Jade’s Mom’s days…

I went to a wedding reception in Mulia Hotel the other nite. I wore a nude long beaded dress with a little train in the back (I know, who cares, but it serves a point later) with very high-heeled shoes, to lift me up a few inches so that my dress won’t pool around as much in the back.

T’was a huge over-crowded one (didn’t really expect it to be) and as I enter, Jade stepped on my train. It wasn’t really her fault, I stopped because there’s a swarm of people in the front door blocking my way in. The we inched our way towards the guestbook area. To make our way in the ballroom we had to "gently push" people around and finally we got to the "shaking hands with the happy bride-groom" line, which snakes all the ways around the ballroom walls. The line hardly moves at all because at times they stop and take some photos with friends and families. So after 10 minutes standing in the same spot, we gave up and went to eat instead (later, we asked the groom’s brother to let us cut the line, heh heh heh). When we got our food it was a tough battle to eat in peace, as waiters inched their way lifting their serving trays full of uneatean food and dirty dishes come and go, people moving all around trying to get to the food, more people standing around trying to eat their dinner … ALL of them stepping on my itty bitty train, jerking me back everytime I stepped forward. Geh …

I hate wearing a beautiful dress to overcrowded weddings. People step all over it and they can’t really see the dress design properly … HO HO HO.

Oh yeah, later as we left the reception (which is almost 2 hours later, around 9pm) the bride-groom and parents were all still in that big-ass podium shaking their hands away. And the line was still as long and as slow as before with no signs of dying down. At this rate I doubt if they can come off that stage and "mingle" with the guests (which I highly don’t recomend, because the bride wore a huge dress that I imagine is very hard to manage among that kind of crowd).

Oy vey … I just want to go home and soak my feet in warm soapy water …

-L

I’m always watching TV in my spare time. Not that I don’t read books, I just go through them too fast. I do chick-lits in under a day, thrillers under 2 days… and then I’m out of books and I’m too cheap to shell out Rp300-500Gs to buy new ones. Those are money better spent on clothes!! (Hahaha, just kidding … I allocate the money towards Jade’s library fund. ^_^) Besides, real good books will soon be turned into Hollywood movies anyway (ie. DaVinci Code).

Right now some of my favorites TV shows are Desperate Housewives, Sex&The City (my fashion bible, tee hee), Pimp My Ride (I love Xzibit & the WestCoastCustoms crew … they’re so cute and funny!), Cribs, Oprah & "reality" TV shows (Rich Kids - Cattle Drive … SO HILARIOUS!!! OMG, the madness and the stupidity, it’s the ultimate guilty pleasure!!! I can feel it killing thousands of brain cells per second, yet I enjoy it immensely for unexplainable reasons. Crazy!). I’m loving Cooking/Entertaining shows, ie. Forever Summer with Nigella Lawson (domestic goddess, move over Martha Stewart), Surreal Gourmet - Bob Blumer, Jamie Oliver, etc. Who knows why … I don’t cook that much, certainly don’t entertain (I do live with in-laws … excuses excuses) … I just love watching them cook up something that looks fabulous and imagining myself in my own kitchen cooking for dinner parties I’ll be throwing in my own house … sigh …

Ooh … gotta go … am watching "Kill Reality" … sooo stupid!! HAHAHA … I know … Can’t help it … I’m crazy …

-L