Well here is our story

Well here is our story.

In October 2001, bored as usual, I went on the net to chat for a bit...

Did I say bored ? That should change soon, but how little did I know on that day.

In a chatroom, I am always using Mirc, Dalnet a person asked me for a private chat. Yup I know them,

we all do (don't we ?). How does it most often go ? Hi, ctc ? (ctc = care to chat) Sure, why not.

ASL ? (ASL = Age, Sex, Location).... But not this time, we just talked about all sorts of things, what a change.

Then she had to go, time up and no more money to feed the ever hungry Internet Cafe.

Next we met a few days later... chat again, it started to get more interesting.

We exchanged phone numbers and finally photos... ohh my god I thought, look here:

so well, we continued... chatting, phone calls, many phone calls, a bloody lot of calls hahaha,

and many many $$$ later we decided that it would be nice if we could meet.

Now you need to understand that Joyce is a university graduate and works as a teacher in a school.

Her records as clean as a whistle, no money problems either, but still our government told her:

"The reason you gave to visit Australia does not seem to be genuine"

Whatever that means...

That did not work now did it ? so more calls and chats, letters and E-Mails...

In July 2002 we decided that the best way to meet would be if I would fly over to Manila, Philippines.

You should know, I suffer from fear of height and flying is surely not my fav. past time. But the things we do.

My job prevented me from spending x-mass with Joyce, so plans were made to visit her in February, 2003.

Armed with some Valium, gifts and some fresh clothing hahaha I only had to change 1 thing:

From this:
into this:

my beloved beard, one snip and it was all gone...

Well one has to do as one is told, right ?

And after some hours flying I finally landed in Manila. sure I had the words prepared I was going to say,

sure I was calm, about as calm as a boat by wind 12 !!!

But nobody told me, that there are about 60 million people at that airport and how was I supposed to find

her ? Then in a huge crowd of people I spotted a face, HER face !!! Gone are the words I had in my mind,

gone are all the good ideas, gone am I....

I saw her eyes and just drowned in them, I walked towards her...

and all that was in my mind was not what I had in mind a few moments earlier, so I just said:

Ohhh my God, you are so beautiful!

With that we flew into each others arms and just stood there for what seemed hours.

Our taxi was waiting and some 500 peso later (about AU$17) we arrived at our hotel.

I will try not to bore you to death, so I make things short.

On February 2003, Valentines Day, I proposed to Joyce and as you guessed already, her answer was

a simple: Yes.

After long and stressy preparations, we got finally married on February 21, 2003.

And here is our baby !