too tired and want to sleep for 5 minutes only.