Friday, August 27, 2010

Life is no Nintendo game



Great song, don't you agree? However, I can't say the same for the series of actions as depicted in the music video itself. :(

Two nights ago, the young couple residing just beside my house quarreled again. It was in the ungodly hours of around 2am when I heard heavy foot steps and hoarse voices in the corridor outside my living room. Even though this was not the first time they reenact the whole episode in public, I couldn't help but to sit on the sofa and spied on them. The guy was almost in his birthday suit, except for a pair of brief and a towel in his hand, kungfu'ing around with his partner. Perhaps he was trying to get her back into the house or fending off her blows but I didn't really bother to catch the words that came flying out of his mouth. I was much more curious on the possibility of me going through the same thing with my spouse in the near future when we're staying together.

In the nine years plus that we've been together, we've never argued even once. Sure, there were times when we have a certain degree of disagreement but it was more on give and take, which has been superbly effective so far. However, taking into consideration the fact that we spent the majority of our nine years living far apart from each another, I'm not really sure on what to expect especially now that we've got ourselves a house.

One year of me in UUM while she was missing me in Penang.

Two years of me coding my life away for an IT degree while she got accepted into UPM.

Another two years of me trying to eke a living back in Penang while she strived hard to qualify herself as an engineer.

Now that both of us are working adults, we're still a bridge apart due to her work commitment.

-sigh-

All these years of long distance relationship gives me a lot of freedom to do what I want in my spare time. Shooting some hoops after work, getting myself chased by dogs while jogging at 6am, pew-pew-pew'ing in StarCraft 2, spamming the F5 key to check for requests to buy games online and so much more that I can't even begin to imagine on what I should be giving up on once we're living under the same roof.

Three years of staying with the same roommate in UUM has indeed taught me a lesson. The two of you may be all close and dandy as friends but once thrown into the same room for years, slowly but surely, old habits will start to rear its ugly heads and it will not take long before each of you has your very own list of yucky-stuffs-my-partner-does that you find them hard to accept or live with.

Guess what? While I'm writing this entry, waifu called and told me that her landlord is moving out soon. Looks like I've just rolled myself a bad number in snakes and ladders. Funny how things coincide against each other when you're still scratching your head pondering on what to do next, eh? :D

So, how well will we cope with sharing a bed, I wonder...

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Er... no comment la ... so you already know mah .. give and take ... but sometimes having a quarrel is good ... at least at the time, you can know what's her really thought. But by stepping back a step everything you guys have misagreement, you never know what's her concern is

Anonymous said...

aiya ... why u change it to cant delete the comment ler?

(e+ho)ng said...

@Anonymous:
I'm just worried that it will come to the same situation as my neighbour. To be frank, it's kind of embarrassing to duel it out in the open but they've been repeating it so many times that I'm starting to question myself on what is normal & what is not.

About the delete right, I changed nothing. I think it was due to you registering your comment as Anonymous, which I've told you not to for a couple times.

~~詠鉌の物語~~ said...

As long as you always share your thoughts with her about every single tiny things, not to worry whether you will argue with her badly in future or not.

Some people said arguing is the way to know each other well; but I'm not really agree, as there're many ways to avoid that...

I believe you can do it! :-)

(e+ho)ng said...

@~~詠鉌の物語~~:
Then where do I find the extra time to allocate her into my daily life? Hmm...

CarinaSing said...

Hey, arguing is one of the ways to know each other well ...
lazy to log in .. mahsi stay as anonymous lor

(e+ho)ng said...

@CarinaSing:
Yeah, I've received that opinion one time too many but I still believe that everything must be within a moderate range. Too much of something or nothing - be it good or bad - is not a good sign. :(

Very the complicated ah~

me said...

what is waifu?

(e+ho)ng said...

@me:
Waifu is ワイフ.

:D

Anonymous said...

what is ワイフ then? Lolz

(e+ho)ng said...

@Anonymous:
Google Translate.

Anonymous said...

ok wife ...

(e+ho)ng said...

@Anonymous:
I'm not even sure who I'm replying to these days.

aHBok said...

You gain some you lose some :) so it all depends on what you want in life.

tkt said...

Haha,I thought the MTV is cool because Megan is inside,but u used it as a classic example of a couple quarrelling?hmmmm...I thought disagreement is always part of a relationship?

(e+ho)ng said...

@aHBok:
Bokkie! Glad to have you dropping by. I'm kind of surprised that you managed to find your way here. :)

Back to topic. I'm starting to feel the collision here. It's inevitable but soon, it'll be no longer what I wanted but more on what we wanted; in the sense that all decisions will have to be made from two different perspectives instead of one.

Perhaps it's too early to put what I feel into words so I'll just let it roll for now.

@tkt:
There are many kinds of disagreement & various ways to handle them. :)

I'm much more worried on the things to come though.

Anonymous said...

anonymous is still me la .. the only one ... I thought u can differentiate my "lolz" ....

(e+ho)ng said...

@Anonymous:
Spend the 30 seconds logging in & I'll be able to differentiate you no problem.

Anonymous said...

aiya ... our 'kam zheng' so deep liao .. login or not log in shouldn't be a prob to you at all .. right?

(e+ho)ng said...

@Anonymous:
Out! Out to Out-of-Topic! Off you go!

Cathy said...

Don't worry too much lah, whatever will be, will be!