Love is patient, Love is kind

Indeed! 'Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy it came from divine, this is Love.'- Jon Tse's song on 'Love' from his new album 'I'm Alive'

Oliver is back in Germany and I'm still here and we're engaged!. Great news for our families, our friends and us. We're excited to be engaged and uber excited to plan for the wedding in August 2011. One year from now. Having sense how time flies these days, it's just a matter of time and there're so many things to discuss, plan and do and it is extra challenging for us to plan it separately. But we pray that all things will fall into places. Pray for us too people.

Let's talk about how the engagement went. Well overall, it went pretty smoothly despite some minor rush here and there and me being the panicky fiance to be then. We had it on August 14th and the engagement took place in two parts; the formalities done according to the Kadazan Dusun tradition was done in the afternoon. Basically, it's a discussion between two families with the village headman and a mediator to agree on dowries and gifts e.g. bufallo and pig. These I kid not! And the second part was done at the family's new apartment to celebrate it with close friends. We had a buffet lay out and food catered from 'The Hut',always the family's choice of caterer, and had it by the pool side area.

But you know what, I think I'll save more details in the next post because it's kinda late here. I'm typing this at 1 am in the morning but I needed to write something. Haha.

For now, this will do.

Love,

Mel.