My Real Teleport Scroll to Heaven: His Proposal

“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.” 

― Paulo Coelho

Some years way back in my MUHS days, I once told a colleague/mentor/sister/ and a very good confidante, Ms. Mae,  as to what would it be like to have my own love story be published in my blog. Disapproval was what I got as she rejected the idea by saying I should better reserve it for the perfect day to come. As my comeback (a no-longer-new issue of me ceasing blogging for a while, hahah) I believe, hence, this is a perfect time , not to really publish a blog of our "love story" but of what had happened exactly 1 month ago today, which I believe embarks a very momentous significance in our so-called affair.

Never did I imagine that  December 19, 2015 (Saturday), my birthday to be specific, would permanently be tattooed on my mind as I had never thought that my very special best friend would kneel down in front of me first thing in the morning as I woke up, with my mother's approval, asking me the most desirable question a woman wants to answer with unexplainable feelings EVER!!!!

(Oppps! Sorry for the run-on sentence. It's actually  the FEELS talking this time! hahahah!!)

Spare me some of the details for I, together with my family and a few very close friends, already have preserved them in our minds. But I'd like to share a few of them, too! So here they go.

Since it was a Saturday, and I had a very busy week in school prior to that with him always being my driver he had entirely a very good reason to excuse himself of buying me a gift on my birthday. That morning I went out of my room, confused was all I had been for gone were the people around the house. I checked everywhere, but none I found, only to realize that my mother and my siblings already went to the grandparents' house  a few feet away. As what I usually do there every morning, I headed to the veranda to at least be freshened up by the cold morning breeze. I was astounded as he was already waiting there greeting me "Happy Birthday" in the very unusual way. He then asked me if I wanted to see "the gift" he had for me. What do you expect me to say??? Of course YES was all I exclaimed.

While handing me this, he asked his apologies, for according to him since we both were busy that week he really didn't get the chance to buy an extra special one, that I shouldn't expect too much as I open it for I might fail my expectations. I ranted of course. Hahahah! I said, "Ahhh! Grabe! Wa sad ka nangita ug laing ways no? Dili na uso effort dinha?''

I wasn't able to finish my whining for he already had placed his finger in my lips shutting me up right away.

Him: Paghilom sa kay wa pa ko nahuman. Sige abrehe na.

 And so I obliged. 

I was already brought to cloud 9 seeing this. A compilation of quotes from my most favorite author, Paulo Coelho. :) 

But then, I got the feeling something was inside the book for it felt so lumpy. I was expecting it to be a metal bookmark, something I am really eager to own. But before I had opened it, he held my hands and started his speech. :))))

One of the lines he had which I will never ever forget was "Mang, willing ka mouban nku for the rest of my life? And I was like, "Wait sa, nagpropose ka paw?" Hahahaha  and so he continued. And at the end of his speech, he popped the will-you-marry-me question while opening the most middle part of the book.

Right in the middle of the book is an illustration of a heart. And right in the middle of the heart laid the ring tied with the book's red bookmark. I answered YES absolutely! :)

Perfect was all I could describe. Of the feeling. Of the Day. Of the Date. Of the Place. Of his proposal. It may never be what I had expected to happen, it may never be the same with what I had set in my mind, yet his way of doing it in the most sincerest way was already something I couldn't ask for more. And if by any chance I will be given another opportunity to plan a proposal in a way I wanted it to happen, I will still want  his for he had given me boundless of joy, immeasurable happiness, and rambling butterflies in my stomach. It was a day as if all the butterflies in the world were collected and placed right in my belly. Funny feeling it was. I was astonished. I was entirely happy that no single word in the English dictionary can convey. And just like that I was transported to heaven. :)))

Here are a few of what were written inside :))

One of the few questions he scribbled in the book. When I answered he then wrote on it the YES!! (Just dont mind his exclamation marks which look like question marks, nyahahah)

I said YES! :)

Keep posted for more blogs will follow. ^_~

- Cee Brensan

Great Classical Novels: Revisitation to "MY" Archives

 

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  Studying about heavenly bodies way back in my primary and secondary years inspired me a lot. Traveling through space shuttles, eating while floating due to lack of gravity, walking on the moon, studying lives outside the earth, learning things in other planets, and discovering tidbits of rocks outside the universe interest me a lot. Hence being an astronaut was my first  dream course and if lucky enough, work.  Most of the time before, I imagined myself working in NASA and daydream about meteors and all of such sorts around. I found it so so soooo SUPERB! I remembered I once told mama about what work I'd like to have in the future one evening while she slept beside me.

Me: Ma, gusto ko mag-astronaut inig dako nako and magtravel di lang sah tibuok kalibutan pero sa gawas sa kalibutan.  (Ma, I'd like to be an astronaut when I grow up and travel not just around the world but outside our planet.)
Mama: *startled* Day, nanrabaho gani mi ni papa duol nimu daun ikaw molayo nah nuon ka, mogawas pajud sah kalibutan? (Day, your father and I work closer to where you are, but then you want to work away from us, and the worst outside the planet?)

Such convo made me think but never hindered me of wanting to be an astronaut. But, when I came to my senses during my senior years, I realized there's no school offering aeronautics in Phil. so I decided to take Marine Biology when I will enroll for my college years. I was good in Bio back then, hence taking the course would make me an expert in the field AND I'll get the chance of learning how to swim. Everything went smoothly as I passed a scholarship in the school (MSU-IIT) I'm wanting to study for college which offers the aforementioned course,too.

Enrollment day arrived. My father did not allow me to study in MSU because of the chaos between Muslims and Christians back then. So I got no other option but to study in the university (LSU) situated in my own city. The very first Department the guard pointed was the College of Education, so without much ado, I got a prospectus and enrolled. I never noticed that the prospectus handed to me was for secondary education which required a major subject. It made me ponder whether I'll go for Biology which is closer to Marine Bio or English since literature was my second interest.

Flipping a coin made me settle for English. :) (photo from web)

My more than 4-year old prospectus. Crumpled and nearly rotten ;)

And so a sojourn had started. Despite of not becoming an astronaut or a marine biologist, I successfully managed my chosen course. Instead of doing the moonwalk outside the earth or swimming under the sea, I've done reading. Reading made me go what's beyond the universe and those which are under the sea. I've traveled. I've rode all sorts of spaceships. I've tried all submarines.I've made friends with those splendid astronauts, divers, above all, WRITERS . I was acquainted to those great persons both in stories and histories. We'll, what more could I ask for? ;)

...old  exam permits I've kept :)

. . . of all my 25 English subjects (yes, 25! I don't know how I did all those ^^) ,  English 7n "The Novel" was one of my favorite English subjects. For the entire semester, aside from our assigned novel,  we were required to read the novels  of our classmates and did the extraction of profound quotes/lines. I was tasked to do Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It's the very first novel I've ever read. The novel has it's movie as well so when I did the discussion of my novel to the class, I let them watch the film first. ;)


The novels we did read and study are as follows:

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(hahahahah mine should be first in the list ^^)

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           Click here for remarkable lines from "Pride and Prejudice"


 2. The Tale of Genji by Lady Murashaki Shikibu
 (...the first novel ever written^^)

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 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

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4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain

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 5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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7. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 

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8. Anna Karenina by Leo Toltstoy

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9. My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather

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10. Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

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11. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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12. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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13. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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14. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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Im blithesome I was indulged with these great classical novels which were all well-written. A few made me inspired, and some made me fell in love. They made me admire great characters. They made me travel back to lots of events. And above all, they made me learn a lot out from their simple and unique stories.Truly, reading is incomparable.


At one point, I was able to contemplate that I could probably not read when I'll be outside the earth, for sure I will have to chase my book. I could definitely not read under the sea, too, my book will surely get wet. Therefore I know I've settled for what is the best for me.^^