An invitation…

I was pleasantly surprised when Nicholas extended to me an invitation to his maternal grandfather’s 90th birthday bash last Saturday night…

…at the grand ballroom in a posh hotel in town…

*Photo taken earlier before the function started*

He wasn’t my student but we met in Limbang when I brought my school team there for the Inter-school English Language Debate competition in 2006 and he was there representing his school from Kuching…but we’ve kept in touch on Facebook all this while since he went abroad to study in the UK, Cambridge to be precise, doing medicine on a JPA scholarship and right now, he’s home for his summer vacation till very early October.

So there we were, my missus and I, and of course, Xavier – my ex-student/debater and Nicholas’ friend, was invited too and was there as well.

Nicholas’ grandfather looks great and he even sang at the reception. Nicholas gave  a speech in his honour but it was Greek to me and I did not know exactly what he said. LOL!!! Unfortunately, the lighting at the place was rather dim so I could not manage to take any nice photographs and that included the food as well. Thus, I would not be featuring any of the dishes in this post.

Anyway, just for interest’s sake, I would like to share with everybody something that we were all given to bring home – these longevity paos (steamed buns)…

These are made to look like the peach that the God of Longevity carries and are distributed to invited guests at such grand birthday bashes…

I’m not too sure what they have inside as I’ve not eaten them – I reckon they have peanut paste or something like that in them.

Thanks so much, Nicholas, for your kind invitation – it certainly was our pleasure and honour to be part of it all. May God bless your grandpa and your grandma, you and all in your family too.