Her reaction to i129f approval

[Andrew and Zihui 10]

This is a follow up to my post from a couple weeks ago. It turns out my fiancée wrote a journal entry about the day I told her our application was approved and we wanted to share it with you guys. The original post is here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/443586-i129f-approved-d-csc-april-filer/#entry6394406

24^th July 2013 23:34nz time

Andrew and I are two totally different types of people, and we all know that. However, I am so impressed because he knows me so well that he can use my personality to trick me into doing things in accordance with his plan. After second thoughts, maybe it’s not such a bad thing.

I had a boring and busy day as usual, and after explaining my job and working hours to Andrew last night, I am very relieved that he didn’t really bother me today.

Starting from this afternoon 15:46: He said he made me something cool but I have to open it up on the computer. Because I was still at work, he said wait until I get home. I totally ignored those messages because it is really bad for my boss to see I am doing personal things during work time. I was not so worried about Andrew being mad because in the morning about 11:40 I told him that I am busy and didn’t want my cellphone to ring while I was working. Even though I am not that busy all the time, I really don’t want to be too involved with personal things especially while I am at work. As for the cool thing he made me, I thought it was going to be a professional website for me. I made Andrew a very bad website for our engagement yesterday and sent it to him. I thought he was going to surprise me with similar things.

He waited patiently and sent something else at 21:45. “Only 1 more hour till my lovely Zihui gets home.” I sent him a smiley face to tell him that I saw his messages.

According to my message, I got home at roughly 22:40. I just sent him one message and then I went to shower. During this time, Andrew kept sending me messages asking me to get on skype and he even used “please”. 23:00roughly after 20mins waiting I finally finished my shower and got online. I explained to him that my fallen hair got stuck in the drain and water wasn’t flowing down, so I had to grab a pair of gloves.

As soon as I logged on, Andrew sent me an excel document. In fact I was kinda disappointed and confused when I saw the excel file. I was thinking maybe he made something “cool” about his job or some kind of flow chart. I am not interested in some of his “cool” things at all, therefore I didn’t pay attention to this file.

I opened it too early before I got the complete file, therefore it took me a while to finally be able to see it.

This screen shot was taken after I figured out what‘s going on. (See attachment) In the original version, all the letters on the top right hand side boxes were replaced with question marks. I thought he wanted me to find the relationship between numbers and fill in the blank. A math game was what I had in mind. The question marks were to hint what are the letters under those numbers.

It didn’t take me too long to figure out what the letters were. However, I had a hard time putting them into the box on the right hand side. I was not really sure if I should capitalize the letters or not. Luckily Andrew was doing a video call with me, and he asked me to read out loud and he had been giving me hints when I was supposed to figure it out by myself.

It took me a while to finally understand in what way I should be putting the letters in the box. After I figured out the letters they didn’t really make sense. Therefore I thought I should put them in the box so that they look like something such as “I love you”.

As I starting to put letters in order according to the numbers, number 1 is not at the first place, therefore I was very confused, because it is supposed to be at the first place. Therefore in order to give myself a better understanding of this puzzle, I did a very stupid thing, which is I copied every letter according to the order. Even though it doesn’t make sense, I put them in according to sequential order.

Meanwhile Andrew got very impatient, and he asked me to show him my screen. After he saw what I did to his numbers and letters, he asked me to put the letters in the box accordingly, instead of put every letter in order. Then I started to think that if after I put the letters in, all the letters were going to show a pattern that is not a word, but if you put all the letters in a specific shape, they are going to make up a picture or look like some word instead of being some word.

Anyway Andrew had to help me. I started to put the very first letter in the number 1 place. Which totally doesn’t make sense, as I kept going, the puzzle itself was becoming more confusing, because I was very afraid that I had the wrong detail of the work he wants. Such as the last one. He actually bought his ticket to China in November, but he came to China in December.

As I moved forward slowly, most of my focus is on the puzzle questions itself instead of the final box. Therefore not until the last moment, did I realized that the word is “approved”. When I looked at the box again my heart was so excited and I couldn’t stop looking at it over again and again. I had to use my hands to cover my mouth so that Andrew didn’t see the big O shape of my mouth. Tears were starting to come out of my eyes. We have been waiting for so long, and finally got approved! I will never forget that moment. I also will always remember that Andrew has been working so hard to make me the chart and had to keep the secret and wait for me to get home. He must have been very excited himself too, but he waited for me to get home so patiently, and I was so stupid to notice his intention. If Andrew and I exchanged places, Andrew would quickly notice what I was trying to tell him. He would ask me “have we been approved? Otherwise you wouldn’t make random cool things.” I walked through the puzzle exactly as Andrew planned. He knows me too well and he knew I would react like that.

I felt that I was surrounded by a thick coat of warm chocolate. Andrew’s loving heart once again proved it is so right to marry him. No boy I have ever known would spend so much time coming up with a puzzle to show me something. Besides the puzzle he created goes through the sweet things and valuable memories of both of us. It is so nice to look back. I mean for the very first letter in a, he could have used “the first letter in a sweet red fruit.” Or something like that. But he is so sweet because he knows I like WoW very much so he used WASD to hint me. (WASD controls movements in WoW).

All in all, this was the greatest day in my life so far, and I have never been that happy .

Finished at 6/AUG/2013 11:44 NZtime.

*Grammar Edited by Andrew

Edited August 6, 2013 by Andrew and Zihui