...asam di darat, ikan di laut, di dalam kuali bertemu jua

Yesterday morning at about 1030AM I was asked to be spokesperson for a friend's wedding at TTDI. The male entourage was from Malacca and I would have thought that OMG (oh my Gawd!) they will drown me in soo much pantun that I would be down with pantun fever soon afterwards..haha. No, they didn't. This must be the folks from a no pantun zone..hahaha. It was swift, they came they saw, they conquer! (veni, vedi, veci in latin). The groom came swiftly, sat on the dais, repeated after the kadi in one breath...and whoala they were husband n wife in a jiffy! Much like KL drift (the malaysian version of Tokyo drift..hahaha). The food was great. I am still blurred as to how nasir and bib could have coaxed me into being the wakil pengantin pompuan ..ish ish. and the only pantun that I googled to sober up the majlis was:

malam berinai disebut orang

memagar diri dari jembalang

supaya hajat tidak terhalang

supaya niat tidak tergalang

supaya sejuk mata memandang

muka bagai bulan mengambang

serinya naik tuah pun datang

adat tuan adat beserah

mari datang membawa puan

adat bersirih adat sejarah

untuk tuan kami sembahkan

That was the wedding ( well, nikah ceremony) of noni shamsila bt osman and marikh azahari bin ramley at 64 athinahappan 7, ttdi...... in you're wondering, noni reads the bernama news on ASTRO. Marrying people off, being wakil tuan rumah or spokesperson...hmmm makes one feel 'old', retired and having come of age....so they say.