May 5, 2009

Chika Tuesday #1: Commitment

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We have only been together for 4 months when hubby proposed. Even before the proposal, I knew I met the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. We have known each other for 3 years but due to circumstances, we only got to be a couple in early 2008. Middle of 2008 he came back to the Philippines for a vacation and over dinner in Cebu, that's when he asked me to marry him. Below is my narration of the story as posted on my multiply account and on our personal blog....(twee is the boyfriend then now the husband)...long read, i hope not to bore you.

Even before twee's visit to manila, he had already asked me if i would go out with him on a dinner date. syempre, oo sagot ko diba. The "dinner date" was set on july 3,2008, a thursday. We were in cebu at that time and he told me we will just hang out sa Shangri-la Mactan. that was fine with me as I wanted to see Shangri-La Mactan. We originally planned on leaving our hotel at 6pm but the taxi driver who was suppose to drive us to Mactan was stuck in traffic. He looked super asar ako naman wala lang as always, teehee. We were waiting for the cab at the lobby of marriot hotel when I told him "yung mga shorts mo lagi madami bulsa" sabay hawak sa mga bulsa nya (as what my cousin said, merong frisking na naganap!). at that time natakot pala sya kasi yung box ng engagement ring nasa bulsa nya. ako naman isip ko camera lang. We got to leave marriot mga 6:30pm na and he was really disappointed na pala because we missed the sunset already. When we got to mactan madilim na!

When we got to the restaurant, wala nag welcome sa amin. i just sat by the couch and twee looked for who could help us get a table kuno. He came back tapos after a few minutes a girl approached us telling us that we will be led to our table in a while but was asking on how we wanted our steaks. Feeling ko naman...wala pa nga ako na order tinatanong na ako how i wanted my steak. Anyway, isip ko na lang na set menu doon. another girl then approached us and brought us to our table. that table pala ang tinatawag nila na "Table 54". First reaction ko "ang layo ng table namin from the main restaurant, what if i had to use the toilet", teehee. After being seated we took pictures tapos i casually asked ld if he made reservations. he said he did that afternoon. lusot sya dun diba?

having dinner at Table 54

And then in a few minutes we were served our wine and food na by dennis our private dancer este butler pala. Every time he'ld serve us food, we would always ask him to take our picture. he was super cool naman and nice. I told twee at one time after he served us our food na pag dating ng bill pwede na namin wag bayaran and just reason we never really ordered for the food and dennis just kept on bringing us food. teehee. puro kalokohan talaga.


Eto na, dessert na. super sarap ng dessert namin, teehee. pero parang di na makakain si twee (maybe because he was going to be paying for it!). i even finished his ice cream. tapos i saw him drink ng straight the wine in his glass tapos he went over to my side and gave me a card. kung ano nakasulat sa card....sa amin na lang yun. teehee! anyways, it was just his list of 10 promises...it was written on the left side of the card and on the right side of the card may nakasulat na (sorry twee)....macy dear...i really want to spend the rest of my life with YOU, so.....sabay lumuhod at nag dialogue ng will you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife...all together now--AWWWWW.....

I guess alam nyo na what my answer was. YES syempre. after mga 10 mins of being in a tulala state he told me to call or text my parents kasi they are probably waiting. doon ko lang nalaman na everyone knew about it except me. it was only recently that i discovered that he has planned for everything as early as april and that before we went out of town, he already had breakfast with my parents (secret from me) and asked for their permission to marry me. As we were in Cebu, my relatives in manila were already waiting!

picture taken in January, we stayed at shangri-la as part of our honeymoon. table 54 is at our back

We married early this year and it sucks that we are miles apart right now but we are both looking forward to the day we could be together everyday. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and still can't believe i am married. What's so nice about it is i know that i married my prince charming. It took years for us to be together but I know that God has prepared us in those years that we were apart. As what one of my good friends said "twee is someone who is to take care of you". I believe her when she said that because I know and I feel that I am well taken cared off. I know that I'm not just to spend the rest of my life with my prince charming but I get to spend the rest of my life with my bestfriend, my confidant, my friend, my laughing pal and my partner.

Read more wonderful proposal stories here.

4 comments:

meeya said...

you are so lucky you had an on-bended-knee proposal! with steak, to boot. :D

thanks for sharing your story macy! kahit hindi kayo magkasama ni twee ngayon, your love for each other transcends all the miles between you. :) tc!

May said...

Oh wow, a bended-knee proposal, yay! Ang sweet naman ng arrangements ng twee mo... inuna talaga ang parents. What a sweet way to propose. I luv that pic of Table 54 behind you. Pang reminiscent. Awwww!

ceztlavie said...

aaaawwww! nakisabay ako sa "all together now"! hahaha!

thanks for sharing your proposal story and for joining WS :)

elapot said...

ako rin sasabay... "awwwwwww"! grabe kinilig ako sa kwento na itech! talagang pinaghandaan ha. ayan pampelikulang proposal eto!

ang hirap naman magkalayo kayo sa isa't isa. hamo, dadating din ang nalalapit na panahon nag muling pagkikita at pagsasama. naksa!