It’s bad enough being single on Valentine’s Day, but then this joker had to rub it in with this enormous in your face sign board:
I spotted this “unique” wedding proposal / a.k.a must have spent a lot of money on this huge billboard on the way to work on the LDP. At first it brought a smile to my face – what a sweet thing to do right? Propose to your sweet heart on billboard on Vday itself – oh how romantic!But that smile was instantly wiped off my face when I realized that with all the staring that LDP road user’s we’re giving the billboard, a jam was starting to form – curse you Kelly Tan E Li’s boyfriend (soon to be fiance).
Kelly Tan E Li: I’m sorry I had to include your name in the curse directed to your boyfriend but the romantic genius didn’t include his name on the billboard – I had to make a compromise (maybe the extra lettering was over his budget?).
I was positive the newspapers we’re going to have a field day with this tomorrow – it was probably going to be plastered all over the front page, after all aren’t our local papers known to only carry the most important (uncontroversial) news? You really can’t blame them for not giving a wider coverage on the Bersih rally or Hindraf assembly – what’s 40 thousand people in the streets compared to one nerdy looking fellow on a striking white billboard?
True enough, the next day The Star and The Sun carried out the news just as expected – on the front page. I’m pretty sure The Moon would have carried out an article too, but was informed that the publication doesn’t exist.
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I learnt that Kelly’s boyfriend / fiance / guy who posted big proposal on the billboard is actually working in a advertising firm (this reduces his romantic points by -1) and that he comes from quite a rich family (-1 again) I guess when you’re rich – you don’t even have to say those magic words from your mouth. Let the signboard do the talking David say’s.
Like all fairytales, Kelly said yes – did she really have a choice? Only God knows what went through her head when she saw that giant signboard with her name, surname and family name staring down at her. She must have gone “Wtf – kena caught liao” or “Damn it – No wonder he asked for my full name on the IC yesterday”.
So basically everything turned out happily ever after with one big problem. David says he rented the space for about RM40,000 (cough: loser) for a whole month. However I realized that even after March 14th (a date I marked on my calendar as the removal of that jam-causing sign board) the sign board still stayed put. What happend? Wasn’t one month of torture enough?
It’s almost May now – I still see David’s smiling face and those large words plastered on the billboard every single day that I travel to work. No act of nature, and no force of God has managed to take the blastered thing off. I’ve also realized that signboard now comes complete with a logo of a Diamond company – almost making the whole proposal look like a pre-planned act. David you smart-ass business man – it look’s like you’ve got your 40k back from the poor company that actually decided to buy your add. I cant take anymore of it – if I still see this signboard for another month, i’m spending my life savings of RM 40.00 to hire some daring hooligans to vandalize the signboard to the following:
Born and breed in the city of Johor Bahru and currently living in Kuala Lumpur, Raveen Dev is a 25 year old Malaysian and co-founder on the infamous and highly secretive “Teh-Tarik Stories” (which would explain why you’ve never heard of them prior to this).
hahaha…funny as hell post.
when i saw the billboard, i thought the wedding and honeymoon had better rocked enough that it was alright that the 40K couldn’t have been better spent there, or for that matter, on anything else.
….personally, not my thing, that billboard. but heck, not a proposal to me either.
Hahahaha, thats soooooo funny. The “vandalised” signboard I mean.
- MENJ
if not mistaken.. i think this billboard is not the original proposal.. i think the jewelry company bought the idea and use his face to advertise for their jewelleries. Am now sure thou.. cheers! am from johor too..
You saw the company advertising diamonds on the billboard now? I suspect it’s a ploy all along, that a man who doesn’t even seem to be a millionaire would spend 40K on a proposal.If I were the gf, I would slap him senseless for not putting a downpayment on an apartment or a car for me.
I think Klaw could be right about the ploy thing… it doesn’t seem to far fetch for a guy who “say’s” he spent 40k on a billboard (he probably got a discount for sure…)
Thanks for the comments – looking forward to reading all your blogs too!