Short story of how the love-birds met each other
It was on the foundation year of Graphic design course back in early 2004. Unlike what others may think, their first meeting didn’t happen at the college where they studied but at VM condo, in a lift to be exact. She stayed at the 6th floor, while he stayed at the 5th floor. So, basically they were condo-mate and course-mate (different class) who turn into friends. It didn’t take long time for him to pop up the question and hold the predicate as her boyfriend.

Ups and downs in their relationship
Nothing is perfect in this world and so is their relationship. After few months of being together, they called it a quit and went through separate way. Months later, they got back together as a couple again. As time passes, the immature puppy love has grown into a mature adult love (in a positive way). They learnt how to take their differences into something that can balance one another. Not seldom the differences brought them into an alot discussion which lead to quarrel and not talking to each other. But hey, that’s how they learn about each other more.

When the long distance relationship began
Finally after 3 years, the day that they have been waiting for (read: graduation) was here. Well, it was also the day that they least looked forward to cause they would need to go for LDR if she couldn’t secure a job in Malaysia. She went for training, internship, job hunting and everything, but lady luck didn’t stand on her side. On May 2007, she came back Medan for good and he stayed in KL to continue his degree.

Since then, traveling has been their yearly food. They befriended with Airasia and online services such as msn and email. As time flew, she found that it was tough to juggling between her full time work and LDR. Adds on her hatred towards the job (read: design dodgy F&B packaging), she decided to resign and took freelance path since end of 2007. It gave her more flexibility in life.

Long distance relationship is not for forever
One year later, he graduated as a degree holder in graphic design and advertising. His love towards web has lead him to become a web-designer in a web company. That was his day job. When he came back home, he worked as a freelance web-designer together with her.

The LDR continued. They spent 3 months of not seeing each other and 1 – 4 weeks of seeing each other since May 2007. Each time they met, they wouldn’t skip the discussion of how to end the long distance relationship. Marriage wasn’t on the solution list, hence it left 2 options: she continues taking degree in Malaysia or looks for a job in Malaysia/Singapore. Both options never worked. Until one day on April 2009, she decided to go back to university and applied scholarship despite the small percentage of getting it and the super expensive course fee.

The decision of getting married
While still waiting for the scholarship result, he figured that there should be another (better) way out. After much consideration, of emailing and talking face to face during the Perhentian trip on June 2009, they decided to get married! Yes, it’s a mutual decision. So, there is no romantic story of how he proposed to her.

But well, the official let’s-get-married talk happened at the beach side, where you can hear the sound of the wave and see lots of stars on the sky that night, and that itself is romantic enough for her. Oh, he also folded a ring from RM10 note and inserted it into her finger, although she misplaced and lost it on the next morning. Ouch. If you want to know the result of the scholarship, she received 20%. If only she could pass it to someone who needs it.

Back to the story, their parents welcomed the decision that they have made and date was set. They merely have 5 months only, from the approval day to the BIG day. It seems to be a bit tight, because next year (2010) is a tiger year based on lunar calendar and she is a zodiac tiger. For Chinese, it is big no no to tie the knot on your zodiac’s year.