Although Vince can be a SNAG sometimes, most of the time he has always been the typical male who’s never into saccharine or sappy love statements. I think asking him to say (or even whisper) all these is akin to asking him take off all his clothes, be naked and parade in the public – in another words, he’ll be so damned embarassed.
So you can imagine my surprise when a few days back at his home, he asked me out of a sudden:
Vince: “What do you want to call our kid next time?”
Me: (eyes lit up, stared in awe but trying to act as per normal) “Do you mean boy or girl?”
Vince: “Boy. I have an idea. Let’s call him Marvin (Maris + Vincent).”
Whahahahaah. Hey, actually I did ever thought of this before but of course I never did tell him. But very soon, he was back into his practical-cum-dry humour mode in the evening.
While we were window shopping at Marine Square, I was telling him:
“You know, if next time we have a daughter, I can bring her to shop with me!!! I just love looking at girls’ stuff rather than boys’.”
Vince: “Ok, then we’d better have a boy then. So you won’t shop so much.” 
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Anyway, sorry to have digressed for quite a bit as I was basking in my own temporary happiness about Marvin. I used to think it’d be lovely to have kids in the family cos’ it completes the whole picture and they are really an essence of a couple in love. But I think I may have second doubts now.
I went to tutor this 10 year old girl across my block, and to my surprise her dad was very mad with her that day. Up till Wednesday (which was the last I saw of her of her this week), her dad still refuses to speak to her. Apparently she’d scolded him when he reprimanded her for not going to bathe that Monday. Her dad works as a taxi-driver and the horrible thing (no, not his occuaption) was that she scolded him: “I hope when you go out to work later you get killed by cars!”
*shudders* This came out from the mouth of a Primary 4, a 10 year old girl, thank you. And my elder sis commented she read in papers a few days ago that this 8 year old boy told his parents: “I want freedom.”
*hyperventilates*
Does he even know what the meaning of freedom is???? Does she know how hurtful her curse sounds to her dad???
I think with regards to Marvin, it shall not be conclusive. Maybe (just maybe), 2 person would be good enough.
