Gatecrashing!

Never done that before and had to do it last evening. Crash what? A wedding reception to be exact.... Dominino's!

I know him since i attended FEBC night and day class. He has spoken to CtYF on various occasions & Yfers like his preaching style. When i heard he has a reception in Singapore, i wanted to attend and congratulate him, plus to give him a gift. ONE big problem.... i wasnt invited. Neither the Yfers. How?

Rev Koshy spoke to CtYF last Saturday and i took the opportunity to enquire more on the reception. Then i sheepishly revealed that i wanted to go but not invited... haha... Rev Koshy graciously extend the invitation to me... as from a Pastor of Dominino. He told me just go! Got the contact for RSVP from Amy and i sms the unknown number on Tues....received a positive reply and yah.... :)

Thot it would be ideal for our Yfers to come....Discussed with Jamesy and i asked the exco. Ben replied it was pretty near his home and he could make it. I could sense Ben has a lot of things on hand to do and so i asked him not to come unless he could really afford the time and it was ok not to go. He listened and stayed home. Shingy wanted to go & eat but he has pw. Aaron & JJ seemed very interested in the food too but they didnt make the final decision to come. And so, i gathered all the greetings from the exco (whoever minded to write) and put into the card for Domi. Inserted some cash and i was ready to crash!!!!

Arranged to meet the Seahs at 6.45pm at Paya Lebar MRT....they decided not to drive due to traffic condition, plus it is very convenient for them to hop into MRT and get to SingPOst. At 5.30pm, i left my home to start the journey. While on the way, thot i check on the Seahs... just in case they overslept... send this sms at 6.30pm

"R u almost there?"

Hahaah.....sadly, no reply. Reached Paya Lebar at 6.40pm and sms the Seahs again with this

"I have reached."

This time, they replied:

"We're in train. JElignite acct-so"

A Da Vincci code? What was that????? All i knew was they were in the train. Where would be what i needed to know.

I replied

"Huh? U jus boarded the train?"

"No board at JE. U can go ahead to e seminar room. Think they shd be there already."

I read as they just got on the train at JE and on their way. Oh man... i wasnt about to wait 45mins at MRT... and so i decided to walk to the seminar room on my own... tho i did hesitate since i was supposed to gatecrash it and kind of got nervous and shy....

Spotted a familiar face in the MRT station crowd.......FEBC student that i know..... I walked behind and called his name

"Agus"....no response.

"Agus".... not stopping.

"Agus" (slightly louder).....argh....this guy is deaf or what???

"AGUS"...and i popped my head to his side to let him see me & wondering why he didnt know his name!!!!

He finally stopped! Flashed a smile at me and said

"My name is Arnold"

OH YEAH!!! Arnold! Whoa... so embarassing... calling a name that matched no one and acted like a crazy fool! How long was i absent from FEBC? 3 months..... memory's leaking.....

We talked and walked to the seminar room. There i met Jeremy Mark, Dennis, Eliezer, an African friend whom i ate supper with but forgot his name.... just not going to repeat the same mistake and so i smiled from a distant. Spotted Domi & Sharon & took a pic with them. Alas... the photographer took twice and both were blur. In fact, all the pics taken last night by others were all blur.. except the ones taken by me.

And so, i hanged around after writing my congratulatory wish on the couple's guest book (kind of) & passing to some lady the envelope of gift. It was an awkward moment for me. The seahs were supposed to cushion the crashing effect werent there. Guess no one knew i came uninvited but i felt very uneasy....very uncomfortable...very extra! I took out my hp to play with it and decided to send a real sms.... so as to be seen doing a real thingy. Sms to Shingy to tell him i felt like slipping thro a hole. He told me to continue playing with my hp and sms him if i needed to so i didnt feel out of place.... thanks for suggesting that despite your pw stuff. It didnt help when Jamesy & Damien came. It also didnt help when i spotted Eld Boon, Dr J Khoo & a host of others. I didnt know to sit or stand or perhaps hide in the toilet. Finally, i had enough of trying to smile & found a seat and slumped in. Some guys were playing back the wedding video and so i turned my head to watch. I wished no one noticed my presence and let the night slipped by.

Then popeye came....with his pair of very black specs! Haha... and Billy too. They tried to talk to me but i was feeling very very strange. The seahs finally showed up & so did my African girlfriends!!! YEAH!!!!! I was so overjoyed that i jumped out of my seat and gladly gave to the Seahs... It has been a while since i last met them.. and Indonesian friends too... Rebecca. Too bad Daisy didnt make it because of stomachache. Gave Lyn a hug and Apasia a tight handsqueeze. Passed the little keychains to them too. Then we stood at the back during the singing of hymn & short sermon by Koshy. Apasia had no place to stand and so she hid behind the board with photos. Lyn stood with me and we had an enjoyable time together. We talked about facebook poking, then to Tengah's past camp and then just simply catching up and teasing each other too. It was so fun and the tension i felt slowly drifted away.....

Need to mention the singing of hymns tho.... TO GOD BE THE GLORY. Oh man... dont know who gave the starting pitch but it was extremely HIGH! Sounded high. Lyn was clever. She sang the auto. I struggled with the melody. Halfway thro the song, she finally admitted it was very high and she told me to hang in there. We laughed. Finally, at the last word of the chorus, i heaved a sigh of relief and uttered.... "and i am so blue"..... we burst out laughing again.

Rev Koshy encouraged the couple from Psalm 128, primarily verses 1-3 or maybe 4. From our end, Domi & Sharon seemed so tense... so serious... so FEBC style.... they never smiled at Koshy and took in the verses like they were in classroom. Hmmm.. why they didnt smile? It was their happy occasion.. yah, it was God's Word but heh... not a worship service. Felt very strange... commented to Lyn and she thot so too. Why so glum... why no expression... maybe i am different.... if i am the bride, i will smile and smile and nod my head. Perhaps it is just my style... i dont know. Anyhow... i was so so so famished. Couldnt wait for everything to be over and then food!

Pastor finished his short exhortation and prayed the prayer.. then only senior citizens and young children could go first. I had to wait. For once, i didnt mind pretending to be old and bending.. i was really really hungry. Waited and waited... some senior people didnt go and take food.. they talked and talked. And i kept asking Lyn & Apasia... should we go? Apasia said no FEBC students go.. she could not move.... aah... the wrath of ....erh... someone. Ok, no need to mention. Then Lyn said, let's go! I followed behind her like a little girl who has not eaten for days!

Took some food... what i would be able to finish, grabbed a drink and finally sat down to eat. Lyn took some dessert thingy from another table & something that looked like lasagna. She claimed they were so good and we could do another helping. I asked for a photoshoot during the meal and i got this for reply

Haha.....and so, Rebecca and I decided to try the nice dessert & Lasagna that Lyn recommended. Alas.... no more Lasagna but some dessert left. I thot it was fruit salad and happily scooped half a bowl for myself. Gave two bowls to Lyn coz she said she could do with double helpings earlier on. Went back to our seats and she exclaimed...."these two bowls for me?????"

Yah! Haha......didnt know if she looked really happy or what. But she protested she never said two helpings. I had Rebecca as witness and so the verdict was she had to finish it. Period.

When we finally filled our stomachs and put down our plates, this pic was taken so many many times till we got quite sick of smiling... Popeye said all the photos were blur... and so this is the only one that was left

Rebecca & Lyn

Pic with the couple

The seahs & pastor & couple

How did i get home? Eld Boon offered to drive the seahs & I back to our homes. It was rather funny when Eld Boon asked me if i needed a lift. Lyn was there during the conversation

Boon: "How did you come?"

Me: "MRT"

Boon: "Give you a ride home?"

Me: "I can take the MRT."

Boon: "I can send you home."

Me: "Mmm...no need lah. Taking MRT with the seahs"

Boon: "Let me send you home. I am taking them home too."

Me: "Erh... ok. Thanks."

Lyn commented after that: "You are such a typical singaporean... want a ride and yet dont say so."

I protested: "Not true. When i said i didnt want, i meant it. I can easily take the MRT home and i loved that, didnt even mind if i was all alone. I am used to it already."

And so.... while on the way to locating his car, i aksed Amy about the code she send me. Haha... she said she typed they were at OUTRAM MRT...but it came gibberish to me. We exchanged our hp sms and true enough....seemed like the network could distort messaage after all!!! Will it come a day when i received an entire message that was not written by my friend but by the airwaves??? Oh well, we hopped into the 5 series BMW and that was when i felt awfully sick. It was hard to bear but i had to. I dont know if it was the car.... but the sick feeling started just as i sat myself down. Tried to have some conversation but was praying i reached home soon and didnt need to throw up. The 2 men talked nothing else except CARS!!!!! It was good.. so i didnt have to talk. The model went from Honda to Lexus to Mercedes to Nissan and finally settled on........yah... you guessed it right... BMW! Amy whispered to me that she could only tell the car model when she spotted the logo. Sama sama here.... :)

Thank God i didnt puke in the 3month old BM and also not at home. Amy later on in google chat told me it could have been the dessert.. the food. And it was Jamesy in msn who told me that was YOGHURT!!!!! OH MAN! I never liked Yoghurt....and i ate half a bowl of it without realising it!!! Pew Pew Pew!! I thot Yoghurt is sour.. how come this one so sweet..... but it had so much of condensed milk and cheesy taste. Stay away i will....coz it was one sick night that followed. Argh...