He's Earned It

I haven't given the man much credit when it comes to his writing skills.

The man writes fabulously. His sentences are emotive, concise and a little bitchy at times. (He likes to term it as 'wit' though).

Even before we dated, we never chat very much over the phone. We're the sort who prefer to meet up and talk. He doesn't write me cards. But he'd compile music on a cd for me whenever I flew off to someplace exotic for fun or work. And inside the homemade cover, he'd write me eloquent short notes.

2 years on, he still doesn't write me cards. And I don't care. But he still sends me beautifully composed text messages. Out of the blue, he sent me an e-card. When the image loaded with its declaration and the man's suitably romantic lines added-on below, I melted.

The man and I have vastly different reading picks and attraction to the various tv series. Except when we spontaneously agree on being addicted to House, Veronica Mars and Over There. He's not too into CSI and I'm no fan of Heroes. I roll my eyes flat out at Pushing Daisies. He's totally tickled by it.

He cannot believe the kind of stuff I read. He's completely in awe of Crimson Petal and The White (Michel Faber) and Atonement (Ian McEwan); Kazuo Ishiguro and anything Murakami. I bury my nose into ghouls, the power of the Will and the Word; faithfully lived in the Age of Faerie through War of The Races and watched the Army of the Four Lands march.

Even our taste in movies is quite dissimilar. He belongs to the category of arthouse films and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I belong to the B-grade shite and Underworld. He thinks Claire Danes is hot. I shouted him down with the charismatic Michelle Pfeiffer. But we both voted for Reign Over Me and Away From Her this 2007.

I daresay his leanings are a little more cerebral than mine.

I've put him through sheer torture by making him watch a TVB Hong Kong drama series and those Thai horror flicks. He was quite traumatized.

So people, this e-card has the one line that earned him alot of impie points.