Ng popped the question in January last year while on holiday with friends at Yangmingshan in Taiwan.
“I was thinking, if I want to propose overseas, why not find a place you can’t find in Singapore?” he recounted.
Because “she has a very accurate sixth sense”, he told her it was their group of about 20 friends who wanted to go on a casual holiday.
“I’m not a very romantic person. So, it’s pretty easy for me to surprise her,” he said.
At a scenic spot in the national park, he went down on one knee. But, he didn’t propose with a ring.
“She doesn’t wear rings. So, I proposed with a (Cartier) watch that she’d been telling me she liked for a while,” Ng said. “I thought it would be good to surprise her with something she wants.”
Up until the proposal, one of his friends had been entrusted with picking up the watch and keeping it safe. “So, he was very stressed over the whole trip, because he had to bring it everywhere in a backpack,” Ng chuckled.
Another friend acted as the couple’s photographer, capturing the moment for memory.
Having proposed on screen more times than he can remember, “I thought it would be easy. But the actual feeling is very different,” he laughed. “I was very nervous about whether she would find out. And, my friends are all normal people – they don’t act. They overacted! I was like, ‘No, bro. Don’t do that!’”
The only non-fairytale part of the proposal was that “she was a little pissed off because she didn’t dress up. I did hint to her before we left the hotel, ‘Do you want to wear something different?’ And, in the car up, she was sleeping, so she thought she looked unglamorous.”
