How i proposed

I proposed at around midnight, 22nd May, exactly 20 months after we started dating.

It was at Iluma cinema. I bought the ring about a month back, waiting for the best occasion and for inspiration to strike.

The Plan:
I wanted to propose while doing what we both love- WATCHING MOVIES!!
So i carefully placed the ring into a tiny ziplock bag and placed it in my sling bag.
I wanted to put it into the pop corn and let her dig it out. Evon loves pop corn!
Then i'll pop the question...

What actually happened...

We wanted to watch a movie that night at the picturehouse but i protested when i remembered that they don't allow food. So we went to Iluma and they had nachos, and evon was really going at the nachos.She even remarked,"this is the 1st time i'm eating nachos in the cinema!"
I was hugging the pop corn(which was so ignored by her) and gorging myself silly to get the level the ring was buried in. I'm not crazy about pop corn, (which shows how much i love her) and i was feeling relatively sick midway thru the movie.
The movie(night at the museum 2) was surprisingly good and funny. So i decided to let her finish the movie before i proposed.More pop corn! sigh...

"come, let me put the pop corn on the floor!!" suggested Evon.
"NNOO WAYYY!!" i thought, and i snatched the box back and was furiously munching more of it down. arrghh...

In between, i shoved the pop corn to her, hoping for her to find the ring herself. But the nachos did her in...

(MOVIE SPOLIER AHEAD) then Ben Stiller came up with the golden line:
"Happiness is...doing what you love, with the people you love".
I knew it was the right movie!
When the credit were rolling and people were clearing, i popped the now-oily ziplock bag up and remarked,"oh look! lucky dip!"
She was in disbelief for a while..cos the ring looked like a toy "tikum" ring...

I haven't been nervous very often but i was actually feeling it that night.
Evon observed that i didn't even look at her when i asked her to marry me.

then she said yes. then i was even more excited,nervous, and continued fumbling...
I looked around consciously at the cinema ushers waiting for us to clear...and was juggling with the pop corn, nachos box, bag etc..and scrambled off our seats.
then i did a silly thing..."err..you wait for me, i go toilet!"

not quite smooth operator huh?...

well..it was my 1st time proposing...and she forgave my lack of finesse.

and we're quite excited to start planning for our new chapter together...

once we can firm up the date and venue, the invitations will come...


Quote of the week for me:

"Happiness is...doing what you love, with the people you love".