today...

current geographical location : Ngee Ann Poly, blk 47, level 4, #02.
current mission : attend DCIS

then why am i blabbing away here? OF COURSE, i have important things to update thats why i am here.

yesterday, i had a one day trip to Malaysia, Lapis(thats how it sounded in everybody's mouth). why am i there? to attend wedding LUNCH! haha...imagine all the YAM SENG(chinese traditional toasting) happening all in the bloody hot mid-day. roasting pig is jus an understatement to describe us.

the lecturer started talking already. BUT what the hell. :)

the best part abt the wedding lunch was the desert. ICE CREAM!!!a pity though, the only flavor that got to my table was chocolate. can tell that i am not quite a fan of chocolate flavour.

the other point to highlight was the portion of food that came. IT WAS WHOPPING HUGE. i have to admit that whenever i attend wedding dinners, i usually clear the plates, to faciliate the washing of dishes. BUT NO~~, the portion of the wedding lunch left me so freaking full that i had to drag my stomach through the finish line.

there was a whole bunch of us who went in to attend the wedding lunch. heres the list : my maternal grandma; her 2 sons and 2 daughters(one of them is my mother); their individual spouses; their offsprings; their offspring(Yong Sheng). hmmm..who is this mysterious and yet cute character?

hmmm...better pause here...continue later...

back...

yong sheng is the son of Ah Chuan. Ah Chuan is my god-brother as well as the son of my god-mother. of whom, i had previously explained that, my god-mother was also my 2nd uncle's wife. hehe...quite a mouthful i shld say. i was never good at all this network of relations. Yong sheng was kinda of the 'king' on the trip. almost everyone has to give in to him. otherwise he might jus threathen to cry, and he really threatens. yong sheng is already a few years old, and one can tell how pampered he already is enjoying.

i think he kinda of made grandma VERY VERY unhappy. not the crying part, rather the hitting anybody part. reserved is NOT the word to describe yong sheng. he is rather pure wilful, thus anyone who cannot agree with him, will suffer his bashing. grandma was unhappy about yong sheng even hitting his own father. despite his yong age, these are basic morality that WE asians shld possess.

till this point, i think i have very successfully created a very negative image of yong sheng, however, i reassure that is not my point. personally, i think he jus a very very bright and intelligent, who lacks discipline. imagine his brains ability to whip out crying as a threat to the adults to get to his way. if guided properly, he might jus rise to be the next nobel prize winner.

then there was weiqi. another problem child. she is the daughter of my aunt(my mother's younger sister). she embodies the epitome of what i think typical woman is. she is petty, gullible and studies business. correction, forced into studying business by father. whats my grudge with her? none. rather she holds something against me.

i think it shld be THAT particular incident that happened. it was happened quite sometime back. she phoned me very late one night, asking me for help, financially. being the very curious type, i probed. she had restricted access to her own savings because of her mother. armed with the information, that her family is more more more well off than mine and she is like borrowing money from me?

it turns out that her fren was in need of money. the sum wasnt like 20 or 30. it was in a few hundreds. the only profile i got from her regarding her fren was that he was in need of money to top up fuel in his vehicle.

again..another pause...

back to story...

seriously, how many ppl in singapore have vehicle's fuel tank that would require a few hundreds to top up? even the government dun have such a vehicle, i think. she was half crying and half talkin over the phone. i was trying hard to resist the temptation, of giving in to her because she was crying. luckily, i did say no to her. before, she hung up. she specifically told me not to tell her mummy. the whole thing smells of trouble.

well, i think you can guessed what happened next. i told my mum and my mum told her mum. the typical women networkin of information. my aunt did the next responsible thing. she kept mum about her information source and talked to her daughter. eventually, my aunt evaulated the situation and deemed it neccessary to approach the police. well, she hasnt been talkin to me ever since. like i really care, if she is not talkin to me. :p she can ignore me till either her deathbed or my deathbed, i dun care.

the wedding lunch was also an interesting study of the local culture. well it seems that lapis(actual spelling might differ) is quite a remote small town in comparison to KL and JB. a kampong(small village) i might add. it seems that they have a really good culture over there. the whole busload of Singaporean(us) reached the designated resturant at around 1200+. the wedding lunch was scheduled supposedly at 1330.

the whole bunch of us hung around that area. the ladies went around to get some help in the 'reconstruction', while we guys jus hung loose. both my uncles, my father, yong sheng and i went to the not so nearby coffee shop for a slight dim sum(cantonese culture for high tea). to our amazement, the whole resturant was suddenly full, when the dim sum dishes were JUST served.

generalisation about them. they are super punctual and have little orderliness. they they all seemed to jus appear from nowhere.suddenly filling up all the seats, both inside and outside. inside referring to the air-conditioned section and outside referring to the warmer exterior section. we were from the bride's side, naturally, shld occupy the interior section together with the bridegroom's family. sadly we found an empty table outside. well, spirits were not dampen, thats for sure. because the whole load of us were together. yea!! not to mention the amount of time they took to split. WOW!!! super efficient.

the other thing was orderliness. apparaently, we singaporeans thought that there would be seats reserved for our 'precious' little butts. we thought wrong. the culture there was on a first come first serve basis.

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now to finish everything within my 2hrs break.

we went shopping after the wedding lunch, at ioi mall somewhere in senai(i think). the shopping centre was incredibly HUGE. judging by the sheer exterior size of the mall, i was afraid that we couldnt finish shopping within the short 1hr.

well, things in this world are not meant to be so easily predicted. i was only a 2 level shoppin centre, with most of the shops closed for the day. there was a really big concourse right smacked in the middle housing about 5 cars one stage and still room for at least a packed hundred plus people.

i only got a t-shirt from the mall. i did alot of walkin though. pacing in and out of the mall. the first time i stepped out was with ah san(my mother's elder sister's son). stepped back into mall and subsequently escorted a few other person out too. the ride back was a good rest. dozing all the way.

haha...to conclude, the whole experience was fun and yet somehow lacking something. hmmm...companion? the whole trip was filled with couples or was it part of my imagination? lets have a name the singles competition. those who were single on the trip was : robin, ah san, yong sheng, weiqi, grandma and the bridegroom's sister. basis for judging if they are single : they looked single on the trip.

i guess its something to do with the weddings that i have been attending so far. jus on saturday i was attending another 2 wedding. hehe...dun worry its not the sudden wedding surge in singapore. i attended for pure business sake. i am working part time as a cater-er, remember?

guess its jus another passing phase. oh well...i guess thats everything...YEA!!! now for LiNG. panel review soon. prep-in for the review. hope i dun fall short of expectations. reason? i got over-performing senior, Francis. bleah...