Highlight of the week/month/whatever: Ah Boss proposed! Haha.
Was quite a nicely done affair. He made me get WMWMWM out of the way by meeting her up and shop after work. We told her it was a campus thing held in church building. And Boss even said to her that it was a 'campus agreement' to be formal. Thankfully she never suspected anything though she asked a host of difficult questions, which I answered rather vaguely.
So Boss aired a home made video with loads of friends inside (me not included, sadly), and proposed with flowers and a ring in front of the whole crowd of us - church friends and their mutual friends. :D Quite heartwarming, and while they were in bliss, we were busy discussing the process of the whole thing being pulled off. It took about a month plus to prepare. I must say Boss has quite a good eye for the diamond ring. He did loads of research too.
Have to hand it to WMWMWM for even attempting to think of ways to 'make it difficult' for him despite all this being sprung on to her as a surprise haha. I won't go into details but all I could say is if she knew he was proposing beforehand, Boss will never get the 'yes' as easily as that.
So this is another of my close friends getting engaged (and eventually married), and I'm really happy to witness the proposal. In fact this is the first and only proposal I've ever witnessed. It makes me feel like we're all really grown adults now - planning about money, housing, marriage etc. No kids in my plans though. Still have not changed my mind about that, and don't think I'll ever do.
Another thing is I just got my first ever performance bonus and pay increment! Although it's not really a lot as it has been pro-rated, it's still a significant amount of money. And it means I've advanced somewhat in my job. I'm really thankful for the improvements I've been showing lately, even though they are really small things such as speed in preparation and accuracy/consistency in analysis. It actually shows that I could be okay with hands-on testing (that I've been despairing over the first few months), and could actually achieve quite good results. :D A baby-step for many, but a mile-stone for me.
And finally, today I missed the last bus (didn't know it left so early) to work, and had to cab. However, it so happened that another colleague from the production plant missed it too, so I shared a cab with him. In the end he insisted in paying the full fare for the cab and would not let me pay him. It was both very nice and very embarrassing at the same time, considering it's the first time I've properly conversed with this guy. :S But it shows that there are nice people everywhere and I'm very thankful for their presence :)
