Agnes.

We have been together for all of 4 months. But it never feels like it. In a way I feel like we have known each other for a lifetime. I am sure Agnes feels the same way too. It is just that the pieces fit so well, it is often too good to be true. She is as much my best friend, as the love of my life. But it was not always like that...

I have known her almost as long as she has worked in AVA. We occasionally had dinner at the same table and rubbed shoulders at company shindigs. But we were never close or even on speaking terms until quite recently. I guess the other people left a deeper impresion on her than myself,namely: Ten, Ai Khim,Hasli,Lyn and Poh. Being the social butterfly(not) that I am, we hardly engaged in any meaningful conversation beside the usual pleasantries.
I always found her a pleasant girl and someone I could relate to even then. But she had 'better things' to do than to bother with someone like me it seemed. So years went by and we hardly knew of one anothers existence.
Until the day I 'stole' her handphone number off of Hasli and we started SMS-ing to-and-fro ever since. One thing lead to another and I asked her out for dinner one day. We met at the Heeren and had dinner at Pasta Mania at Orchard Cineleisure. After that we went shopping at Heeren area.
We met a few times after that for movies (on Chinese New Years Eve), at her place for Chinese New Years(!) and so on. The turning point for me was when she was my Valentine. We went to NYDC at Suntec.
Of course all the dating was fine and good, but I wanted more. Although we were doing all the stuff that couples do, we were still not officially an item. I had asked her a few times but she seemed uncommittal as to our status. Until...

That night at Marina Bay. We had a nice pleasant chat under the starry sky as the city lights twinkled in the background. As the hours passed we seemed to grow more intimate in the fact that she was by then literally on my lap! But still the answers I were seeking seemed no where in sight despite appearances.
And then there was this guy sms-ing and calling her asking her out. I was peeved to be honest. He knew we were already dating and yet he had the nerve to still try his luck in trying to snare her. Worst part was Agnes still entertained his advances despite the fact we were already dating. I was visibly upset then, maybe not to the extent to which I was displaying, but upset nonetheless. Although we were not an item exclusively, I had by then grown very fond of Agnes and did not want to lose her to someone else.Especially so when the other guy was a player.
The ride home that night was kind of marked by the silence. I was upset and did not feel like talking much after. I did ask her a few times on the way about our 'status' but still the answer I needed had not arrived.
When we had reached her place I walked her up to her flat as is my custom. It was there and then she declared that we were indeed a couple!

YAYYYYYYYY!! *Smoooooooccccchhhh....*

The kiss we shared that night may not be the best one we ever had since then, but it was surely a moment I will never forget as long as I live. So many emotions were wrapped up in that moment. When the moment finally came it was the greatest feeling in all the world.

Since then we have been virtually inseparable and our love has grown from strength to strength. I never felt so strongly about anyone before. Now that she is once again away ,in malaysia this time, I pine for her return. And every moment without her is like an eternity.

After all the shit I been thru in my personal life the last decade or so, I truly appreciate Agnes all the more. Makes me want to love and treasure her more. To do all that is humanly possible to be the best boyfriend/fiance/husband to her that I can. And when all else fails to love her as God would have me to...