Chong Sook2's Wedding Chronicles

Primarily for the benefit of Miss Ong Shir Lynn. =P

*ahem*

Okay, real early on Saturday morning, 7th of March, 2009, the weather was a cloudy 27 degrees...

Aiyah we went to jeep sun leong (did I get it right?) at Ngee Yee Pohr's house.

So we turned up and...

Ta-daah! The bride. Nguyen (eh Sylvea your relative kah?) Thi Diem Khiaw.
She's twenty, and FORTY BLEEDING KILOS. *so not jealous*

For obvious reasons her relatives couldn't show up, so we had to split our family into the "bride's side" and the "groom's side" for the uh, aiyah let's just call it the Wedding Games again lah okay.

*honka-honka-honka-honka-honk-honk-honk-HONK!!!!!!*

The groom's arrived!

The battle at the Black Gates. XD

Entry fee.

What! TWO BLINKIN' DOLLARS!! Where can man!

So after many threats and much admonishment they produced...

Now THAT'S more like it.

Access granted. :D

Battle for Minas Tirith.

The Fellowship have but one last task ahead together. Will they make it through...

...safely? (you can cringe now)

I adore the look on Shin Yit's face. XD!!

Peng Sook2 took over for the groom, who was laughing so hard he couldn't perform the task. (pun intended) =P

Power.

And done! Festive, no?
(we left these at Ngee Yee's house on accident btw)

And so the Gates were opened. But wait! What's this?

"Did you think it would be this easy, little halfling?"
(I have no idea why the LOTR theme, but let's just go along with my bad puns okay)

More ways to torture the groom! (albeit impromptu)

1. Garlic-eating. Which may not sound so bad to you, but he seriously hates the stuff.

Agony.

2. A much less-painful version of the leg-waxing game the hingtais at Khim's wedding had to endure.

And done! He got her! Not so bad eh?

So off went the entourage to Mantin, to jumm chaa and have some light refreshment. It was superduper hot and I was very sweaty and grouchy so not too many pix here... (Ongy, your bro has better shots with his manyak-eksyen punye camera and sense of "angle" so you should go bug him. ;))

The family. (my sexyfine visage is being partially-eclipsed by Ngee Kiu Pohr's head)

The completely I-don't-get-it-but-all-us-yellow-fellas-do-it-anyway tea ceremony.

Ongy I masqueraded as you and took your angpows for you so you owe me um, roti praata okay! :DD

Selepas itu, we went home, showered and took a much-needed nap, and then drove back to Mantin for a buffet-style dinner, with many Mantinians I've never seen before crowding the not-so little house.

So guess how the boys entertained themselves.

No prizes there. Street Fighter IV of course.

Boy Sook2 has no qualms about shamelessly kicking his little nephew's ass at it. And gloating hours later about it too. Tsk, tsk.

Khim managed to carry Chloe! Who is a little less clingy this time, but just as possessive. :)
And speaking of which Chloe managed to get Khim's hair tangled in a little toy car's wheels and we were convinced that we had to chop it off... (no pictures, sorry! But it was funny as hell I can promise you. XD)

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The next day...

Dinner at Regent, we had (in no particular order):

• Cold-dish appetizers, yum for the scallops
  
• Roasted duck and suckling pig
• Shark's fin soup with black vinegar and V.S.O.P.
• Hor yip fahn
• Choong yao ikan bawal
• Oysters with mushroom stir-fry
• Prawns with... um, corn for all reasons
• Dessert: Peanut mochi, siewpao puffs, and a honeydew ice-cream dessert thing, the color of which gave you the impression you were eating Nippon Weatherbond

(again, no pictures, sorry; too busy eating. Teehee)

All throughout the dinner got these aunties and uncles jump onto the stage and sing karaoke. o.0
(they're all from Mantin, I swear)

No American Idols here.

Except this one guy whom we took a video of... He sang all women's songs of the 19... 60s methinks. Now I'm no fan of such blood-curdling vocalisations but the older generation thought it was amazing that it sounded EXACTLY like the original songstresses. Heck, he even sang a number from A-Mei. Which bloody interrupted Da Cheng Xiao Ai by my baby, which was playing. *sour face*

Pouring of the wine, signalling the start of the yamsengs.

We thought Chong Sook2 cheated and didn't drink at all, so we held him back at the end of it all and made him minum, minum, MINUM.

In the end we had to call it quits, because you know the groom's inebriated to your satisfaction when he starts addressing you as "Shirlynn".

-.-'' Nobody remembers my name.

We collectively decided he had quite enough alcohol in his system, so we packed up and Ah Yee Kgu2 sent the bride and (very tipsy) groom home.

And that's all folks! The Chronicles of Liew Chong Aun's Wedding! One and a half hours of blogging! I'm bushed. The Chronicles of Baby Megan's Cuteness coming up soon. ;)