Happy Anniversary

Today is our anniversary. We actually met in beginning of August 2003 but got serious only around 10th of December 2003.

T is at Batam with his company.

We had a nice celebration last night, went to this quiet Japanese restaurant near St. Andrews Junior College for dinner. Great food, we had a Japanese paper steam boat. Yup you read right it was a paper steam boat, the container was made of paper. It was interesting. 3 Japanese men ran this restaurant and only 1 of them could speak English.

After which we had a nice walk and chat around Mount Faber ending up at the SAFRA Mount Faber near there. Where we had hot chocolate. It was a nice way to spend an anniversary.

Looking back it the past year, I realised how much I've change and him too. It started off being a one sided thing, where I was so totally smitten by him but he was new to the dating and relationship scene, so was rather non committal. But now, our love for each other has grown so much and we actually can't imagine us not being together.

I'm happy now, much happier than I've ever been with any of my previous boyfriends, though things are something difficult, we have really learnt to accept each other's idiosyncrasies and stubbornness and compromise, really compromise. Wow, never know I could be less pig-headed and compromise ;). One thing I've realised that I've got rid of my baggage left over from my 1st boyfriend, A. He was suffering from depression and had this thing about 'breaking-up' with me whenever there is a situation he can't handle. I was left with the baggage of my boyfriends doing that if I disagreed with them or had a situation with them. Was usually worried if I really showed my true feelings about a situation. T has made me discard that last piece of baggage, he would really try to work things out with me, no matter how painful or difficult the topic or situation is. That has really made our relationship stronger. And after a year, there was not once he every wanted to 'break-up' because of anything but have always used 'work things out'. To him there is no such thing as a situation that cannot be talked out and worked upon.