Fatty and I thought long and hard about this.  We actually were kind of hesitant to release this video cos… it’s so personal!!!! Can see all the stupid expressions on our faces and whatever goofy tics and habits we have.

But we loved loved loved the video and I was also afraid that people’s negative comments on it would ruin what is a very special memory for me 🙁

Plus my hair was really frizzy in the video cos I ran through the rain to get to the restaurant ok wtf.

But somehow some people (cough Nigel Sia) found the video and sent it out so a lot of people’s seen it already so oh well.

Here it is 😀

Meme Proposal | Tim * Audrey from Crazy Monkey Studio on Vimeo.

Crazy Monkey Studio’s FB is here.

This is it!

Our long awaited engagement post!

Sorry to be all continuously gushy about our engagement but surprisingly only one hate comment received!!!

But disappointing cos all he/she could come up with was that my ring looks cheap and my children will be short and fat WTF.  Bitch didn’t even try!!!!

Ok so here goes. Super long post with lotsa pictures btw better sit down and have some tea.

Last Tuesday, Jammie called me and asked if I could have dinner with her and Tze the next day.  Background was that Jam and Tze had a fight a few days before FTL and Jam wanted be to mediate between them at dinner in case they punch each other WTF.

So I said ok dinner on.

Then on Wednesday, Ringo asked me for dinner too.  But I told her cannot cos I have to be peacemaker for my friends.  She said “orh ok”

Like an hour later, Jammie whatsapped me to say she bumped into Cheesie at Midvalley and could she come for dinner with us?

I was like er I don’t think so because you guys had a fight and you’re going to use dinner to talk it out!  How to let Ringo come she’ll feel so awkward there!  How are you guys going to talk it out plus Ringo hasn’t even met Tze sure awkward gao gao.

And Jam was like “oh sorry I already invited her” WTF.

So I said “ok la however you guys want to handle it wtf let me just warn her” wtf.  And secretly I was cursing Jammie for making me look like a bad friend because I didn’t invite #addiction to dinner but instead Jammie did wtf.

Anyway I got to the restaurant and we were in the middle of dinner lalala.

I was very engrossed in my food (arrived late, very hungry) so I didn’t hear anything for a few seconds.  But suddenly Tze poked me in the side and said “eh look over there.”

I looked over and there through the glass doors of the restaurant was Fatty (waving hard), his friends Ah Quah and Sin Thean and some Nuffies.

Fatty told me the day before that he had dinner with Ah Quah and Sin Thean so I thought that they decided to have dinner at Neroteca too.  And I thought the Nuffies were there because they wanted to get dinner after work or something.  But I realized that the three of them – Mimi, Rina and Angeline – all were wearing super nice cocktail dresses with full on makeup and hair.  I remember vaguely thinking “eh is NAPBAS (the Nuffnang blog awards) tonight?” hahahah.

But I didn’t have time to think about it because suddenly Fatty had a bunch of placards in his arms and he was beckoning me to read them through the glass door.

(this is a reenactment)

When I saw this I thought “shit shit what occasion is this is this some special day I forgot ah not my birthday not Valentine’s not Christmas not our anniversary then!?”

First thing that occurred to me: “Socially Awkward Penguin!!”

I thought, Oh god please don’t let this be a break up WTF.

At this point, I should clarify that Fatty and I had talked about marriage before many times.  And every single time he tells me that he’s not ready to get married lo!!!!  And would only be ready in his 30s.

I eventually want to get married but because I’ve never been the romantic type of person who dreams about her wedding and wants to get married by a certain age, I wasn’t too bothered about getting married later.  I think I only said “ok ah but don’t expect too many children” WTF cos old already ma how to have kids hahaha.

I think it could also be because none of my best friends are married yet so I didn’t feel any pressure.

I definitely didn’t feel any pressure from my family who all still seem to think I’m like twelve years old.

So at this point in the signs, I felt pretty sure this wasn’t a proposal.

Here I was like what is this sorcery #INGLIP

Because to add on, Fatty told me before that his fortune teller told him he should get married at a later age in order to have a better marriage.  And Fatty is like the most superstitious person I know so I never questioned it wtf.

So I still didn’t believe where he was heading with this.

Because he was standing a few feet away and my eyes suck, I thought he purposely printed out some words in small font so I couldn’t see WTF.

So this next sign came as a shock.

All the people around Fatty were like smiling and nodding their heads vigorously to indicate yes.

One of my friends prodded me and said “you have to answer!!!” So I blindly nodded.

Then I sat there not moving until an extremely nervous Fatty opened the glass door and came in to the restaurant.  And suddenly Sin Thean appeared behind him with a huge bouquet of flowers wtf.

One of my friends again prodded me and hissed “eh stand up and go to him!”

So I stood up and walked over to him.  I was in shock so I kept asking “eh is this a joke ah are you serious are you joking” ._____.

I don’t remember this part wtf but Fatty says he took out the ring box from his pocket, opened it and asked “so do you think this is still a joke?”

Rina took this picture.  My stupid friends all sobbing behind wtf.

I cried T______T Fatty was on his knees looking at me holding up the ring and I dunno I just couldn’t believe this was happening and that he really wanted to marry me T_______T

Everyone was urging “say yes say yes!” So I said yes.  And Fatty put a ring on it.

Then he held up this sign.

He said if I said no, he’d put this up:

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

So that’s the story 😀

Why we have all these nice pictures is because there were cameramen hidden all over the restaurant!

Fatty planned it so we could have the memory documented for the future.  And maybe to use in our wedding video wtf.  Told you he’s a super planning type!

No wonder halfway during reading the signs, I realized some asshole in front of me had turned around in his seat with his camcorder and was recording my face!!!

I was a bit pissed hahahaah cos why is he so kepoh go and film people’s moments with their other half!  Didn’t know he was part of the crew.  But I was trying not to miss any  of the signs so didn’t have time to show him fierce face hahahaha.

Even scarier, there was another cameraman hiding behind me the whole time in the corner recording us eating!! Super not aware of my surroundings lo I sure become a victim of crime wan cos people will just sneak up on me and rape/rob/stab/kidnap me easily.

Then we all sat down with our friends and had dinner together 🙂

Oh things I should note:

1. I would never have said no 🙂

2. WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME TO PUT ON MORE MAKEUP AND DO MY HAIR

3. Neroteca is usually quite dimly lit, but on that day it was so brightly lit up!  I kept commenting on it “eh why today so bright wan” while everyone ignored me.  Later I found out it was so the cameramen could film properly.

4. Fatty asked two friends – Angela and Ringo – to find out my ring size.  Angela remembered it as size 4 from our college days, and Ringo one day asked me how come I didn’t wear rings.  I told her it was because no ring fits me and she asked me what size I was.  I told her size 4 and she sneakily reported back to Tim!  Angela even showed me ring designs and asked me which ones I liked wtf but I didn’t suspect anything because her best friend in Vancouver is also getting married and she was helping to plan the wedding.

5. Size 4 ring turned out to be wrong FTL.  I went to check at a jeweler’s and found that I am actually size 1 -________- Any smaller and I won’t have fingers wtf.  So we’ll have to get it resized.

6. I loved that Fatty’s proposal was so … us.  If it was any bigger or glamorous it would have been too much.  A bit geeky but whatever ok!!!! He knows I’m a meme freak so he went to research memes and rage faces so he could put it all together. He used Philosoraptor wrong though hahaha.  And that it was at a restaurant we always go to, and that most of our best friends were there made it all the better :):)

7. After our dinner, Fatty and I rushed back to my house so he could ask my parents for my hand.  We got there to see Fat Her and Ooib both with one leg up on the couch, brandishing a samurai sword WTF HAHAHAHAHA. But don’t worry, no blood was shed, Fat Her and Mummy Ooi gave their blessing, and Ooib and Fatty shared their first bro-hug.

 

To (in alphabetical order) Angeline, Jammie, Mimi, Ah Quah, Rina, Ringo, Sin Thean and Tze, thank you all for helping Fatty put something like this together, and for being there with us 🙂 Also to my Angie who was there in er heart and soul wtf.

To my Fatty,

Some of our sequence and memories of the event may differ so you can go see Fatty’s blog for how he remembered it ^_^

If you’ve been reading my blog for years and years (:D) you’d notice that I don’t really talk about personal stuff much.

It’s not you, it’s me wtf.  Even sometimes my best friends say I don’t talk much about personal, relationship-y, feelings-y stuff much wtf.

My theory is that I got not much emotions anyway.  Or if I do and they’re negative, I’d rather do more productive things with my time than talk about them.  Like sleep WTF.

But this is something that over the years random readers have asked me to write.  Which is how me and Fatty met ahem.

I always replied I’d write about it if we get married one day cos not only do I not usually talk about personal stuff, I am also lazy wtf.  Now have to fulfil promise!!!!!

Ok here goes.

Fatty and I met max a few weeks after I came back from the US for good.  Initially was supposed to stay back in the US for a while to job hunt but then the economy went to shit so Fat Her made me come back after graduation.

So one day! I was out for lunch and shopping with Pang Tze Ching and Hui Wen.  Still remember what I was wearing some more! Cos got pictures from that day hahahaha.

Anyway we were traipsing all over Telawi looking at shops when Su Ann called Tze and said she was in Bangsar too and did Audrey want to meet Kenny cos Kenny and I were supposed to meet up the last year or something but I think I FFK-ed him *guilt.

So I said ok and we went to meet Kenny and Su Ann.

And turns out it wasn’t just Kenny and Su Ann!  They were with a whole bunch of people I didn’t know.  And awkwardly, they were all there cos it was some fella’s birthday and we were crashing his birthday surprise FOL.

That fella was Fatty.

TLDR: We basically met on his birthday.  Best birthday present ever WTF.  Kidding hahahahahaha.

I heard of him before because Suet had interned at Nuffnang the year before and I knew him as Suet’s boss.  I had even spoken to him over the phone once before passing him to my boss at my own internship wtf.  But I had never met him and had no idea what he looked like even.  Or what his name really was wtf.

Oh that was also the first time I met my #addiction.  Although she lansi sit at the other end of the table never talk to me hahaha.

Anyway Hui Wen, Tze and I gingerly sat down at the side next to them, feeling like shitheads for crashing people’s birthday and talked to Kenny and Su Ann.

But Fatty kept craning his neck over other people to talk to us!  I think he was trying to make us feel at ease since we were practically strangers to everyone else.  So the first impression I got of Fatty was that he was this extraordinarily friendly guy wearing a shirt with ugly cutting wtf.

I thought he was too nice to be true wtf cos I told him I was looking for a joband he offered to send my resume in to some people he knew.  Where got people so nice offer to help people when they first meet! Imagine if he offered to help everyone he first met like that, he’ll probably have to sit in front of the fax machine whole day faxing resumes wtf.

But as it turns out, he did send my resumes in and I got a job 🙂

Then there’s some discrepancy here.  Fatty insists that I asked him for his MSN address so I could send him my resume.  But this is so not true.

I remember very clearly that I got his email address so there was no need to send him anything on MSN.  I’d already emailed him my resume.  But a few days later I got an MSN request from him.

And maybe because I was still unemployed and thus had a lot of free time, we started talking on MSN.  He turned out to be very intelligent although he said he doesn’t like reading wtf and he taught me a lot of things I didn’t know.  He was also very different from other guys I knew… maybe because at that point he already knew what he wanted to do with his life.  I was 23 and all my friends were 23 and none of  us knew where we were going.

I guess we must have talked a lot because I remember Fat Her asking me once “Who is this fella why you always talk to him on MSN?” and I replied “my new friend” wtf little did I know.

Anyway we started hanging out more and more, but usually with other people.  We were very good friends but nothing happened. He may have said a few cryptic things about relationships but because I’m not the kind of person who thinks too much about things, I didn’t think about it -_-

But one day when we were both in Penang (with our respective families) we met up.  And for some reason which I can’t remember now, he brought me to his house.  And met his dad OMGWTFBBQ.  Later he told me he was testing water with his family why cheat me like this!!!!!

And on the same trip, he asked me out for dinner and took me to a super romantic restaurant in Batu Feringghi.  And the rest is history.

Fatty and I are two extremely different people.  And we were even more different three years ago!  When we first started going out, I was 23 and he was 24.  We liked each other and could hang out together just talking for hours and hours and that was enough at that point.  I don’t think we ever thought about a future and definitely not about marriage.

How were we different ah.  First of all, he didn’t laugh at my stupid jokes!!! For example the extremely lame ones where I usually nudge people and say “GEDDIT GEDDIT”, he’d just go “hmm” and change the subject WTF. I thought that even though he was smart, he had the most hopeless sense of humor in the world.

2ndly, on weekends he’d wake up at 7am GOOD GOD. Who does that? Our time difference was off by at least 5 hours.  Thirdly he is super organized and meticulous and plans every single thing in his life to a… P (for plan).  Even going for a movie he’d need to know the time, day, place and what movie.  While for me I needed just to wake up and roll over to wherever we were planning to meet then decide what to do.

And 4thly, he was (and still is ) extremely romantic and thoughtful.  While I am cold and act macho and have the romantic capacity of a slug.

Three years later, he laughs at ALL my jokes!!! #successkid.jpg.  I think it’s because he finally dumbed himself down to my level -_-  And if he didn’t hear or didn’t laugh enough, I nudge him “GEDDIT GEDDIT” so he can laugh again and satisfy me WTF.  I think he also used to be more serious but he’s sillier now so I think I was a good influence 😀

Now instead of waking at 7am, he wakes up at 9-10am and quietly goes off to the next room to play Starcraft or Battlefield or whatever until I wake up.  Our time difference has been reduced to 2-3 hours.

And thirdly, he is still super organized and meticulous and still plans everything.  The difference now is that I’ve learned to plan more instead.  I learned to appreciate punctuality and to never let myself be late (when before I was never early for anything).  He also taught me to think about the future more (although not sure how much of that I learned) and he showed me new ways of looking at things (although we still disagree on a lot of topics, for a lot of other things we’ve learned to meet each other in the middle)

Oh and while still quite unromantic, I’ve learned to think more about him and do more things for him. *girlfailure

Oh ya I also changed his dressing because when I met him all his shirts were ugly and about a billion years old!  I threw them out, bought him new stuff and instilled a love of shopping in him <3  So now when girls compliment him on his shirt or whatever he says to me “see you created a monster” WTF hahahahaha idiot.

Every day is something new for us, even if we’re just having dinner together after work and bitching about our days.  I never get tired of talking to him and even shit chores like buying groceries or mopping the floor becomes fun(ny) when we do it together.

And now there’s a million days more ahead of us 😀 that is if one of us doesn’t die suddenly WTF CHOI TOUCH WOOD.

And that’s the story of Fatty and Shorty.

Go here for Fatty’s version of events.

WE ARE ENGAGED!!!!

More details later!!!!!  Or you can see Fatty’s blog cos he wrote about it.  Albeit briefly.