Alwyn's Wedding

An account of my Saturday (15 March 03)...

Midnight - Accompany Al and his friends to the net cafe to play Half Life. As expected, I get my ass handed to me raw and bleeding. What could I expect? Those guys are hard core HalfLifers. I'm a casual once-a-year kinda player.

2.00am - Had enough of getting fragged, so we head out for supper. We're all really tired, and we all have to be up early the next morning for the wedding, so it's a relatively quick supper and we split for home.

4.00am - I finally get in bed. Ready to knock out. After all, I have to be up at 7.30 the "next day".

4.30am - Al sends me an SMS saying thanks for the wedding present just as I'm about to fall asleep. I message him saying why the heck are you still up??

5.00am - I finally fall asleep. :)

7.30am - Alarm rings. My first thought is, shit I need more sleep. I drag myself out of bed, go through the motions of brushing my teeth, gelling my hair, putting on my nice shirt and slacks.

7.45am - Damn, my shirt looks kinda crumped. Need to iron the darn thing. Scrabble around to find an iron and an ironing board.

8.15am - Finally leave for Al's house. I'm supposed to meet up there with a bunch of Al's other guy friends, and we're going to do the door banging ceremony at the bride's place.

9.15am - We get to Chrissy's (the bride) place. There's a squad of Chrissy's girlfriends whose sole goal in life right now is to make it hard for us to get Chrissy out of the house. The battle lines are drawn... First, we have to eat some weird kinda cake with chilli sauce. Then we had to drink a very bitter drink (turns out this was just very concentrated tea). Then we had to eat some kinda weird fried pancake with mustard and eggs and banana. Al had to answer some weird questions abt Chrissy. But we finally gained entrace to the house. To gain entrace to her room, Al had to say "I Love You" in eight languages and to ask Chrissy to marry him in Hokchew (which he doesn't speak).

9.45am - Well, the ordeal is finally over. Chrissy is now liberated from her room. The guys and gals congregate for some breakfast, courtesy of Chrissy's parents, in the dining room. Then we head to church to prepare for the wedding. Al will go first, and Chrissy will go a little later when the guests are ready.

10.00am - The guests are streaming in. Pastor Thomas is walking around kidding with us. Pastor is a good friend of Alwyn's and they frequently go frag each other. Or as Pastor says "meet in the yard".

11.00am - Guests are almost all here. So Alex (one of Al's friends) gives Don (the chauffeur who is driving Chrissy to church) the thumbs up and Don drives the bride in.

*** MORE ON THE ACTUAL WEDDING SERVICE LATER ***
I'm really tired of writing this now, so I'll save this and finish writing this later. :)

1.00pm - Lunch reception

2.00pm - Lunch reception over, go home

3.00pm - Email speech script to Kong Kee

4.00pm - Get call from my friend (Shih Lene). We arrange to go clubbing that night.

5.30pm - Wake up, time to get dressed in my nice suit.

6.30pm - Arrive at dinner restaurant.

8.15pm - Dinner starts

11.00pm - Dinner ends

11.30pm - Meet Shih Lene and Sook San

5.00am - Get home and fall dead asleep