Best Friend's Wedding III

Bye Bye Senai

Daisy and I took what should be our very last flight out of Senai airport last weekend. Co-incidentally, it's undergoing renovations so the next time (if there's a next time) we’re there, it won't even be the same airport liao. This will be the last time we see the familiar surroundings of this particular boarding hall in Johor. Bye Senai, we won’t be missing you much.

3 Weddings

I promised myself I’ll try my best to attend the weddings of 3 of my very best friends in Kuching; Amy, ChongWee and Patsda. Not to say that I don’t consider other people good friends or whatevernothaveyou, it’s just the flight and the time involved. But I’m glad to say, I’ve accomplished this mission and attended all their weddings. In fact, since they married mutual friends, it’s even more efficient haha. Sadly, only Patsda managed to attend my own wedding as the other two were busy bringing newborns into the world. But it’s OK. Important thing is that I accomplished what I set out to do. Better yet, Daisy was with me each time.

Patsda Marries

So the trip back last week was especially to attend Patsda’s wedding. Strangely, the bunch of friends decided to drop by her place the night before the wedding, at 10-blardy-pm. Don’t the bride deserve to sleep and be ready for her big day? But being the wonderful friends that we (I was there with Daisy too mah)were, we left within half an hour after making sure she’s fine and all ready for the biggest day of her life. Talk about sincere friends (in Chinese we say got heart).

The reason why I used the phrase ‘got heart’ is because, after everyone went home to sleep at 10:30pm, they all arrived at her place again at 4:00am the next day to start the proceedings. Apparently, the make-up artist was scheduled to arrive at her place at 2:30-freakin-am as there wasn’t any other time-slot available. (The make-up artist was booked for 5 clients that day) If you ask me, she should have just engaged another make-up artist. After all, how different can it be? Honestly!

Oh well. Oh I mentioned that the bunch of friends were at her place at 4:00am. Wonderful people. Me? I slept till 7:00am and met everyone at the church service instead haha. Wonderful sleep.

The service was held at the Anglican St Thomas’ Cathedral. Simple ceremony but nicely done. After that, we adjourned to Banquet for the... err... lunch banquet? Ok so that was a bit lame.

Anyways, she flew off for her honeymoon that evening. Enjoy Da!

Coca

I was actually looking for a nice restaurant to have dinner with the rest of them but seems like all the restaurants in town were booked for weddings. In the end, I started walking into hotels to enquire about their in-house restaurants. I was actually thinking syabu-syabu would be good since we just had an 8 course Chinese sit-down lunch in the afternoon. Turned out there was a Coca restaurant nestled somewhere within Crown Plaza Hotel. People staying in Kuching would probably know it but I’ve been away for so long now. Plus, hotels are hardly the place I frequent for dinners when I’m back in town.

So how does Coca Kuching compare to Coca in Singapore? Surprisingly identical I would say. Yumz!!!