Kelante

It was the third day of Deepavali, the first of raya. Pukul 5.15 pagi, i was awaken by a sms from jimpack(ramesh). I will be there by 5.45a.m. Kelam kabut i got up and went to take my shower and prepared myself for the journey to kota bahru. Oh, it was jimpack's brother's engagement and i was suppose to be the "official photographer". Yeah yeah i know, half of you are laughing your heads off. Went to kepong first to meet all the others who gonna join the few hours journey to kota bahru. Jimpack came with his mom and brother(who was getting engaged) to fetch me.
So, we all met up in kepong first in jimpack's aunty's house. I realised that i was the only one who was not a relative there but all of them were so sporting and fun that somehow, they got me fittin' in. There,they had idli for breakfast, which i don't eat so i was happy with just a cup of teh 'o. Then everyone were busy packing stuff and arranging who is going in which car. There were one kia carnival, one honda cr-v, one waja and one perdana. I had the oppurtunity to go on the carnival which happens to be my first time getiin' into this mpv. It was soo spacious and comfy. I sat at the back with jimpack,the driver was his cousin,his dad(jimpack's uncle) sat next to him and his mother(jimpack's aunty) sat at the second row with jimpack's uncle. It was a very tiring jouney, these three cars were basically racing each other on the road. no one went below 120km/j except for carnival as we stopped few times.
We stopped at gua musang for lunch. It was a chinese shop and had lil' bit of food just to cover the hunger. I realised i didn't eat much the whole jouney. THen, we left gua musang to hit the roads. It tooks us two more hours to reach kota bahru. But this time, i was in the cr-v. Jimpack drove the cr-v, with his cousin next to him. i sat at the back with two of his other cousins.Jimpack was driving at 140km/j all the way! When we reached Kota Bahru, two cars were lost ( including ours.hahaha) Met the perdana and waja in front of the kota bahru hospital. Oh, i forgot, a harrier joined us after lunch.It was jimpack's brother's boss. We took the perdana with us as the waja wanted to wait for someone in front of the hospital.As jimpack is familiar with kota bahru, he led the way to the renaisance where the harrier who was lost too waittin. Still no sign of the Carnival. After few minutes, they came.Then we all convoyed to the place where we were suppose to stay, kenchana inn. To our suprise, waja was waitting for us there!
Checked in and i got a room with jimpack and his uncle. Just one night i will adjust. Did i mentioned, it was dreadful, i coulnd't smoke the whole journey as i left my ciggarattes in the beg and it was in the perdana! As everyone checked in, time to smoke! i couldn't take it.So i left the room quietly to the chinese shop below the inn to get a puff. Ahhh..... relieve. it didnt stop there though. It was almost 5.30 and everyone was going down for tea when i was going up to the room! Ok, what the hell, i went for tea as well. After tea, everyone went to their room back. I went to the stairs to have another ciggie. After that, went to the room and hit the bed! I almost close my eyes when jimpack's unle woke us up saying it is time to get ready! *sigh*
Got ready and went down to see the others are still dressing up. Somehow, i had the feeling as though it was my brother or cousin who was getting engaged. That is how they treated me there, as one of their family. :)
I started my work to take photographs when jimpack's aunty came to me and said, ok come here carry this. I was carying a "dulang" which had bananas on them. Hehehe..i felt honoured, i don't know why.Reached the temple to find the groom and the car jimpack was driving went missing! It was 7.30 and everyone started panicking. We all suppose to be at the temple by 7.30.
Calls going there and here and finally they made it! I just left the "dulang" on one of the cars and one girl just came and carried it into the hall.
Let me tell you about the temple. It was like a goverment's building with 'koburam' on top! You know like a office block but this dome on top of it. It was so high tech. The temple was on the first floor. The hall was on the ground where people come to eat after ceremonies.Sorry, didnt get the chance to take pictures of the magnificent temple.

I will continue with the engagement ceremony on my next post. Stay tuned! :)