Now 7 years later, we are new parents to our lovely daughter Alexandra and still loving being in Japan!

My husband and I met when we were in university together. We were both taking the same class. : )

My story….TS and I met purely by chance on the first day of September in 2007, when I had only been in London for about six weeks. It was at a party at a bar in Notting Hill, which I was about to leave and he had just arrived at, so another five minutes either side and we would have missed each other! It was also very interesting because he had only come to the party to drop his sister off, and when he heard he had to pay £10 to get into the bar he wasn’t interested, said goodnight to his sister and walked off! He was almost back at his car (a good 10 minute walk away) when he heard someone running behind him. It was the bouncer, who said that he’d let him for free. He’d run after him all that way, to let him in for free!! Weird, huh?!

So anyway, I was introduced to him just as I was about to leave, but then we started talking and I knew within a few minutes I wasn’t going anywhere! I remember us just having the most amazing, fascinating conversation, where it was like everything and everyone else in the room was blurred or on mute, and all I could see and hear was him. Before I knew it, it was nearly 1am and I had no idea how to get home, as the trains were now finished for the night! He offered to give me a lift home, and so we drove through London and he showed me parts that I hadn’t seen before at night, like Sloane Square and the Chelsea Bridge, and finally we ended up back at my house in Clapham – after nearly two hours (we got a bit lost! I had never driven there before). I wished I could have stayed out with him all night, I didn’t want the conversation to end! But we swapped numbers and said we should catch up sometime, I had no idea that anything would come of it…..but the next day he texted me, and we sent each other bits of our writing, and talked nearly every day until we finally met up again on the following Saturday for dinner….and yes, basically since then, we have barely left each other’s side! It was so unexpected, as I had finally decided to enjoy being single and concentrate on me, but looking back, I think the timing was perfect.

Like you, as crazy as this sounds, I think I’ve loved him from that very first night.

I read blogs through a reader (google reader) which I check everyday so I know who has updated- I think a lot of these bloggers might do the same or something similar which is why they get to the posts quickly!

Don`t worry- I love comments all the same!!!!

It is funny some of you commented on the photo- it is really old. Shun was sitting beside me just before and said ” That is from Aneki`s wedding 1 and a half years ago” and I corrected him and said ” 2 and a half years ago you mean” and he did not believe me. Alas he has a lot to learn still because everyone knows females are always right!

It was taken October 2006 at Shun`s brothers wedding! Shun was a bit chubbier then- it was during his stopped smoking stage- I wish he hadn`t started smoking again and lost all the weight!! I am working on him again though! hehe- We have a deal going!

My husband and I were introduced through a good friend, a guy I had actually been on again off again with for a couple of years. The friend was a drummer and one night my girlfriend and I went to hear him play at a local bar, and my future-husband was the vocalist. I realized later that I’d actually met him once two years earlier, but our paths had never crossed again until that night. Later on we moved on, my friends and I, to our local expat bar, and I asked my drummer buddy if the vocalist would be coming by. My friend took the clue and called him out with some not so subtle hinting. We ended up chatting for hours. The next day pretty much the same thing happened, but I let him give me a ride home on his moped (I know, right?) I was set to go to Laos pretty much the next day after that, and I thought about him the whole time I was there –even brought him back a t-shirt. When I got back from Laos I called him right away and we were together from that point on!