It all started as a St Pat's and KC thing.
Some of my friends then were raving about this girl called "Dawn"
from Katong Convent and I got kinda curious about how she looked
like. Back then, I was serving as an altar boy at the Saturday
6.45pm Mass at Holy Family Church and I heard she was in the
Sunday 6.15pm choir. The choir girls at my Mass time weren't
very appealing, so I decided to check out the Sunday evening
mass scene. (You know how Catholic guys dig good choir girls!).
I started serving at the 6.15pm Mass
and instead of focusing on the Mass, I was trying to get a good
look at who this "Dawn" was.
I did, and ME liked what I saw.
In fact, I tried to create opportunities
to get a closer look at her, like volunteering to serve on the
right side of the altar. You see, the altar servers on the right
side had to do much more work (like offertory, ringing the bell,
etc) than those serving on the left side. So suddenly, I became
a damn hardworking altar boy.
I continued serving at that Mass but
never got to speak to her till a year later.
I never had the courage to talk to her.
Took me about a year before I finally mustered the courage to
call her. That was after our O Levels. When I called, she was
very surprised and didn’t believe that it was me. So we
continued the charade for a couple of days till I finally asked
her out to prove that it was really me.
Our first date took place after school
ended. (She was in Temasek JC then). It was a typical movie,
dinner date.
And the rest, is history...
Then came the Proposal…
I was searching a good solitaire for
me to propose to her. I finally found the perfect one for her
but only proposed a month later.
That was the 12th of October, our 10th
anniversary together!
I wanted to catch her off-guard, so we
went out on a Saturday as usual, for movies and shopping. When
it was time to go back, I asked her to follow me to the “Our
Lady of Perpetual Succour” Church (OLPS). It was about
11pm then, and I told her I wanted to visit the Mother Mary’s
grotto to say a prayer.
When we got there, I got down on my knees
and prayed to Mother Mary for her prayers and blessing. Dawn
was just standing beside me then.
Still on my knees, I turned to her and
proposed with the ring I carried in my pocket the entire day
(Was so afraid I’ll drop it!).
Nothing too fanciful, but just wanted
to propose on hallowed ground.
Getting
to know Dawn…