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Today was the wedding. Since there are three women in the house we had to wake up at 6.30 in the morning to make sure that everything was done in time and that all females looked respectable. Saris only come in one length. A piice of embroidered material (or patterned or plain or whatever) that is 9 meters long so that every shape of woman can fit in it. Except the smaller and shorter you are the more material that you have to hide away. You have to wrap the sari around you once first then make thousands of pleats and tuck them into your petticoat so that it forms a nice pattern down your legs. then there is one end left that is thrown over your shoulder, pinned onto your blouse and hung by your back.
So I found myself with about a meter of material stuffed down my front and another meter drapped over my arm which I then had to look after. It couldn't be pinned because my blouse is a halter top and therefore has no sleves.
Tortured as the means were, the end was worth it. That is me very early this morning. And what do you all think about the healthy glow on my face? I don't like foundation but spots have wrecked havoc with the skin around my mouth and foundation was the only way to go. Let me tell you that I was glowing. And I was wearing suction cups so my breasts were larger than I have ever seen them before.
And that is the beautiful bride. In the morning we were all in the Town Hall where the registry took place and she was in beautiful white. Then we all headed to the resteraunt/club where there was some present giving ceremony (I think) and then a late lunch followed by dancing. This picture is during the ceremony where the bride is showered with presents.
While we were driving to the resteraunt I called Captial FM Radio and asked them to give a shout out to my lovely cousin and her brand new husband. I also asked them to play Billie Jean for the two of them. It was quite cool to hear my name on the radio and even cooler to hear Billie Jean. That song will never leave me now.
The food was so delicious. I have been to that place once before for food and even then I remembered loving it. One thing that has always annoyed me about Indian/Asian families is that if you don't dance there is something wrong with you. Now, I can dance. Always have been able to. But my dancing is not usually liked all that much by other people. I am unconventional to say the least. Arms and legs everywhere and lots of head bopping. And I love daning like that. But in public I have to restrain myself and feel like a twerp. So I felt like a twerp for a very long time, until the DJ started playing a whole host of Michael Jackson songs. then I didn't care any more because there was no way I was going to worry about how I looked. Cousin and I started screaming Beat It at each other and a direct result of that I have a nice, sexy, husky voice. They also played Thriller, Billie Jean and right at the end Black or White. I actually had a great time dancing for the first time in ages.
One uncle also told my Dad that when he bought the Sari for me they put too much matieral in the sari and not enough in the blouse. Dad couldn't tell me off because he bought the blouse for me. So that was a really good moment.
Even though the couple are now married, they cannot live together and cannot have a wedding night until the Indian ceremony takes place later on this year in October. Usually the registry and the Indian ceremony happen in the same day or the day after. So I do feel sorry for them because it is so obvious that they are in love.
Then of course we got home and discovered that in our absence it had hailed and rained. I didn't know you could get hail in 25 degree C weather. By my Dad remembers it in Kenya and it is much hotter then. But it was raining so hard that the gutter in our end of the street couldn't take it and it started to flood. For a while there it was going to come into our house, then it slowed down. We were really lucky.
But, and this is the huge news, you WILL NOT believe what has happened. Sister has got swine flu. No joke. Three of her friends were infected with it in her Uni and she obviously caught it off one ot them. She isn't worried, since only one person has died from it and normal flu is far more dangerous, but as I told her she can now tell her children that she survived swine flu. Future kids do not need to know that there has only been one death from it or that it just just the flu.
Here's hoping that she feels better soon. Ma wants to call the emergency doctor but Dad is being Dad and that will only be the last resort. If she does have swine flu then it will be the emergency doctor now or the hospital later.
OK temperature measured - still 102 almost 104. I think it is time to make that call.
Here's hoping something can be sorted out ASAP.
Live long and prosper.
xoxo
So I found myself with about a meter of material stuffed down my front and another meter drapped over my arm which I then had to look after. It couldn't be pinned because my blouse is a halter top and therefore has no sleves.
Tortured as the means were, the end was worth it. That is me very early this morning. And what do you all think about the healthy glow on my face? I don't like foundation but spots have wrecked havoc with the skin around my mouth and foundation was the only way to go. Let me tell you that I was glowing. And I was wearing suction cups so my breasts were larger than I have ever seen them before.
And that is the beautiful bride. In the morning we were all in the Town Hall where the registry took place and she was in beautiful white. Then we all headed to the resteraunt/club where there was some present giving ceremony (I think) and then a late lunch followed by dancing. This picture is during the ceremony where the bride is showered with presents.
While we were driving to the resteraunt I called Captial FM Radio and asked them to give a shout out to my lovely cousin and her brand new husband. I also asked them to play Billie Jean for the two of them. It was quite cool to hear my name on the radio and even cooler to hear Billie Jean. That song will never leave me now.
The food was so delicious. I have been to that place once before for food and even then I remembered loving it. One thing that has always annoyed me about Indian/Asian families is that if you don't dance there is something wrong with you. Now, I can dance. Always have been able to. But my dancing is not usually liked all that much by other people. I am unconventional to say the least. Arms and legs everywhere and lots of head bopping. And I love daning like that. But in public I have to restrain myself and feel like a twerp. So I felt like a twerp for a very long time, until the DJ started playing a whole host of Michael Jackson songs. then I didn't care any more because there was no way I was going to worry about how I looked. Cousin and I started screaming Beat It at each other and a direct result of that I have a nice, sexy, husky voice. They also played Thriller, Billie Jean and right at the end Black or White. I actually had a great time dancing for the first time in ages.
One uncle also told my Dad that when he bought the Sari for me they put too much matieral in the sari and not enough in the blouse. Dad couldn't tell me off because he bought the blouse for me. So that was a really good moment.
Even though the couple are now married, they cannot live together and cannot have a wedding night until the Indian ceremony takes place later on this year in October. Usually the registry and the Indian ceremony happen in the same day or the day after. So I do feel sorry for them because it is so obvious that they are in love.
Then of course we got home and discovered that in our absence it had hailed and rained. I didn't know you could get hail in 25 degree C weather. By my Dad remembers it in Kenya and it is much hotter then. But it was raining so hard that the gutter in our end of the street couldn't take it and it started to flood. For a while there it was going to come into our house, then it slowed down. We were really lucky.
But, and this is the huge news, you WILL NOT believe what has happened. Sister has got swine flu. No joke. Three of her friends were infected with it in her Uni and she obviously caught it off one ot them. She isn't worried, since only one person has died from it and normal flu is far more dangerous, but as I told her she can now tell her children that she survived swine flu. Future kids do not need to know that there has only been one death from it or that it just just the flu.
Here's hoping that she feels better soon. Ma wants to call the emergency doctor but Dad is being Dad and that will only be the last resort. If she does have swine flu then it will be the emergency doctor now or the hospital later.
OK temperature measured - still 102 almost 104. I think it is time to make that call.
Here's hoping something can be sorted out ASAP.
Live long and prosper.
xoxo