Sunday, March 14, 2004

Went for a colleague's wedding just now - she's from Sumatra and it was a traditional wedding. They had a traditional dance as the couple came into the reception and then a prayer followed by music. What I remember from the event was that my colleage had remembered that I was vegetarian and had taken the trouble to order seperate food for me. While I was looking for food, this lady came up and said " Oh are you Dian's friend who is vegetarian? and pointed me to the veg section. There wasn't much food there but what touched me was that despite being busy and being stressed with wedding preparations - my friend had asked someone to go after me and tell me about the food - no one has ever done that before at a function. Usually people just ignore that I am vegetarian or joke that there is grass outside. Being used to all this it came as a pleasant surprise that someone had thought of me on the busiest day of their lives.

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