Busy Last Week. (Dennis Lim ♥ Chiew Ping Wedding Dinner)

A very busy last week for me.

3rd October 2009 was a very important date for me Kau Fu Chai (that's how I call my uncle in cantonese).

Awesome experience I might say, going through a traditional chinese wedding. It all started on last Saturday, reached my Uncle Dennis' condominium at around 7.45 a.m. Met up with long-time-no-see cousin! He's cool as ever facing STPM like a man! And still has time for King of Fighters!

8.00 a.m., rendezvous-ed to the bride's place in Kajang. As the the groom's best man, I followed him there with oranges in a basket by my arms. Went there with a Mercedes Benz! Of course, we didn't go there alone, was with his friends there too the whole time. Well, according to the tradition, the groom that visits the bride's house will normally be greeted by a warm welcome of ragging. It wasn't as bad as some I've heard, this one's just fine.

The first ragging that my uncle went through was a mission to identify which was his bride's lipstick pattern (from choice A to H, damn lot wei!) on A4 papers. Punishments (if guessed wrongly) will be applied to his friends who came along, not on him though. AND he got 2 strikes, so one of his friend did pumpings and the other did dumbell lifting. XD Followed by doing the hulla-hoop for 3 minutes! After those were done, he's given another task which was to say "I Love You" in 6 different languages!! (cantonese and hokkien are considered one language, just different dialect) Hahahah, he did it in English, Bahasa Melayu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and French! Moving on, in order to enter the bride's house, he would have to limbo his was in as there was a limbo pole blocking the entrance. HAHA! He did it with style!! As he approached his bride's room, he was given another rag, hahaha, this time, he had to sing 3 songs in 3 different languages...FTW! It's not over, he had to also figure out the right key to his bride's locked door. This time he got lucky, was correct at the first guess!! If he guessed it wrongly, he would have to undergo punishment by drinking a strange-green-coloured-liquid. (God knows what's in it.) That was the last. Phew. (owh, I didn't have to do anything because I was the best man, hahahahah!)

After all the ragging, me and his friends went to chill outside.

They are quite of a cool gang to listen to and to hang with. Loads of random topics, all I do was just sat and listen. Really interesting stuff. Topics varied from Singapore's Geylang, Lorong 8 XD, all the way to DoTA and computer hardwares. Knowledgeable people man. They might be 32 years old and married BUT they still upgrade their graphic cards man!!

Soya bean, currypuffs and kuihs are served. Eat eat eat!

After my uncle collected his bride, we went back to the condominium...

...where there's more kuih!!

The whole gang from the bride's side soon came by too to witness the tea giving ceremony.

The love bed, lawl!

Cousin Dylan serving tea to the lucky man. =P

Me serving tea to the lucky man. =)

Ah, this is another step in the tradition. Poking the red-packet-thingy executed by cousin. Guess what's inside? Sweets and an angpau. Hahah

I sort of knew about this step, it's where you roll on the bed so that the couple gets a son. XD I got a little bored of the traditionalism, so I told cousin to start rolling from the far end of the bed while I start to roll from the far left of the bed.

LolRofl. Plan FTW! We collided against each other! *BANG*
Everyone laughed at us. Nice.

After settling the things and events in the afternoon, we chilled. =) Watched Transformers 2 and Star Trek until I fell asleep. Exhausted much.
When evening comes,...the next event took place in a restaurant in Kuchai Lama. This is where the wedding dinner is held. Like this picture. Look at how grandma points at the cameraman.

Grandma: Who says you could take my picture?! XD

Me and cousin helped my cousin's dad to arrange, set and lead guests to the right room and right table. After that we carried loads of boxes filled with wine bottles up to the preparation room.

We were not the only ones who had the wedding dinner there. There were 2 other groups of wedding dinners plus us altogether in that restaurant. Big place huh?

When everyone had been placed and sit, the dinner started. Slide shows and music were playing throughout the whole dinner. Even some of the guests stood to sing a few songs. One of my relatives, who is already in his early seventies came up on stage to sing the couple a song, Oh Carol! He was good as heck, seriously...can dance too. XD

Hungryyyyy!

Awesome fish.

Awesome prawns.Awesome taufu.

*munch munch*

YAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMSING!!

Where toasts, exchange of rings and kisses took place.

Awesome rice.

Awesome dessert.

These 2 glasses are my friends. Meet the one on the left, his name is wine. Meet the one on the right, his name is rum. XD

After dinner's done, it's time to pay the restaurant. Ouch! But worry not, the angpaus given by guests (consisting of friends and families) are actually more than enough to cover the bill. Angpaus profit from guests: $1000++

Have an everlasting love!

Photos from recent mamak sessions:-
Clown clowning. Our beloved O.C., Jia Yun.

Hmm, Chan Wai Whitebeard.
Over and out. Till' then.