Friend's wedding

It was the first wedding I've attended in years. The last time I've been to a wedding, almost everyone were aunties/uncles. or people much older than me. This time, hahaha, a lot of people were of the same age as me. It felt kinda weird, actually, to be going to a wedding, giving hangbao and signing guestbook. My first experience.

I arrived early, because a few of my close friends were the jie-mei of the bride, helping out with the settling of the dinner. but they were busy and i didn't know how to help. Luckily TJ came early too... wait. he was on time. but 99% of the attendees were late, so he was considered early.

anyway, we talked quite a bit while we waited for the dinner to start. people were supposed to be coming was 7pm. the dinner started at 8.30. so we had like 1 and a half hour of drinking tea. which was fine, given the company.

and i forgot how funny tj can be. He told a joke, and I laughed. I don't know why, it wasn't really that good a joke, and it probably happened by accident (sorry TJ), but I can't stop laughing. really loudly btw. luckily the restaurant had only like another 5 pple in the other tables. i guess its the unspoken kind of jokes that really tickles.

and then i told a super corny joke myself. see, we were having this "ba bao cha", or eight treasure tea, which had like logans, dates, tea and rock sugar in the teacup. it didn't really taste that fantastic at first, but tj realised that you need to shake it a bit to mix it around and then it tastes nicer.

so i said "shake it like a polaroid picture"

he said "but polaroids are not shaken".

man, i couldn't help myself. I had to say "yeah, they're stirred".

and i burst out laughing again. TJ wasn't amused but JH was. and actually, you know joke tellers aren't supposed to laugh at their own jokes? man, i fail miserably at that. imagine la, you sitting down there, a guy tells you a joke. you aren't amused but the guy just keeps laughing at his own joke. wah, damn loser la. i'm ashamed... well, at least JH was laughing with me.

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and then just as the dinner just started, just after the shark's fin i think, david appeared. he had eaten dinner already, just wanted to join us. so sweet hor? sorry la, attached liao.

anyway, after we had our dessert (some kind of sweet soup with logans), there were still some dessert left in the big bowl. and david helped himself to it. now, he didn't like scoop the dessert out onto his own bowl... he took the entire bowl. man, he hasn't changed one bit.

since we knew him in JC, he's always the guy that finishes the food on the table. you know, like soup that we can't finish. or fries. or carrot cake. whatever, u get the idea.

and here he is, 8 years later, still doing the thing he does. so endearing.. haha


sigh.. its nice to be around friends. maybe my friends should scatter their weddings, like one a year for the next 10 years. then we'll always have opportunities to meet up.