Weddings, a below 12's perspective
My daughter, Raihanah, her brother, Abdul Raziq and their cousin Nena, who is 9 had been to many weddings these past week. It seemed the weekend of 8th August 2008 is a busy weekend for the kadis (Muslim marriage solemniser) and priests and the likes. Ahhh...080808 comes but once in a lifetime, many claim. Well, they must have overlooked 8th August 3008, 8th August 4008 ...And now its a week of school holidays, again a busy week for Muslim couples to get hitched before the fasting month of Ramadhan.
Thing is, the kids have mostly been attending these weedings without my husband and I - we had been busy travelling out of KL on business.
After attending one grand scale wedding held at the garden (play ground) of our neighbourhood, Raihanah and Raziq did a post-mortem of the function in the school van on their way to school the next day. They roped in the other neighbourhood kids on this and decided that weddings of such nature should just be left to the grown ups to attend. Or have anything to do with.
Today, they were again at a wedding. This time a traditional kampung wedding, accompanying their grandparents. It must have been another grand one, and they may have not enjoyed the reception for during the wedding, they were heard discussing their own plans for their own wedding.
They decided that they will have their reception at a surau, or the most in the living room of our house. And as for food? They will only serve their favourite - mee, friend mihun and friend instant noodles!
Thing is, the kids have mostly been attending these weedings without my husband and I - we had been busy travelling out of KL on business.
After attending one grand scale wedding held at the garden (play ground) of our neighbourhood, Raihanah and Raziq did a post-mortem of the function in the school van on their way to school the next day. They roped in the other neighbourhood kids on this and decided that weddings of such nature should just be left to the grown ups to attend. Or have anything to do with.
Today, they were again at a wedding. This time a traditional kampung wedding, accompanying their grandparents. It must have been another grand one, and they may have not enjoyed the reception for during the wedding, they were heard discussing their own plans for their own wedding.
They decided that they will have their reception at a surau, or the most in the living room of our house. And as for food? They will only serve their favourite - mee, friend mihun and friend instant noodles!
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...btw.... betul la tu... 080808 comes but once a lifetime.... the other 080808is but in another century... mana nak hidup lagi... betul tak???