Our Story

I found this while doing some files cleaning in my laptop. I already posted this in our wedsite way back in year 2008. I am just re-posting it. This was written by my boyfriend, and now my husband....

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We met in a very common setting. Like other couples who co-worked in an office, we too met each other in our office.  What is uncommon is how we got to know each other and fell in love.

Have you ever felt that no matter what you do, it seems that there is a greater being, guiding you through your life?

We were batch mates in our office. Our company hires new employees once a year in bulk and we were hired at same time in a group of 25 last Oct. 2001.

Though we were conducting training in the same room for 3 months, we had different sets of close friends in the batch.  My group was the outgoing ones, while hers was were the weird ones!! Heheheh J

I could not remember if we ever talked to each to other in those 3 months except for training activities.  Weird, coz now we are getting married!! 

How did we become close? By a twist of fate I guess!! J Our batch was schedule to go to Japan for training, about 15 of us.  We applied for VISA in Japan embassy, and by an unexplainable reason, my passport and her passport had a problem and we were both denied to get a VISA.  I could not comprehend how in the world did 2 passports had a problem when all the rest were fine.

Though the situation was disappointing, we had to go on and re-apply for passports again.  Melissa and I agreed that we will go early to DFA(around 5am) to make sure that we could apply for passport on that day. The service of DFA was really bad and we already anticipated that re-applying for passport will be that hard.  But another situation came up.  There was a shortage of material in making passports in DFA.  The line for was twice of what had expected.  We were hoping that we could finish by 12 noon, but instead we finished at 5p.m.  It was 12 long hours of falling in line under the sun, but it was also 12 great hours given to us to get to know each other!! J We started talking about anything under the sun, literally!!  Family, friends, heart matters, dreams, you name it and we talked about it.  After that day, we instantly became close friends!! We started talking to each other whenever we can.  Or at least in my part, I started on looking for her. I suddenly found myself at ease with a person and wanting to be with.

After the passport incident, we were sent to Japan for training.  The opportunity gave me the chance to get to know her much better.  Each day of spending with her, no matter what I do, made me happy. We officially became a couple in Japan on June 15, 2002.  We were lucky enough to have business trips together, 3 more times in Japan, that made us spend more time with each other and make our relationship stronger.

We finally decided to get married January of this year.  

What is supposed to be a bad luck turned out to be a blessing in disguised. Some said that our story was guided by destiny, that we would not be together if not for the series of events that happened in our lives.  And I agree with them but it was not destiny. It was already planned right from the start by God. J