As of 14 May 2018, I'm engaged!
We applied for a BTO flat at MacPherson Spring (Beside MacPherson CCL/ DTL) in Nov 2016 SBF and got it at our first attempt with a #4 Queue! There was not much choices since it was an SBF launch but we managed to got our first choice among the options that were available. Fast forward to date, we are expecting to receive keys hopefully in Q1-Q2 2019.
With the flat nearing, Zhao Hui was planning a proposal which I knew is most likely gonna happen this year. He's not the best at planning events/surprises so I gave him some tips to help him:
1. Private proposal
2. Avoid planning an indoor/staycation proposal, preferably at a pretty outdoor location
3. Surprise me! - I'm quite quick at sniffing out any clues so this was going to be a real challenge to plan something behind my back.
So the boyfriend actually started with the ring purchase early in the year with a rough design idea I gave him while he executed the search for the perfect stone hehe. He also planned for the most amazing surprise that I wouldn't have expected him to do so.
THE SURPRISE TRIP
We were in Beijing when I noticed I might have to do a work trip around the weekend of 19 May (less than a month later) to BKK. Bf usually isn't particular with my work trips since I travel quite a fair bit but he was really concerned this time when I mentioned. He dissuaded me from going giving excuses i.e. BKK is dangerous (?) etc. and I found it really suspicious. He then revealed he planned to bring me for a surprise weekend trip to KL. I probed further to ask for the dates since my job doesn't allow me to take random leave without advance notice and realised he is taking me away for 10 days. Who goes to KL for 10 days?! Anyway I figured perhaps we were going on a SEA back-packing trip since he said it'll be a roadtrip. He also already helped me to apply leave from work in advance. At this point, I was very sure the proposal would happen then, since it's unlike him to plan anything huge like this.
The real surprise was finding out where was our destination. He gave me the weather to pack for (12-22 deg) which was kinda the temperature for Sapa. With that, he successfully misled me into thinking we were going Vietnam. He picked me that morning (12 Jun) from my house and gave me this card to guess where the destination would be. I actually started to believe perhaps we were heading to Taiwan instead.
Finally at check-in where we tagged our luggage, I accidentally saw the luggage tag and saw 'ICN'. Oh my gosh INCHEON?! It ever crossed my mind that it'd be amazing if he brings us back to Korea where we got to know each other a lot better over exchange 4 years ago, where everything started. Then again, I didn't think he'd really do it since expenses to execute this trip to Korea would be really high, so I brushed that thought off rather quickly.
We spent the entire day on flight delays and finally reached Incheon at midnight. I was gushing over the surprise the entire day simply because I really love/miss Korea and it's my first time back on leisure trip ever since exchange (apart from biz trips).
I have to give him credit him for planning the entire trip itinerary himself, as I usually do majority of the planning for our trips. He even contacted his Korean buddy to help him suggest places to go/propose and even helped booked my hairdresser for me to perm my hair, first thing to do the next morning just to make sure I look photo-ready for the moment!
THE PROPOSAL (14.05.2018 | 39th monthsary)
The night before, he passed me a dress he bought online and wanted me to wear next day to look pretty for our monthsary. Unfortunately the dress wasn't fitting but it revealed a huge hint that tomorrow is gonna be important!
We traveled an hour on subway out of Seoul to Ilsan Park, Goyang City.
There was supposed to be a flower festival at the entrance of the park but the event ended the day before and the gate to the park was blocked due to the tear-down of the event. I secretly wondered if bf really got the dates wrongly and wanted to propose at the festival. Anyway, he insisted we find a way to get into the park since we are here anyway, so we made a detour around the park to finally find an entrance beyond the festival. We strolled along the park and he suddenly took a path off the beaten track into a nice path of trees that resembled like those in Nami Island, less the crowd. Apparently many korean dramas were also filmed here!
We were setting up the tripod to prepare for a photo together and he asked, "do you think this path will ever be empty?" So cute haha it's like preempting me of what he gonna do next.
While posing for the picture, he then turned me around and whipped out this impressive handmade pop-up card with our pictures, and my dog (to bribe my heart), and a page resembling the place we are, with a pop-up word to pop the question and of course revealing the ring. He knelt down to pop the question, and with no doubt, YESSSS!
The rest of the trip was one of the best trips we've ever been. We ate so much that we spent all the money we brought there, and had an amazing time in our favourite city!
You can check out more about our trips on my insta-stories highlight!
Special thanks to our friends (JJASH, Don, wm, st) for helping him out in the proposal and planning. Now we can't wait to embark on the next journey of our lives soon!
P.S. On a side note, while we were on the way to Ilsan, I noticed a scratch on the camera lens that bf borrowed from his friend. He was worried sick the entire time if he'd damaged the camera and it bugged him the entire time throughout the proposal. I think he was more stressed about it than the proposal itself haha!
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