THOSE WERE THE DAYS
WHEN I FINALLY…
22 years ago, in a rural primary
school a young girl fell in love with this famous young boy in her school. This boy was popular because he was the only
one wearing a yellow necktie at school as he was the head prefect. One day, this girl managed to get the boy’s
telephone number. After school, with
only 20 cents with her, she rushed to the public phone and dialed the
number. TUT TUT TUT…her heart was
unsettled waiting for the phone to be picked up at the other side. “Hello” It was the boy’s voice.
“Err...hello…can you tell me teacher’s Dora phone number?” This question
suddenly pops out somewhere out of the blue.
“Hah? Who is this” asked the boy.
And that was the end of the conversation as the girl hung up the
phone. The girl remains the boy’s secret
admirer until the last day of their primary school day together.
In secondary school, both of them
were at the same school again. During
the first day in secondary school, this girl with her two best friends were
walking heading to the new school and this girl noticed that this boy was
walking alone 500 meters behind them.
“mmm…let him walk alone, I don’t want to admire him anymore. He is too arrogant” murmured the girl, but
she never know that it was actually the final day of the boy to be in that area
as the next day he will be transferred to another school following his
family. That was the last time she met
the boy. She never had the chance to
tell the boy her feeling toward him. The
secret remains neatly folded until they meet again back in 1998.
Well, a year before they meet
again somewhere in 1997, this girl found out that one of her classmates once
was the boy’s ex-classmates. So, this
girl took this opportunity by asking her classmates about the boy’s new
address. That was the second phase of
their relationship. They wrote to each
other for a year and decided to meet before the last term of secondary school
ended. The dated took place in Centre
Point, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Still, no
special words were uttered during the dating.
They were just an ordinary old friends met together and chatted. After meeting this boy after a very long
period of time, the special feeling inside this girl toward the boy had slowly
faded. Since that day, they lost
contact. No phone numbers were
exchanged, no more letters being mailed to each other.
Dear readers, I am sure you’re guessing it right. Yes, that young lady is me. Down memories lane, I
must say that how wonderful life is and after all, I learned and admitted that
this quotes are really true; To love is nothing, to be loved is something but
to love and to be loved by someone you love is everything.
In 2007, I still remember
vividly. I had to go to Labuan for a
trip and I was quite reluctant to go because I was replacing my friend who was
unable to make it. The trip was
exciting. We were actually escorting our
student to SESB Patau-Patau, Labuan for a study tour. We spent about 3 days in Labuan. On the last day, we were sitting in the
lobby, reading a newspaper while waiting for a check out, I heard this voice
and it was quite familiar. I looked
around to find where the voice was coming from.
Then, as I expected, came the man approached me, “If I’m not mistaken, you are Daily
right?”. “Err…yes..and you are Clarence?
Am I right?” My turn guessing his name. Of course, I was quite unsure because we
haven’t met for 9 years. “Oh…what a
coincidence! What are you doing here?”
He asked happily. “We are escorting our
student here. And you? What r you doing
here?” “Mmm…I was forced by my friend to accompany him here. Well, we just want to have fun. Oh ya, can I have your phone number?” Without delaying the time, he asked for my
phone number and I willingly gave him.
During the journey from Labuan to Monumbuk by ferry, he sat next to me
and we had a chat until the ferry arrived to Monumbuk.
After we met that day, he kept on
messaging me. I don’t really feel excited
to reply his messages. If he messages me
3 times, I will only reply once. I still
remember, one of my friends, Grace told me.
“Don’t close your heart; give a chance for those who tried to get closed
to you.” In the meantime, I kept on
praying to God. I prayed, “God if he is
the one then please humble my heart to accept him”. And
God replied my prayer. Within a couple
of days, I began to miss his message. I
was the one who messaged him first and we declared through phone. I was happy and he was extremely happy
too. This was how his response when I said
I had that feeling on him. “Yahoo..ya be
da be du. I’m the happiest man in the
world. I’ll be smiling all day long”. Our relationship ran smoothly. We got engaged at the end 2007, and got
married in 2009, on Valentines’ day. And
to my surprise, he was actually my secret admirer too while we were in our
primary school. He told me, during the
very last day he was in Keningau, the day I saw him walked alone behind us, he
was actually holding a letter, hoping to give to me before they transferred but
he didn’t have the courage to give it to me.
Oh…Unbelievable...what a coincidence!
There was a Malay famous saying, I was not actually clapping with one
hand during that time.
Dear readers, those were the days when I finally found my Mr. Right. God had prepared our destiny. If she or he is meant to be with you, it doesn’t
matter how far you’re separated with your Mr.Right, someday, somehow, you shall
be unified together by God. Just believe
in Him. And to me the greatest gifts
that God had given to us are our two cute sons, deo and cj. I am truly blessed to have these wonderful gifts;
three loveable persons in my life. I
will love them until the very last breath of my life. They are the reasons for me to keep on living
and always wanted to be better than I was before. Thank you Lord.
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