25.7.05
my cousin's wedding.
it was my cousin soen ming's wedding today. i had to wake up very early in the morning to go to the groom's house for the tea ceremony. to show support for the newly weds of course. false firecrackers were set off, and the bride and groom arrived in a jaguar adorned with freshly pick lilies. never knew my 'er gu' was so superstitious. she said something about those born in the year of the rabbit not being able to witness the arrival of the bride and groom, cos the groom was a mouse!! so a few relatives got chased to the backyard to wait. wat logic is there in that?! anyway, after the bride and groom strode into the house in a celebrity fashion (because there were like 5 camera and videocamera men), the traditional tea ceremony began. wah i realised that there's still alot of things i do not know about the chinese culture. the bride and groom had to spoonfeed each other this sweet soup, where there were berries and egg, each symbolising different things ranging from health to babies to watever. then there was the usual serve-tea-to-older-generation gesture, and later when we congratulated the couple, we cousins actually got hong baos!! not bad.. its not every wedding couple that gives. oh and for the 'finale', they had to put a baby boy on the bed.. haha wat that symbolises can be guessed quite easily eh ;p
there was buffet lunch at the same place, catered from peach garden, a chinese restaurant. food was good, esp the wasabi prawns. mmmm. i expect the catering to be expensive cos apparently there were waiters from the restaurant, not a common sight when one caters food. we went home after that, to prepare for the dinner at night. stopped by at tampines mall to grab a shirt for han loong. haha he actually asked me to go up with him while dad waited in the car. he ACTUALLY values my opinion. -smiles doubly wide- anyway so i was the nice loving sis who helped him out.
dinner was at ritz carlton. the cousins sat together and talked alot of crap of which i could only rmb the part where yizheng said that the rich shouldnt marry the rich.. cos that will mean that there's still only 2 rich people, instead of making it 4 rich people. n zen rebuked that no..then there will be 4 mediocre people, which is worse. then they started saying it depends...on whether u're talking about 'bill gates rich' or jus RICH. haiya..who are we to say who should marry who..wat a load of crap that made just a fraction of sense. oh and if you're wondering why we started talking about this.. its cos both the bride and groom's family are very very very rich. i mean.. who gives like half a million in cash PLUS an apartment in orchard as dowry?! u've got to be really rich. i jus realised how funny han rong actually is. his humour is really different - subtle and definitely not lame =) zen was really a joker, which reminds me of my jc class. (which i miss a lot a lot) the food was good, though not spectacular. ambience was very good of course. (i mean what else can u expect) i spent most of my time at the grand piano outside the ballroom playing the piano. funn. (although it made me realised i should learn how to play a few more tunes) and i concluded that i'm very thick-skinned too. the guests were all streaming out and i still continued playing. my cousins said i shouldnt stop cos i was entertaining the leaving guests. whoa.. felt like THE piano player. like i was hired. wheeeeee. i love playing the piano.
i fluttered by;
12:45 AM
