meoww β™‘
to my favourite human ✦

Happy Birthday,
my Meoww 🐾

A little scroll-through of us,
made with love, chai, and far too many cats.

↓ click anywhere β€” i meow! πŸ”Š ↓
scroll, my love 🐾

we've been us for…

✦ a little live count, just because ✦
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counting softly since December 2022 β™‘

To my Bannu ✦

It's your day, pretty girl. The world should really be wrapping itself up in a ribbon and handing itself to you β€” but since it's busy, I'll try to do it with words and a few cats instead.

Somewhere between a shared corridor in 2022 and this very sentence, you became the softest, loudest, brightest part of my life. You're the reason I look up from my laptop. You're the reason I smile at my phone like an idiot.

yours, always β€” A β™‘

🐾 reasons & reasons & reasons

why i love you, Bannu

One for every mood, one for every day. I could make a hundred more, easily.

🐾 our little story

us, one memory at a time

Every date here is a sticker in the diary I keep in my head. If I forgot one, it's not that it didn't matter β€” it's that there are just too many beautiful ones to count.

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December Β· 2022
The day I first saw you 🫣
Office hallway. One glance. Suddenly, very bad at my job.
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18 April Β· 2023
The first birthday wish I ever sent you πŸŽ‚
I meant every word. I still do β€” just with three more years of us behind it.
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31 May Β· 2023
Our very first call
The day voices stopped being typed and started being heard.
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27 June Β· 2023
First Teams call
Technically "work". Actually, not work at all. 🀭
🎬
18 July Β· 2023
Our first movie together
I remember the snacks. I remember you more.
🌻
29 July Β· 2023
First weekend outing
Weekend mornings were never the same after this.
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9 September Β· 2023
The best day with you ✨
You know the one. I replay it when I can't sleep.
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11 September Β· 2023
Slept well (finally)
Because some nights just ended softer than others, knowing you were there.
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13 September Β· 2023
First Insta call
Pixelated, giggly, absolutely perfect.
πŸ“œ
26 November Β· Saturday Β· 8:06 PM
A rule was made
And obeyed. Gladly. (See the scroll below πŸ“œ)
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15 December
Coffee Day β˜•
Caffeine plus you is my favourite stimulant.
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18 December
The small kiss (that we missed) 🫠
The most famous near-miss in our personal history.
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19 December
The "bake" incident + first kiss on your hand 🫢
I called Bhavana "bake" and hurt you. I'm still sorry. But the kiss on your hand β€” that, I'd do a thousand times more.
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25 February
The worst thing you confessed
I forgave it then. I've forgotten it now. We're still here, still us.
πŸŒ…
23 June
Our first Sunday outing β˜€οΈ
Sundays started having a flavour. It was you.
∞
2024 β†’ 2025 β†’ 2026 β†’
… and every day since
Still no proposal. Still yours. Still mine. Still us.

πŸ“œ The Official Rulebook πŸ“œ

β€” ratified on 26 November, Saturday Β· 8:06 PM β€”
"You will not talk to other men except me."
Rule No. 1 of the Bannu & Alen Constitution.
Motion passed unanimously. No amendments entertained. 🐾
πŸŽ‚ make a wish

blow out the candles, Bannu

Click each candle to blow it out. Then close your eyes, and wish for something huge β€” I'll do my best to make it happen.

✨ click each flame to blow it out ✨
Make a wish, my Meoww ✨
I'll quietly try to come true.

A promise, in gold ✦

The ring is on its way, Meoww.

I'm working, learning, grinding, and chasing every good thing I can β€” so that one day soon, I can slide a little circle of diamond onto your finger and finally, officially ask you what my heart already answered in 2022.

Until then: know that every late night I pull, every line of code I ship, every offer I chase β€” a piece of it is for you. For our home. For our mornings. For our forever.

β€” yours, building a life for us, one day at a time β™‘

one more thing, Meoww…

We never really proposed. We just… happened. You and I, tumbling softly into each other without any big speech, without any bended knee β€” because we didn't need one. Our yes was a thousand small moments, not one big word.

Thank you for being my accidental forever. Thank you for being difficult and soft and impossible and mine. Thank you for every fight we ended with laughter, and every silence we ended with a call.

I want a happy life with you, Bannu. A noisy, messy, ridiculous, cat-filled, coffee-stained, late-night-phone-call, Sunday-morning kind of happy life. With you. Only you.

Happy birthday, my meoww. Eat cake for me. Smile at the ceiling for me. And save the loudest laugh of the day β€” that one's mine. 🐾

β€” always yours,
your A β™‘
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