The Legend Is True

Now I know that I usually blog about love but today's entry is simply about life. Don't know if I have told you already but I recently bought a house. Its a really small townhouse in Kajang but I think its pretty and perfect for me. I still haven't got the keys yet but I am excited at the prospect of it. I am going through the usual problems that a new home owner goes through and I have no qualms about that. But since I am as poor as a church mouse I could use all the financial help that I can get. Here's where my story begins....

Naturally when you have no money, you use all the available resources to help you out. So I recently went to EPF, to withdraw some money under the first home scheme. Now I had heard some nightmare stories of people returning to the office, time and time again because they got the documentation for the application process wrong. So this is what I did to avoid the much-talked about nightmare reoccurring in my circumstance, I went online to see what I needed. Then, I double-checked with an EPF officer before getting everything I needed. I thought that I would be one of the few people that would walk out of the EPF office without having to return.

So I get all my papers in order, photocopy everything that is needed plus I bring all the original copies then I even double-check with the checklist. I go to the "Semakan Dokumen" Counter and wait with baited breath....."Pleease tell me I don't have to come back and I have everything I need." ..... Success!! The man at the counter tells me what I want to hear. I go to the other counter just to hand in my papers.... "Yay! I am out of the woods!!" Or so I think.....

The lady at the counter tells me that my developer's lawyers have to have their company stamp on the S&P agreement and my application would be rejected without it. So now I have to see the lawyers and get both copies stamped. I was not the first to get my application through without a hiccup. I was not the one to claim victory over the EPF application. I was not to the one to make history among everyone I knew.

Legend has it, no one ever will!!

Love Has Funny Way

I was always a late bloomer. For most of my life, I believed I was a boy. Only towards the later part of my life (when I started to develop) I realised that I was truly a girl. Had a few crushes and met a few people but I never really felt strongly for men.

I first fell in love with a man when I was 23. I went out with him for 4 years and thought that I was going to end up marrying him but he wanted something different. After that I never thought that I would end up getting married, quite frankly I gave up on the idea of it. Plus the experiences that some of my married friends were going through, honestly made me believe that marriage is simply not for me. Resigned to the idea that I would be one of those people that most people would wonder about, I went about my life quite happily...if there someone there to share special moments then great, but if not I wasn't going to cry about it. I learnt to enjoy my own company and to be frank, I haven't found someone that I truly enjoy being around with as much.

But life has a way of throwing you curve balls and recently I have been looking at life a little differently. Am I going to end up someone's Mrs after all? We'll see how this one goes. Will keep you posted :)

How Do You Know That You're in Love?

The other day my cousin came up to me and asked me, what I think to be the toughest question you could ever ask..."How do you know when you're in love?" My mum simply retorted, "You will know." Now although that answer is truthful, I think it is less than sufficient. You see my mum comes from years and years of experience of different types of love and she knows that it simply can't be summorised for my cousin to understand. She would have to experience it for herself.

However for me, love is not thinking about your boyfriend/girlfriend all the time. Love is not the butterflies in your stomach when you see that special someone. Love is not chocolates, flowers and surprise gifts, that my friend, is infatuation. Love happens when you get passed that stage. Its the patience you have for someone even when you know you've seen this happen a million times and instead of saying "I told you so", you say "Its gonna be alright." Its the strength you show when you know you should be at your weakest. Its being there for them even when you hate seeing what's going on. Its sticking through the hard times while being thankful for the easy ones. Its the knowledge that love doesn't fade without you allowing it to happen. Its working at it and never giving up. Finally true love is letting someone go even when all you want is for them to be yours forever and trusting that if it was meant to be they will come back to you......eventually.