Proposal Ring = Wedding Band?

1st June 2005, Wednesday

JxMMy is back and with a vengence...
He went OTT (over the top) today to cause an uproar among the rest of us...
Yesterday BY mentioned about setting a new program on the $800,000 white elephant to dispense from a 384 well format into 4 seperate 96 wells; however sometime before lunch, he sent a mass e-mail to everyone involved that he had came out with the format and program and is trying to perfect it...
This extremely irk the rest of us...
Although his intentions are good for the flow of the work but to us it seems like he is stealing all the limelight and credits for his own...which really do not go down well for us as it seems like he should be of no part of the research work in which the 3 girls should be well capable to handle...

This ordeal just top a series of his little "interventions" when he would be over-zealous to look out for all the information and price of an item our supervisor just briefly mentioned during her conversation... No wonder he is the "star of the lab" and the inaugural lab manager (if there's such a post to begin with)...
What the girls are fuming about is that he could just pass them the information he had found out instead of broadcasting to every mother's sons out there to be showered in all the attention he could get (or was it not his intentions)

In response, BY broadcasted an email of own, putting it clear that the 3 girls would be taking charge on their own with no aid needed from JxMMy...and a certain line in her e-mail seem to aggravate our supervisor whom we all know all along that would be siding him and suppress anyone who want to think otherwise; thus demanding the girls for a personal talk; in which they were severely reprimanded for their "uncooperative" behaviour and vividly protecting JxMMy which we all know would be the case to begin with and there's nothing we would do change her ideology..I can really forsee the 3 of them leaving here very soon.... And for me I was assign to rig up the program which I am not well-versed of, but seemed I have to try my very best to do it...

That aside, a problem been bugging me for awhile was that what's the norm of people actually propose with a "wedding band" and not a ":proposal ring"?

I have posted the question in my forum and received pretty useful and one sided responses...
I have also asked the girls in my workplace on their thoughts..

And it seemed the common practise is a lavish, elegant rock for a proposal ring before deciding as a couple for a matching pair of wedding bands (seemingly less exorbitant) which the couple is to wear day in day out...

Been as cheapo as I am, I have been contemplating with the idea of proposing with a wedding band (a slight more elegant one with diamond and white gold etc..) and save on the proposal one which brought about some uproar and suggestions...

well all in all, it really depends on the lady side...whether she is as materialistic & pragmatic as most women present in our society (oops..no offence)...But as people said the proposal ring is a symbol of how your really treasure and love the other party, so it should bear some meaning, despite burning a mammoth hole in my pocket... we'll just have to wait and see (sing it..Utada!!)

Japanese word of the day: 指輪 ~yu-bi-wa~ (Ring) Gonna find the perfect one for my special someone!