got this from is, and because it’s friday and my mind is not in a right state to finish my notes whose deadline is today and am feeling sentimental due to a mixture of female hormones and impending mid-life crisis, here goes…

(note: some questions have been purposefully left unanswered due to their potentially contentious or scandalous nature.)

1. Who eats more?
- izad, of course. like, duh! no one can argue with this. it’s a genetic thing, i think. his brothers all eat a lot too, it’s almost frightening. especially when fried chicken and prawns are involved. and he can also eat rice in its full glory as breakfast, ie. nasi rawon and the likes, which is just crazy in my books. cik abang oi, awak kerje keras di ladang, ke?

2. Who said “I love you” first?
- LOL! next…

3. Who is the morning person?
- izad. he says he thinks (and erm, performs) better in the mornings. i’m a pig when it comes to waking up in the morning, with personal records of staying in bed till past 11am. so since the little one is usually first to wake up in the morning, i’ll give a HEEEYUUGGE nudge to my bed partner, who will – eventually – trudge to the kitchen to prepare the desired beverage of choice for the little dictator of a boy or play ’shoot gun’ with him. or switch on the damn telly.

4. Who sings better?
- izad! and he’s not too bad either. hehe.

5. Who’s older?
- izad, again, (hey, there seems to be a pattern here…) by about four months.

6. Who’s smarter?
- :p. ok, in terms of who went to the better schools and who’s got the right “papers”… let’s just say, i’ve always been lucky in that department, with ‘luck’ being the operative word here. (brains can only go so far, right? especially fluffy pink ones like mine.) as for who has the answer to almost EVERYTHING, including driving routes of the entire singapore and other seemingly trivial pursuits, then he’s got it – street smarts. bah.

7. Whose temper is worse?
- ah, finally i can say, hana! the one who raises her voice to glass-shattering heights when things go beyond her level of patience and keeps the little one in check. who then turns to his daddy, who has the zen quality of the one-thousandth patient in a packed polyclinic on a monday morning. yin & yang, you say?

8. Who does the laundry?
- both. he does his, and i do mine. coz mine requires one to press the ‘delicate’ button on the washing machine, while his is just the ‘regular’, and we both basically chuck everything in the dryer (except my really delicate delicates, which i hang to dry). obviously, mine is a more complicated process, so i’d rather deal with it myself, while his is a no-brainer which he is happy to deal with himself.

9. Who does the dishes?
- sigh. this i hate to say, but hana. why? why?? why???
(oh yeah. coz i don’t cook. ha ha.)

10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
- hana! well, i used to insist on sleeping on the left when i was pregnant with aniq, for some reason. but it’s back to the right side, coz his irritating alarm clock is on the left, and as i’ve mentioned, i’m not a morning person, so if i were to sleep on the left, that buzzing iLuv would long have been a dead pile of smashed-up plastic.

11. Whose feet are bigger?
- his! size 11. now what do they say about men with big feet…..?

12. Whose hair is longer?
- mine, coz his looks foppish like a gay hugh grant when it’s long and floppy. (i would know coz i’ve seen it when he had that hairstyle in sec school ha ha!)

13. Who’s better with the computer?
- hmm… ok, i think OVERALL, he’s better, in terms of hardware, you know, where to poke the wires and stuff. plus, he used to do computer troubleshooting (or something) in a previous job.

14. Do you have pets?
- no, we’re struggling to raise one child as it is. and we’re just not the animal sort, i guess. heck, we’re not even plant people. the various potted plants we’d adopted have died unceremoniously under our charge. i think i used to own a pet turtle when i was small but err, i think that died too. thankfully, the little one is made of stronger stuff.

15. Who pays the bills?
- half-half, for the house, the car, and aniq’s insurances. h/p bills are separate, and the rest, i pretend not to be aware of. well, i AM the self-appointed savings person between us! (or at least whatever’s left after my shopping expenses…)

16. Who cooks dinner?
- mum! or the makcik at the food court. or the nyonya at the fast-food outlet. we rarely use our kitchen unless we’re too lazy to venture out, and izad would then conjure up a sandwich or macaroni goreng, depending on what’s available in the fridge at the moment.

17. Who drives when you are together?
- him, coz as mentioned in #6, he knows practically all the roads in singapore while i prefer to be in the passenger seat and act all tai-tai. (plus it gives him a chance to ‘bond’ with the car he pays half for, since i ‘bond’ with it enough five out of seven days a week.) oh, speaking of which, have i mentioned that driving a chunky ‘family’ car makes you feel VERY unsexy and matronly?? at least with babycolt, i could at least ‘pretend’ it’s a swinging singles’ car (nevermind the child seat at the back), but now it’s like, “hah, look at that lady driver, she’s obviously a slow, old, fat, frumpy mother of ten kids, hurhur, let’s overtake her.” ok ok, i’m exaggerating, and totally off-track…

18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
- him, most of the time, unless he doesn’t have the time to meet Mr ATM, so then it’ll be me.

19. Who’s the most stubborn?
- him. NO, him, i say! REALLY!! HIM!! :p

20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
- i’m never wrong. REALLY, i say!!

21. Whose family do you see more?
- mine, coz we fetch aniq from my mum’s after work every day. but i like meeting his on the occasions that we do, and so does aniq.

22. Who named your pet?
- not applicable. but i did come up with aniq’s name!

23. Who kissed who first?
- :X

24. Who asked who out?
- he asked me out. a few times actually, which i rejected, until the final time when i said ok, and the rest is history, hehe. hey, patience IS his virtue, remember? (refer to #7.)

26. Who’s more sensitive?
- me lah. girl, mah. mintak beli roti, abis dia tak beli, i merajuk lah. suruh buang sampah, abis dia lupa, mengamok ah. etc.

27. Who’s taller?
- have you SEEN me in all my vertically-challenged glory??

28. Who has more friends?
- well… hmm, we tend to go out with mine more than his. but then again, i’m the more ’sanggup’ one when it comes to planning outings and such, he’s more of the home-body while i’m the kaki jalan. so effectively, most of my friends are his. his are mostly guys, so not so fun (coz most are also married, hehe).

29. Who’s the more romantic of the two?
- neither lah. this coming from the wife who buys her own anniversary gift and claims it from the husband, lol!

30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
- both. :p

ps: in between this, i actually finished and submitted my notes. woohoo for deadlines (and verbal diarrhoea)! i work best under pressure.

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