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Thursday August 11, 1994
I know I haven't written in a WHILE, but I figure today's definitely a day to remember. Today I asked Tina Chang to go out with me... and she said yes!
This is how it began: tonight was a singspiration practice for the YG and CG beach retreat (at Long Beach, NC). We had the practice at Emory's place and it was with Dave Chiang, Yvonne, Emory, Tina and me. But before the practice, Tina invited me over to her place for dinner. I arrived at 6:30 (half hour late... whoops, but she said to come after work and don't hurry). Juliet and Liani (her two housemates) were there too, Liani cooked some chili, and Tina cooked some chicken dish with vegatables and cream of chicken mixed in. We had that with rice, and she made some corn too.
Anyway, Juliet ate with us, and we talked about some of Shu- huan's philiosophies, like when one of his friends asked "how was your day today" to him, he got all infactuated with it and all. Oh, we got into that conversation, because when I came in, Juliet asked how my day was. So, then we got into the conversation about how you know you like someone... basically, when you notice that a person leaves or enters a room... like the example I used is when someone is leading singspiration and a girl he likes leaves the room to go to the bathroom, the person doesn't want to play anymore... I mean, why continue singspiration, the girl has left (ha ha).
Well, you get the point... we laughed about it for a while. Anyway, we invited Juliet to the singspiration practice.. and we got there at 8:pm... whoops it was supposed to start at 7:30. Dave, Emory, and Jon were already there. We sang some songs from my list.. basically some new and old ones which I felt we needed practice in. Tina and Juliet taught us a song "Good Morning Lord". And after singspiration, we putzed around w/ Yvonne's keyboard for a little while.
At around 10:pm, we left the apt... I asked Tina if she was doing anything after this... she said no, so I asked if we could go out for some ice cream... she told me she'd have to drop off Juliet first. I felt good about this, since it sort of meant she wanted to be alone with me like I wanted to be alone with her. During the summer, Tina and I got very close to each other, spending a LOT of time Jogging, seeing movies, watching TV, hanging out at her apt, eating dinners together, etc... some were with the group, but I gather we both had an interest for each other.
So we dropped Juliet off and went to Goodberries right down the street from where Tina lives. We started telling stories. Tina had blueberry concrete ice cream, and I had butterscoth w/ almonds and spanish nuts... we sat at this table alone... I thought it was really nice to be alone with her again... we hadn't done that for about a week, since the last weekend I went back to NY to see Aunty Teresa.
Anyway, we talked about random things, and Tina kept asking for stories from me, so I finally got to the point... I told her "remember the thing I was telling you and Juliet about how you like a person... that when the girl leaves, you want to drop everything?" and Tina was like "yeah". I said to her, I am like that right now... she pressed on and asked who it is... I told her "you". And she smiled and said she felt the same way.
I was so relieved, since we also talked about rejection ealier that night and how awful it felt... I was really relieved. Anyway, we were quiet for a little while, and I told her the very first time I started liking her was the last time she came down here... I was singing "I surrender all" and she filled in the blank parts with "boom boom boom boom"... I thought it was really cute. She said the first time she liked me was the first time she came down here as well.. (sure, sure, sure... just kidding!)
Anyway, we talked about further random things, and I then asked her if she would go out with me... well actually, I first told her I hesitated about telling her I was interested, since she was leaving so soon (next week on sat morning)... I didn't want to tie her down when she entered her senior year, and especially on her decisions after senior year. I told her I'd understand if she didn't want to be tied down, but basically I was asking her if she wanted to go out.
She asked me if I could handle a long distance relationship... I told her "I haven't been able to before"... but I think with maturity and trust... and being able to give our relationship us to God... I think I can do it. So she asked "it's up to me?" and I said "yeah"... and she smiled again, looked at me for a while, and told me "I think I'd like to start a relationship"....
Oh, I told her I think a lot of guys are interested in her down here... but she said "I'm only interested in one guy (me)". Yea! So, we are now going out. Wow, I can't believe all this fantasizing and all has finally come true.... I really don't know if it's going to work out, but I'm going to try hard.
And I drove her home... it was about 11:45pm. Anway, I write this about 12:45, and hour later... For an hour, I'm been going out with Tina.. yea! She's really great... she's outgoing, friendly, smart, pretty, cute, great sense of humor, we have jogging in common, she pretty much has me wrapped around her finger... I really wish she has the same feelings for me.
If I could only know. God, please make me give this relationship to you.
August, 1994
The second co-op term had been very special to me. I got to know most of the people in our DIMSUM (the career group) very well. We practically hung out together 5 out of the 7 days... jogging together, playing the guitars together, eating together, watching the movies together, playing the bridge together..of course, going to church together.
But the most special part was that Joe and I had gotten to be really good friends. He taught me how to play the guitar, and we spent much free time exchanging the praise songs and just chatting with each other. Joe always stayed over at my place Sunday afternoon (before the DIMSUM gets together for dinner again). We would sit on my couch and do those stupid quizzes from different magazines.
I had asked God why He puts such a sweet guy in my life and then I had to leave for school. ;( 'Joe sure will make a luckiest girl out of someone', I said to myself. It was about one week before I went back to college, and I wanted to spend as much time as possible with Joe to cherish our wonderful friendship.
We talked about relationships all the time... about our past relationships, how we knew we like someone, blah blah blah, you know the rest. Joe is pretty nosy... He pretty much 'digged' out all the information about my past. I didn't mind though; he has that kind of charm. But this day (Aug 11, 1994), he seemed to be pouring out all the 'juicy' stories about himself. After dinner with Juliet and practice with the DIMSUM group, we went to ice cream by ourselves. He told me there is someone he likes now, so I was quite excited pressing him to tell me who the girl is. When he told me it was me, I was kinda shock. (well, actually other people had asked me about us and 'hinted' me that he likes me)... but hearing that from him, was a very special moment for me.
And when Joe asked me out, I knew why God has placed him in my life: God is blessing me to be the LUCKIEST girl in the entire world. I don't know where this relationship will lead to, but I know that this will be my first relationship where the both of us puts God in the center, and I will never take Joe for granted because he is a gift from God to me.
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