Family matters…

My girl came home last Friday arriving here at around 3.00 p.m. in the afternoon from Penang, transit KLIA and Kuching and she was able to attend the engagement party of her cousin, my niece…

– the daughter of my cousin on the maternal side of the family, the very next day.

These were some of the engagement gifts…

…and these too…

…and these were the engagement rings…

There was a simple ceremony, blessing and all and the cutting of the engagement cake…

…and the eating as well…

And talking about cakes,there were lots of those…

…lots and lots of them…

…and cupcakes too…

We had brunch as soon as we arrived at around 10.00 a.m. Melissa loved the pumpkin and cangkuk manis…

…which, I would agree. was very nice and I liked the masak hitam beef too, the ulams…and I absolutely enjoyed the salted fish…

…with the dabai (black olives) and the sambal petai with  tempeh…

…was so very nice as well.

This is a group photo of the couple with the immediate members of the family…

…after the ceremony, followed by hi-tea and the distribution of door gifts to all the guests…

Melissa was called upon to lend a hand in doing that…

We left at about 3.00 p.m. and I must say it was a really great gathering indeed – lots of smiles, lots of laughter…and meeting familiar faces, both friends and family…and I certainly look forward to more joy-filled events like this!