Post marriage reflections.
So many things have happened in the past month.
There was that dreadful week before the wedding, the wedding day itself, the posh, short honeymoon at Cove 55, the living at home, the living away from home, and the second honeymoon at Bali, and now I'm back in campus while he's gone back to the States to resume his PhD.
So far, I've been too busy to be paralyzed by his absence. The past week has been a flurry of activity, and today I finally get an (informal) off day with time to myself. My friends are planning to go to Alamanda for some shopping and maybe a movie, but I need my alone time.
Key word : Need.
I'm finally getting down to blogging about the whole experience, and I realize that I don't even know where I'm supposed to start.
Maybe I'll start here then : God is good.
I have been blessed in so many ways - marrying my first and only love at an early age, having enough time to settle everything that needed to be settled before the wedding, and also having 3 whole weeks to spend with him as newlyweds after that. Usually, I only get 3 weeks off for mid-year hols, but this time I got a month off due to the odd holiday schedule that started in the middle of the week, and my exams that ended a week earlier. It's little things like these that shows that God really does care about the details in your life. A year ago when we set the date, I was even so presumptuous as to assume the 31st would be the second day of my holiday, and that I would be able to be back home by the 29th (because we usually don't have papers on the last day), just in time for the wedding two days later.
When I found out later that the holiday would start on the 28th, I was even happier, and felt that God was giving me an extra day before the wedding ceremony to prepare everything. Eventually though, I flew home on the 24th because my final exam finished on the 22nd.
I had no idea that it would take one whole week to settle everything that I had to settle, from the marriage documents down to the rehearsal and all.
I didn't know, but God knew, and He gave me just enough time to settle everything. If I had flown home on the 28th and discovered that I had to get documents and people were busy and the rehearsal was the next day and there were still decisions to be made, I would probably have torn my hair out in desperation. Let's not even go into the possibility of coming home on Friday the 30th. *shudders*
Besides that, I was also granted a rather smooth experience travelling with my husband. There were, of course, the occasional wrong turn and getting lost on the streets, but nothing major like finding out we had no allocation for baggage at the airport (we found that out EARLIER and fixed it when we web-checked in phew) or food poisoning while on our honeymoon. Because THAT, would really suck. I don't know why, but things always seem to go wrong with us, so I was expecting some major bad luck during the honeymoon. Like losing/forgetting our passports or something. By God's grace, however, we had a relatively smooth and relaxing trip.
You may pm me for details.
Haha kidding. Anyway I'll stop here first, this post didn't quite turn out the way I expected it to, but I'll make up for that in the next post. Toodles.
There was that dreadful week before the wedding, the wedding day itself, the posh, short honeymoon at Cove 55, the living at home, the living away from home, and the second honeymoon at Bali, and now I'm back in campus while he's gone back to the States to resume his PhD.
So far, I've been too busy to be paralyzed by his absence. The past week has been a flurry of activity, and today I finally get an (informal) off day with time to myself. My friends are planning to go to Alamanda for some shopping and maybe a movie, but I need my alone time.
Key word : Need.
I'm finally getting down to blogging about the whole experience, and I realize that I don't even know where I'm supposed to start.
Maybe I'll start here then : God is good.
I have been blessed in so many ways - marrying my first and only love at an early age, having enough time to settle everything that needed to be settled before the wedding, and also having 3 whole weeks to spend with him as newlyweds after that. Usually, I only get 3 weeks off for mid-year hols, but this time I got a month off due to the odd holiday schedule that started in the middle of the week, and my exams that ended a week earlier. It's little things like these that shows that God really does care about the details in your life. A year ago when we set the date, I was even so presumptuous as to assume the 31st would be the second day of my holiday, and that I would be able to be back home by the 29th (because we usually don't have papers on the last day), just in time for the wedding two days later.
When I found out later that the holiday would start on the 28th, I was even happier, and felt that God was giving me an extra day before the wedding ceremony to prepare everything. Eventually though, I flew home on the 24th because my final exam finished on the 22nd.
I had no idea that it would take one whole week to settle everything that I had to settle, from the marriage documents down to the rehearsal and all.
I didn't know, but God knew, and He gave me just enough time to settle everything. If I had flown home on the 28th and discovered that I had to get documents and people were busy and the rehearsal was the next day and there were still decisions to be made, I would probably have torn my hair out in desperation. Let's not even go into the possibility of coming home on Friday the 30th. *shudders*
Besides that, I was also granted a rather smooth experience travelling with my husband. There were, of course, the occasional wrong turn and getting lost on the streets, but nothing major like finding out we had no allocation for baggage at the airport (we found that out EARLIER and fixed it when we web-checked in phew) or food poisoning while on our honeymoon. Because THAT, would really suck. I don't know why, but things always seem to go wrong with us, so I was expecting some major bad luck during the honeymoon. Like losing/forgetting our passports or something. By God's grace, however, we had a relatively smooth and relaxing trip.
You may pm me for details.
Haha kidding. Anyway I'll stop here first, this post didn't quite turn out the way I expected it to, but I'll make up for that in the next post. Toodles.
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