My Valentine's Day

*knock* *knock* *knock* 


'He's punctual, as usual,' I smiled at the thought. 


After stealing a few looks at the mirror, making sure I'm dolled up nicely, I went to open the door. There he was, a dashing young man who is smiling bashfully at me. "Ready?" he asked. I nodded and took him by his arm, followed him towards his car. 


"Where will you taking me today?" 


"You'll see." 


As he opened the car door for me, he leaned in and gave me a soft kiss on the cheek. "Happy Valentine's Day."


"Happy Valentine's Day, Grace."


"Hey, don't you call me that."


"But you won't let me call you by your first name." Christopher is his first name.


"Doesn't mean you should call me by my last name."


"All right, all right, Topher." Giving a kiss back. "Happy Valentine's Day."

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Yes, you heard me right. It is THE Topher Grace from the hit comedy series "That's 70's Show." 

Isn't he dreamy? 

He has finished filming his latest movie entitled "Valentine's Day" which will be out in February 2010. Finally, we will be able to spend some time together. Here is the movie trailer. 

Now back to my story.

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It was the middle of the night and the whole place is deserted. Well, that's the idea of having REAL privacy when you are dating a celebrity. But I was glad that we were alone now. He's been away for months and I am glad he is here. He held my hand all the way while he was driving. I loved it. 

We reached a place that I do not know, or I haven't seen before. It was just too dark to see what this place is. All I know is that it was a huge building and... the doors were locked. But of course, Topher had the keys. 

"Close your eyes."

"What?"

"Close your eyes," he repeated.

"It's dark, Topher. I can't see anything."

"Just do it," he insisted.

"Oh.. oh all right."

*click* *click* *click*

"Now open them." 

"Oh my goodness...."

 

"Now I know where we are!"

"Can I have this dance?"

Smiling happily, I gave him my hand and he pulled me close. Swaying slowly under the many many stars, shining down on us. It was purely magical. 

Just the two of us. 

Nobody else. 

Just the two of us and the twinkling stars.

Just being in his arms makes everything seems so irrelevant and insignificant. 

Then, it was time to leave. 

He has to work early in the morning at 5am. Such a relationship is difficult but quoting the movie trailer, "Valentine's Day is about anger, disappointment, love, romance, mating, digressions, sparkly and commitment." He sent me home and kissed me so passionately that I just felt weak at my knees. 

"See you later."

"Yeah, see you."

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It's now 9 in the morning.

"What are you doing in bed?!?" my housemate voice screaming at my ear. "It's VALENTINE'S DAY!!!"

I smiled, mumbling, "I just had the best Valentine's Day." And continued sleeping.

"What?" she asked.

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THE END.


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I'm a Sherlock Holmes in the Making

One evening - it was on the 30th November, 2009 - my dear Cupido and I were enjoying a cup of tea in my small yet cozy sitting room. We were startled by the heavy footsteps on the stairs, and the door of our room was flung open. Both of us were surprised to perceive that our intruder was a skinny chap with a face that was utterly pale and round.
“OH, please, please forgive this intrusion!” he pleaded breathlessly but unaware of his loud and pitchy voice.
“My name is NuffNang, and please, detective, I beg of you, you have to help me!” That’s where the case began...

With that, Mr. Nuffnang left hurriedly, in the pouring rain. “Odd. Such an odd case indeed. Why on earth would anyone steal that picture? What is the significance of that image of Sherlock Holmes? Why did Mr. NuffNang took off so quickly? Ah... Questions, questions, questions... Such thrill!” A smile curled upon my tiny face as I put down my cup of tea. I rose swiftly, grabbed my hat and opened the door, leaving my poor, puzzled Cupido behind...

It was raining heavily. I stood by the damped sidewalk, watching the raindrops rhythmically falling down. There I was thinking about the two clues provided by our skeletal Mr. NuffNang before his immediate departure.

After much speculation, it was time to put my probable deductions to the tests. As I was strolling, a sign with neon lights caught my eye. Ahh... a cybercafe... just what I needed. This must be one of my very fortunate days. I paid to the grumpy old man behind the counter.
“Booth No. 5, girlie” grunted that big old man.
“No. 5 - my favourite number” silently I whispered. Grinning to myself, very fortunate indeed. With just a few clicks, ah ha! I have found my two prominent suspects of this case.

“Elementary, my dear Cupido.” explaining my deductions to my tea companion, Cupido once I returned to my humble abode. The rain then had finally stopped as we sat by the open window, enjoying the light breeze while sipping our cups of tea.
“I have sent a short electronic mail to our dear Mr. NuffNang. I do hope he will reply me soon. There are so many questions that were left unattended previously. I would like a proper explanation from him.” said I while Cupido nodded in agreement.
“Ahhh... wonderful tea, this is...”

My Top 5 Treat List

The other day, I saw a DELL blogging contest that requires bloggers to write about how would you treat yourself if money and opportunities were not a concern. That really got me thinking. Of course, I can't do this by myself, I had to ask someone, someone who understands me like no other, who's been there for me ALL my life - the child in me, Tiny Kim. The following is our little conversation.