Wedding

We've been achieving a fair bit of local travel this month. The weekend before last had seen us travelling to Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Bukit Tinggi by chartered bus in the company of some new-found friends - newly-found to me anyway, as my wife has known them for quite a while already - and several monks from the Nandaka Vihara meditation society in Bukit Mertajam.

And last weekend, 10 of us from Penang had flown to Johor Bahru to attend the wedding of my wife's cousin's son's wedding. A perfect excuse for her extended family members to get together. It's true what people say about relatives, once grown up, to come together only for weddings and funerals. This was the happy occasion: a wedding. At our age, no more a wedding of siblings or cousins, but now a wedding of siblings' or cousin's children.

We all had a fine time in Johor Bahru. Apart from my wife's first uncle from her father's side (grandfather of the groom), also present were her first and second aunts, fifth uncle and scores of cousins from Penang and overseas, plus their children. And so for one-and-a-half days, we travelled together, ate together and enjoyed ourselves together. We were billeted in two apartments at 1Tebrau which my wife's cousin had booked for all 10 of us.