My Engagement

Woke up today not expecting any significant event to happen in my life, though my boyfriend told me yesterday that he had a surprise for me. I'm excited to start my day. I was in a hurry to get out of the house for I don't want to be late for my yoga class (I'm into hatha yoga these days). And when I arrived in the gym, Maya was reading an article posted at the door of Gold's Gym. Apparently our yoga instructor, Pio is not yet around. Still we started at exactly 8:30 am. During our yoga class, we were ask to get a partner, and of course who else would I choose but Maya. And since we were one of the first students in his class (I don't want to use the word veteran, we're merely in between beginner and intermediate) Pio asked us to demonstrate to everyone a pose called pashchimottanasana  (seated forward bend). Don't really get excited when I'm asked to do something for a crowd.. but we still did it anyway. After doing my usual program in the gym, I was off to meet my boyfriend, Adrian.

Called him in his mobile to tell him that I’m on my way to meet him in Makati but he insisted that I go to his apartment and wait for him there. He’ll order some take out for us. Of course I arrived first and Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix was there to accompany me while I was waiting for him. He arrived after 20 minutes and  kissed me hello ...of course I kissed back (duh?!) But my hungry stomach was in no mood for chit-chat so I took our take-out ( 2 cesar salads and 1 bacon cheese burger and 1 spicy chicken fillet sandwich) and set them up in the table. We ate and talk (forgot already what about). I asked him what his surprise was and initially he doesn’t want to divulge any information because his surprise is not yet complete…but I was insisting on him to tell me what’s the surprise ( I can  be persistent as hell if I want to be :) ).. So he finally gave in and told me that he went to Glorietta, Greenbelt and even went to Pasay Road to look for white Tulips but to no avail. You could see the disappointment in his eyes. I told him that its ok, and it doesn’t matter.. we can use the money allotted for the Tulips for food ( I’m a capricorn and we're known to be practical people and food is better than flowers, for me that is) . Well anyway, He confirmed again if its ok.. so after assuring him that its ok, he went to his room and after a few seconds.. he’s already on bended knee and asking me “will you marry me?”..I can’t believe my eyes.. ( the rock is bigger than I was expecting it to be).. oppss.. too excited about the ring..hehhehe..Of course I said “Yes, I will marry you”. Kissed him and kissed him some more and we hugged. I removed the ring on my finger ( he gave that ring Christmas of 2001) and he put the engagement ring on my left ring finger. Etched on the ring: Shiena, my light, my love - Ian. I'm so happy and I feel like I'm the luckiest woman alive at that moment. I still couldn’t believe my eyes.. I kept looking at it.. I asked.. "how many carat is this"…”secret” is what he replied.. What?? I need to know .. my friends are gonna ask me that and what will I tell them? And as truthful as he always is, he told me its .35 carat and 14K white gold band. BTW, what he plans to do with the Tulips was.. He’ll put the ring inside one of the tulip buds and give them to me. (ahhh, how sweet!) 

After the proposal, we watched 13 going on 30 ( I love Jennifer Garner though the movie is a so..so) and went to church afterwards… unfortunately the day ended with us being drenched  because of the downpour.. probably because we sang Lead Me Lord together during the communion… what a blessing!? hehehe!

Lying in bed, still can’t believe my eyes.. I kept looking at it every now and then. I can’t imagine being engaged .. When I was young, I imagined getting engaged, walking down the isle and having children. Now I’m done with the getting engage part… its time to prepare for the walking down the isle. 

If you want to read his side of the story, click here.