a long awaited union

for the longest time, i've been waiting for 5oct to come. it was such an anticipated wedding. not mine, nor that of a well-known celebrity, but that of 2 friends - chris and weifang, or better known as fanny.

i've known the couple for nearly 4 years now. we've been through some really good times and some difficult times. but i thank God for bringing them into my life.

anyway, this couple first met in a diving trip in pulau aur..and the rest is kinda history. haa. [that's really short and sweet huh]. highlight of their relationship would probably be the high attitude proposal, where he carried a very heavy ring up to Low's Peak, one of 4 peaks of mount kindabalu where he popped the question; and touched + surprised beyond any words, she agreed. haa. did i mention that she loves trekking? really sweet and romantic of uncle chris huh..

the proposal

the proposer and the proposed

and so after, the ROM was set a few months later, on 7th July 2007. it was a simple affair, causal yet elegant in its own way. it was also one of the few times that majority of the SART people were around...

kong and esther couldn't make it. but see pauline? she's on the phone with grace

the couple [oops. wrong one]

the real couple

so, just 2 months ago, chris smsed the SART guys and asked if we can be his xiong di. i got to confessed, i was supremely happy and honoured to be part of his party...though i felt quite useless and inadequate. haa. i'm the youngest, most inexperienced and can't drink for shit person in the team. oh well..

5th Oct started with me waking up late, at 6.45am. thank God i packed everything the night before, so i just rushed off to drop the van at fanny's house, and cabbed down to chris' house. and guess what? i left my camera in the cab...but THANK GOD i managed to retrieve it in the evening, thanks to the honest cab-driver.

once everyone reached, and a few hundred photo shots later, the team started its 6km journey from redhill close to holland dr..it was super talk cock and racing up slopes..but we all enjoyed the ride there..and upon reaching our destination, we were greeted by the brother-in-law and the jie meis..who received our ang pao but demanded that chris choose a number 1 or 2. chris chose 2, which crystal responded with a "good for you" kind of laugh. i felt relieved. we later realised that the 2 meant that we would have 2 dices...which chris would have to roll. after much shaking and rolling in a super professional looking die container (for lack of a better noun), a grand total of THREE was rolled. this time round, crystal had a 'i can't believe your luck" kind of laugh. it was soon revealed that we were to start climbing up to the 22nd floor from the THIRD floor. i can't believe chris' luck! imagine if he threw one die and hit one. *faint*

anyway, to explain the following event, i must back track slightly. chris and fanny decided not to have a studio shoot and instead hired a photographer and video-grapher to record the entire day's event. so in preparation to the video montage for the evening, he wanted us to enter the life with our racing attire, but exit in our formal attire...[obviously we weren't going to change inside, but we wanted to make it seem so..so we had to take 2 shots, the before and after]. yup, so after the rolling of the die, the 9 of us, still in our racing attire, dashed into the lift [on excuse of film purposes] and waved bye to the jie meis who looked at us in astonishment. xiong di 1 - jie meis 0. we had cleared the first hurdle.

the second hurdle was easy too. each of us had a gift. and we were to use/put it on. each of us had some funny party disguises and we were to get 3 signatures from people living in the block. easy peasy. a mother and son + a random grandmother. we just explained that they had to sign or the groom couldn't get married. settled in 3 minutes. i kid you not. haa. helps that we were all not self-conscious and supremely thick-skinned.

last assignment for us was to fish our the gate key from a tray of flour, without the use of hands. lien attempted to cheat, but crystal preempt him and got another jie mei to hold his hands. so the smart scholar 'accidentally' flipped the tray over and ta daaa...there was the key in plain sight! haa. we would have gotten off clean but the jie meis obviously had other ideas with the semi-wet flour. and erm..crystal got it too. oops. for being mean to the xiong dis. haa.

on a side note, its a pity ian (below), mike, pauline and fuxy were not able to come. hai. i miss the 4 of them, but at least i'm still able to see the 3 of them..coz all that's left of him are photos and memories...



ok, its been a pretty long post. i will update the photos (when i get them for the couple who has just left for nepal for their honeymoon), and the wedding dinner (i have to leave for class now) tonight...