“It was love at first sight,” Shalma Ainaa recalls with laughter, filling the cafe where we met for our interview, as she reminisces about the moment she first saw Wan Imar across the bustling scene of Trafalgar Square during Malaysia Night, an annual celebration organised in London by the Malaysian High Commission. Both were in the final year of their university studies in London, and despite the immediate attraction, it took a year and a chance reunion on a London tube for their paths to align once more.
“My friends were speaking to him earlier, so I asked them to invite him to join us for a futsal game, and I think the rest was history,” says Shalma. Her bold invitation to Imar marked the beginning of a journey neither could have anticipated. “It was the first time ever in my life where I made the first move, and I think I made the right decision,” Shalma shares with a
