Her Big Day

Couldn't sleep. Exciting day coming up (Aug 3rd).

It's Yukie's ROM and I'm having my lindy performance at NTU. Yukie's the second among us six sec pals to get married. Qian tied the knot July 30 last year. Didn't do much for Yukie, except scrambling around, helping her find her ROM dress and shoes.

She's finally getting married, after seven years of courtship. She looked so happy and was completely at ease in spite of the make-up, done-up hair and sky-high stilettos.(Meaning: still as loud and funny, with no sense of proprieties, even on her big day. :P) I heard her mum cried for a long time before they set off. (She's the only child)

She'll be following her hubby, Song, to Manchester later this month and won't be around in S'pore for more than two years. Horrific thought. No more chit-chat-over-dinner sessions. No more cluedo, junior pictionary and whatever games we can lay our hands on. (Junior pictionary is more fun than pictionary because the answers are so obvious that you get the answers even b4 you start drawing sometimes!) No more laughing till our jaw aches, tears well and rolling on the floor. I'm really gonna miss her a lot!

With a stroke of bad luck (for me), another pal, Ros, is also leaving for London this month. She'll be working there for at least a year. When you're at the receiving end of such news, your mind is always replete with conflicting thoughts and feelings. Bitter. Sweet. Happy. sad. Selfish as it sounds, i hope i won't be hearing another of such news for some time.

Oops. Back to Yukie's rom. The solemnisation was fuss-free, quick but definitely as the name suggested, solemn. The atmosphere was, however, light-hearted, as the room filled with well-wishers for Song and Yukie. Needless to say, the moment was tense for both but they emerged relatively unscathed from it. (Opps, sorry, don't think i should be making fun of the moment of sacred union). And so they emerged from the registry room, Mr and Mrs Chua!(Confetti! Hooray!)

We went back to jj where the two of them met, hoping to capture some worthy moments from the past, once again. I swore that more than a thousand pairs of eyes were staring at us. Or rather them. Well, if i'm a student -- pulling my hair out while studying -- and suddenly a couple, impeccably dressed to kill, roamed about in school, I'll give them a hard stare too! More than 15 seconds without blinking, in fact.
And so Mr and Mrs Universe toured the school they once studied and enjoyed the photoshoot glamour moments. Then the moment came. No, not the smooching. Yukie's gonna throw her bouquet at her accompanying five, fair ladies. Song warned: "All of you had better catch the bouquet! It's very expensive, ok!"

The moment of truth. Who would be the next in line to sign on the dotted lines? Yukie concentrated all her energy on her bouquet. It somersaulted, swung and almost landed on no man's land. Just at that moment, Teng -- the valiant one -- sprang sideways, leapt forward and stretched her arms. Caught it. Two roses from the bouquet. She surreptitiously grabbed the handle of the bouquet before Yukie and Song saw the ill-treatment of it. Congrats Teng!

Dinner at Yunnan restaurant was lip-smackingly good. I was enjoying my meal till i received an obnoxious call from uncle eric, my lindy partner."Don't eat too much. Later you're gonna vomit everything out after our performance."Arghh...thanks so much for the reminder, uncle.

The performance, sad to say, wasn't our best. Our rehearsals last Saturday was more energy-pumpin. Simply put, more aesthetically pleasing. Though the audience littered our performance with oohhs, ahhs and claps after death-defying (or not!) mini aerials, we know it's only because they didn't have that keen sense of smell yet to detect all the mistakes that we've made. Or maybe they did, but they're just trying to be nice about it.

That dance routine was a killer. (Brian, thanks for coming up with a killer routine!) Not for people without stamina. (Hey, that's me!). Not for people with fats (Hey! That's me again!). Halfway through the performance, i almost couldn't catch my breath. I was already half dead. Gritted my teeth, held on to the end and tumbled on the couch after that.

The night ended well though. RH showed off his coquettish moves, adapted from the fcuk tee he was wearing. With his come-get-me pout and sensual body lines, he strutted his stuff for the camera. He had all the right moves.The only thing he did wrong was not realising that technology was so advanced now that cameras double up as video-recorders. Now we know where money will come rollin' from when we're broke! Sorry RH! :P