Friday, March 05, 2010

WHY MARCH 5 IS SPECIAL TO ME

On this very day four years ago, Marcel's parents asked my parents for my hands in marriage to Marcel.  When the proposal was going on in Indonesia, Marcel and I were actually in 2 different states, settling down and  just a week into our first job out of college.


With intensive trainings to complete at work, savings that VERY SLOWLY grew (you know what I mean ... being independent from parents :o)), and accumulated vacation balance that stayed in 0 days for the longest time that we could ever remember, Marcel and I found it very challenging to meet up and celebrate our new status -- the new milestone in our relationship.


Before we knew it, it's already 5 months into our engagement.  When I checked my mail that day, I received a very thoughtful card from my geeky fiance (then)!  On the card, it listed 10 reasons why we should be together.  However, the #1 was a fill-in-the-blank one.  So Marcel wrote a cute programming code at the back of the card. 


 
I'm sure he put a lot of thoughts into it (because many believe that programmers are not creative :o) although I disagree after I got this card from Marcel).  He basically stated that our birthdays comprised our engagement date ("3-5" for "March 5th")

 
 On August 12, 2006, we finally met; and he officially proposed (using props from Ko Yohan's wedding skit hahaha)

May this be a blessing!