My birthday is in 5 days.

I just finished watching a movie entitled 'Happy Birthday' starring Rene Liu and Louis Koo. I was expecting a better ending which turned out to be an ordinary one. Yet, I still cried. He didn't leave her after all. He died.

Some say, if you really do love your partner, you should always communicate your joy and pain, even when you're on the edge of death; or you're merely depriving your partner from loving you.

But by not telling my love, I'm doing my part of loving him.

Now we see how love becomes really contradicting when we try too hard to protect each other. Sometimes we are so eager to give ourselves to the one we love — be it a spouse, a child, a friend or even our pets — that often we give without consideration of the needs and desires of the recipient of our love.

When passion is mitigated with a degree of inhibition, when intimacy is tempered with a modicum of reserve, love flourishes. But when all limits are betrayed, love burns out.