we'll always have paris

It was my first social event after a long time. A kid's one year old birthday party. Wedding dinners usually don't count as social events because you don't even need to talk to anyone while seated at the table if you don't feel like it.

But kid's birthdays? Whole new different ballgame. It was one of the first ive been to in 10 years (thank god, im not THAT old yet to keep receiving kid's birthday invites from my peers) and it made me realize -

1) Having kids and a family is what normal people do, its a way of life
2) It's normal to coo and want to hug babies
3) Knowing what to say about a person's kid says a lot about your political savvy. Because even if the kid is wrapped up in a white dress that looks like icing on a cake gone wrong, you have to continue flashing your brilliant smile and say "absolutely lovely dress"!!!!

Did it make me want kids?

No.

It made me realize I have so many more things to do, achieve, see, smell, touch. It made me happy too, knowing that I have all these ahead of me in the future - a family, kids..

But whom with and how I'm going to get there is still out there in the wide unknown.

It doesn't stop the questions "So when's your turn?" from coming though - from his friend's wife yesterday at a wedding, from my family...

I always joke that he says he wants to wait to buy a house first and because all the houses we like are worth RM1-3 million dollars, I'll have to wait til I'm 40.

But in actual fact, I'm just happy we have Paris in front of us.

No matter what happens, we'll have Paris.
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And New York?

I'll always have New York in my heart. :)