Snatches-of-Bliss-and-Are-You-Freaking-Out-Yet?

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* Welcome *

Changed da house,
Changed da look.

BTW, my bathrobe's usually pink
and we don't have a fireplace.
Other than that,
it's pretty accurate...

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

~ 4 weeks, 2 days ~

ONE MORE MONTH!

Amidst the packing and the dashing between friends and suppliers over wedding details and the catching up with departing chums and the moving and the church stuff and the University work and the cuddling of the fiance (that's always fun), I've managed to sit back today and just marvel at the fact that it's One More Month until I change my name.

Got a letter from Andrea today and she had written out my future married-name in full (albeit incorrectly, but it's a common mistake) and I just stared at it for a while with mixed feelings. It's one thing to change my surname to Tan or Quek (Heh heh. Quek. That always makes me laugh)... but attaching my already rather exotic first name to something as foreign as H------ really takes some getting used to. It's such a fully ang moh name, you know? And I'm so NOT ang moh, despite how some people might regard my seemingly less orthodox 'Chinese' outlook in life. I maintain, however, that just because I can't speak broken Singaporean Mandarin fluently, that doesn't automatically render me Westernised. If anything, being in Australia has helped me understand exactly how Eastern I am, so there - HAH!

Sore point. Moving along...

ONE MORE MONTH! And we're not any closer to finding a honeymoon spot:

TONY

How about we sign up for

the Amazing Race as a couple?

VELLE

You're kidding, right?

TONY

(expectantly)

...

VELLE
You're serious?

(pause)

Um... I'm not sure if I can do the whole

jump-off-a-cliff-and-then-eat-worms deal.

TONY

Nah, we don't have to be competitive!

We'll just let the rest run around and

then we'll just... stroll about and enjoy

the place!

VELLE

You do realise that we'll probably get

kicked out in the first round, right?

TONY

Oh, you mean they kick you out?

(pause)

Okay, I guess we'll have to be

competitive then.

(pause)

But man! With you, we'll just breeze through

Asia compared to the rest of them! We'll be

in (Thailand) and when the taxi (tuk tuk) tries

to take us to some tourist trap, we can yell,

"WAH LAU!!! I TOLD YOU, NO GOLD SHOP!

NO GOLD SHOP!"

I love that man. He makes me laugh.

# posted by Velle | 1:29 pm

2 Comments:

*grin* Okies that made me laugh too and for some reason i could picture you doing just that. *grin* Heehee ... funny how you mentioned joining amazing race as a couple cos Darcy's mom mentioned having him and me join it as well. *L* And you know what she said the exact same thing about us havign an advantage if they had pit stops in asia. *L*

Oh i told my mom tonite, for the third time, that i am applying for the canadian work visa. So she is going away next weekend to Genting and will be in KL till dad picks her and my sis up on monday. So i have tues to thurs to get things in motion while parents are away. Cos on thurs nite i have to take the bus with my bro to go down to Alor Star for my uncle's wedding over the weekend. Going to cost me 2.5k ... estimated... all in all. Including the medical check up. So am excited! :P

*grin* You know maybe i should be writing this in an email. :P *heehee*

By kabluey, at 1:41 am
Yeah, Tony and I came to the conclusion later in that conversation that we probably can't apply because we're not Americans.

And no, neither of us has watched a full episode of it, which explains why we know so little of it.

By Velle, at 1:53 pm