k r i s a n d r o

Today marks the 20th month since I walked out of St. James Powerhouse with KuKuNehNeh’s hand in mine. And if the decision of being together as a couple was made while being intoxicated, I am probably still drunk at this point in time.

Last night, as I was walking her home, she turned her head to me and asked, “Eh Dear, a few years from now, will you still insist to walk me home everytime?”

I scoffed at her question, saying, “Of course I would! We have already been in a relationship for so long. This is how I am going to be!”

“Long? This is not long lor!”

The line above is not referring to my manhood of course. Her point is that 20 months is not a long time together and certainly not enough to tell how we would behave in a relationship a couple of years down the road and she should know better because she has been in a longer relationship than I have.

I’d admit that it can be pretty tiring to spend a day at work or outside and having to send her back home to Ang Mo Kio and taking another 1 hour trip back to Jurong West on almost a daily basis. But, I always make it a point to send her to her doorstep every time we meet not because she wants me to; but it’s because I have the need and duty to make sure that she is safe back home whenever we meet. I don’t think that will change because needs and duties are two of the strongest factors I can ever put to a task. And few things make me happier than knowing that I have her safely home.

Happy 20 months of being together my Love!~

A happy 16th Monthsary to the Love of my life, Ruifang aka Leshane aka, ah boy aka KuKuNehNeh!!! She has been quite sick ever since she came back from Macau last Tuesday and since she is still on the road to recovery, I thought I could skimp on a good dinner and treat her to a nice bowl of porridge instead on this day. WAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!

She suggested that we go back to ‘The ramen place with the nice stewed egg’ and she was referring to ‘Noodle House Ken‘ at Orchard Plaza. And since they don’t serve atery clogging food there, I obliged.

A happy looking KuKuNehNeh

An emo looking krisandro who has to pay for ramen instead of porridge

Yummy Cha-Shu Ramen!

Drool-worthy stewed egg!

Tucked away from the busy Orchard Road and at the back of Orchard Plaza, we would not have found this nice Ramen shop if not for the powers of the internet. Don’t expect a variety of choices in the menu though. The people at Noodle House Ken specializes in Ramen and they stick to perfecting the art of making great MSG-less soup, fresh Cha-Shu, great noodles and wonderfully sinful stewed egg.

Happy 16th monthsary my Dear! Get well soon!

On workday mornings, either KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) or myself will send a morning greeting to the other via email. Since she cannot use tools such as WLM to communicate, the emails are our way of keeping in touch with each other during work hours and gossip about the latest happenings in the world, Singapore, the blogosphere and you.

YA…. YOU!

On the 2nd of October, she sent me an email like any other workday except that the content made me as guilty as a kid who broke his mum’s favourite dinning glasses.

I COMPLETELY FORGOT that it was our 14th monthsary! And I had already promised to attend the Samsung event that day at Vivocity and we decided to not celebrate it. KKNN went to hang out with her friends after work at Deborah’s place and I headed down to the event as promised.

I am not much of a romantic and I decided to do something spontaneous to hopefully make up for my forgetfulness. After the event, I decided to travel to her place at Ang Mo Kio (AMK) to surprise her and spend some time together. KKNN is not much of a flowers person and so I bought beer and 3 of the fried chicken wings that she digs at the coffee shop nearby. In order to ascertain if she was already home, I text her along the way to AMK but she failed to reply me. As it was already 10+ in the night, I assumed that she had pigged out in her own bed and so I went ahead to buy the stuffs at the coffeeshop.

While waiting for the chicken wings, I got a call from her.

“Hello?” KKNN said groggily.

“Hi Dear! Where are you?”

“I just woke up. Still at Deborah’s place. I fell asleep while they were playing poker.”

“Ah? It’s late already and you got work tomorrow. Why don’t you go home to rest early?”

“I still waiting for Huiwen leh~”

“Huh~~~ Go home earlier lar!”

“Never mind lar. I will wait.”

“Okay lor. Text me when you reach home hor?”

“Okay!”

Failing to convince her to go home and not wanting to spoil the surprise or pressure KKNN to go back early because I am heading for her place, I decided to wait it out at her void deck. It was about 10.45pm when I reached the void deck and little that I know that she would only come back at around 11.40pm. So I spent 1 hr sitting at the bench, accompanied by a foreign worker who was sleeping soundly two benches away with the cold beer turning warm and the piping hot fried chicken wings turning into soggy remains of a cooked chicken’s body part.

I was plurking away on the incident to keep myself entertained and finally got a text from her that she was heading home. The sounds of a taxi greeted me as I hid behind a wall and I appeared in the open once I heard footsteps approaching the lift landing.

Well, the lady whom alighted from the cab and saw me grinning from ear to ear at the lift landing near the stroke of midnight that day wasn’t KKNN. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!! It was just a stranger who was probably prepared to kick me in the nuts if I followed her into the lift. The moment of awkwardness was simultaneously greeted with the sounds of 2nd taxi stopping at the corner and a bewildered KKNN coming out of the cab and seeing her bf who was supposed to be at home but was waiting for her at the lift landing.

“DEAR! WHY ARE YOU HERE?”

A smile formed on my lips and I said,

“Happy 14th monthsary my Dear~”