He Loves Me

The first time he ever said "I love you" was on skype while he was in Singapore. I fell asleep where I was, so happy that night, my pillow at the foot of my bed.

leave the light on

some requests, I'm just too happy to accommodate.

1:16:34 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: i know it's quite bad. but can u just leave the skype running?
1:16:47 AM Be ♫ Quiet, exams are being held: =)
1:16:50 AM Be ♫ Quiet, exams are being held: i'd like that very much.

quiet

11:03:25 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: quiet quiet quiet quiet
11:03:36 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: nino signs off. au revoir.

when she knew me as quiet.

Check

Dennis, in conversation: i never understood why any man would want to be a woman.
Straight? Check. (:

Fashion

Hello, said Dennis.
Hello you, said Sara.

-

Dennis: ill just pray that my future wife has a much better fashion sense than me.

Oh keep right on praying, boy.

-

We discuss my facade concerning quirky emails. I assure him I'm quite insane normally.

Initial Telecommunications Contact

"Where art thou, miss chong?"

I was in my usual friday lecture, 10-1. Boring as, squeezing years worth of knowledge into 3 hour slots. Meanwhile, he had just gotten my phone number not too long ago and was orchestrating a reason to meet. After bia-ing an assignment for the morning and dropping it into the business school's assignment drop, he messaged me- the first ever contact other than MSN and Sunday small talk.

We met for lunch in the Uni's only mexican lunch place. He had chilli con carne, and I really have no idea what I had anymore (probably too busy looking at him/his food). He showed me the present he got for May's birthday.

We went to ikea (i volunteered it and drove) and he bought me a tin of Anna's ginger thins and we got 1 set of ice cube makers each. Then I drove him home. It will be lovely to reunite them someday. The thins are long gone, shared among the creative arts team members during practice that next saturday, but the tin is still with me.

And Then

Sara: MSN is a cruel toneless world. then there was emoticons! TADA!

Dennis doesn't agree.

Deep down inside, they know he is right.

They think of other synonyms for 'pronto'.
Like:
1. On the double

2. Run like the wind

3. Be gone with the wind

4. Step on it

5. QUICKLY NOW

6. time and tide wait for no man

1900

I apparantly fell short because I didn't watch the legend of 1900. When I watched it, I realised how amazing it was. Then I realised that Dennis' taste is generally brilliant and trustworthy.

Talks to Mexx

Dennis is kind enough to put the cat on MSN to have a little conversation.

12:39:27 AM ♫ Quiet: ,,,,,,,ccccccccccccccccccccccc
12:39:43 AM ♫ Quiet: \
12:39:47 AM ♫ Quiet: [''''-]
12:40:06 AM ♫ Quiet: 8888897777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777
12:40:22 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: Hey boy

Mexx has always been a great friend of ours.

One woman's meat is another man's poison

He questions me about my food preferences. Is my palate similar?

Century Egg
Unagi
Milk

And his conclusion?
"Diets are like boyfriends–it never really works to go back to them."

Book

He asks if I want sophie's world to read.

I spend 10 minutes guessing bubu's real name.

We talk about the Holy Spirit.

I think we're getting along just right.

Babe

"turn the volume up babe"

I know it sounds like nothing, but the first time he called me babe, I felt... giggly and happy inside. I know he called some other people babe, but it didn't matter to me. I was now part of the "some other people".

Somewhere along the line in the future, the e turned to a y.

Dennis Explains?

9:52:36 PM ♫ Quiet: "a man is least himself when he talks in his own person; when given a mask he will tell the truth." - oscar wilde
9:52:46 PM ♫ Quiet: i gues that explains why dennis speaks in third person.
9:52:51 PM ♫ Quiet: good evening.

Silence

Dennis: "of course theres silence. but its the silence that really defines our relationships. not the said things, but the unsaid things."

-Over MSN, in the early hours.

Everything

He shows me the 'everything' skit. The creative arts team take it on as a full fledged project, and it becomes a love, and an excuse to see each other.

4 cds

Dennis doesn't remember this correctly, but he burnt 4 cds for me after we talked on MSN and i still keep them preciously in a crumpled makeshift paper case.

2 Jazz
2 Oldies

First MSN Conversation

So I added him. And we had a very long conversation. It wasn't bad for a first conversation. The best and most lame part was this:

11:56:45 PM ♫ Quiet: ah my brain is starting to shut down on me.
11:57:06 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: beep beep
11:57:09 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: dennis on standby
11:57:21 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: pls hold while screensaver mode comes on
11:59:36 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:37 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:38 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:39 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:40 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:41 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:42 PM ♫ Quiet: .
11:59:50 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: wow
11:59:52 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: pebble mode
11:59:53 PM [sare] bone sheathes life: cool.
12:00:01 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:02 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:03 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:04 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:05 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:06 AM ♫ Quiet: o
12:00:09 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: wow, stone mode!
12:00:15 AM ♫ Quiet: O
12:00:16 AM ♫ Quiet: O
12:00:17 AM ♫ Quiet: O
12:00:17 AM ♫ Quiet: O
12:00:18 AM ♫ Quiet: O
12:00:22 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: Wow rock mode!
12:00:28 AM ♫ Quiet: boulder
12:00:28 AM ♫ Quiet: boulder
12:00:29 AM ♫ Quiet: boulder
12:00:30 AM ♫ Quiet: boulder
12:00:30 AM ♫ Quiet: boulder
12:00:39 AM [sare] bone sheathes life: /diao WOW. boulder? mode?
12:00:40 AM ♫ Quiet: hur hur hur

Eventually we both said goodnight, but it was actually the beginning of the beginning... and I don't think we knew it at that time.

Surgeon General's Warning

How he got my MSN.

A mime workshop was coming up and I was swamped with uni work as usual. So I sent him an email at 2:07 am saying that I was unable to attend. I had just come home from visiting Chilli Padi Esther, and visiting her always makes me high on life. So I decided to send him this quirky email instead of a normal sane one, and he thought i was.. interesting. Well, his theory was that I had all these quirky facades to push people away, and it took a good few months to disprove that and make him understand that, no really, I'm really quite this insane.

So he replied my email 4 days later and made no attempt to disguise the: "i dont think i have your msn, do i? well anyway, add me!" Which is exactly what he wrote. And since it was a matter of copy and paste, I did.

Smelly Stockings

I put on my new purple bubble dress while May was telling me hurriedly to get out of the house. The Creative Arts had made bookings to see Salome in the Nexus theatre. It was one of my first meetings with Dennis. I had my doubts about the play's quality, but it would be fun, if nothing else. It was cold and I couldn't find anything to wear under my dress so I had to put on a pair of stockings that I had worn the day before. May and I were screaming in the car all the way to the theatre. She said, "Dennis is going to smell your smelly stockings!" and I said, "What does anything have to do with him or my stockings" We watched the worse than D grade theatre production and I found out a few months later that he hated that dress. It was a cold night. We all had fun. Heh.