Constantly…

On 16th February, the 3rd day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, I attended another ex-student’s wedding. Here are the newly-weds – Constantine and his beautiful bride, Ita…

Actually Constantine’s younger brother, Desmond, contacted me sometime in November or December to extend the invitation. He said that his mother had asked the two brothers and their sister, Sandra (whom I taught as well in my English tuition class) whether they wanted to invite any of their former teachers and Desmond said that the three of them wanted me to be there. He said that the mum’s response was something like, “Wow! You had so many teachers and you only want to invite one!” Needless to say, I was VERY flattered.

So there I was at the church ceremony…but I did not take any photographs there. Some of the people with their DSLRs took a few of me, I think…and I was tagged in one of them on Facebook…

Edith Wong’s photo

She probably wanted to take a photo of the bouquet but unfortunately, I happened to be in the background and absolutely ruined the photograph. Hahahahaha!!!!

Well, Edith’s brother, Jude, was at the wedding with his new-born baby. If you may recall, I was at his wedding on 26th November, 2008…

After the service, we proceeded to a relatively new restaurant in the town for the banquet…

The food was very good but the service was horrendously slow. We were there before noon but the first dish was served at around 1.00 p.m…

…and the second dish, the steamed fish, at around 2.00 p.m…

I was thinking to myself, “Good grief! At this rate, we would probably be eating till 10 tonight.” Thankfully, things picked up a bit after that and we had the third dish, the cheesy prawns…

The soup dish, which normally would come in second, was served as the fourth dish in individual bowls…

I would think that on such a busy day and with the insufficient number of workers to cope with the crowd that day, they could have just done away with all that and serve it all in one huge bowl and everyone could just help themselves. The fifth dish was a chicken and pork combo…

…and the sixth was a sea cucumber and abalone dish…

Then came the first of the dessert dishes. I particularly loved the sweet yam paste and glutinous rice and since by then, most of the others at the same table had left, I could have the lion’s share of that…

I did not wait for the second dessert dish – I reckoned there would be one as the workers had placed some bowls on the table. By the time I reached home it was around 3.30 p.m. – I wonder if that would qualify us for the Guiness Book of World Records.

Well, despite all that, I had a wonderful time meeting so many of my ex-students, including Walter who took me out for lunch when I was in KL last year…and I had Clare of Kampua Talk for company. Some thought she was my daughter and when my ex-students could contain their curiosity no longer, they asked me and I told them that she was my girlfriend. You can imagine the uproar at their table that resulted from that! LMAO!!!

THE Poh Huai Bin of sixthseal.com was there too. Here, you can see him giving an intensive course on whisky drinking to his captive audience at his table…

CK aka Superman was there too…and Nicholas and Acey as well. If there were other bloggers around, either I did not know them or I could not spot them in the crowd.

Well, congratulations to you, Constantine and your lovely bride, Ita. All the best for your future and may the two of you be blessed with abundant and everlasting happiness. Thanks for the invitation – it certainly was my pleasure to be able to be present and share the joy on your special day…