Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Two hands and two feet please?

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways..

1. I let you play soccer, watch mahjong, and have late night suppers without many real complains most of the time.

2. I have given up trying to make you stop burping after your meals, with or without Coke.

3. I wait up for your daily call to me, even if it's at some ungodly hour in the night.

4. I go all the way to Kembangan by myself. (with the promise you'll send me home, of course)

5. I always inquire if you're hungry.

6. I always offer to buy food or cook for you. Offers which you always decline. I'm not sure if it's because you love me too much to make me walk and dirty my hands, or if it's because you think I will give you food poisoning.

7. When I'm not on one of my i'm-so-fat-i-need-to-diet days, I stuff my face with you.

8. I hang out with your friends, even though you scarcely know mine.

9. Hey an SC girl with a Dunman High boy, that says a lot doesn't it? (though ironically you must admit my Mandarin is better than yours)

10. I don't ask for flowers or a ring from pragmatic you, even though I eyeball girls who have them.

11. I have custom-made my timetable so that it fits yours. (not easy ok!)

12. I accept you even when you have bad haircuts, that lop away your nice floppy fringe.

13. I don't bat an eyelid when you tell me XXX is hotstuff. I even tell you to look when a hot girl walks by.

14. I hug you all the time even though you're like a block of wood on your bad days.

15. I get that smiling-like-an-idiot, tingle-in-my-spine disease very very often with you. Enough to make me look like a looney cheshire cat. But I don't hide it.

16. I introduced Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole to you!

17. I convinced the parents to let me go on a 2 month trip to Europe with you.

18. I bite my lip and count to ten in hopes of letting peace into my head, when I should be blowing steam out of my ears. Quarrels are so much less heated now, don't you think?

19. I cut my hair short mostly because you wanted me to.

20. And most of all, I have become a sucker for your cheesy roti_kaya11 promise, stolen from an even cheesier movie: Without hope or agenda, to me you are perfect... And my wasted heart will love you.

These are the ways that I love thee,
count them please now, one..two..three


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