The weekend that was

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- Ruth Sahanaya's (duet with Harvey Malaiholo) "September Pagi" -

it all started on Friday night, when i rushed over to my best bud, Eileen's, place with 2 light cheesecakes i bought from the bakery near my office...Eileen organised a farewell makan2 for her boyfriend who's leaving for Leeds Uni in a few day's time...then it was a food fiesta all the way, with me being oblivious to the fact that i', mengembanging!! aacckk! but the farewell thing was nice..met up with old friends from school, chatted the night away...what's funny was the party was intended for him, but most of our friends were there..and the racket was made by us! heheheh..the boys ate their dinner at a moderate volume, altho the food was polished off at a quicker rate..guess we girls were just too busy yapping to really MAKAN...but it was a nice spread, considering being a potluck affair..she made spaghetti, Afti contributed fried mee, another married friend displayed her culinary skill with fried meehoon sprinkled with strips of omellete (Form 3's KH project maa), there was roast chicken and bende lain yang i've forgotten...
was supposed to go see my uni friends at Sportsbarn but my family left my sister alone in the house for the night, so i had to do the big sister thingy and rushed home...budak kecik tu pulak requested for some Nescafe, and stayed awake till morning...

Saturday was freakily busy...woke up at about 7.15 a.m., rushed through breakfast with my bro and sis, and then rushed to Damansara Heights to my cousin's place for her wedding rehearsal...at about 11.30-12.00 p.m. i rushed back to my grandma's place in Rawang (balik kampung) for her kenduri pulak...the traffic was smooth, thank God...reached there at about 12.30p.m...hung round with my cousins, helped around wherever i could, had 2 humongous plates of rice with my grandma's fabulous rendang and udang masak tempoyak...i can't remember when was the last time i had 2 plates of rice in one go, but it was worth it *wipes drool of face*

stayed till about 2p.m....then drove off to my aunt's place in Gombak to collect my altered kain kebaya...sheesh..if i knew she was gonna alter it, i wouldn't have bothered dieting *yeah, right!* the week before! but it was all good....hehehe...malas wanna go to my cousin's place to get ready, so i stayed put, had a nap...bathe and went with another cousin to get our hair done..

finally arrived at the hall err..quite late actually..and started to usher ppl around..the thing is, they might be really important people with titles, so u can't actually go " This way, UNCLE" ...or "Jemputlaa AUNTIE"..sheesh...just smiled around a lot...the whole ceremony was beautiful and sweet..the video presentation of their akad was *sigh* so best...met many of my relatives and took tons, and tons of pictures...it was a relatively short ceremony actually, ended around 10.30 p.m....but we stayed back till about 12.30a.m....ooh, one of the best part was they totally debunked the bunga telur tradition and presented their guests with yummy cupcakes..mmm, much better, i think..well, judging by how the guests seemed to enjoy it and brought the extras home, it must have been a hit with them too....went to sleep later with too-much hair spray on head...

had a little reunion on Sunday with my friends from Standard 6..thanks to Anwar, Azura, Alia, Belinda, Emil, Alex, Fee Chin and Elena for coming! it was fun! catch up on stories, swapped nostalgic kiddy tales, had scrumptious lunch at Swensens, and actually made plans to meet up again sometime this week...at a cheaper mamak stall or sumthing..whoops, that reminds me, gotta sms them...hehehe...btw, quote of the day, from Alex: "Who's going to be umbrella-ing her?"..that got a big laugh from all of us...

and later, had tea with and her buddy, Mayan at Secret Recipe...the most perfect carrot slice to end a perfectly delightful weekend :)