Far Far away in a far-flung obscure fairy land

I went for one of my high school friend's solemnisation ceremony yesterday. Yes, it's that stage in my life where friends starts getting hitch. And to think she could have chosen a much better and convenient location, she actually choose to hold her tea reception at her alma matter. All the way in some obscure location in the West. Ok, I don't mean to be a bitch, but considering I come from an extremely centralised located campus in town, her location is really like making a trip from Vienna to Salzburg, of course the entire car ride was actually only 30 minutes. But if you consider the size of our entire country, 30 min is like half the time needed for me to do a cross nation ride!Hyena (who attended another local uni, but spent some months in this campus due to her training course to be a teacher) was so disgusted by the journey and the location that she is really pissed.

And please do not even get me started on describing the campus. There is only so much old disgusting residence halls and dated buildings I can take. Luckily, her choice for the ceremony was in a ultra Chinese style building in her campus. Initially, I did rolled my eyes when a friend told me bout her choice of location (in terms of the chinese style thing) but after a short circling of like erm...10% of her campus, i think the chinese style trumps over all those old dated colonial era buildings.

There's actually this rivalry among my uni and this far flung located uni locally and seriously, for someone who has no student residences on campus (and sine my uni is supposed to be the different creative cousin) this two notes on the car parking lot caught my eyes. Things are so dead buerecratic there that even parking has to be dfferentiated! And besides, why hall fellows?

The ceremony was short and sweet and the buffet was even more unmemorable. I managed to meet many old friends and strike up a few friendly conversations. It was a really boring choice i made to attend her solemnisation ceremony. So just a note to my pals getting hitch, location is key cos seriously, you really do not want ur guests to be cursing and swearing while they are on their way to your wedding.

After the wedding, Stevie drove us to a mall near his place, Parkway Parade to get Hyena's shelf from Giant, but sadly, it was sold out :( At least we were all much happier compared to driving to the far flung location in the morning!

Also, to end things on a fun note, its like a Chinese tradition that whenever cpuples get hitch, be it dinner or solomisation ceremonies, we can give monies in red packets instead of gifts and this is what Steven wrote behind the packet. Notice the funny thing? "Wishing both of us the best..."Haha...we all laughed so loud, and luckily, we alerted his choice of word and managed to changed it before we gave it to the bride.