Dek Mah & daughters finally pulled it off - Nora got a warm, noisy and hugely successful send-off from family & friends last Saturday. I don't know what happened in Cheras Sunday because of the aforementioned funeral, but Taman Tun was great. And this was with the deliberate pains of making everything plain & simple, even dropping the "Dr." on the invitation card. Except Dek Mah's photostated directions for the Cheras venue - the plan was more complicated than the actual thing.
The groom still has a few months of housemanship before returning home to KL, while Nora is now in KK. No news on honeymooning is forthcoming, but for the bridal night, they were booked at a hotel somewhere, although the poor mother has graciously vacated her room for the couple. The dentist might practice in KK,too, he indicated. Otherwise it would be another long distance relationship like the present one.
The marriage vows conducted at the Taman Tun mosque went smoothly and finished ahead of schedule, and we were at the Community ahead of the caterers. I was one of the two witnesses, the other being Dato' Mohd. Zin Yusof from the groom's side. Small world, indeed. The groom's dad was Din's classmate at medical school. Mohd. Zin is from Lonek, Idah's kampong, and I know him since he was with KTM and I was at MISC and we often attended the same meetings, played golf in the same group, and sometimes singing at the same karaoke ! That he was from a religious school before entering university was not something obvious, unless, as in my case, you happened to know it. Certainly it did not hamper his karaoke style. Anyway, the both of us marriage witnesses promptly and simultaneously said "sah" with only one reading of "ijab qabul" from the bride's father and the groom. Aishah the bride's sister sobbed quietly, but Nora the bride was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
There were a few surprises for me at the reception. I met Yusof, my younger brother from a different mother, after all these years. I invited him for all my children's weddings, but he never came. I was saddened seeing him walking with those crutches. I didn't ask him about it. Miza came with his wife and daughter, and two grandchildren who are Dek Mah's students. Megat "budak boy" - a.k.a. Dato' Dr. Megat Burhanuddin, now the V.C. Of Nilai University, showed up. When I asked the connection, he just pointed his finger at his wife. Dato' Sahak the ADUN from Lenggeng came. His wife was Dekma's classmate from TKC. The Terachi group also came, including Dato' Sam of the "play it again, Sam" fame of the 1990's KL stock exchange bull run. He should know a thing or two about weddings, having been married more than once. Probably that part was from Hj.Hassan, Sam's father himself. But the biggest surprise of all was Alang Ipin coming in big, black pointed shoes. He is always in slippers. But maybe Miza had taken over from Alang Ipin. Miza came in slippers.
Well, here's wishing Nora all the best in their future life together. As the sign behind Raja Alias' door at Jalan Maktab says, "life is a cup of tea. It depends how you make it." I hope the new dentist in the family will keep the tea sugar-free, and keep all the cavities out.
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