Day 51

Attended ahChong's wedding reception on sat. Congrats to the newly weds. A very compatible couple. Although we're like sort of 'distant' relatives, when i saw how caring he was towards his wife and i was happy for them :) 777 couples got married on 070707 and it's so cool to be able to say you know at least 1 out of these 777 couples and didn't miss out on all the excitement!

Well as distant relatives we only meet once every cny....anything other than that wld be what Chinese describe as "red/white" affairs. It's a pity not knowing your relatives well.... Like every cny we go there n watch a video of one of our supposed cousins at the lion dance tournament. They're natn'l champs who rep spore yearly n are extremely talented, but there is that sense of detachment somehow watching them from the blackbox. Finally we got to meet them in person today! I tried breaking the ice with 2 'new' cousins and we mumbled a few words to each other. it wasn't a terrific exchange but at least, they got to know of our existence and that was the takehome of the wedding today.

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