First post of the year (yeah it’s March).

Highlight of the year so far was part 2 of San and Kev’s union...or at least part 2 where we are involved coz I think there’s a small one in Sibu the week prior where 女方请客.

Oh yea for the uninitiated, part 1 a.k.a ROM happened last year in October, which was one of the 2 KK trips I made last year.

Anyway, we were to be hengmuis (jimuis that have guys in the entourage lol), which was something that I suppose was set in stone since Sec school? So this is the one which I envisioned us spending quite some time on hahah but in reality we did nothing till maybe one week before lol. Talks of hens trip, hens night all went up the chimney in smokes coz of various complications la. I remembered panicking about it like just after Christmas and called for a teleconference which surprisingly everybody made it, and we at least got the general program flow of the big day established.

Then lo and behold, everybody except the bride herself was in Bru during CNY so more jimui meetings! Though our involvement at that point had withered down to jimui duties in the morning and performance at night during banquet coz the bride and groom settled most things themselves alr (including teapot lol I duno why I kept remembering this). Even this we took a long while before deciding which song to sing hahaha, it went from three performances (a duet + KH violin/Val 彩带舞 LOL + one group performance) down to one group performance. Then had to find a way to practice together, settled on Smule and we tried out our parts, sound ok and just left it till we are able to meet to rehearse. Hahaha relaxed much. Actually panicking la but it’s not like we have much choice so. And one last teleconference session to tie down gatecrash games details.


Too soon and wedding weekend is here! Arrived in KL a couple of days early, not much shopping except buying materials for gatecrash games, then accompanying the couple to restaurant to recce out the place for performance and finding that we need to revise our 走位 for the big performance coz they only had two mics. Also need to complete our jimui attire too so there’s a bit of shopping there. Dropping by San’s “bridal suite” to finalize some details. Prepping for the games and testing them out ourselves to ensure that it’s not as bad (or rather to ensure that it’s devilish enough). And of course nightly rehearsals including the night before where we rehearsed till 130am coz we did facial while practising too hahaha and had to keep breaking to wash our face and apply a new coat.





And we woke up 3.5 hours later at 5am whew. The bride herself also got roughly the same amount of sleep whew weddings are tiring all right.

Prepped and headed over to San’s, luckily they planned well enough such that everybody is close to each other - Kev’s place, San’s bridal suite, our Airbnb, church. Even had time to pop by Kev's place first to collect San's contact lenses which she needed and left behind. Only place that was far is the banquet  restaurant but that’s ok la. So it’s a short drive and we reached there a bit later than we intended to at about 645am, though the groom and brothers were even later - supposed to reach at 7 (or maybe leave at 7?) but they only arrived at 745am. We had plenty of time then but if I had any regrets, it’s that we didn’t take enough photos during this time!






 

Anyway. Games were fun, we were a bit shocked initially by the angpao amounts lol maybe that is the market rates here or sth. So not much sympathy for the agony the brothers go through ahahaha (then again, they seemed to be pretty ok with most except the cordial drink. And the lemons maybe.). And apparently we let them through too easily coz it’s only 830 ish when we were done and a bit too early for church ceremony which is at 10, though in our defense we were suppose to end before 9 coz 7-9 was the 吉时 according to some sources.




Stel and Val had extra duties throughout - Stel helped with tea ceremony, Val was the resident live streamer coz San’s mum had to give this a miss due to COVID concerns. Then both also joined the march in during the church ceremony. Nvm shall not say much about the church ceremony coz I think even San herself wasn’t too serious about it, this was more of Kev’s family taking it very seriously. And honestly by this time we were already really tired and the day is not even half done so pretty much stoned throughout the service.


Lunch reception for the church wedding attendees while the couple served tea to relatives on the groom’s side, then we left and went home to rest. All knocked out like a light except for KH who was diligently working on a surprise speech and also somehow squeezed in a violin practice. Still amazed how he had the energy for that. Meanwhile the rest of us overslept (the gals at least, coz they had booked a salon appointment to style their hair). Which led to a mad rush to get ready for the banquet, coz, in our minds, we had to go help set up or sth.

In the end there was very little that we needed to do for the banquet. Got kicked out unceremoniously of helping registration because we don’t know most of the guests so Kev’s cousins took over. Left to do ushering but uhhh what’s there to usher? For my part after setting up the laptop for slideshows etc there’s nothing much to do. And we can’t rehearse coz guests are here alr (we did kind of do a fast run through before guests started arriving). Even the angpao collection box we prepared was thrown out eventually coz it’s apparently good attraction for robbery (ok fine legit just that it’s not something we are accustomed to think of). So we just chilled inside the bride’s powder room with her (who also didn’t want to go out and socialize coz she also duno most of the people).


Banquet was pretty much a standard affair with Stel panicking over her progressively weak voice lolol what has this performance done to all of us (KH too suffered through a voiceless bout coz apparently the day he flew in he just had an episode at home where he raised his voice on a co-worker/family member and overexerted his voice chords?). Then planned program was a bit off too so we didn’t know when’s a good time to perform which adds on to the anxiety? But hentam la.


Sooo it’s not too surprising the performance turns out to be a train wreck hahahahah. In our opinions our practice sessions are better (and those weren’t exactly high standards too so that shows how off the actual performance was hahaha). But I think we had fun on stage la and had fun dissecting our performance later on. San had fun too (I think) so no complaints there.





Day after was spent on completing individual errands, moving to a hotel (coz our Airbnb is due for check out on that day) and hanging out with the couple for tea after they complete their obligations, and more chit chat sessions over dinner and post-dinner where we managed to kidnap San over to our hotel, sans Kev (who went out to yumcha with his brothers too). Which was a session I’ll remember for a very long time :)





So that was a memorable few days! Reflections up somewhere else. But I can say that while it’s tiring, it was fun and we would do this all over again if there’s another one hahah. Though post-hol blues is no kick - a combination of tiredness and missing all the fun sigh.

All our love to the couple, and hoping for more good news in time to come.

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Golden jubilee long weekend...there is no reason to not go home, really.

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