CARISA LEE

carisa.lee@cnc3.co.tt

In a time when mil­lions of lives are be­ing cut short be­cause of a dis­ease, many words are be­ing left un­said and love is not be­ing ex­pressed. That’s why one lo­cal cou­ple de­cid­ed to put all their love cards on the ta­ble now.

“You just know, you does just know,” Ren­nie Ram­phal said.

Af­ter three months of dat­ing, Ram­phal pro­posed to his girl­friend Sasha Ram­cha­ran.

“I want­ed that in my life that kind of per­son, that per­son­al­i­ty just be­ing her and the way she thinks,” he added.

But his pro­pos­al was not done in the tra­di­tion­al way, even though that was his orig­i­nal plan.

“It was sup­posed to be like a lil ro­man­tic scene where flow­ers, mu­sic play­ing, I might sing a song for her, play the gui­tar but every­thing I tried to put to­geth­er, ac­tu­al­ly I was mov­ing lil iffy, she fig­ured out,” he said.

“I wasn’t re­al­ly dig­ging up, you know, he tried to hide stuff but be­cause we don’t have any­thing hid­ing amongst our­selves… it wasn’t in­ten­tion­al,” his girl­friend Ram­cha­ran added.

To en­sure she didn’t sus­pect any­thing, Ram­phal ditched the ro­mance for sus­pense and had a po­lice of­fi­cer act as though he was ar­rest­ing him.

In an ap­prox­i­mate­ly six-minute video post­ed to so­cial me­dia, Ram­phal had a po­lice of­fi­cer search his work truck for “il­le­gal drugs.”

“He said that how he get a re­port that I trans­port­ing drugs,” Ram­phal said in the video.

Not long af­ter, the lone po­lice of­fi­cer pulled out a sack of white sub­stance.

“It was salt,” Ram­phal clar­i­fied.

The po­lice of­fi­cer then put Ram­phal un­der ar­rest, “get on your knees,” he shout­ed and that was when he pulled out a box with the ring.

“I was shak­ing, I was think­ing that he was just try­ing to get it done be­cause he was plan­ning so long and he was us­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty as best as he can, it was when every­body start­ed to laugh then I re­alised what was hap­pen­ing,” Ram­cha­ran said.

She said she was re­al­ly sur­prised.

“He lucky I said yes,” she joked.

Many peo­ple shared the same emo­tion on­line.

JH said, “Soooo cute and anx­i­ety-dri­ven. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the cou­ple. All the best on you’ll union.”

And Nicholas said, “re­al­ly had me fooled, con­grat­u­la­tions.”

How­ev­er, the cou­ple did not think their video would go vi­ral but just like their con­nec­tion some­times the best things hap­pen un­ex­pect­ed­ly.

“Every­thing is just falling in­to place and I know this is the right de­ci­sion that the both of us are mak­ing,” Ram­cha­ran said.

They plan to wed in March.