So how did it happen? How did I get to know my dearest? When did Cupid unleashed its arrow? I suppose everyone has their own tale, the fortunate or unfortunate events that led to it, the simplest of meetings to the most controversial match-up. Well as reported at Nona’s magazine issue September 1999, my answer was simple. It's a loonnnng story.
But the summarized version is that I saw him, knew I wanted him, pursued him, got him and married him! Sort of like Victoria conquered David to become the Beckhams or like the female praying mantis that gets its mate, did what she had to do and then devour the male’s head. That’s very much myself except the part of devouring the head…. well, not just yet lah!
I was 18 (he was 20), eager to check out the universities in Britain. The last 2 days before departing back to good olde Tanahair , my eldest sister , a friend and I decided to stay at the old Malaysian Hall at Bryanston Square. As we were entering the front hall after some last minute shopping at Oxford Street, I saw a good looking guy locking the door opposite me. We waited at the counter for our room keys. Turned out he was the receptionist on duty. Anyway as fate would have it, not that we were spastic but really, we couldn’t figure out how to lock our room door. The receptionist guy came up and showed us how to work the door. It strikes me then that he really was a very tall bloke. Whatever he said then might as well be in Greek to me coz I was not paying attention at all.
The next day, as we were checking out, he was still on duty, he said something that really caught my attention, “You look familiar”! Yeah, not the most original thing to say but it got me hooked nevertheless! Within 10 minutes (whilst checking out), I managed to find a common ground, he was an ex-Johannian whilst I was an ex-CBNer. Anyway, we said our goodbyes and that was that. While waiting to board our flight at Heathrow, I realized that I forgot to ask his name! My friend said that there was an X name on the duty roster and she was sure that she heard someone called him by that name.
But still, she could be wrong……
Welcome to paradise....
