Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Kelante part 2

Now lets go to the ceremony. It all started with all of us getting up to the temple. Then, the priest (ayer) started some prayers. Both parents had to do some things like putting flowers, yellow rice and both mothers had to make pillayar from the yellow stuff that they had( which i have no idea what the name is). The bride walked in with the bridesmaid. Ramesh's mother passed a new saree for her to wear and she went off. The prayers went on. After like 15 minutes, she came back. Then both the bride and groom had to go through the same process as what the parents did ( except the pillayar part). Then both the parents exchanged "dulang" filled with coconut,"sirih" and bitternut ( i guess). After that, the bride and groom exchanged rings. Abeautiful bouquet was given to them by ramesh's cousin after they got blessings from both side parents.They walked around the temple and sat in front of the alter. There, they had prayers for the god. End of ceremony. Photography session started!
As i was taking like hundreds of photographs, the rest of the people went down to have their dinner in the hall. I came across few really pretty girls! Never knew kelantan had pretty girls, actually never knew kelantan had indians in the first place!
The dinner was fantastic (all vegetarian though :( ) After dinner as usual i had to smoke! But don't know where to go! So, i walked around and went to the back alley of the temple. There, i light up a ciggie. Few malay fellows were walikng by looking at me one kind. Scary though. Then, these two indian guys from the engagement walked towards me and stood right behind me and started discussing this. " You don't cause any problem here, listen to me hey listen to me" one guy said to the other. The other one said " no, no , no i have to do it!" and they had an argument and they settled down after that and walked off. I had no idea what the hell they were talking.
One by one people started to leave. I, ramesh and two of his cousins went up to the temple again to collect back the "dulangs". Then we left as well.
Thats all short and sweet huh? heheehhe .I really enjoyed the trip. i think i am a travelling person. anybody knows anyone who does charity by sending others to travel, call me ya. hehehehe
chao guys!

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