I have a thing for drummer boys…

Ian and I started dating since November 2004. At that time I just broke up with my ex of almost 5 years and he just broke up with his ex a couple weeks before I did. So our friendship grew more out of our support for each other…

During the first few days of Hari Raya in 2004, I went to Penang with my family. Ian is also from Penang so he too, balik kampung for raya.

After few days there, I was bored, so Ian asked me out. I tot, no harm “friends” hanging out right? So he came over to the hotel, picked me up and went out. He took me to an open house, one of his friends. Which was fun. Anything is fun when there’s Penang food involved!!! Some more home cooked!!! Yummay…

The next night, we went out for dinner (food, food, Penang food). Not just the two of us, but with his friends. After shopping at Feringghi walk, I tot it would be nice to take a walk by the beach. U know… just to talk and stuff :P

A funny thing happened that night. As we got there, we walked past a group of people having fun, playing by the beach. Some children were laughing and I can see some adults fishing or something. Then suddenly…

“KAK NADIA!!!!”, said my lil sister.

Kantoi! Lol. I know. I know. What was I thinking right? Want to bercinta at a place where I knew my family was going be at. (For the record, I tot everyone would be asleep already by that time!)

Hmphh…So anyways… everyone was there. My mom, my stepdad, my sis, my uncle, his wife and their two daughters, my maksu… oh gosh. (But we still found a nice place to sit and talk).

I guess it was the moonlight, sea breeze, I dunno. But I fell HARD for him that night. The warm tingly, feeling you get when you fall in love. Sigh… We talked and talked, and I knew that there was no turning back. Fast forward a few months, drama here, drama there. We became an item on December 1, 2004.

Now comes the reason why I wrote this whole post. (Peeps, please prepare a bag or something coz I think you are gonna barf after reading this… or tissues.. :P)

I’m writing this post is because… after almost 5 years down the road (and a shitload of couple issues) I just recently started to feel the kinda love I felt the first time I fell in love with him…

Not that I didn’t love him throughout the years… but I’m starting to get that warm and tingly feeling again every time were together. I don’t know what he did, what I did. But I really feel like whatever shit that happened in the past, really meant nothing. And I’m really glad that he stayed by me through good, the bad times and the really REALLY bad times. I guess it just makes us stronger.

So to my dear Ian Johan Ariff, my drummer boy, my best friend, my husband… my life. I love you with all my heart and soul.