More weddings.

15.3.2010.

The school holidays, though a short one, are here, so the weddings rounds begin again. The last two weeks there were three weddings- Bull & Wok's son at Shah Alam, Fuzi's at Kajang, and Daro's at Seri Kembangan. 

The Kajang one was at their house, while the other two were held in their respective rented (or not) halls. I think this was Fuzi's second reception that we came to, also at the same venue. Being held at her house wasn't a good idea. It was sweltering hot, the crowd too big, and the area too small. The big crowd meant that the main road in front, close to the traffic lights on the Semenyih-Kajang old trunk road, was absolutely congested. The drivers not involved in the wedding didn't show any sympathy and cursed and shouted and thumped their horns and pointed their fingers and more or less showed the famous ugly side of Malaysian motorists.

I said rented or not because Bull held his reception at Sirim where he was once the boss, and I asked if it's f.o.c. and he said "sikit" - which transalates to f.o.c. Daro's hall was more modest, in fact most of us were sitting in the several erected canopies outside the smallish dewan. 

It took the marriage of her daughter for me to find out that my first-cousin's real name is Siti Aminah ! When I first received the invitation card I wondered who this Siti Aminah was, because I certainly don't know the husband, and even now, after attending the reception, I still don't know the husband because nobody introduced us and he never came around to introduce himself, much less to welcome us. There I met another Daro - Hj. Hassan's daughter and Echam's younger sister, also Bull's sister-in-law. I said loudly "this here Daro, in crutches but still daro ! (virgin)." 

Jamlus, Kak Ngah Hasnah, Wati and Wok, and Timah, Echam's other sister were all there, and we talked a bit. We took the newly opened Lekas highway from Ampangan Seremban all the way to Balakong and Seri Kembangan. Almost free of traffic, it was a nice change, especially it being a Saturday. Once we entered the Balakong-Seri Kembangan area, of course, things got back to the normal snarl. 

So, on the return journey I was determined to retrace our route back to Seremban. Unfortunately I took one turn too early and found ourselves back on the Plus KL-Seremban and smack into the Saturday south-bound jam. 

Congratulations to all three newly-wed couples. 

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