Marrying off a friend...

Hong got married over the weekend. Finally. hehehe.. Well, on a serious note, I felt lotsa mixed emotions overwhelming me for unknown reasons as I see this friend take her step onto the next stage of a more blissful life.

We've shared a lot through the 10 years *gasp!* we've known each other. From lecture halls to tutorial rooms, working differentiations & integrations, fourier series, waves and transforms... From labs, to stressing over a certain indian guy (for real unromantic reasons!), copying each other's lab results and designing circuits that we (or maybe it's only I) never quite understood and getting poisoned by soldering fumes... then to finding work, cursing politics, and wondering why love eludes,.... all the way to her meeting the man who'll fulfill her dreams... the highs and the lows... i suppose we've had come a long way. Seeing her get married, is probably like how i might also feel if my own sister get married one day...

Probably knowing me better than my own sister, she's the person I'll intuitively text to rant and to rave. She's the person who will go on musicals and boring stage plays with me. She's the one who will spend time to live a little chi-chi experience of afternoon teas and chill-out evenings with me. I'm glad my friend got what she deserves...

The groom was great. He took care of every details of the weddings because she's caught up at work - the planning schedules down to the corsages... the wedding went on smooth and without much sweat - that's how much love was put into it... and his profuse thankfulness.... (he definitely scored more points thanking us onstage, and twice at our table, before finally just before we depart. I could almost feel his sincerity in his firm handshake before we left.).

They sure deserve each other, and I'm really glad seeing true love and support between the two of them. I've seen and experienced imperfect relationships. Jaded, and cynical I might have been sometimes, but to taste a little sweetness in other people's lives sure had life a little brighter - especially when it is of someone near and real. =)

I have been to weddings more glam, but the little gestures of love between this couple illuminated a different kind of glitz & bling that overshadowed all the other weddings i've been to. As the song played "lucky, we're in love in every way...", and looking at her beng fussing over her, we know, and are glad she has found her perfect fairy-tale ending to this phase of life, and starting the next on a good footing.

Wish you lotsa love and happiness every of your waking hours, my dear friend !


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