Gen

First time I saw Gen…
In my class, he’s a new student just got transferred from another school.

My first impression towards him…
He’s control macho kind of guy. Snobbish kot? He always appeared loss in class though actually he’s very smart. Truthfully, I never have thought that I’ll marry him 11 years later!

How we become friends…
We became friends because of the curly-red-haired Mamat. Back then I don’t have any guy friends and Mamat and Gen were among my first guy friends. Yes I admit it that I’m very shy. LOL. Knowing Gen, he was a reserved guy while Mamat was loud and talkative and despite him being very annoying and irritating most of the time, we became fast friends, good friends.

How we clicked…
When I studied A Level in Cheras, he studied in Jalan Semarak. I wrote him a letter (not a big thingy as I also write to bunch of our friends) and told him I’m in KL, then one day he just showed up in my hostel.

How we spend time together…
Both me and Gen hang out together a lot, we have our routine, we watched movies every Wednesday, we shared roti john at Dataran Merdeka every Saturday night during the pasar malam, we watched life bands there, I cheered for him in soccer game, I’m thankful to him as he took me away from Ateh’s wedding as I was crying I’m-loosing-my-sister-to-her-husband. I laugh at him when he overslept in the bus that he has to walk all the way from Pandan Indah to my hostel to get his motorbike. I cried for him during his play (not because of his acting but mainly because it must be embarrassing acting as a g*yboy!!).

When he asked me to be his girlfriend…
After Arms dumped me for another girl in his college (who happen to be our ex-schoolmate and Arms’ best friend’s girlfriend. Yikes! Our life just revolves around each other). Please bear in mind that I’m only 19 and I thought it’s the end of the world, or at least my world-lah.

How I reacted to that…
Mainly speechless? Stammered?

How he reacted to my reaction?
He disappeared for three weeks.

When did I accept the title as his girlfriend?
After he was mad (practically yelling) at me for match-making him with another friend and his words finally got stuck inside my head.

Gen as a boyfriend…
Reliable. When I’m with him I feel safe, I don’t have to worry about what to wear, where to eat or what movie to watch. It’s like going out with a good friend. And at one time he caught me wearing a same shirt for two nights in a row when we went out for dinner. LOL. And another time he caught me wearing the same shirt that Acedie have wore the night before. LOEL. I can sing Ella’s song at the top of my (sore) lungs in his car and he can simply ignore me. Gosh! I still cannot believe I do that. He’s love-able.

The most painful experience with him…
When we broke up. Mainly because I don’t want to be engaged to him. Well, actually I want to… and it’s not like I cannot make up my mind. I don’t want to be engaged for unspecified period of time. I have seen how my cousin annuls his engagement of four years only because they grew bitter apart and how it affected both families. At that time, he’s furthering his study while I’ve already working.

How he asked me to marry him?
We were outside my rented house in Shah Alam. We were waiting for Acedie at the pavement when he suddenly said “Mak aku kata ok kalau kita nak kawin” and I was like “Whaaaaaaaat?” Yes we are still calling each other aku-engkau instead of saya-awak or some other endearments. Totally unromantic!! I simply told him “Nak ajak anak orang kawen, ajak la betul-betul”. He laughed out loud and then he squat (not kneed) on the pavement, holding my hands in his hands and say “Sudi tak kau jadi permaisuri hidup aku?” Well…