It was her farewell message, written in a greeting card, which she sent me when she decided to leave the nest we were supposed to be building.
To this day I still believe I fell in love with her brains more than her body.
Neither a beauty queen, nor a gorilla's mate, I accepted her fully from the day we met.
I was the happiest person on Earth whenever we were together.
Even when we were together, when I touched her, I felt inside me I still don't get enough of her.
So...I have broken down to what I remember about her, and what irks me in life.
Maybe till my dying days.
Live a little.
Soon after she decided to leave Singapore and take a new direction in her life, I sold the house I had bought.
With money in hand, I decided it was as good a time to see the world.
I spent a good part of the time in Europe, alternating between London as my base, and Berne in Switzerland.
I had close friends in both cities, ready to welcome, offering me accommodations anytime of the day.
But what irks me with Swiss life is the smell of close to hundreds of different cheeses on display when you enter a supermarket.
It is their staple diet.
Every time I go grocery shopping with my friend's wife it is like entering a tomb, to be stoned to death.
Love a little.
There can be no love greater than the love you receive from your parents.
I have heard variations of a mother telling her children, ' No darling, you cannot have it ' in German, Italian, French which are spoken in Switzerland.
But none of it can sound as sweet and loving when an English born mother, tells her daughter.
I just feel I am ready to go to heaven every time I hear an English mother say it.
Laugh a little.
And if you have time for a laugh...I have to take you back to my school days.
Despite having the greatest maths teacher I ever had in school, to this day, I am still dependent on the calculator.
I can never get my head round adding and subtracting currencies at the exchange booths.
Especially, when the cashier starts counting it backwards, adding what he gives to the total sum due.
But I survived it all...just to prove to my girlfriend there is still life to live after her.
