Marriage and the likes

A boy is brought up by his mother.
The mother nags and scolds to get him to do the things she ask.
As the boy grows older
He discovered that he has feelings for a girl in his life.
So everyday instead of doing what his mum ask him to do
He spents his time chasing the girl
When he gets the girl
He realise the girl gets him to do the things she wants
this time using the power of love (or so they say).

Then boy realises
that suddenly his hair is messy
his room is untidy
his fashion sense is bad
he does not look good in pictures
he talks very loudly
there are so many better guys
and then
he is growing fatter
spending more
out of home longer.

The next step comes
when boy no longer wants to go through it all
so he does the next logical thing
he grows up to be a man
and proposes to the girl
who by now has become a woman.

They get married
honeymoon proved to be over too soon
and instead of paragraph 2
man has to bring home the dough
wake up in the middle of the night to cater to mum and child
manage relations with the in laws and wife
take on additional responsibilities of being a dad
but one thing that hasn't change all these years
was that he still does what the woman wants

Then his child grows up
being a loving father
he gave his all for the child
who is a daughter
he pays for her overseas shopping trips
gets her the latest car
watch her get a boyfriend
and then married with her own children
and guess what?
he still does what the woman wants

Moral of the story: The woman gets what the woman wants. (of course this is just a somewhat negative side of relationship between man and woman, but that's besides the point.)

Now imagine the relationship between a man and a man (Father and son, buddies, brothers, etc, not man-man!), in fairness to what I just wrote, it will probably be a bit more negative. Of course you can ignore the above as just a nonsensical ranting of an overfed, messy haired boy in the middle of the night. You get my point.

Now, 07-07-2007 was the perfect date to get married. And many couples tied the knot. Amongst them was Jo and her husband Tze Hui. The wedding was like the number, perfect. The bride was beaming, the joy overflowed, and the groom, though I think was feeling a little jittery (who wouldn't?), but still charming nontheless. A match made in heaven. May they have a blessed and blissful marriage from now till eternity.

Wedding is wonderful, one of the greatest acheivements in human life. When you say the vow, you lay down everything else to be joined to your spouse. Nothing else matters as much as your spouse except for God above. It's a commitment that is a lifetime, non-rescinding, not breakable. When you say better or for worse, it means throught the trials and turmoils of life, the lowest and the highest point. That's why no boyfriend vows to the girlfriend and vice versa unless he or she intends to take the other their partner for life.

It's been an inspiration and an honor for me to be there at the matrimony and dinner. Thank you Jo, for letting me see this side of love that I needed to. Thank you God, for once again I saw the expression of human love, though fallible, yet all the same so beautiful.

To be love, is what no words can describe.
To love, is what no sacrifice can explain.