I am Rainbow

A week before Nat’s birthday, Chai messaged us: Want to celeb at beach depart early then dinner on Monday. In Sepang.

Huh? Monday, no need to work meh?

Oh. *slap forehead* Mon was a Public Holiday! Oh yeah! But beach side in Sepang? The water in Klang Valley is dirrrrrrrty! Were we going to the beach as in the water? :S Wait, Sepang got beach? I thought Sepang had F1 & that was all?

Then the plan changed to dinner only. I thought there was no more beach. Sam would fetch me & we’d go together. On the day before the birthday, Sam told me to check with Jim for transport.

I called Jim, “You are going to pick me up haha?”

“Ah but then? Hahah.”

On the day itself, Jim called me, “I’m out, coming already. Are you ready?”

“Now changing.”

“Sam reach there already?”

“Ha? Sam? She never said anything about coming here?!”

“Ha? No??”

Then before Jim arrived, Sam arrived in her bf’s car & waited inside. I was applying lots of sun screen - travelling to Sepang would take around 1hr and the beach in the afternoon! Bad for skin! Anyway, I bought 2 bottles of Maybelline so I didn’t have to worry about skimping the sun screen.

We went to Nat’s office to wait up stealthily - she didn’t know we were coming. Some of us didn’t even wish her the midnight before hehe. Just pretended to forget it. Well, I actually forgot about wishing her. Since we were going to meet on the actual date anyway.

We hid in Chai’s car at the junction road & Nat really didn’t see us when she arrived with NeverZzz! Bear was driving the other car but he didn’t follow us to hide. Instead, he parked at the main roadside - easily spotted!

When everyone left the road to depart, Nat saw our car & she was surprised! Ta da! :p

At the petrol station, she left the car & came over. “Eh, you all here also!”

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” We all chimed.

Chai asked her, “Did you open your present already?” She had passed a small bag with gift & card to Nat earlier. I put the thing that Nat left at my home for months since she never bothered to get it back.

“Got.”

I asked her, “Did you see what’s inside?”

“Got. Got the thing also ahah!”

“Yeah.. did you see clearly? You move 360° and see,” I cajoled her.

She appeared confused.

I twisted my finger & turned it around.

She looked at our car, the road, back at the petrol station and then back at us, “Ha?”

“Look behind our car.”

“OH! BEAR!”

She walked over to Bear’s car. Bear was bringing his gf too! The 1st time to intro to us heehheh.

It took a long time to reach the beach. Surprisingly, the sand wasn’t that dirty but the water was brownish. Eeeee ye.

Found more than 20 dead fishes & prawns along the beach. “Maybe tsunami is coming,” someone lamented.

Turned out Sumatera had earthquake - found out the next day in news.

“Are we going to eat the seafood directly from this beach?” Someone asked.

“Eeee ye. I hope not!” I expressed my dismay at eating something-wrong-seafood from dirty water.

“Hooo.. finally found someone our skin,” Sam looked at another group of tourists.

The whole beach was of Malays. No Indians.

At the end of the beach, we saw a chalet home or something like that. Heard it was damn expensive. Really beachy feel. All brown wood, small ponds with lively fishes and there were small signs of “DO NOT STEP ON THE GRASS”. Wah… those grass must be $.

It was very hot! *wave hand on face to cool down*

Will blog more when I get the pics. Which maybe next eon, considering NeverZzz still hadn’t shown us the pics taken last year!

There are people who insist on getting invitation card by the couple in a face-to-face meeting. I, on the other hand, do not mind getting online invitation. It’s just a card that I would recycle after a week after the wedding.

This Goh said he would personalize my card. I thought he would write my name on the card and scan it, then email to me. He used Photo editor to just add names into a scanned card. Come to think of it, he can just buy a card or create one himself. Then use Photo editing applications to change names, etc. Maybe someone will send MMS/SMS and that’s the invitation card. You must show the MMS/SMS to get into the wedding hall.

It was listed 7pm SHARP. Malaysia. Drizzling an hour before 7pm. I insisted on reaching there at 7pm SHARP because it’s someone’s important event.

I was among the first to reach at 7pm.

I asked Goh, “Got handsome in my table?”

He nodded, “Got, a lot!”

“Sure?”

He nodded firmly.

Another younger guy with his same height & similar features guided me to my table. His bro probably.

Goh’s wedding - early bird

In the small wedding dinner hall, only a table was full - I assumed Goh’s relatives. No. 5. 1 of my lucky numbers haha. Surprisingly, I was seated at a quite front & middle table :D Could see action clearly later.

I looked around. I went to the washroom. I rearranged my hair. I checked my handphone for unread sms. Drafts. Sent. Cleared outbox.

I read the menu twice, I rearranged the utensils and took pic. I looked around. Not a familiar face. That was expected since I only knew a few of the guests - when we had been through a few days & nights together in company workshop a few years back.

I sipped the hot hot tea and ate the chocolate. China made?

Goh’s wedding - choc unwrapped

Not too sweet :) hard though.

Decided to go out to The Weld. Empty except for a few shops that were still opened! When I came back to the hall, my seat was taken. Several people starred at me and I starred at these strangers. Oh… It wasn’t “Oh, you! Happy to see you!” but more to “Oh, hi.. what are you doing now?”

8.30pm and the lights dimmed. 8.30!

Goh’s wedding had disco light! Shocking. The colours looked brighter & lighter in actual than this pic.

Goh’s wedding - braised shark’s fin soup

I didn’t and still don’t know how to differentiate real and fake (some say made of plastic, vege, fish) sharkfin. This shark’s fin soup had dried scallop & seafood too. It’s so cruel to just kill a shark for the fin. I was torn between eating it (why waste food?) and not (why support killing shark?).

Goh’s wedding - studio pic
Hehe. I grabbed a picture. 2 actually. Shhh… Like the bright colours here.

The dai kam je was a hands-flamboyant guy. He asked us, “You want to see some action?”

Several shouted, “Yes!”

He asked the groom, “How much you love her?”

“A lot.”

“How much is a lot.”

“A lot a lot.”

“How much is a lot a lot?”

“How much you want?”

“Show us some sincerity. So that we all lam.”

“How?”

“OK.. you kiss until they stop clapping.”

So everyone started clapping hard and they kissed.

“Eh.. must suck a bit,” the guy made his lips puckered up.

LOL. More clappings.

The rest of the menu was very normal in Chinese wedding dinner. Aside from the Hors D’oeuvres (whoa, big words) 5 Seasons, the dessert & soup were something different.

Goh’s wedding - dessert & soup

The left side plate had light green fillings (kaya-paste-like) inside the fish and I had no idea what the other brown biscuit had inside except it was hard & too big for my mouth. The soup had sweetened white fungus, ginseng (!) & longan. It was my 1st time and the ginseng added a clear sweet-bitter taste which was quite nice.

Though there were times I cracked my brain thinking what to say during silent times, I had enjoyed myself there. Some of the people looked familiar yet I couldn’t remember where I had seen them.

Got a few gorgeous guys in OTHER tables. PotatoGal told me, “Aiiyo, no time already. Faster go take action! HAHAHA!”