Prequel: Winning Ee's Hand

Can I just say, it's quite boring to wait in the room for my knight in shining armour to finally arrive especially when ALL the action is happening outside the room. *envious sniffs* Nevertheless, I sat there restlessly fanning myself while waiting for Ed to complete all the tasks outlined for him.

And my dear jie-meis sure made him work really hard to get to the room. Here's as faithful a record as I can remember of that morning's proceedings:

1. Forfeit for being late: eating chilli padi

2. Token of love: signing the"Ten Commandments" contract sealed with his lipsticked kiss

3. Physical activity: duck walking twice down a flight of stairs and doing 20 Push ups

4. Momentary respite: Drinking a can of coke light and eating a packet of Lays potato chips in 30 secs

5. Declaration of love: Singing a song in English and Chinese wearing a bikini

6. Entry fee to Ee's home: waxing of legs

7. Final frontier: fishing of the key to the room out of the ice bucket

With all this activity so early in the morning, little wonder his shirt was soaked right through with his perspiration when he finally entered after 40 mins of play time.

The note-able highlights were:

1. Ed's continued enthusiasm throughout the morning and his rapid penguin wave.

2. Signing of the love declaration contract which now gives me 'rights' to:

• Get hair treatments, manicures, pedicures, massages and facials.
• Buy the latest "IT" bags and shoes NOT at my expense.
• Purchase quality household wares and appliances.
• Order Ed to do all housework so that I'm well rested.
• Indulge in my favourite desserts regularly.
• Ensure that the snacks pantry is always well stocked.
• Go for holidays twice a year.
• Have TOTAL control of the TV remote control.

3. When they didn't know what English and Chinese songs to sing and ended up singing Row Row Row Your Boat and Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo de Xin (by Teresa Teng). *alittle aghast*

4. Getting nearly ALL the questions wrong at the final frontier. For eg, he claimed that my shoe size was an 11! *huh?!!* and he couldn't remember our favourite restaurants claiming that we had many. *pffty*

Anyways, it was all in good fun and I'm glad HE SURVIVED!

Finishing touches before the day starts...

A quick photo before the guys arrive...

Posing in a 'cool' manner before getting killed by the jie-meis...

Ed hard at work...

Making it to the room finally!

Overdressed people strolling around in the carpark...

Beaming away for the camera...

For a full pictorial account of what happened, the photos have been uploaded here.