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With the ' Bride-to-be ' post still laying in my draft, I am now hitched and promoted to becoming a wife. It sounded unthinkable to many, with my friends' initial reactions being: WHAT / WHY / ARE YOU SURE? Definitely not surprising, it's been just a year since we started dating and I'm still in my final year of degree studies. Perhaps I myself sometimes wonder if everything is truly real or it this all part of a dream. What has been happening is way beyond my wildest prediction of the 23 year old me isn't it? There could have been a million other ways to live our lives, and here's mine, married gratefully to the man I feel comfortable and safe to be with at a really young age, by the modern social norm at least.    I believe there are always two sides to a coin and there is a need to strike a balance for everything in life, so is marriage. Marrying young now probably comes with a built-in support system for me to pass through my...

I spent all my life seeking for love and attention from another person, but I never truly felt secured. I believe in only myself. I was 9, I've seen and lived through my mum's countless arguments with other man, just so we could save on the rents. I was 17, I was told that my mum has no choice but to settle for my stepfather because she has a kid with her. I was 19, I wish to be an independent person that can clear my own mess, settle my bills, and never have to ask for money from others. I am 23, and getting married on the coming Saturday. The idea of marrying sounds great with the right person, but I still want to be perfectly able to take care of myself. Occasionally I may wish to be pampered with gift, but to ask for anything from anyone should never be the case. And this upsets my mum, perhaps she see her young self in me -  a stubborn young lady. But I don't like the idea of myself being subordinate or dependent and needy. Perhaps she is worried that I'm fa...

Here comes my favourite month of the year again, and perhaps this year a little even more special than the rest. I think my frequency of posting has dropped this year as a whole, and now that there are so much things to update about in my mind. Where should I begin then.  My last day of school has officially come to an end yesterday for the semester, though with an outstanding finals waiting for me still next Saturday. It has been a special semester as I move onto the fourth and final year, especially with the 10 days spent on a floating village in Cambodia for my field investigation module. If the previous semesters were like short 2.4km Napfa, then Y4S1 I would say, it's like running a long marathon, with deadline every other weeks starting from as early as second week till the very last. I wonder which system I prefer, and which is more beneficial for us as learners.  Maybe I want to focus a little more on the Cambodia trip for now, for the sake that I decide to lo...