Wiping away my tears, feelings flow thru my mind...

I finally got to watch the film "Serendipity", i finally found it on ares, thanks to some kind- hearted person who ripped it, let me found it, and downloaded it...

Coincidentally, today is also 3 months exactly of my new relationship with Yanxin, and perhaps it was also serendipity that found us...

Definition of Serendipity:

1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.

2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.

3. An instance of making such a discovery.

[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandb.] seren·dipi·tous adj.

seren·dipi·tous·ly adv.

Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word." Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of "a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...."

Just thinking about what i've gone thru really touched me...

Just 2 years ago, my world was thrown into turmoil when i encountered my first and only break-up, i was down in slumps, in the worst of hell(or so I thought)...

Resigning to fate, I had tried finding love in various means...

Clubbing was the hottest thing in this time, a simple chat and some flirtatious words, and relationships could be form in a blink of an eye...

I was there, I tried, and it works easily...

The girls I was dancing with...

The game of giving what each other what we want without losing too much of ourselves...

Yes, no doubt it was fun, no doubt it was thrilling and sexy and spicy...

But guys, when the fog clears and the lights transformed from neon to warm lights,

How many times do we find that all these "gems" are not what we need?

Aren't all these just illusions that seek to distort our perception of needs and wants?

Haha, good thing the stats for relationships ending in marriages are very little, else the divorce rate for Singapore will be even higher... And this goes to show one thing as illustrated by a saying that "By nature, all guys are thrill-seekers, but at the end of the day, they'll still return to the very one woman that they have in their hearts." So girls, dun worry that sometimes guys wanna flirt for fun and nothing more serious than that, cos they still know who they real gem is. And guys, that doesn’t mean flirting has been given the green light cos it does puts strain on the relationship.

The thing is, once u've found the gem of your life, hold on to it like it'll be the only one u'll ever find (this happens to be true most of the time), and it applies to all...

I'm not here to have a tell-all about what happened between me and my girlfriend(cos I know she will be too paiseh haha), but serendipity certainly plays a big part in linking us up. Interested pple can approach and ask us but no promises haha...

At this point in my life, all I can say is, she fixed up my life, made me wholesome again...

She made me see the fact that there's no point in hanging on to the past and ignoring the future cos I'll be missing a lot of goodies(including her)...

She showed me support and guidance which the past does not teach nor give me…

In short, she is just like:

-The only packet of instant noodles that just seems to appear in my house whenever I'm dying of hunger and there’s nothing else to eat...(the gem properties)

-Simple in design of the packaging but which contains all the nutrition facts behind (You just have to find it.)

-The packet that comes with extra big serving that satisfy u when for all other brands, u need to cook 2 packets.(value added)

-One setback...Its vegetarian flavour... (haha, no offense, but i dun mind eating ur non-vegetarian cooking)

Well, it's a magical 3 months that we've been thru and I can see that things will only get better, dun u think so dear?

This post is dedicated to my gf, yx, for being my instant noodles...

Alvin, 5^th October 2004

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