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The Proposal

November 13, 2005

Well, it all went fairly smoothly. She said yes. She likes the ring.

Brad was there taking pictures. He got some good ones. Check out my Flickr set. (You need to have a Flickr account and be in my friends list to see the photos.)

Wilson made the good suggestion of videoing the whole thing. Unfortunately I hadn’t thought of that, and time was short at that point. Lenny lent me his camera, which took decent (albeit small) video.

Micah took 4 short clips at the scene, and I edited them together and added subtitles with Windows Movie Maker. The result:

Proposal (English).wmv

Happy times.

Update: Song Shen is not unenthusiastic in the video. It’s just that she was really surprised and embarrassed to be the focus of attention in a public place. She tried to deal with the awkwardness with humor, which may make her seem less than enthusiastic. I can assure you that is not the case. She watched the video like 20 times later that night. She was thrilled.