Huiting Got Married

Huiting got married today! My closest friend in Singapore has now become Mrs. Christopher Soon, and will soon be moving to a new church and a new home with her husband. She’s the first of my really close friends to get married (though there’s another one coming in December!). Even though I’m happy for her and happy that’s she’s happy, I can’t help but have mixed feelings about this wedding.

For five years now, Huiting and I have moved very closely in the same circles. She was the one who brought me to my church in Singapore, and there introduced me to two subsequent cell groups… one of which I was co-leading with her (and now lead alone). We lived in the same hostel during undergrad days, then lived in the same neighbourhood down the street from each other after moving out. At one time, we were seeing each other four times a week – same Science Faculty cell group, same PGP hostel cell group, same church cell group, and then attending church service on Sunday together! My closest friend in Singapore, despite the huge differences in personality and philosophy of life (Doer vs. Dreamer, Rational vs. Romantic, Practical vs. Philosophical). The Girl Next Door, whom I grew up with (even though it was only five years, and both of us were well-grown by then).

And now, she’s getting married, and moving on to the next stage of her life, far away. I’m going to miss her, especially our quiet talks at night as we walked home from cell group. I hope she would be happy – can’t help but worry about her sometimes. I wish I knew her husband better, but I’ve only met him about half a dozen times, and even then, we never talked much in depth. Their relationship dynamics seem totally different from what I imagine my own relationship with my future wife will be like… but somehow, it just might work for those two people. I can’t fully understand it, but I’ve seen other couples like this who have managed to grow old together and raise a family. With God’s grace, any union can be blessed and bear fruit. And I pray it will be so for them as well.

EDIT: <Photos of the Wedding>.<Photos of the dinner>