Dennis Chu Zhao

My Darling is very good at computer things. He is making my leaftlet for the presentation look really nice. He's such a duck to stay up at 12.14 am and do this for me. Today, I just feel so blessed to have him, not because of what he does for me.. But because he is just who he is. The way he looks and walks and thinks and speaks and breathes and eats and loves and lives. I feel more loveydovey than at 1st month, and I still have "I have a boyfriend?!!?!?" moments. I had one today when he was on stage and I simply couldn't believe I was dating a drummer. I sound so shallow!?!?!?! No, I love my dearest because he is Dennis. And Dennis is all I want to have in the men department. I'm happy now.

Still In Love

Britney Spears was shaking her thang singing "You want a piece of me" when boyfriend turned to me, half an egg tart in hand and another half in mouth, and said, "I don't want a piece of you. I want all." Then he looked at me with those widened boyish eyes and nodded. Melting moment~~~!

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Me: You feel so husbandy to me now.
Him: I am your husbandy what!

french maid?

My girlfriend knows my maleness better than i know my maleness! She knows boys go with toys and girls with jewellery (even though it doesn't rhyme). And she makes much much better gift guesses than I do.

Hah! I shall stop giving hints!

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She was nice and appeared in church looking pretty. And she helped with stuff even though she was in foxy heels.

Some girls look pretty.

Other girls help with stuff.

But mine does BOTH at the same time.

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Reminds me of french maids. =)

Wake Up Call

My Honky Tonky boyfriend calls me at 8.30 in the morning before i go to work for the day. He sets his alarm to wake up just to call, so when I pick up the phone, he is still sleepy. Today he says to me, this boy- "Hello Bee.. *makes a waking up noise*.. I had dreeeeam.. you were in it... *yawn*". So I asked him what he dreamt of, and he dreamt he was a HONG KONG JACKIE CHAN STAR! Who fought all the baddies and faked his own death and I was beside him feeling very sad indeed (Not hysterical, just sad). I told him his brain was underworked after exams and that he was very drama. He started talking in a Hong Kong accent... I went to work. At least he said "I love you" in his normal voice.

After work he called me and asked in a Hong Kong accent, "Hallo, Can I spik to baybi?" And it was so funny I pretended not to hear him another 3 times just to hear him say 'baybi' in that singsong voice.

My boyfriend is NOT from Hong Kong!!! (:

Good Times

Back to You

I'm a little more straightforward when waxing lyrical.

Took a while to drag me out of bed,
Aim some coffee at my head,
Saw the clock I'm running late,
It's an ordinary day.

So little time so much to do,
I rather spend my days with you,
So little time so much to do,
I'd like to spend one day with you,

-Arkarna, So Little Time

But in essence, I feel the same way that you do. I wish we had more time. I know we have the rest of our lives, but a huge bulk of time spent with you alone would be so nice. That's what holidays and honeymoons are for.

The world's common denominator

dennis/time = sara/time

If only we could cancel out time and have just dennis and sara.

You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes
It brought me back to life
Youll be with me next time I go outside
No more 3x5s
Just no more 3x5s
- John Mayer

But well, God has instituted time for our benefit and we should see it as that - a gift and a joy. Sometimes i feel like my complains of not having enough time is being ungrateful of what we already have. And as we all know, humans are never satisfied with anything.

But still i complain. Time with you passes way too fast.

Today I finally overcame
Tryin to fit the world inside a picture frame
- John Mayer

That is the joy of having time with each other, isn't it?

Baby Names

We've figured things out more. Sometimes what we realise may not be explicit, but an inate sense of the other person's needs that we may not know how to explain for now. But whatever it is we've both learnt a bit of give and take, and give is just as important as take.

We decided to re-evaluate names that could go with 'tng'. It's a hard surname to match names to, but it's better than.. Hmm.. Alvin's surname. This is what we came up with.

Names that may be considered
Asher
Opheleia
Names to be avoided
Tina
Tracy
Timothy
Rupert
Bob
Enrique
Chu Kun

We still have many years to pick and choose so we're going to take our time. Meanwhile, time to catch some Z's for tomorrow.

First Fight

I guess you would call it our first fight.
It's not a very good fight, we haven't even been able to fight properly because I've been at work and we can't fight while I am working. So it's been a normal fight, but drawn over a longer period because we don't have time to talk about it properly.
It's been very painful and sad and when I block it out it doesn't seem too bad at work, but when we talk I want to cry.
I don't tell you this very often but I don't want to leave. I want to make things better too. I just don't know how to.

When the stakes are high

I'm only a man.

I don't use words well. I don't explain things clearly. I cannot make myself understand. I don't know how to make things better. I'm upset and angry.

I'm not going anywhere.

I want to work things out.

I want to hear and understand.

I want to be better.

I'm here for the long haul.

I love you.

A, B you C

Dennis had exam.
Sara had sleep.

Dennis took bus.
Sara buy cauliflower.

Dennis eat cauliflower soup with bread, tuna and avocado.
Sara ditto.

Dennis do work.
Sara ditto.

Dennis likes Sara.
Sara ditto.

Dennis disturbs Sara with lameness.
Sara ditto.

Sara tickle.
Dennis ditto.

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It was a nice day with 70% of time spent with her, which makes the day 70% better than tomorrow - when she is at work. And its her daddy's birthday tomorrow, just 7 days after mine. So we're going out for dinner at Nicholson's bar and grill later. Exciting!

Things are getting smoother now. Things are getting better for her at work, God has been immensely good. Her practicum is coming to an end in 3 weeks, my exams are coming to an end in 2 days. We shall then resume normal "pak thor" schedule after all the hustle and brussel sprouts.

And Dennis likes his new earring. The creative arts team still thinks I pierced my ear, but thats all good. We fooled Daryl for 5mins - then i spoiled the fun for him because he would freak out too much. *snicker*

And she looks more and more gorgeous every day.

And she is smart and funny and pretty and everything all at once.

And. And. And.

She the bomb!

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Sara: Did i mention again that he looks VERY HOT with an earring!

Dinner with Daryl

Daryl took us out for dinner today! I have had such a long day with church, then work, and the dinner. Dinner was good fun, although the rain was pelting. The food was good and the beer was better. It's called Last Drop Brewery and is located on Nicholson road (near Hughes way) in Canningvale. Super full now! Shiny earring reappears!
Dennis Drinks. Sara Smiles.
Smooch, Sneer
MONSTER?!!
No it's just barramundi fish.

Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.

New Earring!

I bought my baby an earring and he looks like a badboy! I like. I sent him to worship practice and he bluffed the world into thinking it was real. HoHo. Christmas is early this year.

5 months

It's our 5 months!
We both went to work in the morning like normal working people (tired from the previous day's work and having TGIF syndrome). He finished earlier so he took a bus and picked me up from work. The sweet boy got me gloves for my cold cold hands! We took a bus to fremantle and shopping around a little (he got me a white bag from the island shop too!) before eating Pizza and gelato at Amanos.

But the highlight of the evening was that he finally consented to play DDR with me even though he was aching from exercise. He had refused all other times on all other occasions and told me I would get a chance once his birthday came but only then. I got to pick all the old songs I had heard before! But I didn't pass the last stage. It brought back memories of my secondary school days. Way awesome.

We talked at my place, then went back to his and our quiet celebration ended with a quiet goodnight.

God is good, 5 months feels interesting.

Examinations

Dennis is having exams and I am on prac in the hospital. Mostly we talk online at night but I tend to be too tired to say much. He has finished 2 papers and has another 2 to go. These few weeks we've seen each other less but I think it's been good to be stretched separately with different things. The latest exciting discovery would have to be that the verse God gave me to provide purpose comes directly after the verse Dennis takes to reflect his life purpose. I guess it's the same God having to speak to two different people in two different ways. When you bring it together, though, you realise that God still has the same agenda- to see us conform to Christ-likeness.

I will have an early night, creep into bed right now, at 8 in the evening, and dream of good things to come tomorrow- the friday marking 5 weeks of prac and 5 months of lovership. We wanted to go to Little Moorish but it is closed for a seasonal winter break. The restaurant continues to elude us. But we highly recommend it.

to baby

The Lord your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

birthday boy

Tomorrow is my entry into quarter life, but more importantly, today we celebrated! And thats cause she has to work tomorrow and i've got a paper at night.

Some days are just more spectacular than others because i get to spend time with her. Today was a birthday celebration exactly the way i liked it - small and homely, with the people i love the most and lots of crazy laugher.

She knocked on the door, holding a nice "cake" (box of durians) with a nice little candle on the top! And she was dressed in nice corporate wear with new hair! She looked nicely jap. Yummy. And she did nice grocery shopping for me, wrote me a nice card and she cooked for me. =)

Nothing beats spending time with you.

"Wake up *%&@!"

xoxo

Boyfriend put us in the draw to win a wedding package + honeymoon to bali. My fingers are crossed. Even if we get nothing, it was a sliver of hope i wanted to have just for today.

Bridal Expo + Birthday Present

12 hours in the life of the boyfriend.

0745: Waited for the bus home from the girl's place while i got maccers for breakfast
0930: Got home and left for Burswood Hotel
1000: Met Alvin and went into the bridal expo

1130:  Left bridal expo after not paying to get in and collecting a gazillion brochures

1200:  Vic Park subway for lunch

1230:  Home sweet home, studied while waiting for the girl to come over

1400: The girl!

1500: Girl gave me my present! Nice PJs from Peter Alexander (see below)

1815:  The girl fed the cat and me

1900:  Home again with the girl

1910: Girl acts "gu niang" and tickle fight begins

1935:  Daryl sets mouse trap

1945: Girl sits with Dennis and questions him about "lock lips, lock hips"* while blogging

*GIRL: She realises that contrary to her previous beliefs about his obsession with the sexy latin dance, he was just trying to promote himself as a guy that could dance since he thought that girls liked men who danced. Hoho. 

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My nice fuzzy new funky PJs! 

P.S.: I love my girl.

day 146

Today is the official launch of the greenricetea blog! *applause*

In celebration, we have started scouting for honeymoon places (Instant Thailand 2008). We were looking at Railay Village.

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She was sick, and I was being the nice boyfriend so I stayed over at her place. And she made me breakfast in the morning! Egg, hot chocolate, sandwich with cheese and mushroom, who can ask for more?

Then she sent me to the train station and i went to work. She stayed home, like a nice house wife and made butternut squash. We having nice butternut squash for dinner. And she looks pretty and gorgeous.

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I shall soon start the G.U.M. (Get Us Married) fund. We seek sponsorship for the wedding ceremony, dinner and honeymoon. =)

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References

Instant Thailand, 2008. Thailand Resorts. http://www.thailand-resorts.biz/ accessed on June 6, 2008.