No bending-on-one-knee-in-front-of-an-audience proposals, we agreed, just a simple (malay, traditional) engagement ceremony of ring-exchange witnessed by few family members.

I figured that my perfect proposal fantasy (while snuggling on a hammock hung from two palm trees on the Palawan of Philippines, gloomgroom would hold a Tiffany & Co’s Lucida ring up against the stars and somehow a quartet would surface and play Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to The Moon”…) would just remain a fantasy… so why bother? GloomGroom nodded in agreement. Or so I thought.

18th Feb 2008 saw us on yet-another-monthly-hot date, indulging on a romantic getaway and dining experience on board a cable car.
Soon, we were wolfing down (because chewing and swallowing without tasting were easier) “delicious continental delights” and “enjoying the scenic landscape of the city and harbour”. When I turned around to ask GloomGroom how the Sentosa Integrated Resort construction site constituted a “scenic landscape of the city and harbour”, he took my finger and slid an over-sized three-stoned Soo Kee diamond ring on it. He held my ringed finger against the twinkling stars and sang Sinatra’s golden oldie…