Monday, May 23, 2005 ;
4:39 PM
One thing i like much about indian weddings are its frankness, good emcee and wonderful songs. Let's face it, the reason that all of us goes to wedding dinners are actually, the food!! Who cares about whether the bride and bridegroom is happy or not? We have seen them together for like years during the courting days, of cos they are delighted that they are married!! Just think about what they are going to do that night also... i bet u are grinning now ;p
So, this incredible emcee, is very intelligent that he knows what the 800+ people there wants, out with the speeches, and in with the food!! But of cos la, must at least let the bride, bridegroom and the families to speak a bit, but the emcee did warn them... "Keep it short!" From custom, it's bride's father...then bridegroom's dad then the bridegroom representing the new familiy la...
So..... when its the bride's father's turn...the emcee started to introduce him by......
"Let's get rid of all these formalities.... we dun want them to interfere. So....... the bride's fa-ther is on MC today....and he isn't available for comment.... (cheekingly) it must be either he is too ex-cited..... or he is too heartbroken that his daughter has been taken over by someone ;p"
"One speech down... good. So now it's the bridegroom dad's turn. He only will speak in tamil...so those who dun understand...too bad la..." (this emcee ar = ='')
So later after that dad, whose speech sprinkled with english words everywhere.....
"Okay!! One more before we chomp! Let's give this O-N-E man... who is before is known as the bride gro ~ ~ and from tomorrow will be known as the husband of so-and-so...... hehe.... to speak.... if he is lucky enough to speak....Now... everyone please give this man his L-A-S-T opportunity to speak his mind !"
Our hero stood up...ready to walk towards to the podium. Supposedly he should go alone but his wife......
"Oh! His wife insists of following him!! So that he speaks what she wants him to speak... so early already control the husband..." (Tak malu ar say through the mic = ='' )
And indeed that guy can't speak a word up there hahahaha!!! After like a bit later then only start to speak a bit... like happy to see everyone da da da...but the main point is this... when he is about to end.... his wife tugged him!!! Then only he remembered... "..... and her brother is the next most eligible bachelor....." XD
Haihz...like having a party only. To tell you frankly, even before the first speech, the dishes are already on the table!! All 6 of them, mutton, chicken, all those indian food u usually see and most of us adi all up and reeady to tuck on but just because of these formalities we cannot start!! And once the last speech is over, woo! We took only 45 mins to kao tim it... including dessert! Hehe..
And i gotta tell you this.... the three peep gang up there... the old buncit guy was playing the flute damn superbly... the girl was playing that indian guitar and the sound from it was so tantalising sweet... and the other guy... who look really like a sufi.... beat the drum like a damn good dance pro!! And that's not it.... u might be thinking that they play melodious indian songs right? But no ~ for the whole 2 hours they have been playing... they went from traditional indian songs to chinese songs like "Shang Hai Tan ( Shiong Hoi Tan)" to english songs like "The devil is on sunday" to malay songs like "Burung Gagak" then to many more numerous other dance songs and oldies. I even caught them playing that Chinese new year song "Gong Xi Fa Chai"!!! Even my mom say the band damn modern...u guys try to imagine...with only the flute, guitar and the drum... and they could play up to those kinds of songs....simply stupendous!! I so wanted to have a recorder to record it down but..... *sob*
Hmmmm.... another things...you know that chinese give their wedding presents b4 the ceremony right... the indians do things the opposite. The presents were practically lying all about us while we are eating! And after dinner, there is this lady, only start to prepare the ang pow, she borrowed a pen from us... wrote her name then put in the money.... that lady must have waited to see what food she gets then only decide on the ang pow money... haihz... liddat also can = ='' Since my parents dunno anything bout these customs...we gave ahead d liao... hope they dun mind la.... and if there were to have anymore indian weddings... i would love to go again! For the first time, it's fun and i dun get bullied by the older brothers!!!
light my way ♥
