Eventful weekend

The weekend that just passed has been very eventful.

On Sat, I attended an ex-cell mate's wedding. The dinner was held at Raffles Hotel and the dress code was lounge suits and evening gowns! It was indeed the grandest wedding dinner that I have ever attended. The experience was interesting also because the food was served individually instead of being placed in the centre. And the pace was slow too...on the average, the interval between each dish was 20 - 30 mins. Because of the long waiting time in between dishes, coupled with the small servings each person is given...I ended up feeling hungry the whole evening...haha...

After the first dish, I had already worked up an appetite and all ready for the second dish...but we had to wait 30 mins before that came. By the time, I was so hungry that the small amount could not really satisfy my hunger...left me craving for more food, which also came another 30 minutes later. And this went on for the next few dishes that by the 4th or 5th dish, we were all talking about going for supper after the dinner.

This is the first wedding dinner that I have attended that I was actually looking forward to the noodles dish...usually by then, everyone would be too full to eat the noodles...but for my table, all of us finished our noodles! The dinner ended at about 11:15pm...by then we were all so tired that we called off supper and decided to just go back home instead.

But still, I must say that the service was excellent. They do not top up your sprite or coke...each time you finish your drinks, they give you a new glass. They were also very polite and professional in the way they serve the guests. The food was delicious too...one of the best for wedding dinners I've attended so far. On the whole, I would say it was still a pleasurable experience for me :) Hun took photos of us in our glam wear...u can see it in his blog.

On Sunday, Hun gave me a surprise...He brought me to watch a play staged by The Neccessary Stage titled Fundamentally Happy. It was a play that dealt with pedophilia issues. He was so sweet to plan the surprise...brought me all the way to Marine Parade CC where TNS was and I had no idea we were watching a play until we reached the entrance.

When the show started, we had another "surprise". For the show that we were watching, there was a group of old folks from a home accompanied by their nurses. They were brought here to watch the show for free. One of the old man apparently could not understand english as was quite bored throughout the show that he was making quite abit of noise.

He obviously did not enjoy the show at all and kept making loud comments...like when the actors were quarrelling in the play, he said in hokkien "ke pak, ke pak" which means "go fight! go fight!"; when the actor was packing up because she was moving home in the play, the dear old man said "siu liao, siu liao...balik balik!" meaning "keep already, go back! go back!". He also kept 'reporting' the time at 4pm, 4:05pm, 4:10pm....every 5 minutes...cos apparently it was told to him that the show would end at 4pm.

After the show ended...Hun and I were laughing all the way cos of the old man. We were at a loss about how to feel...while the actors were protraying the mixed emotions of being a child sexual abuse victim and being a child sexual abuser's wife, we the audience were feeling a mixed emotions of whether to laugh or be angry at the old man...after all you can't really blame him...he didn't understand a word they were saying at all.

Still I told Hun that I wouldn't have enjoyed the show any other way...it was quite an interesting and definitely unforgettable experience!! haha...