A few days before Valentines, we got a call from a young man who booked APO for a most unusual engagement: he wanted us to sing one song to his estranged wife on his behalf. When the call came, we were so delighted that we immediately said yes.
Yesterday, at 9:15 AM, Danny, Boboy and I met this young man at a Starbucks in Makati. He said that he had to make a gigantic effort to win his wife of two years back. They seemed to have made of mess of things big time. We did not care to probe more and find out the details. He said he would be happy if this major effort of inviting us to sing to his wife would result in her saying yes to even just having coffee with him. Lunch, or dinner will hopefully follow in the future and if his plans and prayers turn out right, he would like to have another weddimng ceremony with her to start anew.
The plan was simple. Someone would go before us to the girl’s office which was a building across Starbucks, approach her office cubicle with a bunch of flowers. A minute later, we would enter and sing accompanied by just a boombox, the song “PANALANGIN”.
At around 9:30, a messenger bearing a bouquet of red roses proceeded to her office and promptly handed her the flowers. Before she knew it, Danny, Boboy and I were there near her cubicle serenading her. The sight of seeing her with the expressions of shock, delight and being overwhelmed was simply priceless! Althroughout the song, she blushed, sang a few lines, and beamed a shy smile.
Soon after we started singing, everyone in the office stopped working, got out of their cubicles, brought out their cellphone cameras to capture the event.
After the song, amid shouts of ‘more’ from her smiling officemates, we kissed her on the cheek and whispered, ‘somebody loves you’, and promptly exited her office.
Back at Starbucks, the young man who hired us for this unique gig was so happy that everything worked. We thanked each other and wished him the best of luck. From there, we proceeded to Bellevue Hotel in Alabang for our Valentine rehearsals and show that evening.
A few hours after the serenade yesterday, we got a text from the young man to tell us his wife called him to thank him and that they had scheduled lunch!!!
Ahhh…. it’s nice to be Cupid!
This is really sweeeeeet…
That’s sooo sweet!
APO! Still a bunch of hopeless romantics, after all these years. God bless you and may you never, ever change.
It shows us yet another dimmension of you and the Apo. I know most people wouldn’t have bothered to do that. Aint love Grand Jim!
that was soooo cool! grand gestures such as what the man did for her estranged wife is a bit unheard of for shy filipinos. thank you APO for doing this for the couple. hope they work things out =)
Ahhh!! Aray ku po! Nilalanggam ako sa tamis! 🙂 Awww… Good job Jim, medyo naluha ako dun (look up. tumutulo..).
Love is wonderful, and makes people do crazy things. And the whole world loves the craziness!
awww..!!! sweetest valentine story for the year…
Hi Jim,
what a nice story. Thanks for sharing. Sweet!
i don’t celebrate valentine’s day, but this is just sweet. ^_^
wow… to have the gift of making people happy… grabe para kayong angels tito jim or santa claus….. hehe
hi jim, that’s really really cute! for the guy to make the effort to book you and for APO to serenade her! hope you had a great valentine’s day!
i’ve been wondering about that kind of service…”singing telegram”. I’ve only seen that in the movies, specifically Charlie’s Angels. It was a really great thing to do…the guy thinking of doing that for his estranged wife so that she could even just have coffee with him and for you…”The” Apo Hiking Society to comply to that request. That was a breakthrough! God bless you guys for saving a marriage. I acknowledge you guys for being extraordinary!
I love this story and even included/shared it in our blog, hope it is just okay, if not will take it out…I enjoy reading your postings.
wow.. wow.. and more wow.. heartwarming..
hi jim i love that little love tale, aren’t you and the rest of APO very privilege indeed to be instrumental… because you have the gift of music, indeed music is powerful. thanks for sharing!
Wow! that was so sweet! Grabe ang galing galing po talaga ng APO… Say Hi! to my former boss Danny po!
oh my this is soooooo sweet!!!
That is really very sweet! For the guy to go through the effort of winning back his wife and for the APO to give in to his request of helping him do just that…kudos to all of you!