A NOSTALGIC NOTION

There was an unusually large congregation of people at Seremban, R and R, with many neatly attired in Baju Kurungs and the equally multitudinous- dapperly garbed in Baju Melayus. Since it was, the time of the year, normally scheduled for weddings, it really was, of no surprise. The early morning trips, involving, the numerous numbers, from the clan, together with the snaking convoys that will for sure and without fail; be, disrupted, by the ubiquitous traffic light. The late to turn up, frantically calling, inquiring the where about of everybody along with the best route to take, inadvertently, testing the patience of everyone. However so and undeniably, it is a joyous occasion, and, as rightly should be, most, will take things in stride and be good natured about the niggling bits- a ‘must happen’, occurrence, no matter how, well- planned, the trip. Leading, at most times, to the ‘much frenzied’ state of affairs, being effectively assuaged, by a kind soul volunteering to ‘wait up’ somewhere for the ‘wayward’ party to rejoin the ‘principal grouping’. Upon arriving at the ‘intended destination’, as the usual case, may be, there would be the ‘stragglers’, whence everything would have to be put on hold whilst every member of the ‘party’ had arrived.
There would then be the ‘procession’; incessantly ‘marching’ or rather ‘pacing’ to the bride or the groom’s place of stay, heralding the ‘Visiting Pengantin ’ to a rapturous merrymaking. Depending upon whose ‘conviviality’, was the ‘celebration’, for- a reciprocal jollification for the visiting group to prepare, should the said ‘occasion’, be the, ‘initial’ of, a much customary cum ‘happen stance’- fortnightly ‘episode’.
Ah, but papa could only ‘reminisce’, his wedding, like, everyone else’s- before, concurrent and throughout- the epoch, that is. A, truly and veritably- ‘entrancing’ moment, verily ‘magical’ and ‘never to be forgotten’. He, only wish, that Unkel and Pak Mi would, be soon, to end their Bachelor Boy days and thus be ‘heralded’, not- unlike the, above- mentioned ‘circumstances’ into an ‘experience’ of their lifetimes.