Ok so I'm writing this because I can't sleep. Don't know why but I think it is because of the brain still being active after a slow but progressive assignment solving.
Couple of things happened so far. Attended the first surprise wedding of the year, one of a few more to come. I only got my invitation about a week before the wedding just because the friend that was supposed to pass it to me forgot. Despite all the rules of RSVP-ing, I still went for it. Why is it a surprise you might ask? Because the combination of the bride and groom came out of nowhere, like literally materialized out of thin air. Having known both of them before I knew that they were together, I can say that they are of opposite personalities. If someone had suggested to me (back then) that they were together I would be laughing at the person and frantically search for a video camera somewhere. On a side note, seems there are a lot of these cases happening around OCF; hidden video camera documenting the most hilarious responses. Anyway, I knew about them being together really late. Absurdly late you might say. Seems to me that it's another one of my super powers. I only found out about it when they were engaged. In fact, it was something like a couple of months before they started sending out the invitations to their wedding. Needless to say, I had to put on my best face-saving, shame avoiding attitude on. I think even till this day, I still find it hard to believe that they are together. It just boggles the mind.
Anyway, the wedding ceremony was held in Scotts Church on Russell Street. It's the first time I've been to the place and it is seriously nice. Their pipe organs obviously have our church's pipe organ for breakfast with a bigger seating capacity as well. Then a couple of things happened. I got tremendously itchy. For some unknown reason, the uncontrollable itch just fell on me like a ton of bricks and it was excruciating. I haven't had an episode like this for awhile and I don't know what triggered it. I joked with a friend that maybe I was allergic to the church or this strange wedding we are attending.
Second thing were the photographer/videographer team. It is probably the first time I've seen a wedding ceremony recorded using a DSLR. Pretty much all the photographers were using Canon 5D MkII cameras but I manage to single out this guy who was holding his camera in a very unusual position. Only then I realized that he was recording video. Quite weird if you asked me and I think I would still prefer to have a dedicated video camera for video purposes. Let cameras be cameras and video cameras be video cameras.
Third was the music at the wedding. First the song played when the bride came in. I'm quite glad that it wasn't the wedding march or Canon in D because I'm really starting to get bored of that tune. Instead, another classical piece was played and I think it's the first I've heard in played in a wedding. The piece was Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and it was quite nice. After that were some of the songs that were sung along the ceremony that was accompanied by the pipe organ. I don't know what the pipe organist was on but it sound like a mix of caffeine and drugs. The songs were played very fast even for some of the hymns and the timing had like some random perturbations, making it hard to sing the song properly.
So after the ceremony came the refreshments and it was good to meet up with some people that I haven't seen in a long time. That's something I like about going to friend's weddings. For that short moment you meet some of the long lost friends who you once had a good connection with until they move far away, get married etc. But at this point my itching was unbearable and I had to be anti-social for the rest of the time there. First I did after leaving the church was buy more antihistamines. Funny thing that turned out to be. I went to the pharmacy and I scanned for my favourite drug of all time. They sell it in a pack of 10, 30 and 50 tablets. The 10 tablet pack was $13 (fine), the 30 tablet pack was $30 (expected) but then when I looked at the 50 tablet pack, it had a price tag of $35. In a somewhat confused state, I reached for the 50, paid and left, still feeling utterly confused. When I came back home, I took one and was knocked out for 5 hours.
Had some time with some friends lately and it was great. It's quite sad that recently the string of friends that I've just gotten to know a lot more have a very finite time left to be in the same area as I. Even when I was in Malaysia, the few people that I've gotten to know more are not going to Melbourne. Ever. Ok, maybe not ever but for a very long time. Sure I can meet them when I visit them when I come back but it is not the same. You know, you've put in effort in getting to know the person and then it just drops out of the radar before you even know it. So annoying.
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