Wedding Night Dinner

We woke up early at around 7am today (27/09/2009) to load cooking utensil, cooking material and others for tonight wedding dinner into a rented lorry. All this 'ka zhang' is for Daph mum's cooking at Thean Hou temple for his son wedding dinner tonight. The reason they did it themselves as they believe that their own cooking benefit from giving guests the best of the best cooking ingredients. They wanted all their friends and relatives to have the best of the best with her generous cooking. I must admit that she is really a tough mama to handle all this by herself. Of course she does hire 7 aunties to do the washing and cleaning job and 10 youth as waiters. We continued sleeping after loading the utensil while Daph parents and his bro go to Thean Hou temple for preparation. We only went there around 12pm to decorate Thean Hou temple's staging. It took about 2 hours for us to decorate the staging with the help of Daph dad and bro. I took a bath in Then Hou temple toilet at around 5.15pm as I am the last one doing the staging balloon decoration. Daph had to bath earlier as her friend will make up for her around 4pm. Daph bro, Weng need to go back to fetch worker for tonight wedding and need to go off earlier too. Everyone is busy with their own task but I can ensure you that the busiest person is Daph mum. She needs to cook for 62 tables and she started to do preparation and cooking at 10am! Even when the dinner is ongoing she frequently needs to go into the kitchen to ensure everything goes fine and at it best. Around 7pm, some of the guests have already arrived and there are a little hiccups during placement of table for guests. Sometime, there will be a long queue of guests waiting to be seated due to some error in finding the guests name VS number of table to be seated. We should have bring our notebook and thing will get easier using excel to quickly sort out name and table. Anyway, with the help of her cousin and relatives, we manage to iron out the problem and the arrangement goes smoothly. We waited for the guests to arrive until near 8.30pm before the wedding dinner start. Some of the guests already complaint and grumbling that it's very late start. What to do, there is still about 15%-20% late comer on that time. (I should have issue show cause letter for each of them for late coming like what I did in my company. Hehe). KL people will always be late for wedding dinner! The dinner goes well and we certainly are satisfied with our staging, food and our course happy for our newlywed couple. Everyone looks happy indeed. The dinner ended around 10.30pm and this time we need to wait for the workers to finish clearing up the hall and kitchen. I then sent a few aunties and a guy back to their home in Jinjang and reached Kepong around 1.30am. At Daph home, we have a post mortem on the wedding dinner with Daph parent and brother. We talk and chat until 2.30am before calling it a day. Everyone is so tired by then but with a big satisfaction smile planted on each of everyone face. It's like someone pat on your shoulder and said Good Job!