It takes balls…

Contributed by President Toh Harnniann

Ouch! It hurts...

A lot of things had been going through my mind recently. Suddenly I realized there are so many fronts in life which we have to battle our way, rarely winning all.

As a sign of reaching adulthood, the topic of getting married had been the centre of my life. I used to think that marriage is about signing that piece of A4 size paper and sleeping with the same woman for the rest of my life. Fiction always sounds better than reality.

I once read the phrase “Marriage is a promise of love”. If it is indeed a promise of love, then marriage should only involve two persons who are in love. Marriage should bind only these two souls not anyone else. But that’s too good to be true.

Getting married does not only mean: Hey, Harnniann, from now on, you will have to love and stay loyal to your beloved wife, for better or worse… etc

This is the part where our parents seldom or never taught us. Feldman and Diana also did not share with us the real secret behind marriage. Do you know what is “getting married” all about? Now, let me enlighten you.

Getting married means:-

1. Had I painted my house? Am I using the right colour? Can I afford a professional painter to paint my whole house?

2. Do I have enough money to renovate my house?

3. How should I announce this news to my friends and relatives?

4. Have I booked my tickets for the honeymoon?

5. Oh, do I have money to pay for the wedding photos?

6. Who should I invite to my wedding dinner? If I miss out my ex-classmates, will they get offended?

7. Will my wife get along with my mum?

8. Can we not have our wedding dinner but go traveling instead?

9. After getting married, can I watch World Cup with my gang at midnight?

10. Oh dear, I love you so much, but can I invite my parents to stay with us?

I can go on forever but I guess you have got my points. These are the questions that will surely bug you when you are approaching marriage. It takes abundance of patients, compromise and wisdom of the two of you to solve these questions.

I am not writing this to scare everyone away from marriage. Neither am I writing this to complain about my current state of affairs. I just want to share with all of you what’s going in my mind lately and the difference between what you originally believed and the naked truth.

To those young girls who still fantasize marriage as your Prince Charming on shiny amour riding a white horse to rescue you from the dark castle, oops, so sorry, I may have accidentally burst the bubble of fantasy. I just want to remind you of the existence of gravity before you float too far away.

This post also serves as a public announcement that Rtr Engtee and I shall be getting married (strictly in legal sense) this coming 24th June (Sat) at 2.30pm at Klang Hokkien Association.

We shall assume the position of the second married couple of the club, after PE Feldman and Rtr Diana.

Wise man says, “only fools rush in” but I can’t help falling in love with you. I may be a fool, but I am a happily blessed fool.

Interesting fact: During your lifetime you will eat about the weight of 6 fullgrown elephants.