The Wedding Banquet

The month of May was filled with weddings, even up to the very last day.

This time it's Kok Hon's turn as he brings the bride home

Kok Hon & Boon Ping ~ such a lovely-bubbly couple

~ Wedding wishes ~

At the table - Addy, Me, Rachel & Jon

Met up with lotsa church mates during the dinner and here's especially one 'prominent' big brother of TOW - unker Caldwin Tai

Having emigrated to kiwi land with his warm family, unker Caldwin looks like he's rejuvenated from his few months stay in Auckland and just got back from NZ to run some errands and attend the wedding.

Kok Hon also invited unker John Loo & band to come jazz things up during the dinner.

Meng, John, Kok Hon, Boon Ping, Victor, Sherley, Me & Jonathan

Did Wonderful Tonight with the band before calling it a day.

Time for me to go look for a bride now... *laughs*

Mike weds Wendy

It was a joyous occasion over the weekend as another cousin of mine got married.

Arrival of the groom and his 'heng-tai's'

Acting cute as they're being tortured by the girls before gaining 'entry' to see the bride

The 'yam-cha' session.

Not quite our typical yam-cha at the mamak coz this one's quite costly, for every cup of tea that goes down your throat, you're obligated to either pay by cash or jewellery.

STRICTLY Cash & Gold Only!

The lovely newly-weds

Spotted someone familiar in the pix?

If you are in the blogsphere long enough, you would agree with me that the groom has a splitting image of Kenny Sia [www.kennysia.com]

Oh well, Kenny's gotta seriously lose lotsa kilo's to get into this body shape.

*laughs*

Ipoh - Lotsa Food & A Wedding [part 2]

Woke up in Ipoh to a hungry stomach on Day 2 overlooking the land of awesome food and limestone hills.

View of the Ipoh Race Track from my room

Headed downtown Ipoh for the famous 'heong peng' followed by a visit to this shop which has been operating for the last 50 odd years!

That's Dariel cheerfully posing amongst the very tasty biscuits

My cousin - Cathy; buying loads of biscuits ranging from those that I've not seen for the last 10 years or so in the market.

Remember those small little hard-icing top biscuits, and the 'yee-chai-peng'?.. Yeah..it's all still sold here! And thats the shop owner who proudly claims that they've sold a certain type of biscuits for the last 51 years, when asked whether the biscuits were tasty.

Headed for brunch at some coffee shop in the corner of town where they serve really awesome-ly delicious yong tau foo and toast bread. It was so good, we ordered twice of the same food with Leo even ordering a whole bowl of those green chilli's with stuffed meat!

It's back to KL happily after all the food to soon realize that we've gotta find the lyrics and practice to a song that we last sang together when we were 12 years old! And we're finally doing it again tonite..after all these years.





Here we are, at the dinner venue in Tropicana.

The groom & I

My dad & I with the newly-weds after the 'tea-session'

Our cousins and aunts

Our gracious host for the weekend - Cathy & Dariel

Continuing the evening with the usual wedding dinner, cake-cutting, wine-pouring,..then came our 'moment'.

Our song; -first and last heard back in the summer holidays in the early 90's is making a come back on this special occasion of Kristin's wedding

So here we are, reunited in a song:

The evening then continued with more yam-seng's and photo session...

Altogether now.... "Yammmmm-SennnnggggGGGGG"

Last but not least, meet Chien Hui, Kristin's cousin. Well, she's like the one and only cousin of Kristin that I've ever remembered....

Look at what a beauty she is now:

We used to spend our holidays together back in the innocent days and the last time we've met was like....ancient years..! *laughs*

Guys: Stop staring already!

Girls: Look at me instead.. =)

Ipoh - Lotsa Food & A Wedding [part 1]

Went to Ipoh for a food trip my cousin's wedding over the weekend with my bro and cousin.

Reach Ipoh just slightly before noon and went straight to where the famous "satay-intestines" were sold. Among the food we sapu were the super smooth hor-fun, juicy taugeh's, curry mee and popiah..

One just couldnt imagine what a glutton we could be...we were so full and stretched in our bellies after a quick meal like that.

These are the Ipoh "must-have" dishes

After the sumptious brunch, we took a drive around the very scenic Ipoh and headed towards Taiping.

Traffic in Ipoh is seriously SLOW...with everyone just cruising along not rushing anywhere.



We then went 'long-kai' in classic Taiping for about an hour or so before heading back to Ipoh in its most jammed-up hour!..

Got caught in the after-hours jam (can't believe there's actually jam in downtown Ipoh) back to our hotel before freshening up for the wedding dinner....

YUP..thats what we're actually here for; my cousin's wedding! *laughs*

Here's a pix of my cousin - Kristin with the love of her life - Irving.

Kristin & Irving

Leo & I with Kristin & Irving

Bride & Groom with their parents.

Cathy & I with the newly-weds





After the dinner....... we went for MORE FOOD!!! ... this time at the famous roadside hawker stalls that's famous for their tong sui & mussels (si-ham)

Check out the fresh mussels, dipped into spicy chilli sauce.

...to be continued...