“Maybe she really doesn’t want us to attend”, I thought to myself while I rode my scoot like a porn star through Ortigas Extention road (a.k.a purgatory if you’re a cab driver). Acceleration drag is just one of the many cons of purchasing a china-made scooter (the only pro being the price) and it usually acts up during stop and go heavy traffic situations. My wife and I were on our way to attend her sister’s civil wedding (no, she wasn’t knocked up) in Makati City Hall, on a Monday morning rush hour, no less. At least she was able to say that those in attendance were people who really care about her. My sister in law and her groom decided to have a civil wedding two months before the actual ceremony for VISA application purposes. So that after the wedding bells, her very eager husband can literally sweep her off her feet and take her to his homeland Belgium without immigration issues. I remember my own wedding about four years ago. It would have been nice to arrive on the venue on a motorbike. Back then I couldn’t even afford a bicycle. I was so broke (because of wedding banquet expenses) that I kept hoping for Ang Pao’s (cash gifts in red envelope) instead of the usual wedding gifts (oven toasters, rice cookers, edible underwear, etc.). Well, I recall taking a tricycle on my way to the cab terminal that day. That counts.
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