Thursday, August 10, 2006

Huifen's & Jeffrey's Wedding (Part 1)

If I did not put this up, you guys will not be exclaiming “Woah so outdated!”.
Well, if I din post it, I know I will 对不起自己. Hahaha.
Of cos have to report on it, as it was my first experience of being a “姐妹”. (听说不能做超过3次哦。)


12 March 2006

After months of preparation, today is the big day for Huifen & Jeffrey! Huifen had been quite kan-cheong recently, which is unlike of her. Think she was even worried when I told her I will be away in Taipei just days before her wedding.

“你记得要回来leh.” She said.
Choi! Of cos I will come back, though how I wish I could stay in Taiwan for a few more days.

Ok back to the point. Heeding the advise from the fortune telling, the bride and bridegroom are to leave the bride’s house before 9am. I had woke up ard 6am just to reach her house at Bukit Merah at 7+am. Yawnzzz

依照传统习俗, we have to drink 糖水，吃汤圆。

Huifen parents kept urging us to eat more. There was a big cake from her 过大礼 too.

Oh forgot to mention that gathered at her house were 5 females and a male . Poor Kok Leung became our “姐妹” as he was closer to Huifen than to Jeffrey.

On the groom’s side, he also bring along 5 brothers and one female. So our side was “thorn among the roses” whereas theirs was “rose among the thorns”.


Huifen changed into her gown soon after we arrived, and then she helped to put on our corsages. （very furry!）.




Midway, she was like deciding whether she should go to the washroom. With her big pong pong gown, she hestitated and then walk backed to her room, yet walked back to the wash room again, undecided. Wedding jitters, we assumed.

Oh, there were quite a few 状况in the morning. Somehow, one of the camera battery went flat. Another memory was insufficient. They din engaged a professional photographer in the morning – to cut down on cost. But fortunately, they some how managed to get a charger and keep uploading the pic into the laptop to solve the prob of insuffient memory.


(well, it’s difficult to write everything in sequence)

While waiting for the groom and his brothers to arrived, the chief Jie-mei start to brief us on the sabotage plans (ignore Kok-leong, as he was acting as a photographer , not jie-mei). Trust her friend to come up with such devious sabotage:

The main theme was “酸甜苦辣”.

辣 : they brought out much-chee stuffed with wasabi. And we decided to squeeze more wasabi on top of them. 哇！！！！！
酸：they had prepared lemon puree and made them into shops of koniyaku jelly
苦: a glass苦瓜juice was brought out
甜: we had chocolate marshmallows . The plan was to put it as the last item so that the groom and his brothers will still be wary of such innocent things. *wink*




After much waiting, the groom and his brothers came. Nowadays the grooms always come at a later time so that they can avoid long sabotage and of cos the parents will rush them in order to avoid 错过吉时。


Huifen’s room was facing the corridor. And we caught her climbing over her mattress and peered at her husband through the windows. Aiyoh where got bride do such things one… And she jumped off from the mattress, denying her act. Hahah, so we send one of the jie mei to stay in her room to watch over her.




Well, we continue to haggle with the groom and his brothers. This is the only chance we get to torment policemen without risking going to jail. Haha cos Jeffrey and his brothers are all working for the Police Force.

The haggling sure took quite some time. First they borrowed a pen from us , then willing give us an angpowe when we request for $8888.

In the ang pow was just a tissue paper, written “$8888”.

One of the jie-meis shouted to the bride’s father:

“Uncle arh, 你的女儿只值一张tissue paper 啊！”.

Lots of haggling later, the guys took out 3 angpows, as us to choose one.


We opened one, and found only $20. ( If my memory din fail me)



And our jie-mei shouted to the bride’s father again:

“Uncle arh, 你的女儿只值二十块而已！”.

Then we haggled again. This time the groom asked us to pick one more angpow. We got her dad to choose.
In it, contained:





$128 in total.

Ok lah. We aren’t greedy. So we started our sabotage.See pics below:


Anyway we have to quickly proceed to our 2nd round of sabotage. The guys have to limbo rock their way into the living room. The groom even picked up the pet rabbit , hoping to use it as 挡箭牌。


Bleh!. There is one last round to go before we unlock the door to the bride’s room.

One of the jie mei had make some changes to the lyrics of Emil Chou’s “明天我要嫁给你啦” and turn it into “今天我要去你啦“。　　

Jeffrey even protested at the changes, saying he ‘s being 嫁 to huifen.





See, they even type out the lyrics and provided HanYu Pin yin.



As for the singing… ahem, well , I better dun comment. Watch this short clip instead.




Here's a pic of the couple.


After that we set off in 3 different cars to the groom’s house. Earned another angpow :P. (Had already received one from the bride’s mum, another one from the bride , and not forgetting the ping angpow the jie-me’s gotta spilt among themselves).



While the bride and bridegroom proceeded to the groom’s godmother house. The bride decided to release us early so that we can go home to have a rest and to doll ourselves up.

(to be continued)

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