My girlfriend is bugging me to blog about our 2nd anniversary (with pictures!). So I better get going.

Our anniversary was spent quite simply, compared to other occasions I believe. Well, I have to take some blame for this. It's getting harder to be creative about what we can do on special days. Every year, there are at least three such days: the anniversary, Valentine's Day and her birthday (I don't have to worry about my own birthday). Finding a place to have a nice dinner is not difficult; there are so many restaurants we have yet to try. Having to find places to go, things to do, gets slightly more challenging as the easy ones get used up.

I just consulted her over the photos; I realize that it's really difficult to upload pictures on Diaryland. With all the flashy new blogsites around (Wordpress, Blogger, Livejournal etc), it's hard to stay loyal to a blogsite that almost never gets updated with new features. Still I've been here for the past 7 years (enough for a kid to go to primary school!), and I'm loath to just move.

The day before was spent at the Peranakan Museum. It was an eyeopener; I kinda expected more people there from the recent Little Nonya craze. But thankfully, references to the television serial was kept to a minimum. The entire musuem was very professional and full of information; if I read through every single plaque there I would be stuck there for the whole day.

It's definitely a good place to spend a weekend afternoon just taking pictures and looking around.

We then proceeded to look for a place for dinner; ended up at a Thai place where the babe had her much craved prawn cakes, and was practically cooing about it for an hour after. Good to have such a place; one less reason to go back to Bangkok because seriously, I feel like I've been there enough times to last a lifetime.

Movie was Love Matters at PS; pretty standard normal fare.

The day after we woke up and skipped lunch in order to prep ourselves for the feast ahead. Even caught a nap, which to me these days is like the ultimate luxury. Being able to spend an afternoon napping? Sheer indulgence. Dinner was at Melt Cafe, a revisit from two years ago. Melt Cafe was where I discovered the best tiramisu in the whole wide world, but I was disappointed to find that it was not available anymore. In fact, the standard seems to have dropped. Nevertheless, although there wasn't really a highlight for me, the food was good enough to satisfy.

You know, sometimes she makes me want to strangle her so much I want to strangle myself for facing the dilemna of acting on my impulse to strangle her and getting hang for murder or not doing so and getting killed by exasperation. Don't really understand what I'm saying? It's exactly what I feel sometimes. It can be tough dealing with someone who sometimes does not know what she wants, and other times wants something that she should not be wanting (snacking right before meals is just about the most frequent example).

But other times, she's so cute and amicable that I have to step back and wonder; why would I want to quarrel with someone as lovable as her? It worries me at times, when we quarrel, that we may someday lose this magic and be like married couples all over (not married yet), just keeping things going. But the other times, we are as chummy as friends.

Just to note, we really have phases of about 2-3 weeks in which we either quarrel alot or we have peace and prosperity. We would be happily blissfully together until someday one of us makes a remark that we have not quarrelled for quite some time. Then within the next couple of days a storm will brew, and we'll enter the turbulent quarrel period until things die down again.

But in the end, I really do love you and want to spend time with you. These 2 years have been nothing short of a breeze through. So fast and we've been through two years with minimal drama and when I look back, I'm proud to have come this far with you by my side. It's like 2 years is a long time, enough for a baby to call papa and mama, yet we made it through and here we are today, still together and defying the odds against us (although there weren't many obstacles aside from Perth and our occasional self-doubt).

Thanks for being here with me today.