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All my life I have been attending wedding dinners but hardly any wedding ceremonies. And most of the times I went to these wedding dinners as "The Family". You know when they invite "Mr so-and-so and family". Ya. That's me. The Family. Can't grumble though. The weddings had good food and ... hmmm. Ya, it has good food. Company wise, plenty of old people catching up and fussing over us. Somehow I am never ever close to my cousins and what nots. And occasionally, we have to endure really HORRID ktv singing by overenthusiastic uncles. It is so horrid that even words have escaped me. Surely nothing on earth can compare to the torture we are subjected to and thus, no words can possibly be apt enough to capture those moments of pain. Punctuality wise... those wedding invitations that go "Dinner will commence at 8pm SHARP"? It's a conspiracy. My family has always arrived on time and never once have they started at anytime SHARP. Thank goodness I have a brother who I can drive insane to maintain my sanity. He is the best! haha.
Hope I didnt sound ungrateful. It's just the highlight of wedding dinners in general besides food. And i really dont feel like blogging about food. Food should be looked at, smelt and tasted, not put blandly into words. It's a sin.
ANYWAY....
Today is probably one of the few wedding ceremonies I've been to and most certainly the only one where I followed the bride as a "jie mei". Woke up at an unearthly hour of 6am to pick Junli up at Bedok to bring her to Ms Wong's house. Once we reached, we were hounded by photographers looking for fresh blood to harass. After filming an awkward short best wishes clip for the wedding couple (i wish i never have to be filmed ever!! i really hate it), we hung around feeling awkward again since all the people present were mostly family members or close family friends. Thank goodness Junli was there, just like the first day of work at CCAB.
Ms Wong look really nice!! Her gown was gorgeous. But stupid Mr Wong was late. Their wedding car's flower thingy got vandalised and the groom's gang forgot to bring oranges so they were late! And they had the nerve to barge into the house. First time i saw guys literally qiang xing niang! It was a mass of flying bodies and some jie meis where even scratched. So ridiculous!! Played some usual fourfeet stuff and then the groom could finally see the bride!
Then it was off to the tea toasting ceremonies at Mr and Ms Wong's house. Followed by the ceremony at the church. Wedding vows are really really really really loooooonnnnggg. All you see on TV "Do you take blah blah blah in sickness, poor blah blah" and "you may kiss the bride"? That's like super summarise. I didnt even know there's wedding vows and then there's ring vows or something like that. I dont think saying more vows actually does anything but put people off wedding vows. All i was thinking throughout the looooonnnngg vow taking was how much time the couple actually has to get cold feet!! It's as though they are waiting for someone to say "I object!!!" and steal the groom and knock out the bride or something (oops. meant it the other way round).
Then it was the reception and phototaking sessions. Unfortunately, Mrs Wong got really sick and the phototaking was cancelled. Sigh. What a day for this.
I realised how easily a 2 person thing can turn into a ridiculous 200 people thing. What is a ceremony for? For well wishes? I saw more than a few people leave after reception and barely saying anything to the wedding couple. I saw the bride and groom being extremely exhausted and yet being obliged to entertain guests. I saw well wishers unable to convey their well wishes since the bride and groom are too busy. Generally, I just saw tiredness. I am sooo going to hold my wedding at a nice beach (maybe i will invite people, maybe i wont) and stroll into the sunset... nice right!! the other people can just go play in the sand or something... haha. i am so evil.
ANYWAY...
i came to blog about the people i managed to catch up with during the wedding and i dont know how after so long i still havent got to it (now i know why i spent tonnes of time on the phone sometimes). i think i probably did more catching up than the bride/groom.
Junli:
dearie!!! havent seen you in like NINE MONTHS!!! UK is stealing you away!! glad to see you havent changed!! still so eager to help, click super well with kids and totally obessesed over babies. i swear olivia and amanda want to bring you home or something. the jie mei experience would have been so different without you!!
Elicia:
this blur queen has outdone herself and went to the wrong church. well done man!! overslept somemore in the morning!!
2B peeps (Vaness, Winnie, Shijia, Xiuyu, Lynsey, Hong Wei, Lian Quan, Xiao Quan, Wen Bin):
cant remb if i left some guys out... oh well.. i havent seen you all in like forever!! except vaness, i see you like all the time somehow!! haha. the guys havent really changed much. they still look like sec 2 boys!! height the same somemore. hahah. hopefully none of them see this..
AHS teachers (Ms Ong Yin, Mrs Lee, Mrs Tay):
Ms Ong was one of the jie meis and i took like forever to remember why she loooked so familiar. In my defense, I last saw her 6 years ago and she was wearing spectacles then!! didnt get a chance to talk to her till just before the church ceremony. I probably learnt so much more about her in that short 20 minutes we were talking then in the whole 6 years since she first taught me. Didnt even know she was from Brunei and she will be going back soon. Lots of teachers seem to long for an escape from the system. Junli jiayou ba!
Mrs Lee:
still looks as motherly as always. the last few teachers from my era still teaching in AHS. *respect* she is really damn cute. the way she gets so excited about eating satay! priceless.
Mrs Tay:
glad to see her doing well. *moral support*
CCAB peeps (DD, Mr Yap, Liang Han, Joel, John, Dr Lee, Hwee Xian, Lawrence, Mrs Chew, Isha, Sara, Hamidah, Agnes, Evelyn, Hon Fai, Elizabeth etc. this is going to take me one whole night):
DD: in true DD style, he came in a golf attire and looked completely boyish. damn cute la! same old same old.
Mr Yap:
as usual DD and Mr Yap have like endless stuff to talk about. Junli and i were lamenting how sad they are "not together anymore". haha! sounds damn gay. he was showing off how he was going off to celebrate father's day and his son is bringing him to watch Kungfu Panda. haha.
Liang Han:
We kept bugging him to open the wedding car to put stuff in it while he was eating lunch. so sorry!
the rest:
random talk that i cant really recall in this semi conscious state..
Time has gone past really fast. how sad we barely keep in contact with our teachers once we leave and even more so when they leave. soon these people i was so happy seeing today will seize to be nothing more than a memory.
and my brother's hols are over. is it really 3 weeks already since his break started? i hardly spent much time with him. ahhh. another guilt trip.
my friend one had a theory on why time seem to pass by faster the older we are. Imagine you are a one year old and when living your 2nd year in this world, it's as though you are living the entire duration of your life again. but when you are 82 and going on 83, the one year is only 1/82th of your life and guess that will pass by much faster. kind of make sense doesnt it.
"Uh, you really shouldn't mumble, because I can't understand a word you're saying." -Willy Wonka
