It's Her Wedding Die!

NOTE FROM MOI: Happy New Year, Readers. (Okay, that's the first and last time I'm calling you that. I sound like Stan Lee.)

Decided to quickpost this instead of waiting for the weekend to finish and let it fester.

Just came from what I'm assuming is the happiest day of one of my best Beijinoy friends, Dianne "Die!" Ngo. Today she got married to her Korean boyfriend of 5+ years, Ryu Moon Yong, aka Lew. While I missed the wedding ceremony (I love the girl, but apparently not enough to drive all the way to St. Jerome Emiliani and St. Susan Church in Ayala Alabang, apparently named after a sainted couple), I (and my spiffy new suit) made it to the banquet at the Peninsula Manila, just in time to see the entourage lining up outside the Rigodon Ballroom waiting to be announced by the emcees.

Table 24 seated the Beijinoys (and some of their spouses) from the HuaQing Apartment days. Jella made a surprise appearance after saying she was going to be stuck in Canada for the wedding. The whole program went by quickly, although a fair amount of time was spent w/ translating English to Korean. And I was surprised to hear a dulcet tone coming from Die! as she made her "Thank You" speech, much unlike her usual semi-tomboyish voice when we normally talk to each other. When I commented to her about it she said that was her "English-speaking" voice. "In love" voice, more like it. (Lew always did bring out her more feminine side. :p)

The Koreans are notorious for their proclivity to drink huge amounts of alcohol, so when the remaining guests were treated to a drinking game hosted by the Korean side called Titanic, only a few Filipino guests opted to join, the rest wanting to still be able to drive home, walk straight or remember the evening. Mechanics: A small cup is placed into a bigger glass 2/3 full of beer. The glass is passed around, as is (for tonight, at least) a bottle of Johnnie Walker. Each player must pour in as little or as much JW as they can into the floating cup without making it sink, because when it does the "iceberg" responsible has to drink the while thing. While Lew's turn had him as the iceberg, Die!'s dad was cool enough to act as the captain to "down the ship," so to speak.