It’s not easy being away from the one whom you love and would willingly spend the entire life with. Your significant other. Neither is it easy handling a long distance relationship, juggling school life and your love life and dealing with harsh disapprovals from your mother. All you need is tenacity and hope to carry on. It has been a year and two months for Darren and I. Our relationship before I went overseas was relatively new and raw. It was our ‘honeymoon’ period. We were still getting to know each other - our likes and dislikes, habits and flaws. It was a blissful period then. There were occasional signs of awkwardness when we looked into each other eyes or when we held hands. Furthermore, it was my first relationship. Never dated before during secondary school. I was a wallflower. But ever since I got closer to Darren, I became happier and more open to stuffs. I felt loved and well-taken care of. He is definitely someone I could depend on, spent time with, joke with, gossip with and most importantly someone I could love wholeheartedly. Cliche as it sounds, but I want to grow old with him, holding his wrinkled hands and taking long strolls in the park. Sometimes, I wish I never did went to Melbourne and instead study in Singapore, so that I could see him everyday. Time is precious to us. We hardly see each other face-to-face more than ten times a year. Seeing couples around made me miss Darren even more. Now that he is away on training in Brunei, I can only see him again at the end of the year. I hope he is doing well in Brunei…