hey girls, this is probably one of the best posts i read so far. From a friend's blog.I also made an observation today: 'Silent' love is a more beautiful love than 'loud' love.You know how some couples like to blatantly 'express' their intimacy in public. Like kiss, hug, have eyes only for each other that kind of sarcharrine sweetness thing? It's very obvious their love, but it's also very cliched. Cos everyone's all over each other. Sometimes it just makes you go, "Not in my face please."Then there is another form of affection. One that is subtle and quiet. Like it's the love that you don't 'see', but it's the love that you can 'feel'. Take this really deep and nice gay friend of mine, he's name is E and he's in his 30s. After being gay like since... forever, he has met this woman and for the first time, is deeply in love with her. And I find it so magical. Becos even though he doesn't like to reveal too much about her or gush or 'revel' in her, I can see the quiet love that does not show. How he goes off on a vacation with her and is silently smitten over her. And it also proves to me that love really transcends the boundaries of gender. If a gay man who has been gay all his life, can one day fall for a woman, what more you and me? Love is not so much about the 'outside', but ultimately it's the 'inside' that counts. And I think the quiet love which does not show but enamates from within is the most beautiful of all. It's like the kind of love that when your lover is asleep and you look upon them silently and smile from within. It's the kind of love that your parents look at you with silent pride and satisfaction when you smile and call them 'pa' or 'ma' as a toddler. It's the love you don't profess to your siblings or family out of pride but you know you love them more than anybody in the world and would die for them. It's the love that doesn't ask for anything in return (cos 'loud' love expects similar reciprocation and 'loud' love to be given in return). It's the love that you only tell to God cos it's sacred.Today I was in the mrt, and I saw 3 couples. 2 were on the seats, in the usual couple embrace. The third couple was very young and they had a small child with them. Must be a shot-gun marriage I presumed. The father was very ah-beng, with his hairdo, ear piercings and clothes. But he was tender with the child, kissing her on her head and staying close to his daughter. To see an ah-beng show such affection was heart-warming. He is a father. A father. How beautiful is that? How beautiful is that love? He didn't have to kiss her head to let me know that he loves her. Quiet love is 'felt' not seen. And even though E is a hundred miles away in a foreign land with his girlfriend, I can feel the quiet love already. Cos you don't have to say or display it, it already shows...after reading it, i realise how special love really is, its so easy for us to say "love ya", but theres so much more to the word. one thing for sure, i really do mean it when i say it to you girls.love ya babes.mindy