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Party and Food

August 7th, 2004. Published under Daily Journal. 1 Comment.

A phone call from Yosep woke me up at 10.10 AM this morning. He told me that there would be a badminton practice. S***, I could not found my socks so I played without shoes. No problem for the first few games. But later my feet felt so d*** aching. I wished my feet skin was a lot thicker. We started the game at about 11.30 AM and finished three hours later. Some of my friends came home right away. But as usual, Yosep, Sudarwan (a friend of mine who has a giant body), and me would never go home without playing a few card games first. However, I couldn’t stay for too long because there was a wedding party I needed to attend.

Friend of the day: Jonathan

I always love parties, especially wedding parties because they mean a lot… of food. Today, I attended a wedding party with Jonathan. It’s not the party of my friend nor the friend of Jonathan. It’s my friend Jonathan’s friend’s friend’s party. Multiply used this ridiculous syntax to describe your friendship network. Yeah they didn’t want to use Friendster’s simpler way even though they had copied many features of Friendster. Multiply did offer many things on their site including Friendster-style friendship network, personal homepage, blogs, picture albums, as well as private and public messaging. To get more members, they even syndicated Friendster by sending their invitations to all your friends at Friendster automatically. If I were the Friendster’s Webmaster, I would definitely block them and maybe sue them for privacy and copyright violation. Well, to me it’s not a fair competition.

Hey what am I talking about. I didn’t finish the party part yet. Okay let’s go back to it. The party was held at the Forum restaurant. It located in Margorejo. Although it has two floors, it’s not a big restaurant and the reputation ain’t that good either. The party took place on the second floor. I didn’t count but I thought there were less than 50 tables.

We arrived at about 6.30 PM so there were still many empty seats. The invitation mentioned 6 PM, but you know, here this kind of occasion is always at last 1 hour late. A “pager-ayu” escorted us to an empty table. The place was not crowded yet, so Jonathan and me started to talk about the “pager-ayu” girls. Some of them are pretty but very skinny. We talked about their thin arms, their backless suit. Which one was the prettier and other boys-talk. Jon even imagined what would they look like when they’re pregnant. Can you belive it? Just before the bride and the groom arrived at about 7.30pm, our table was seated by a single man, a couple of husband and wife, and a family (two adults, three children, and a nanny). There was only one empty seat left and nobody ever sat on it because most didn’t came alone. What a lucky day, I didn’t see many people with high appetite at the table so I would get a handsome share :D. No hard competitors hehe.

After the marrying couple arrived, a local dance group performed an opening dance. Only one of the five that was really attractive to me. She’s quite pretty although her skin was rather dark. Well, it didn’t really matter. The first meal served was what mattered. It’s a soup. Not quite an appetizer however. Can’t wait for the main course: chickens. They looked so tasty that I snatched some without even offering the older ones :p. Nothing left on the plate but the bones. The next menu was fried noodle. Not bad. Nothing left either.

While we’re eating the dance group performed twice with Jill Xu’s song, I Wanna Be With You and Smile DK’s Butterfly. The local band also performed with the vocals of a female singer and a male tenor singer who had a terrific voice. In the mean time, Jon was busy with his digicam trying to take a picture of the couple because his friend asked him to send the pictures. At first he took the picture from our seats. Since the distance was so far that the pictures didn’t look good, I encouraged him to get closer to take the pictures. While the couple was on stage with the beautiful dancer for the last time, he took the chance to shoot. The good news was that he got the couple’s shots. The bad news was that he couldn’t get a clear picture of the beautiful dancer.

Well, maybe the next menu, “Gurami”, could make him happier. He ate quite a lot. I didn’t know exactly what was the next menu. It looked like “Tamie” with some boiled eggs of “puyuh” and pasta. It didn’t taste good for me, so I only ate the eggs. Jon too. The last menu in the main course is the ordinary fried rice. It wasn’t good either so I only took a bowl. We skipped the dessert. Can you believe it, “Es Cendol” in a wedding party?

Wow! It was already 9 PM so we decided to leave sooner because we parked our motor cycles at Plasa Marina and we didn’t know exactly on what time the parking lot would be closed. Better safe than sorry. We took the short walk, stopped by the ATM because I needed to transfer some fund, and went home. Woa, I was full. Although the taste didn’t extremely good, but for the great price, did I mention it was free, it really didn’t matter :D.