How deep is your Love

Last week I woke up one morning to a special delivery at my door from Mr. Ninja's office - a bouquet and a box of chocolates giving our anniversary wishes in advance. For a sleepy-eyed moment, I thought, what anniversary?

With the anniversary coming up, I thought this week I'd highlight how Mr. Ninja has unique ways of expressing his affection - particularly this instant from Valentine's Day last year.

P.S. For the purpose of understanding this comic, I think it is imperative that the reader knows I love creatures of all kinds, especially reptiles (note the understanding look rather than shock on the BFF's face).

Weddings. Ugh.

People who know me may know this about me - I do not like weddings.. although this fact was probably reinforced by the fact that I got married earlier than my other friends.  But now since I have to attend other people's weddings I don't mind it as much. It's actually a breeze after I've picked out what I'm wearing for the occasion.. now I'm actually looking forward to attending different kinds of weddings with their different traditions and rituals!

So I concluded that it's more fun at another person's wedding than your own wedding (I don't know if this holds true for others but it did for me).
Oh, how I despised having to dress up.
Sheesh.. how I disliked having all that attention on me.
Argh, the posing for photographs!
(I could go on and on, but clearly I don't have the luxury of time for that - it's a Sunday!)

On the bright side, a good video came of it.

Point being, there was definitely more than just a good video that came out of all that.

Sing!

One thing about Mr. Ninja is..when he is passionately singing his favourite song, he will complete the verse..even when the moment has long passed.

I swear, sometimes I think I can decipher his happiness scale based on the gap. Not brought it down to a science yet, though.

Code of Business Principles

Gone are the days when I associated BLT with a sandwich..only to be replaced with days when I think CoBP is the acronym for a Harry Potter book.

P.S. This is the first comic strip that I've completely done using software without even lifting a pencil..so yay! Oh, but I still love my pencils.

If Mr. Ninja heard a Who

I may have mentioned about how my thoughts tend to go on different tangents very easily - turns out I'm not alone. This is a week where I illustrate something that is a product of the imagination while on one of those tangents with another person.

So this came up one time when Mr. Ninja's old flat mate and I were having a conversation about Ninjumani's (he oh-so-lovingly calls him that) unique style of dancing and enjoying himself without a care in the world (which is how people should dance anyway, but I digress).

And then he pointed out that Ninjumani sounds like the name of a very happy elephant, to which I instantly agreed.

And then he mentioned that he'd watched a show one time where mahouts were (proudly) introducing their elephants to the camera.

Following was the visual that came up, obviously.

Game on

I'm not a big fan of games, particularly card games. There's no reason, I've just never been into it. I prefer games with words, mimes and drawings like Taboo, Charades and Pictionary.

Needless to say, whatever be the game, sometimes mine and Mr. Ninja's enthusiasm clashed, possibly giving other contestants strange ideas.

Relax, it's just a game - don't read into it.

P.S. I assume everyone knows how to play Taboo. If not, please read it up!

#DoILookFatInThis

Nah. I'm not the kind of person that even bothers asking questions like that to Mr. Ninja.

But there are other such silly things that I sometimes need an opinion on. It doesn't even have to matter, sometimes I just want a third party vote, whether it counts or not. Or maybe I use this method in times I'm too bored to pick what to wear..or something along those lines. Go figure.

This week I discover a way to get Mr. Ninja more involved in these ridiculous-but-somehow-necessary decisions..by bringing in outsider maybe?