Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Happiness is a wonderful feeling~On 22th october 2005, my eldest cousin(hwee zheng sis) finally held her traditional chinese tea ceremony and wedding dinner of 25 tables at Harbour Place's 88 restaurant! We witnessed this big and joyous day of hers as she stepped into a new and exciting phrase of her life. I saw her stepping out of the grey/silver wedding car with purple ribbons and arrived at her mother's place, her face glowing with obvious happiness~
Me and my brother congratulated them on getting hitched! The tea ceremony was a fun affair, made possible by the cheerful and experienced photographer. The shoots were effieciently-taken and with an element of fun in them! He knew when to tease and coax the bride, bridegroom and the relatives to smile for the camera =) i am impressed!
The buffet catering was yummy, consisting of 10 trays of what do you call it, buffet-food! haha =) I had 2 plates of them!
Later that day, we went home to take our rest, as well as to change into our next "costumes"!
The white, gorgeously yet pure as snow dress!
We took a smooth ride by the taxi, wasting no time at all to wait for one. Arrived the first ones!
How cool is that! Were shown into the bride's make-up room by my brother-in-law, the bridegroom. the bride has just started putting on her make-up. We saw how the make-up person expertly helped her to make, literally make the double eyelids using surgeon's tape, we were told! Amazing and an eye-opener for me~
We went out so as not to disturb them, and sat outside, waiting for others to arrive. We were also waiting for my father to rush from his work, to attend cousin's wedding. It would have been hard to explain to others the reason why my father did not make his presence there. Luckily he arrived just in the nick of time!
I envy a particular young lady, she's my cousin's aunt's daughter, who came with her bf to both the tea ceremony in the morning, and now this! Her bf is one hell of a handsome fellow, and she's not bad herself, looking all classy in her little black dress with a scarf and carrying a simple gucci handbag. They look so lovingly, that my heart ached for a bf too! Can't stand looking at them..heard they are getting married next year also! Why is everyone getting married, and finding their own little happiness, but not me?! Hope my other one will come search for me soon!
Helped out with sitting arrangement-ushering job for the bride side's relatives. Both nerve-wrecking and exciting yet honoured task.
The 9 course dinner affair was a great, sumptous and hard to forget one. The ingredients were of the most expensive and high quality, as expected from my cousin's taste. The appretizer was the "cold-plate" salad of sort, lobster with fruits. Next up, shark's fins! I love it! Had 2 bowls even though I was embarrassed to ask for the second one though haha =) 3rd's the sweet scallops with "sotong" slightly hot, and veg. 4th's the big fat pawns that I had mentioned..haha think it's quite cute to call them that! 5th dish was the fish, steamed I think, sweetly fresh but I hate the bones in my bowl. The senior waiter should had removed them, and not placed it in my bowl together with my fish! Anyway, the 6th dish was abalone, as I remembered. Nice, but not as expected. It was a thin slice, slightly hard to chew, with 2 pieces of "xiang gu" aka mushroom. I would have preferred it to be one whole abalone, the sort which is soft yet chewy! The 7th dish was chicken and veg, I ate only the veg though, coz I still had some cough. So I can't tell how was the chicken like! I think it must be nice too. The 8th dish was fried noodles. It's a small bowl, but I only managed to eat like half of it coz i was really full already! My stomach felt like it will burst by itself anytime! Last but not least, the dessert! It's "sha ge", dunno how to say in english! heehee, pardon my english! Nice, sweet, but not tooo sweet, I like!
We also got to take home with us, a small package og chocolate, a little thank you gift by the couple.
Now the sentimental part:
This is the 1st time my family, (as in immediate, father's side's family), had such a joyous event of marriage! p.s my mother's side also dun haf yet! Naturally, I expected myself to feel excited and all that..but what I never expect is that I would be so touched by the union of 2 ppl. I guess, that's why ppl always say, blood is thicker than water! Coz, that was what I felt when I witnessed my cousin and her husband on stage, receiving the well-wishes from the MC, represently all the relatives and friends. I really hope that my cousin truly found her own happiness. She has waited so long for this day to come. And she's not young anymore. Hope that bro-in-law loves her as much as she to him.
When we filed out to part from the restaurant, I shook her hand and sincerely wished her everlasting happiness~
Saturday, October 08, 2005
the strange side of meAll my life, I've been having strange moments when I think that certain things had happened before. It's like I have met certain people and did some things with them. I remembered going out with qiu wen's friend even before I know that we would meet her. Shi Shi, that's her name, met us at around 5 pm at far east plaza cos they wanted to look for a friend's birthday gift in advance, before they meet out with their other friends to actually buy the gift. I even bought a green "chose" bag with her. She bought the pale green with bright pink strips.
Another incident was during a chalet a few days ago. It was a birthday chalet cum bbq 2 days 1 night for shirley, a ex-colleague at Shimbashi Soba. We haven't meet for a long while, about 6 months in fact, and it was a great opportunity to meet and update each other about our lives. We had a wonderful time there, what with the small talks with each other, and teasing around. But that's beside the point. the point is that I discovered that I had did these things before! It's like I had either predicted those events or I had done these in my past lifetime! I strongly feel that way, no bluffs or lying done. i know this may seem hard to believe but it really is that way. i started to feel like I had done it before when Sam, chatarina and I were chatting at the kitchen area, around the fridge. Halfway while we were talking, I started to realise that "hey, it seems like this had happened before!" I was thinking to myself "Oh no, not again!" And i can actually predict what topics they(Sam and chatarina) are going to continue talking about. Cos they were the ones doing the talking mainly, and I was just listening and adding in a bit of comments and the such. And they all came true. Very accurate indeed. Like the part on Sam giving advice to chatarina about love problems and the funny parts he mispronounced the word "smiling" into smelling. And we laughing about it! It just seemed so natural that these would happened.
Next came the bit where we sat on the floor and continue our chatting. not long after that, Sam went to sleep, while chata went to sit beside Yen and me beside Shirley, while we watched them played cards. It was exactly the same! I had the feeling that the same players were supposed to sit down there and play the cards. Then, kuma-san went to sleep. same procedure..next, they changed to play another card game and we watched. cos chata n me don't know how to play. the game began to put drag on us, cos it kind of boring, playing the same game for hours. I started diverting my attention to the tv that was showing silently at the top corner. And I started to play the part of translating the chinese drama to english for chata and who ever that wants to listen. haha it was quite fun, for a while anyway! then I grew bored again. And I was growing more and more tired by the minute. So we stopped playing the cards, and Peter suggested "we go and walk walk(jalan jalan) leh" but it was still drizzling and besides, there was no where for us to go and nobody wanted to go outside anyway, so poor thing, everyone sort of ignored him. Then I got hungry and ask for food! *I wana makan! damn hungry can! (onaka ga sukimashita!)* Peter passed me this japanese salty biscuit and I went out to eat with chata, she was hungry too. The rest of us came out except Alvin who was sleeping already on the table. Nobody was hungry except me n chata. Then we went back in, Alvin was sleeping behind the curtains at a corner of the room! Was surprised to see a pair of feets there! I guessed we continued to stare at each other and try and find a way to pass the time quickly..can't really remembered, but it was something like that. All the while, I was feeling weird like everything happened before. Then, at around 7am, chata and me decided we couldn't stand it anymore, we were practically begging for a bed! We asked the way home and Yen, Shirley and Peter were helpful enough to offer to send us to the bus stop opposite Downtown East. Thanks a lot friends! =)
Then it came again! The story has to continue, it seems. It was fated that chata and me were the only ones who brought umbrellas. It was also fated that yen and me were the ones to share mine, while shirley n chata shared hers. Poor Peter had to walk in the rain with his towel on his head. I remembered the topics which would bounded to flow out from our mouth and they really did! We talked about her future plans and the likes. It was a pleasant chat.
I thought it would end there. I would just go home and have a good rest, get back my energy and forget about all these like I used to do, whenever this happened to me and I couldn't get an answer to this problem.
But no. It did not stopped there..I went to buy my breakfast noodles and guess what? Yes, I forgot my wallet, and I had not a single cent on me. I was thinking to myself, hmm "do I have my wallet with me?" and went to search for my wallet right after I placed my order. Which is totally way not me! So I had to forgo my breakfast and cancelled it.
I called back to Shirley, and there it was, I had left my wallet in the drawer in the chalet room. I knew it, I knew way before hand that something like that would happened, but I just couldn't seem to avoid it from happening. I mean I couldn't predict that I would precisely forget to bring my wallet home but when it happened, I have the strangest feeling that it already occurred..It's like a tv drama I had watched when I was a kid, and when I watched it again, I would recognised the same scenario happening on the show. But the difference is that I would have know that I am watching a repeat telecast, even if I were to watch it halfway and later realise that.
I feel that there are a few possibilities. One is that I am supposed to have die years ago and god is giving me a second chance to live it again, and is constantly reminding me of this fact. Another way of explanation will be that I am reliving the same or similar events of my past lifetime. It's like I still have fragments of memories from the past identity I had in my past live. Maybe I din drink the soup that is supposed to erase my memories away from me, when I was passing the bridge in hell before i am recarnated to this lifetime. i don't know..I really don't know.
The same thing also has happened to me when I was at the jc chalet. It's not only happening recently, but has been doing so on and off during my past 19 years. I feel like I am like a puppet, being attacted to strings and controlled by a greater being. I am like the character in a story, following the stoeyline to the end, no matter what.
All About Fuji Syuusuke! (watashi no tennis no oujisama!)Name: Fuji Syusuke School: Seishun Gakuen (Seigaku) Birthday: 2/29 (leap year) Status: Seigaku Regular (Seigaku's #2) Year: 3rd
Special Moves Triple Counter: (1) Swallow Return ~ Tsubame Gaishi (2) Bear Drop ~ Higuma Otoshi (3) White Wale ~ Hakugei Disappearing Serve
Class: 6 Height: 167 cm Blood type: B Play-style: counter-puncher Dominant hand: right Favorite food: apple, Keijan [foreign] food, fiery chinese noodle soup Hobby: collecting cactus, taking pictures Favorite subject: classic Favorite color: beige
OTHER:
Relatively easy going, Fuji is an extremely observant player that can generally figure out what is happening on the courts faster than his collegues. Though he is generally smiling, when he is either serious or angry his eyes open completely (they usually look like they're closed) and will bring doom to whoever dares to stand against him :)He is considered a tennis Genius. (Tensai)He is also the only person on the whole team who can stand Inui's deadly vegetable juice.
Family: Father, Yoshiko(Mother), Yumiko(Older sister), Yuuta (Younger brother)Yuuta attends St. Rudolph Highschool.
Kanji: Fuji 不二 means "peerless; unparalleled"; Syu 周 is "circuit"; suke 助 is "help/rescue"
