A hectic week

My nephew from New Zealand tied the knot in Penang and KL .There was a dinner in Penang on Wed 30th May and poor us had to drive up on the morning of that day and stayed a nite before returning to KL on the 31st.The drive in the hot sun was tough especially for the driver.I was not allowed to drive so had to sit down quietly and allow the lady driver to do her stuff. A cultural shock awaited us when we checked into our accommodation .It was a kind of apartment block and looked really budget .To make matters worse the rooms faced a huge graveyard and was in an older part of the town.We had no choice but to make the best use of it. The next day a long hot drive to Ipoh where we had chance to eat all the Ipoh goodies before leaving for Kl.My eldest girl and family came back on Friday and it was shopping and eating all the way.Sat. nite was the dinner by the groom's side at a Chinese restaurant in a golf club.It was a gastronomical disaster for I have never tasted such bad food for a wedding dinner but being guests we just ate what was edible and kept quiet .Fact remains that we went home quite hungry. I have learnt something which I always believed in that is if you want to do something do it well and if you want to be calculative about money dont do it.If you do something with the money factor as the main criteria you might as well forget about doing it.Of course if you have limited funds and you do a budget event its understandable but if money is not a constrain and you make it into one then something is not right.Somebody said correctly "Money is only money when you use it ". By the time Girl left for Spore we were all stoned and last night surprisingly by 9 pm everyone was in bed suffering from the after effects of the hectic week !