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| one year paid off!!!
So I've been told by countless people that I've been MIA,...getting this ring was hard work!!! JK...
Yes, it's true friends...I'm engaged to that silly man in the background.
There hasn't been a day where he hasn't made me laugh...sorry...wearing this ring makes you kinda sappy.
Last week starting from wednesday night angell suggested we recreate our first few dates,...didn't think much of it until we revisited those places...going back to our first date site really made me see how much both of us have changed and how much we have grown...it was at TEO. On our first date we had so much to talk about that in the three hours we sat there I didn't have enough time to eat my ice cream. At the end of the date angell recalled that he knew it was an awesome first date because my ice cream all melted. For those of you that don't know the first time I ever knew of angell was at OIL a winter retreat. A few of us spent countless hours planning bus trips for a handful of us to go and see what OIL was all about. Thats where I first saw angell...
Unreal to think that about 5 years later I'd be engaged to this guy...ask me back then and my reaction would still be the same as it is today..."no way!!! that's unreal."
Angell randomly popped up at a bible study i went to on wednesday night,...i thought it was the bizarrest thing to see him in the same room, initially I just wanted to pick his brain about his college years at CFC (a church I had heard tons about) After a couple of conversations, I could tell he was quality.
Our second date was at the Korean Market,...I wore a white t-shirt and black capris. And in the midst of me chatting away my hand managed to pound down on the spoon that was sitting in the soon doo boo jigae i ordered. I got it all over my shirt...I was embarrased,...angell chuckled...and thankfully I had an extra t shirt in my car. Apparently, Angell found it endearing...and it let him get a taste of one of my very few quirks...
many more would follow...like the time I spilled hot wax on his new dog molly :(
Our third date was at a mexican restaurant...that day angell thought we were supposed to meet up earlier and because I hadn't gotten in touch with him till later he thought I had forgotten about him...:( He waited patiently,...and was happy to see me when we met up. It was also on our third date that we talked about our differences...the cross cultural issues and concerns.
I guess when I look back on these things,...there were many things about myself (and in our relationship) that could become a long list of things that went wrong...or silly mistakes or misunderstandings that were made...but despite all these things we made it to May 19, 2007... the day angell asked me to marry him. The only explanation I can give to this was that God had prepared both me and angell before we had even met each other to have the desire to show someone grace. It wasn't just the attractive things we found about each other that drew us to each other, even though angell is hilarious, incredibly talented, surprisingly romantic and quite adorable at times...I don't know if it would have been enough to make it through all our flaws...everyday I think I grow more convinced that it was God who brought us to where we were when we met to be ready and eager to care for another person.
On the day of the proposal,...I was completely unaware,...we had done a devotional together and took a walk to pray about the direction God has been leading us to at our church. One thing he asked me that morning was if I remembered what he said to me at the bench at town lake...I said..."uh...no," and than laughed. He said, "remember,...I told you what I thought real love was,...i told you that I thought love was giving without expecting anything back. Whenever things go wrong or we get upset at each other it's because we are expecting something back from each other. But what I want to try to do with you is to give to you without expecting anything back." He had told me he needed to go to worship practice, like he usually does on saturdays and that he would be back later to take me downtown to Town Lake to sit on the bench we always sat at to talk. I thought it was in the line of things we were doing that week and thought nothing of it. When he came back, I wanted to dress nicely and shower because he told me he wanted to take me out for the day. Unlike angell,... he tried to convince me not to, usually he's really laid back aobut time,...weird i thought. On the way over to Town Lake he told me that he had re-burned me some of his songs. He had burned me two CD's of his songs when we first started dating that had gotten scratched. He said that he had the second CD playing and he pressed play...it was a song I did not know...
I was shocked...
I thought maybe,...and he pulled out lyrics to the song...it was a song he had written about us...I read closely...and yes i did cry...apparently I was so distracted that angell was comforting me with one hand and texting the people who were waiting at the bridge with the other.
We walked over to the bridge,...and to the bench...i thought were there people waiting for us? was he going to? then I convinced myself he wasn't because I didnt want to get disappointed.
We sat down and then angell started to say,..."You know that I really care about you,...and that I love you." I said,.."ofcourse,.." Angell proceeded to get fidgety with his hands and started to look around,..I thought, "why is he getting so nervous...by this point i had convinced myself that he wasn't going to because no one was at the bench. He got me to stand up as we looked over the railing down at the water.
Then he got down on one knee,...he smiled and reached into his back pocket. While swinging around his hand...he dropped the ring into the water. Yea,... I know!!! I had the same expression on my face too! I didn't believe him at first...it would so be like angell to pull a joke...but then it felt like a while that we had been there and angell said nothing...I thought...man if he really messed up he must feel so bad...so I started to comfort him...saying,..
"don't worry we'll figure something out."
And then, angell reached the other side of his back pocket, smiled really big,...and we both started to laugh out of excitement...and he said,..."I wanna be with you forever."
And you know I never knew if I would cry,...but it was so overwhelming,...and I couldn't believe what was happening...that I did.
Slowly people started to pop up from behind plants and benches taking pictures/video the whole time... (thanks oliver, enoch and yeeland,...you guys are the best!!)
And from the other side of the bridge, angell started to point toward people...
I thought "NOOO wAYYYY!" It was sunny, angell's little sister, and rachel his cousin,...and sharon and ingrid my sisters... along with both my parents and angell's parents. I was in complete and utter shock!!!!
Everyone was in on it...angell had asked my parents in march and they have known ever since. It wouldn't have been the same without them...
The ring??
I love it...
Actually, a couple of months into our relationship angell asked me how I felt about diamonds...I thought...whoa...this is fast...
I told him that I had no idea what went into finding a ring and that i had no particular idea or preference.
he showed me some websites on the diamond slave trade in Africa and ever since it has been a learning experience...and it's one of the things that I learned after dating angell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_diamond
there's tons of info on the internet.
My ring is a vintage/antique princess crown setting with a white saphire stone. The stone was lab created and the band was custom made by a jeweler in oregon.
Angell did a great job.
   
This was such a long entry, but it was worth the time, because angell, I know you read it all the way through... | | |
| vtechan email fowarded to family 2007/4/18, Eunice Kim :
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> Hello everybody,
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> I have tried contacting some of you, after this past week's tragic
> shooting at Virginia Tech. I was horrified. It is all still sinking in but I guess i just wanted to be in
> touch with you all. It made me really want to say you guys mean so much to me. I'm so sorry i
> have been so busy. All of this has made me wonder how each of you
> guys are doing.
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> I'd like to know if you guys are ok...
2007/4/19, Mi yeonkim > Thank you Eunice!
I was thinking about you all guys when i was known this news.
I could understand his anger and depression a little, and sorry about their
parents deeply.
Eventhough I did not do much, you guys are always in my heart every minute
and every second. I love you guys so much! Your only mother in this earth.
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| Today was a long day at church. Sometimes I felt like this... and then I felt like this and then finally I felt like this  .
So, I decided to come to Mozart's on my own, listen to some Norah Jones and sip some iced coffee. Then I stumbled on some pictures that made me laugh really hard. Thought I'd share them in case anyone else out there might need a laugh. Hope they put a smile on your face too.
This is my dad's birthday.
Tell me this isn't cute. This doesn't happen all the time. But when it does, although I think it's kind of weird, there's a hint of me that still smiles inside.
This is hilarious. We were trying to see if Dennis (who's in the background drinking some water) would notice Gina feeding John some food. A picture was taken capturing one of Gina's more candid moments.
More silly moments.
  
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