Crossover to Year 2007

Its just so ridiculous how amazingly fast this New Year has zoomed into my life. Suddenly it is January 2007. Unbelievable! I don’t know whether to cheer loudly or stare aimlessly. Yet my heartfelt emotions tell me the truth – it’s alarmingly shocking and I can only smile meekly at time’s advancement in my life.

It’s bewildering just how fast the past 4 days of public holiday has zoomed past my life. It flew across as if this time never existed! But thank God for photographs that speak realism to me. These recent photographs showed me how I spent New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

New Year’s Eve was on a Sunday so I went for church service as usual. But the highlight of the day was the lunch meet-up with Raj and Josephine (our One For Life leaders) to have our debrief of our pre-marital counseling program in October and November last year (followed by our recent OFL graduation on 10th Dec 06).

It was an interesting time listening to their feedback and sharing about how Raj and Jo also shared a similar experience with us concerning our struggles with the mindset and practices of my prospective in-laws. Raj and Jo were very nice to treat us to a western set meal at this café owned by ‘Uncle David’ (whoever that is), located at Cactus Road. The food tasted alright, but the discussion was good.

Areas that were discussed include our vision for our marriage, what attracted us to each other, what are the leaders’ opinions on the shortcomings of Rebecca and me. It was a fruitful time and I really appreciated them coming down to spend this time with us.

After the lunch, Rebecca and I went to my house to watch this rented DVD titled ‘The Karate Kid’. It was a simple movie filmed in the year 1984, which pales in comparison with our modern 21st century movies. Yet, I thought it was interesting that Rebecca get to know some of the movies which have made an impression in my life when I was young… and we both enjoyed watching the DVD together.

Rebecca has this unique ‘ability’ to pick up funny parts in movies and she really amuses me sometimes with her funny comments and laughter... especially when we watched how eccentric ‘Mr Miyagi’ can be… that crazy fella. And she kept muttering “Daniel-san” a few times during the evening and even till the next day when we met up with Daniel and Joanne to celebrate Joanne’s birthday.

We had a simple dinner at East Coast beach hawker centre and it turned out that the food there didn’t taste nice anymore. Rebecca felt a bit of stomachache, so we turned back from walking to the Bedok Jetty. After she felt better, we spent about half an hour holding hands and praying about several things before the crossover to the New Year.

We didn’t expect the prayer to last so long and we ended up spending the crossover to the New Year, waiting for a taxi to send her home, while we shouted “Happy New Year!!!” into the night… in response to some fellas who first started to shout “Happy New Year!!!” at some corner of Siglap Road. Hahahaha… It was an amusing time… =)

Yeah, the more we grow in our relationship together, the more we realize how very different we both are, as compared to many young people out there. It’s like we are two simple individuals who enjoy doing simple things and enjoying each other’s company… even the silly things that we do together, that others just turn away from. I really thank God for this woman in my life. If not for her, I really don’t know where else I can find another woman to brighten up my life.