Our Story
Our Love Story
Our Love Story
our love story May 17, '08 2:06 PM
for everyone
We were in the same university taking up same course, same section, that's how destiny brought us together. We have different set of friends during our first year kaya naman nobody will think na magiging kami, yung close friend ko pa ung attracted sa kanya.We became friends during the last sem in our second year pero di ko akalain na attracted na pala sya sa akin,, hehehe,,,I remember him making kwento of other girls of his interest and ako naman I advice him on how to earn "pogi points" not knowing na he is trying to get my attention pala,(manhid me,,, hehehe,,,di pa ubra diskarte nya) hahaha! One time parehas kami late sa klase, we ended seating together at the back, medyo boring kase yung klase at hindi pa namin major subject, meron akong pinasagutan sa kanya, siguro pamilyar kau dito medyo corny nga lang hehehe, he needs to answer these yung mga fav no,fav color,name 3 special opposite sex, fav songs, etc and after nya masagot that's the time he will know the meaning of his answers, and nung sa part na ng sa girls sabi ko sino lalagay then he said "lagay mo ikaw, ay sabi ko ayoko, make it serious naman, but he really insists at sya na yung nagsulat ng name ko, may meaning kasi yung spot ng mga nilalagay na name, and yung meaning ng name ko dun sa particular spot na yun ay "LOVE OF YOUR LIFE",,, hahaha!!! During that time ang alam ko talaga he is just joking, as days passed we became close friends especially nung time na maysakit si mazhe, he made me feel that I am not alone, sya yung sumasama sa akin pag dumadalaw kay mazhe. Since medyo malayo bahay ni mazhe and masyado naapektuhan yung health nya she decided to stay near the school, the 3 of us were very close that time kaya kami yung kasama nya nung need nya kunin yung mga gamit nya sa bahay nila, and you know what mazhe's dad thought that we were lovers ni mark, hehehe,,,honestly that time manhid yata talaga ako,,, hehehe,,, I didn't know that he has feelings na pala for me,,, hehehe,,
We enjoyed each other company, naging close yung buong klase namin, umaattend kami ng bible study with pastor bong and ma'am luisa, di ko alam si mark pala nagcoconfess pala ng feelings nya for me kay pastor bong and kinakausap naman ako ni pastor bong asking me what if someone is admiring me blah blah blah,,,pero di nya sinasabi kung sino, wala talaga ako alam i thought it's just a part of his being our counselor. Dumating yung birthday ko, kumain kami sa jollibee with mark and 2 of our other guy friends binigyan nila ako ng baloons, hehehe, afte naming kumain I need to go back sa school kasi may meeting/rehearsal kami sa dance troupe, hinatid nya ako at nagulat ako kasi he handed me something sinulat nya yung excerpt ng LITTLE PRINCE, I am very touched, sa isip ko ang bait nya at ang sweet, pero talagang mabait naman talaga sya kaya hindi pa rin ako nag isip ng kahit na ano. Simula noon I considered him as one of my real friends, nag oopen na ako sa kanya about my family, my heartaches, my favorites, my weakness,yung kasaman ng ugali ko hehehe, basta yung mga kadaldalan ko ever,hehehe. Minsan makareceived ako ng text from him nakalagay dun "I QUIT", I talked to him agad and I asked him what does it mean, and yet he denied na tinext nya ako, (ewan ko cguro natorpe ata) pero he's courting na pala and im not aware of his feelings, medyo nagalit ako kasi I felt I was betrayed kasi nung nareceived ko yung text nya dun ako napaisip kung may iba pa syang intention, ayoko din kasi nung friend ko tapos manliligaw kasi I'm afraid na mawala yung friendship. inignore ko lang kasi di pa naman sya nagtatapat ayoko mag assume noh,,, hehehe,,, naging friends pa din kami, sumasabay sya sa akin pag uwi ang dahilan nya taga TONDO sya kaya sa tayuman sya sasakay at yung dorm ko ay nasa MORAYTA at dun daw sya sasakay papuntang tayuman, pero pwede pala sya sumakay from our school,,,(hmmm???) One time pasakay na kami ng jeep sa tapat ng luneta sabi nya kung nagmamadali daw ba akong umuwi pwede daw kwentuhan muna kami, sabi ko sige ok lang ala naman ako gagawin sa dorm, tapos napansin ko ako lang yung kwento ng kwento at sya tahimik lang, enjoy na enjoy sa mga kwento ko. HAbang naguusap kami may kababayan ako na nakakita sa amin, nung umuwi ako ng province kwento me ng kwento sa inay ko bout nangyari sa akin the whole week, about my friends, then yun sabi nya na nakasalubong daw nila ng ama ko yung nakakita sa amin ni mark, and sinabi na nakita nga daw ako may kasamang guy, ninerbyos mom ko kasi istrikto ang ama ko kaya inunahan nya yung guy sabi nya friend ko yun, pero sinabi nang inay ko kinabahan daw sya, sabi ko sa inay bkt sya kakabahan kaibigan ko lang si mark and hindi naman nanliligaw, basta sabi lang nya ewan ko ga kung bakit ako kinakabahan, i just ignore her i thought its just normal for she is my mom, pero naisip ko dami ko guy friends o suitors na kinukwento pero yung kay mark lang sya kinabahan e dat time di pa nagtatapat si mark.
Naging complicated lahat ng sinabi na sa akin ni mark yung feelings nya, medyo nailang na ako kaya hindi na ako nagpapahatid sa kanya, umiwas na ako sa kanya but he keeps on sending me letters, texts or bigla ko na lang sya makikita sa dorm. Naging persistent sya, siguro dahil sa mga kwento ko alam nya kung paano ako maghandle ng suitors, alam nya masama ugali ko sa mga manliligaw ko, kung pwede iwasan ko iiwasan ko talaga, gusto ko yung may effort, kung pwede mahirapan papahirapan ko, alam nya na ayoko tatanungin ako kung "pwedeng manligaw" hayyy, kaya sabi ko sarili ko dahil kilala nya na ako pagdating sa ligawan, ayoko talaga kaya halos maguusap kami binabasted ko sya (pero sa lahat naman ng suitors ko ganun talaga ako) naku mahabang kwento pa ito, to make it short July 14 2001, 4th year kami we were texting and I dont know what happened dun ko na sinabi ung "YES" he was going to mindoro that time kasi debut ni erma.
I told him na kami na PERO (may kasamang kundisyon)
1. Hindi sya lalapit sa akin sa school.
2. Ako ang magsasabi sa barkada namin.
3. Di pa sya pwede pumunta sa bahay kasi strict ama ko.
4. No kissing, hold hands lang kami.
Nag agree naman sya, pero tuliro pa din ako kasi naman 1st bf ko sya, I dont know what to do.
JULY 17, kinakabahan ako kasi yun yung first time na magkikita kami after ko syang sinagot, buong araw ko syang iniwasan, pero habang natatapos yung araw kinakabahan ako kasi alam ko na kailangan kong makauwi ng di nya namamalayan. Last subject namin soil mechanics 7:30 ung tapos ng klase namin, ang bilis ng lakad ko pauwi bigla may tumatakbo na humahabol sa akin, c mark na ihahatid daw nya ako, grabe ha, kakaiba ako that day kasi may panyo akong dala hehehe, hindi ako nagpapanyo kasi. palagi nakatakip yung panyo sa mukha ko kasi naiilang talaga ako,,, hehehe,,, nag usap kami gusto nya yung araw na yun yung official date namin ayaw daw nya yung sa cp lang.
After two days, JULY 19 malakas ang ulan, hinatid nya me kaso bahang baha ang espana naghanap kami ng madadaanan yung time na yun kahit stranded na lahat madami estudyante, worried na ako kasi may curfew ako, ito yung first time naming maghold hands, hehehe (enjoy na enjoy c mark) tapos binuhat pa nya ako para itawid sa baha.
August 17, 2001, first monthsary namin, eto na naman ako di ko alam gagawin ko, hehehe,,, after ng klase namin tumakas na naman ako, niyaya ko si jaz manood ng sine MOULIN ROUGE nag enjoy naman kami, hinahanap na pala ako ni mark, tapos may nakabanggit ata na nanood kami ng sine kaya nagulat ako paglabas namin ng sinehan andun si mark naghihintay sa amin, (bad ko talaga). He's so mabait talaga at ang swerte ko kasi mahal na mahal nya ako. Eventually nasanay na din ako, since that time madami akong fears, expectations, may pagkachildish ako, pasaway palagi, away bati kami and it's just normal for two individuals na nasa isang commitment na magkaroon ng arguments because we raised in different way. First bf ko sya at first gf nya ako kaya nahirapan din kami mag adjust, nahirapan na masaya. What I really love about him is that he is very true and resposible, he knows what he wants and he knows what will make him happy. Sa akin umikot ang mundo nya at ako din naman sa kanya. Pag ihahatid nya na ako sa dorm, ang di ko makakalimutan sinasabi nya palagi ay "pagkatapos ng araw, pagkatapos gawin lahat ng dapat gawin sa isang araw, pagkatapos makasama mga kaibigan, sa huli kami lang ang magkasama".
Now mag seseven years na kami as BF-GF, at isang taon na kaming kasal ngayon. He asked me to marry him after nyang makuha yung IPA nya, it means in a month need nya na umalis for singapore to work, he asked me kung okay lang simpleng kasal lang muna and after nya makaipon he will marry me again, ayaw daw nya umalis hanggat di pa kami kasal, I said "YES", four days before ng flight nya ikinasal kami. After 1 1/2 months andito na din ako sa singapore with my hubby. We are starting now in planning the wedding, we are scouting for the venue and other details, mahaba pa naman ang oras namin, we still have 1 1/2 years to plan for our BIG DAY hehehe...
The Little Prince
"It is only with the heart that one can see lightly what is essential is invisible to the eye"
My mother shared this line to me, she said this is her favorite line from the book THE LITTHE PRINCE. Nung mag start manligaw sa akin si mark ito din daw ang favorite na book nya at ito yung unang gift na ibinigay nya sa akin he wrote the excerpt of this book as a present for my birthday. Hay sa dami ng drama ng buhay namin ni mark especially nung nanliligaw pa sya, me being so mean to him, saying discouraging words to stop courting me, and being him as a persistent suitor, hinatid nya ako sa dorm namin after ko ng mag take out sa mcdo para sa dinner ko at bago me pumasok ng gate ng dorm sinabi ko na ulit yung mga linya ko sa kanya na wag nang ituloy and we are better as friends na lang sabi nya ok daw pero tanggapin ko daw yung book sabi ko wag na lang sa isip ko para saan pa it will add sa pain na nararamdaman ko na hindi ko alam kung bakit ko nararamdaman then sabi nya pag tinanggap ko daw hindi na nya ako iistorbohin pa so sabi ko sige fine tinanggap ko yung book I said thank you to him at pumasok na me sa gate. After I ate my dinner dun ko na sinimulang basahin yung book and I ended up crying nung binabasa ko itong part na ito:
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said:
"Ah! I am scarcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged . . ."
But the little prince could not restrain his admiration:
"Oh! How beautiful you are!"
"Am I not?" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same moment as the sun . . ."
The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest--but how moving--and exciting--she was!
"I think it is time for breakfast," she added an instant later. "If you would have the kindness to think of my needs--"
And the little prince, completely abashed, went to look for a sprinkling-can of fresh water. So, he tended the flower.
So, too, she began very quickly to torment him with her vanity--which was, if the truth be known, a little difficult to deal with. One day, for instance, when she was speaking of her four thorns, she said to the little prince:
"Let the tigers come with their claws!"
"There are no tigers on my planet," the little prince objected. "And, anyway, tigers do not eat weeds."
"I am not a weed," the flower replied, sweetly.
"Please excuse me . . ."
"I am not at all afraid of tigers," she went on, "but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you wouldn't have a screen for me?"
"A horror of drafts--that is bad luck, for a plant," remarked the little prince, and added to himself, "This flower is a very complex creature . . ."
"At night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live. In the place I came from--"
But she interrupted herself at that point. She had come in the form of a seed. She could not have known anything of any other worlds. Embarassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
"The screen?"
"I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me . . ."
Then she forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the same.
So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her. He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
At lalo na itong part na ito, ewan ko every words ng binabasa ko parang kumukurot sa puso ko talaga:
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him. And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realized that he was very close to tears.
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
But she made no answer.
"Goodbye," he said again.
The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold.
"I have been silly," she said to him, at last. "I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy . . ."
He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.
"Of course I love you," the flower said to him. "It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you--you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy . . . Let the glass globe be. I don't want it any more."
"But the wind--"
"My cold is not so bad as all that . . . The cool night air will do me good. I am a flower."
"But the animals--"
"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies--and the caterpillars--who will call upon me? You will be far away . . . As for the large animals--I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws."
And, naïvely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:
"Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"
For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower . . .
I was crying talaga and I realized how much he meant to me, na ayoko syang mawala sa buhay ko, naramdaman ko kung gaano nya ako kamahal na kahit ano pa ako e kaya nya akong tanggapin, naramdaman ko yung pain na idinudulot ko sa kanya, at DITO KO NARAMDAMAN NA MAHAL KO PALA SYA, na HE IS THE ONE FOR ME.
Kinabukasan naman ganun pa din sya, pero hindi ko pa din sinabi sa kanya mga realizations ko, lalo akong humanga sa kanya sa pagiging matyaga nya sa akin, I knew from there that I found the PERFECT PRINCE for ME.
Surprises!!!
I didn't expect this to happen, this wedding, my gown,and the E-RING! Am I deserving for this? (lol)
When we got married, although Mark promised me to give me my dream wedding,I didn't take it seriously, as I knew that once we are married our priorities will change, until the day after our first year here in Singapore that he brought out the topic. I was just thinking that wow,, he really serious in keeping his promise, that was the time that I keep daydreaming of myself wearing a nice gown, yap, I think the most important for me aside from my groom waiting at the end of the aisle and my family and friends cheering and happy for us, is my GOWN, but in my mind the wedding is a bonus na I don't want to abuse what I have na,, but there’s one designer who captured my heart, but I need to come back in reality that spending too much in my gown is a big NO, we should priority first what we need and let go of nice to haves. I search for other designers but never push through the transactions, Mark then was so quiet and just letting me decide for the wedding, until he asked me how much is the costs of the gown made by my dream designer, my eyes were twinkling, I couldn’t believe he is asking, and my reply was as I remember,, “naku mahal talaga hon e, dami pa natin kailangan.” (with a little kilig tone in my voice) Then he told me to just try to inquire,, masunurin akong asawa kaya I DID! When Ms. V replied and send the quotation for my gown, I informed agad mark , I was nervous that he might change his mind but he was happy for what he saw and asked me to send the reservation as soon as possible, I told him I will not ask for anything, coz for me my gown is too much, I couldn’t ask for more. Then the last surprised I get from him is my engagement ring, this is the least I expect from Mark, for in my mind I have my gown as a replacement for it.
One night after my birthday, I was impatiently waiting for him, coz he usually never go home late, except if he is in a mall to buy something, he is too meticulous in buying things unlike me I easily decide on stuff when I shop, and he always ask permission whenever he will buy something. That night was different, he never answered my call, I was losing my temper, I easily get irritated especially when I am hungry (lol). When he came, I was relieved that he was safe, then he told me he has something for me, I was thrilled coz I knew he’s not kuripot when it comes to me, then he showed me a small box,, my heart was beating so fast, when I opened the box jaraaannn,, it was a necklace,, hehehe waaaa!!! I was not expecting but when I saw the box the first thing in my mind was a ring,, a little bit disappointed hehhee,, but I didn’t show it to him,, he put it on my neck and I kissed and hugged him, we ate our dinner, then he kept asking the whole night if I am happy,, I said I am. The next morning, I woke him up to get ready to work, I thought he was on the shower but after 2mins he woke me up, and the first thing I saw was the ring, so beautiful and simple. I was looking in it, as he uttered the words he said before. I am kilig till now.
