Weekly Dating Lessons

Thursdays are Mao's FREE DAY.

We termed it as a day whereby Mao can do whatever he wants without his parents. He can dribble his basketball non stop till the sun rises again; he can watch that senseless 9pm chinese drama with Grandma; he can eat ice cream on the sofa with ribena and end it with milk for the night. He does absolutely anything that Grandma says Okay. It's his FREE day!

We congratulate one another for our bright idea, we salivate at the thought of us on the bed without needing to watch another episode of BBC cartoon channel at night but tuning in to our ADULT SANITY programs! We think of how we need not rush through our dinner, go through the distance and fantasize on our HIGH night.

But each week, thursday come - we would be thinking what to do. Should we go Bugis to shop, go for a swim, dinner or a movie. We wonder why the excitement in reality was very much reduced. We try to talk non-maoster, we try to relax while we eat. Somehow the hours seems to double, time is taking its time each Thursday. Aung would always say, its OUR TIME, We can do anything we want. Somehow all my "if we are alone now hor we would be etc "ideas simply vanishes into thin air.

We end the night each thursday with a call to Serangoon to ask how the Maoster is doing. Our heart dipped if we heard he cried for us; our hearts gladdens when we hear him laughing at the background playing with his cousins.

It is exactly that since we are not doing exactly well in our weekly dating lessons, we cannot afford to miss even one.

I mean, is it that complicated? I mean, does anyone out there go for weekly dating lessons?

Thursdays are fun day for me - Come on Get a life!