Home Improvements

And so the hacking begins...

Our new home in the works... can hardly believe it.

Woh How Civil

Whilst Mel's announcement of our relationship sounds very civil and GLC type ...... Boyfriend also use e-mail to announce.... well its better than twenty years ago when couples working for GLC's made such ground breaking news via telex for those who could afford..... and others simply resorted to good old telegrams. Worst come to worst, make a reverse charge call and get your parents who can't afford long distance phone calls in the first place, pay for it anyway. Bear in mind this was some twenty years ago as I recall, a tele-conversation to Ipoh or Muar would cost you, what you would pay to talk to someone in Europe by today's standards. The folklore was that the village folks made sacrifices of bamboo and other living things to Gunung Jerai in Kedah, that one day SKYPE would come into existence!!!

Oh what glory, when it did, now they want Ayah Pin to provide a computer, Budha to provide a Modem and Prof. Dr. Stephen Hawking to provide his one and only speech processor, because the folks of 'no mans land' between Alor Star and Gunung Jerai have no access to learn how to type with a keyboard!!! So for now they still revert to telegrams, but that fate must come to a closure as Pak Dodol.. the Morse code operator is losing his hearing as he approaches 8 and a half decades of life.

So one's mother or father or the whole village would be notified via your nearest post office, who would kindly get a printout of the telegram, that also during working hours only. Frantically I'm very impressed with my darling Melissa's methodology... I must learn and adhere to such culture as ye who reads further will soon understand why!!!???

My revelation of this joyous union was somewhat, very vocal!! My amma goes... Sooo.. what you and Melissa serious ah??

Me: Why, got problem ah....?
Amma: I don't knowlah, ya'll never tell me anything one..... Then suddenly tell us and get in love head over heals!!
Me: What other way to fall in love, something wrong with head over a heals ah, why cannot be too much in love ah? Anyway, why you so kepok???
Yalah, she's a very nice girl..... (moment of silence), you tell appa ok!
Amma: ok, WHAT ABOUT THAT DILIP FELLA???

So you see......

However I love you baby!!!! I think you're hot and ........

E-Announcements

Today, I thought I'd share you, how I broke the news of my relationship with Sham, to my folks.

I sent them this email:

"Hi folks...

Shaman and I are 'on'/going.steady/in a relationship to make it even clearer.. are boyfriend-girlfriend!
Don't ask how all lar.. suffice to say, it just happened :)

So yall can stop wondering already..

And don't worry, promise to behave and keep you updated of significant developments (though please don't expect any so soon!)

So anyway... all is well. I'm a little scared but mostly happy, slightly nervous but trusting Jesus.

Wish me luck!"

Yes, somethings are better shared by email :)

Chocs and NPE

Today I was interrogated to validate my decision of incorporating another human in the form of Melissa Pereira into my life. Prior to this I was lead into thinking that proposing to my future wife would initiate the gateway into the world of weddings.....

This was in the form of a pre-nuptial enquiry, pardon me if it is spelt wrongly as it is still Greek to me as I have never attempted marriage before. It was all cool me and the most Reverend. It was a very Catholic conversation and most of all I was enlightened about many things, especially about having kids.

On a lighter note Mel does like chocolate, in fact by the next day the whole top layer of Ferero R'sss was 'transmogrified' into somebody's sexy tummy!!!! So there.....

I surprised her again this morning by laying some nice flowers into her badminton bag, although I must admit that the flowers were a gift from her two days before. Nonetheless its the thought that counts right???

Simple Surprises!

Sham bought me these yesterday...

... for no reason at all.

Never mind I'm on a diet and dont' have much of a sweet tooth... I still love being surprised!

BLOGGING FOR DUMMIES

Hi I'm Shaman, I hope I'm doing the right thing because this is the first time I'm reading and editing a blog. Yes, Mel and me are destined to marry even if the American's decide to spell habor as habour!!!!

21st will be the big day and probably if our blog ever gets famous you'll hear more from Mel rather than me as I still have 495 e-mails unread in my personal e-mail. Not that I'm rude or ignorant, but I just don't have the time and I failed type writting class.

Yes we are different and simillar in many ways,... but essentially we have the same fundamentals values about many things in life, however I have a psychological allergy towards pork!! Mel will be twenty +++ and I'm thirty.

I work for myself and am very much involved in biotechnology and will soon venture into meltechnology which when I do master, I shall be sought after by every man on the face of any livable surface!!!

So keep close contact boys......

About Mel

My name is Melissa. I will be 29 in March. I will marry Shaman, God willing, on June 21, 2008 in St. Francis Xavier's Church, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Shaman turns 30 one week before our wedding. He works in a family-run business. I work for a GLC.

Shaman & I are different when it comes to the little things - I like being alone a lot, Shaman loves company, I love eating pork, Sham just hates it - but we're similar when it comes to the big things - our belief in honesty, our dislike of superficiality and materialism, our hopes for this country and our dreams for tomorrow.

This is the story of our little insignificants and major upheavels.