Monday, February 20, 2006

Malacca Wedding Part I




18th February 2006, Saturday

Met BL, Ricky & his wife at Lavender at 8am. We proceed to the bus terminal, its a 15mins walk from Lavender MRT station. The bus depart at exactly at 8.30am. There is a little jam at Malaysia custom and after that its a smooth Journey.

We reached Malacca Central/bus terminal at 1.30pm. We went to get Ricky's return tickets to Singapore as it is cheaper to get it from Melacca. We took a cab to Melacca Parade, its a up to date shopping center. We went to have lunch at the food court with a big group of pple who are attending the wedding dinner tonite.

After lunch we check into the hotel, Century Mahkota Hotel which is just opp Melacca Parade. It is more like a charlet, we stayed in a 2 bedrooms apartment with Ricky and his wife. Thanks Ricky and wife for the arrangements and popian and free stay. We stayed in Sunflower block with is overlooking the sea. Our apartment is a bit run dwn, our shower ralling is spoiled and hence the shower curtain cannot close properly, wet wet wet...........

The moment i checked in, i called the housekeeping for an iron cause my dress is so crumpled, however, they dun iron for loan, they have an ironing center where u hv to bring your clothes there and iron yourself............ left with no choice, asked BL to accompanied me and we went to the ironing center. The ironing center is nxt block, its a small room with a few ironing board with irons........... old and torn boards........... no choice................ quickly iron my dress.

Everyone met at the lobby at 6.30pm, some of them drove so we tag along. We reached the place about 7.15pm. Its a school halls, there are 60 tables and its air conditioned. There are lion dance at the entrance to welcome the guests. We are so suprised to see that its almost full when we arrived, cause for singapore dinner, we dun see pple till 8pm. The stage is nicely decorated with a big "XI" wordings, the hall is decorated with balloons where the kids all go crazy.

The lion dance continue till the door is closed. We are first shown the video clips of the couples. Then the arrival of the couples.......... go onto the stage and cut cake. The first cold dish then served. Then there is lion dance performance.

After a few dishes, the couples re-entered again. The campaign opening and toasting started. Followed by award giving as the groom's father donated money to the school, he was awarded a gold plate. Then followed by kissing show of the couples, then singing with a group of friends. After that there are singing by the entertainers and KTV sessions for the guests................ an indian sang Hokkien songs, "jiu kok ying hiong" haha, then some Indonesians sang faster then the tune , very entertaining............

Its a very interesting wedding that I've ever attended. There are people coming in to sell big sweep, then newspaper, so my friend's collegue asked so what are they going to sell next, so I said they will sell kachang, true enof, a little girl came in and sell biscuits, both of us laughted upon seeing it.

Its a sumptous dinner , there are cold dish, shark's fins, roast piglet, abolone, sea cucumber, fish, prawn, tarts, ondei ondie, white fugus with longan....... During our dinner, the resturant manager came to us and told us this abolone is very good grade, it is 360 dollars, its from mexico and its imported from Singapore and no other resturant have this........... we wonder why he told us all this then we realised we are the only table which is still hving the abolone while the rest of the tables are cleared, haha.

Finally it ended at 10.30pm. Bid goodbye to the couples, so happy for the couple, they look so matching. Their wedding pics are wonderful, happiness can be seen on their faces. May they live Happily Ever After.

Reached hotel around 11plus, quick shower and went to dream land.................

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