{"id":498,"date":"2012-09-24T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2012\/09\/24\/the-origins-of-our-love\/"},"modified":"2014-10-11T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T00:50:44","slug":"the-origins-of-our-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2012\/09\/the-origins-of-our-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of our Love…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s You Belong with Me<\/a> as I typed this post to get myself in the mood to share our love story. Many of our friends are surprised that David and I have been wed 13 years, ‘That long!?” they usually remarked. Over the years, our love has mellowed into a deep, mutual commitment and affection for each other. We have grown to become the indispensable companion and soul-mate which God has designed husbands and wives to be…<\/p>\n Our love story started *er-hem* in the Christian mIRC chat room<\/a> back when online surfing and chats were still relatively innocent back in the late ’90s!\u00a0 This Penang-nite boy, who’s educated in Melbourne and relocated to Singapore kept trying to chat me up but I gave him nary any attention till we met at a group gathering months later. I was leading worship and he said he was impressed by my independence and fervency for God.<\/p>\n Before the gathering ended, he requested for my pager number so we can be in touch (haa yes in those days, we had pagers not mobile phones yet). The cheeky me gave him the first few digits and told him to go figure the last one. Well, the persistent him finally got it right in a week.\u00a0 Soon, we started going on movie dates and before I knew it, I started falling irrevocably for him…I prayed to God for a husband who is Godly, who is musically inclined and who would love and accept me and my family…God answered all requests and blessed me with someone better than what I can ever asked for…<\/p>\n We started courting on 27 Dec 1997<\/span> in Sentosa; that was the very first we held hands and I felt so secure in his big, firm, fuzzy hands as our fingers locked…In the early days of our courtship, he would commute from his home in Tampines or his workplace in Sembawang all the way to the western part of Singapore (Clementi) just to have dinner with me and then make the long commute back alone. Back then, Clementi and Tampines were the final stops of the MRT East-West Line!<\/p>\n One fav memory of his romantic gestures was during his business trip to Jakarta.\u00a0 I received a handwritten love letter from him DAILY in the snail mail…he even posted the 1st few love letters before his trip so I would have a letter to read starting from the time I sent him off at the airport! After a 2 year courtship where we were madly, truly, deeply in love, we united in Holy Matrimony on 17 June 1999<\/span> in a Christian Wedding service where he serenaded me on the flute as I walked in accompanied by my Mom.<\/p>\n