True Love is....

Making each other better and helping another to achieve what he/she wants even when it means that you have to take one for the team.

#HappyWifeHappyLife

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The Story of Wedding Ring

So over the years the joke has always been around Lebron James for being "The Chosen One" but yet he doesn't have a ring until recent years where he reach 4 finals and won 2 of them. For those of you who are unfamiliar with NBA, basically you win a ring for winning a tournament.

So he didn't win a precious in the 1st year with the heat... Dirk did..

So what is the significant of rings? I love rings in fact I think it's quite an accessory to the bear hands until I start going to the gym and I feel like your wedding ring can be quite a pain like literally. And I always have to take it out and so worry about losing it and just last week I finally lost it for the 1st time.

BUT, lucky for me I lost my proxy ring! Because we are always very worried about losing our wedding ring which is well more expensive so we actually bought a pair of cheaper ring that is decent to wear. So yay! #ProTip: to all couples especially if you are careless as well as always need to remove your ring, try to convince your partner to wear proxy ring so it's not so painful to lose it but you still get to wear it and "showoff" that your are married.

Me: "Sian, need to go replace my ring"

Mum: "Why? How come need to replace?"

Me: "Aiya I lost my ring lor, but bo bian have to wear cause I so handsome my wife scare people flirt with me so I need to wear ring.."

Wife: "Actually if you don't talk nobody will ever fall for your kinda face lor."

#DontGiveFace and that's my wife.

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Why you might want to reconsider marrying a teacher.

In the spirit of teachers' day as well as being inspired by Flora's post about being a military person's wife, I thought it's kinda interesting to write something of my own!

My wife's moment of fame before I got her onto NTUC photoshoot. Channel 8 caption was taken out of context by me. LOL

Being a teacher/educator is never easy these days because it's not just about teaching anymore. The entire nurturing journey is getting harder and responsibility seems sky high no thanks to how fast pace out education system is becoming. (Not complaining)

1. You can never travel cheap

I'll be a millionaire if I get a dollar every time someone says "teacher very good hor? Go 1 whole month school holiday". Hello geniuses, teachers do not get annual leave and they do not get to choose which days to clear their leave. They only get that sad few days in between holidays because they still have admin work, planning and CCA to handle and travel will always be peak period price and the planes will always, always be packed with kids. Lucky?

2. 10pm is sleeping time

A picture by my brother years ago show how unhappy he was with his wife's working hours. Yes, he married a teacher too!

You hardly get date night on the weekdays less say sexy time. Your partner needs to turn in at 10pm because she needs to wake up at 5am. It's very painful especially for someone like me who doesn't need a lot of sleep. Of course you can stay awake and do your own things but sleeping at the same time as a couple is something I really like and that's also why we have queen size bed right?

3. Watch your words

You better watch your words or I'll find you and kill you.

I'm not saying all teachers are boring, pretentious or a nerd. I've friends who are teachers who smokes, party and tattoo and all. I'm not saying those are vices but I'm saying teachers are human too but me being me, I'm a little rowdy and very opinionated when it comes to social issues and the warning I get before meeting any of my wife's colleague is always "you better watch your mouth ah. Don't say all the dirty things." Ok lor. But I'll publish it online. :p

4. You are your partner's 360 agency

One client from hell that you can't just walk away on.

As an educator you are trained and prepared to teach but for some reason when you are at school, you too need to plan event, plan party, create artwork, create website, choreograph dance, decorate the classroom and also buy things. I'm not saying that a teacher can only teach and shouldn't go beyond call of duty but some of the things i mentioned is really above their capability especially when you are not the most creative person. So what happened? As a nice husband you try your best to help partly because you can't say no. You have no idea how many fights we got because of these silly things and us not having the same idea on certain things.

5. No teacher and student role play

Eeeeeew. Just no.

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There you have it. I mean I might be complaining a fair bit but I'm sure there are perks like for example they get to knock off early at times and can help you run some office hours errand. :p

Being a teacher is a noble trade, it's not about the money and it's never easy. You do not get much  recognition either. And being a partner of a teacher is not easy as well. So here's one for all the teachers and their noble partners out there! Have a happy teachers' day!!

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My wife the gangster.

There are 3 facts about me that sounded more like a myth to most people.

1. My age.

I am 30 this year but I get carded at clubs all the time and people telling me I look 25. I guess the baby fats did help. I remember how my client was rude enough to tell my boss in front of me that "I am too fresh and young" for her project. meh, but definitely a compliment in time to come.

2. I am broke.

This is a funny one. Considering how much I eat, drink and buy. People think I am rich. They always like to find me to borrow money, investment, buy their things, invite me to wedding or even buy them dinner (actually I am very okay with that). The thing is I have a HDB, isn't that the biggest clue about my finical status? Debt. Look on the bright side, still a compliment.

3. I am married. 

I am not too sure if this is a compliment but I get this a lot. Not too sure if it is because I am too ugly to look married, looking too young to be married, too much a flirt to be married or simply act and look too single for my own good.

Truth is I am very married and my wife is a gangster. Most people are usually #TeamChris instead of #TeamSmith simply because I always seems like the bad boy and the one bullying her. For example how many female friends I have, flirting around with girls and always talking about sex. Truth is she is the silent killer not many people know. Everyone like to go "Wah Chris, I have no idea how you tahan your husband." Eh Eh Eh! Don't like. I am a very nice husband okay?

Very sweet looking right? It's actually a lie! 

Fine. Even for those who knows, they are still on her side. Just look at these status on Facebook and how many people actually liked these conversations. I realised all my friends like it a lot when my wife owns me. like what? who's your friend here hello?

She sets trap for me.

She doesn't let me spend money. Which is actually not too bad at times when you meet impulsive buys.

She can be very lame when it comes to just the both of us.

She sets trap for me once again. 

She can be very competitive too. 

So now you know under this sweet looking face she is actually quite a witch right?

old picture from 2009 thus old watermark. 

Whatever the case, thank you for being there for me (most of the time), allowing me to be who I am (besides restricting the amount of tattoo I have), being supportive of the things I do (but did not vote for me during SBA, doesn't really read my blog nor like my instagram pictures), always cooking for me (despite the fact that you can't really cook and it's not always edible but I still appreciate it.) and always trying new things with me. (when you feel like it and only those things you approve because they do not throw your face or not too dangerous which makes it left with not exactly a lot of things.)

EH EH... JUST FOR LAUGH LAH! 

Happy belated Birthday Post to my Smartie Pants Wife!! 

Mr.Smith, Eh wah Eh wah Eh wah~

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Carvers & Co

The wife's birthday celebration continues. After some pussy fun at the cat cafe, we hit to Carvers & Co to get my wife some meat.

You will be greeted by random old story books at Carvers. Do not be alarmed, their menu ain't that thick. It's just the front and back that offers food, as well as drinks.

We choose the seats outside because that's how I like it. I don't really like to be seated inside unless it's a hot day, lucky for us it was a cooling evening. #HappyWifeHappyLife

 

Here comes the food. We ordered the "The Carvers" which says MEAT. Important note. The picture below shows the serving for ONE! Do not be greedy and order for two!

Ham, Chicken Leg, Roast Pork Belly. With potato sides as well. 

Sweet Potato fries

This is heaven. As ugly as it looks, but it taste like heaven because it is bacon. Bacon chips FTW! 

Our dinner. Total Damage from left to right, $6, $35 and $10.90.

The meat were very well done. Tender and tasty. Totally worth every single cent of my money. I would totally go back and try the rest of their offerings on the menu!

The guys knew it was my wife's birthday and they even offered her a free champagne! How nice!

Carvers & Co 
Address: 43 East Coast Road near the famous 328 Katong Laksa
Postal Code: Singapore 428764
Operation Hours: 11am - 10pm on Mon, Wed - Fri. |||| 8.30am - 10pm on Sat & Sun. Weekday kitchen closes from 2.30pm - 6pm. Weekend kitchen closes at 5pm to reset for dinner.
Parking: Parallel parkings are available along the street but if you prefer multi-storey parking, you can park at I12 Katong or Katong Shopping Centre. It's not too far away.

Mr.Smith, I don't usually blog about food, but when I do it's because I love it and I wanna share!

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Surprise Birthday Party - Outdoor Laser Tag Party.

Laser Tag with my close friends at my place? AWESOME! 

The Surprise

As much as I always complain about how "manly" my wife is when it comes to our relationship, she actually managed to give me the best surprise party ever! Nope, it's not a surprise blow job while I was driving.

Not this. Not this time at least.

It was LASER TAG! Why?

Because LASER TAG IS AWESOME! THAT'S WHY! 

It's my 30th birthday and I've never throw a party for myself. I'm kinda an asshole and at the same time a kinda blessed one. Year after year I will always have friends from different group celebrating my birthday with me over a good drink and food and typically it last for a week or sometimes even 2. So I told the wife one random day that I want to play LASER TAG like Barney does because it's AWESOME!

Little did I know was she went around and out of her way to gather my friends from different cliques and make it happen as a surprise. Me, being the detective always sense such things coming my way and my words to her is,

"If you wish to catch me off guard, it better be like say 2 - 3 months earlier"

I was wrong, all it took was for her to be 2 weeks early. To be honest I was really really surprised.  She just came back from Korea and it was supposed to be a very slow weekend. I asked if she wish to go anywhere this weekend and she was like "nah.. just slack at home" which is pretty much a typical reply from her and BOOM it happened. The best thing was we did not need to travel to the laser tag arena but the guys came to us with the equipment!

The guys from Adrenaline Tags showing up at my park as part of the surprise party!

The People

It's never easy to choose who to be at a party and who not to and especially when you are not doing this yourself. I guess it must really been a hard decision for the wife since I have many friends all over the place and it is never easy to get friend's friend to be part of a single party!

My baby sister and her bf Glen. Just have to continue to tradition of pulling her arms. One for you kor! 

My brud, DT and Weejeetable from the Handsome Man Club + WAG - Grace. Missing our leader Melvin and Gerald.

Old skool friend since secondary skool. Old but not forgotten despite the fact that our schedule is almost impossible for us to catch up these days but they made it here!!  Left to right, David, me Willis and Rondy.

One of my closest buddy over the years and I am sure one of the main reason why we are still friends is his tolerance over how I always scold him for being not too bright some times. HAHA. 

Of course, the woman behind this whole thing. Not the most romantic set up but it has to be one of the biggest stunt she ever pulled on me. AWESOME! 

The Game

I was already very excited but we have no choice but to pay attention to what the game master has to say.

The equipment was very new and clean. No vest was required, all we have to do is aim for the head set or the area around the rifle.

No exactly a very glam looking suit but LASER TAG SUIT UP!! 

We had a variety of games like team death match, sniper, taking over of base etc and it's actually pretty amazing how the park at my place was a very good arena. The amount of open area as well as cover was pretty balanced! 

I swear I thought I was behind the covers until I saw this picture. HAHA

This girl ah, didn't believe her hubby to be when he told her we were gonna play laser tag. She came in a dress and slippers but nevertheless she was pretty garang! She was like storming the front for the guys! 

I found the "flag" but a little too late. meh.  

Told you our park was pretty awesome. If you can picture it, you can see the amount of cover your can get from the exercise corner, plants and seats.

My sister the gamer all crazy. Have to give it to Keong, David and even myself. We were rolling all over the floor, proning position and all just to take a good shot. We were really competitive (some of us) and it would really be awesome if this laser tag thingy can give us stats like number of shots taken, made, kill, killed, hit by, who you hit, scoring, ranking. Damn I'm a sports fan for sure!

 "Guys, I'm not competitive like I need to win all the games but I just hate losing." - Smith

It was really quite an experience to be honest. Not only was the equipment pretty awesome but the game masters were pretty awesome and fun people too!

For some reason, I kept reading it as Game Over.

Thank You

I really had a very good time with these people and I sure hope they had a good time too! 

Bang bang bang! 

Keong really look damn irritating in this one. Profile pic worthy! 

Yeah, we just can't get enough of our crazy wedding photoshoot. HAHA. 

Anyway, once again I would like to thanks everyone for the participation, my wife for organising her hubby's birthday party as if it was her son's, and of course our neighbours for not complaining or calling the police because we were running around with "guns". 

For those of you who are interested, you can check out their website - http://adrenalinelasertag.com.sg/ or their Facebook page.

P.S: This is not a sponsored post. Mrs Smith paid for the Laser Tag games. TYVM.  

Mr.Smith, LASER TAG SUIT UP!!! PEW PEW PEW!

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