Good Friday

oh dear.
i attended a wedding dinner yesterday, and wrote the wrong groom's name on the ang bao!

obviously it was the bride that was a friend,
and i was late, so i hurriedly checked the invitation card to find the groom's name,

and i wrote the groom's dad's name.

and check this out,
lao da asked me to help give her ang bao on her behalf,
so Lao da's ang bao is wrong too.

so amongst all of irene's ang baos,
there will be two,
that read

"congrats irene and (groom's dad)! have many many babies"
"congrats irene and (groom's dad)! have a long blissful marriage"

OH DEAR.

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the wedding dinner was fun,
pri sch dinners are always fun, regardless of the setting.

good old irene gave us a front table too,
while may fang and i were expecting a back table (as is usual for "friend" tables).

irene is a real sweetie.

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Went for lunch with shepherd at maxwell.
had a good dim sum lunch.
yum.

she brought me to the building they used to have service at,
wah it's some old school chinese opera theatre.
so interesting.

and then there is a chinese tea cafe thingy and a music cafe where you can play any musical instruments in there while you eat and drink.

we didn't have time to check those out,
but we'll prob do it someday.

chinatown is full of nooks and crannys.

talking abt the chinese tea cafe reminded me of the time at Poot's house,
where she decided to hold a tea party while we 赏月.
so she took out all her dad's mini tea pots and tea leaves,
and we tried to be cultured.

but then we were munching on very un-cultured roly poly chips
and we ended up with tea leaves all over the floor and she had to hose down the whole place.

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after shepherd left for her facial appt,
i explored chinatown a bit.

i finally found the mask shop i've been hunting for since i bought my first mask.
also found a shop that sold gongs and drums and fake boobs.

i came away very pleased with a tambourine, clown nose and another mask.

would have bought a vampire hat (it's a judge hat, the shopkeeper told me, looking very pissed)
and a 50cm long pencil.
but the shopkeeper was so rude i decided it's not worth it.

told Lu the fake boobs will make a great gift.
"great gift for who?" she replied.
"for gift exchange"

i would have bought the fake boobs,
if i didn't already have boobs.

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during lunch while waiting for shepherd to get her food,
an old lady approached me for a dollar for lunch.

i asked her if a dollar is enough.
she said no, two would be good.

so i gave her two.

if i'm wrong then i'm dumb.
if i'm right, then she got her lunch.

years ago i saw an old lady begging near city hall mrt.
and i saw pple walking hurriedly past without looking at her.
i was one of them.

the whole scene disturbed me.
so much that i wrote an email to a buddhist monk whom i didn't even know,
(it was a daily buddhist digest email thing).

i forgot what he replied,
but it didn't answer my question.

i don't think there'll ever be a clear answer to these things.
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I stood at the doors of the tooth relic temple yesterday.

i didn't go in.

it's a beautiful interesting place.
very nice.