Monday, January 7

Sunday kind of love...

I can not actually remember the last time we had missed Sunday Poker. Sunday Poker has become almost tradition for us home-game fanatics. A Hosts can not just cancel because he felt like it or he's a little under the weather without being inundated with questions. Believe me, i have tried! This recent one, though, was a rather important reason. It was my sister and Jee's wedding! So important in fact, TDH had decided to close for business that day. It's funny and ironic at the same time because i remember suggesting that their wedding should not fall on a Sunday. It was actually the first thing i had said after hearing the news (Like instinctively). As it turned out, Sunday was it!

Perhaps marrying on a Sunday, being one if not the most popular and important day in KPT or TDH poker, was the right day to get married. Perhaps somehow it was a way to pay homage to what brought the two together in the first place. Perhaps closing for business was the proper thing to do. Perhaps Sunday, in their own romantic way was the perfect day to do it...

Not surprisingly, i did received a couple of calls on the wedding day about a Poker Game (reminds me of this fobbishly funny text i once received from one of the guys. "Is there a Poker today?"). Gerry wanted to know if i were hosting a game at KPT since TDH was closed. Apparently he thought TDH was closed for business for no good reason. I have to say though, that text really made my day (haha!). Sunday Poker, its like my labor of love right? Some of us tend to meander about when Poker ceases to exist for one weekend. Sad but funny as heck.

I have to admit, it feels a bit strange referring to Jee (once upon a time the most troublesome KPT player) as my "Brother In-Law" and also the concept of my sister being married. Not so much because she married one of my poker friends but because I never once in my adult life considered my sister the marrying kind. It's silly i know but i gave up on her a few years ago lol. And perhaps even more strange is the idea that Hana is now a part of my family. Yup even now after the wedding, i'm still trying to wrap my mind around it. It seems like it all happened too fast, Ya know? I mean not too long ago Jee and i were eating fish Tacos in Mexico at 4 in the morning...

It's kind of a cute love story, these two. Like Hana said in his brief but meaningful speech at the wedding "The two were an unlikely couple because Nols sort of hated his guts". You see Jee is quite a character on the poker tables. He doesn't intend to be demeaning most of the time, but he can be. In fact i remember my sister asking me "What is wrong with that guy?" after another one of Jee's half-amusing confrontations with someone. I remember saying "I don't know and i don't care" (Now he's my brother in law... God has a funny way sometimes i tell ya! lol!). None of us could have imagined these two seemingly different and somewhat opposite individuals would ever go out, let alone marry... Hana concluded his speech by saying that we could only hope we could be just like them two; devoted and completely & utterly in love with each other. There is a thin line between love and hate, they say. And these two are a true testament to that...

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