I received a sms, it’s in Chinese, I roughly translated.
“Hey, please come over to my house tonight if you are free. I’ll be married tomorrow.”
Guess who? She is my friend who has just had the wedding dinner on Nov 28, now she is inviting me to her wedding ceremony. Normally, Chinese people in Malaysia will give a dinner in their house throughout the night before wedding ceremony, in both bride and bridegroom house. Then, the attendees are their relatives, friends and most of them are “heng dai” (brothers) or “ji mui” (sisters). Of course, normally brothers are guys and sisters are girls.

My words seem so boring, right? No choice la, I wrote this when I just woke up, before my memory lost, tired and blur. So this was how the ceremony goes.

I received the message on Dec 6 afternoon, and then went to her house at 9pm, in Kepong area. When I arrive, she invited me to her room, the “bride room”. I don’t know whether is it appropriate or not, we didn’t care and I took a drink to her room, it’s upstairs.

Well, the room was just 2 of us, and it is hardly ever to see her room arranged so tidily but still, there was no place for us to sit so, we went to the bed. Guys please don’t think too much, door was open and she is loyalty and chaste.

We went in to a sister talk. From the conversation, I realized that she used only 2 months to prepare her wedding, too rush, too many things to do and she is not happy with it. Meanwhile, she shows me her postcards and let me choose, because the album was not with her. There are two types, first is with snowing background, very pretty and handsome, doesn’t look like them, the other one I forgot, but is closer to their real look. I chose the one which doesn’t look like them and she told me it is edited by Photoshop.

Afterwards, all her pretty sisters came. Then, I just realized that I was the only guy in the sisters’ group. Luckily, I managed to grab some male sisters from brothers’ group and sisters’ boy friend while they are busy preparing for the “barriers”. We are told, barriers are set to let bridegroom to face difficulties when picking up bride, so that bridegroom will treasure the bride. This is the tradition, but now, we are just treating it as a game and a way to take ang pao. Actually it’s just suffering the brothers, because bridegroom is just to lead and let brothers to settle all those barriers.

Why do I want to become sisters? That’s one of the reasons. The other one is, I’m more conversant with bride.

For the barriers, from what they were preparing, I manage to saw dried roach juiced with long ngan and wasabi + little chili + yogurt. The way they prepare, although is hygiene, but it’s very nauseated.

Then it was already 12am++, I went back home, bath and sleep.

On Sunday, everyone arrive her house at 7am, guys with white shirt and jeans, girls are fully white, as what they required. When I arrived and step out from my car, I stunned, there were so many angels around! Momentary, I fell into a delusion that I have step in to a heaven. Oh, pretty angels.

Inside the house, while angels were busy doing final preparation for barriers, I was asked to do video shooting for the whole ceremony, before and after, and this is why I couldn’t take their picture. Haiz, wasted.

Just like any other wedding ceremony or Chinese TV show, the bridegroom and brothers cars arrive with loud horn, brothers surrounded bridegroom car, little male baby open car, bla bla bla, follow the sequence to continue.

Due to the late arrival of bridegroom and other cameraman unknown reasons, they cut short the barriers. First was the juiced, second was the wasabi, third was sing love song, fourth was find bride, then love proclamation and last one was a plight to bride. After all the brothers jostle into the room where the bride hid, bridegroom unveiled the bride. Then this session done and went out to do all the red tape.

Sequence same with Chinese TV show, no need mention. After that, we all have to go bridegroom house. Then I was given a ride by a detachable roof car to record down the way to bridegroom house. Haha..Now only I know the enjoyment of being a passenger of a car with detachable roof.

Then, another red tape again. After everything done, we had a recorded session to interview bride and bridegroom separately with all sensitive issues by an emcee. Finally, cameraman can have a break to take his breakfast after the session. In the short while, I take a picture of the camcorder I used, it’s Sony, has many functions, seem like quite expensive. Regrettably, all the angels gone before this session, I’ll try to get photos from other camera.

This is the only picture that I manage to take.

Time to go, it was just about 11am, but we were all exhausted. The last job I did for this ceremony was recording the sisters and brothers conversation and comments in the car on the way back to bride house. Then I realize that bridegroom and brothers are actually just slept for less than 2 hours. They chat till 5am, and then went sleep, 6am++ have to get up and ready, 7am depart. So for the sisters, some of them were stay overnight in bride house, both sisters and bride didn’t sleep. While sisters were busy preparing the barriers, bride has to do the red tape, then dress up, make up, hair do, etc. Oh, wedding..

When I arrived home is about 1pm, bath – sleep – eat – computer.

7/12/2008, this was how my Sunday goes, ending with this passage. I just post it now after my Moral test and Ampang trip with zLz and Ying Ying.