"The DAY"

What is the DAY? If you have been reading this blog, you would have realised by now that there are two volunteers who have blogged about the marriage proposal. Yes, the very 1st day of our Aceh trip is also the DAY where Boon popped the question "will you marry me?" The question came on board the plane on our way to Medan International airport. For the many out there who is wondering how did he propose? Here is the story.. Admist the busyness of preparing for the Meulaboh trip, Boon prepared agar agar made in different shapes of stars, hearts. He first took out the agar agar and a waxed flower made out of soap when we were having our snack time. He bgt this flower from his recent Bangkok trip.

As I took quite long to finish the char siew foldover, by the time I completed eating (which is after 20 mins or so), he then took out the camcorder and started to play a video. Hee..this is actually a video of himself as he shared a song and his thghts.. Before he could continue to play the video, the captain made the announcement came that we are reaching Medan airport! Hahah..so he had to stop the video and do it "LIVE!" where he shared abt our journey together and posed the question :) I teared as I heard Boon's sharing.

To me, this proposal was even more significant given the fact that this was our first overseas community service trip together. Alive! (our local community service project) is the common language between us and as we worked together, we see the real side of each other- our strength and weaknesses. For some who may not have known, we know each other since 1999 when we were both studying in NTU and attending the same church :) Through our service together, I realised that it takes effort and indeed love to make a relationship work and grow. To Boon who is reading this blog, thank you for what you have done! Thank God for you and for your support in this Alive! project together. To the volunteers, thank you for the re-enactment of the proposal in the domestic military airport. Yes, it was a memorable one and I am glad to share this joy with all of you.