The Tekan Game At Wedding Banquets

Call it a tradition or ritual, most couples on their wedding nights have to suffer what we call the "tekan game" by their guests. The hubby and I were not spared either, he had all sorts of alcohol concoctions forced down his throat and stripped down his arse, while I had to allow the hubby to peel off my g-string under the duvet in the hotel suite. Ok lah, it was our night afterall, so we played along and enjoyed ourselves.

But things went all wrong at Samuel & Florence's wedding last Friday. Before we arrived at the Legends (Fort Canning), Jeff already received a warning call from the groom not to bring any "props" along for any possible tekan games cos' the wife doesn't like it. Alright, so we respected his request and only turned up with angbaos. After all the yum-sengs and photo-shooting have ended, the table next to us grabbed hold of Samuel and started to down him with a glass of whisky on the rocks. Samuel was kinda reluctant but after much coaxing from the crowd, he managed to clear his glass. Steady we thought! So he was ushered to our table and the guys started to chio him for another glass. Before Samuel could take a sip, the wife stormed over with her jie-meis and snatched the glass over. We thought she wanted to do the heroine rescue stunt for her newly wedded hubby, but turned out that she slammed it on the table, gave a killer stare to all of us and told him that she is very upset by what he has done.

Duh, it was only a glass of hard liquor, why the big fuss?

And so Darren the joker quickly mediated the ugly situation and offered him the glass, this time promising him that it will be his last glass of liquor for the night. But true enough, she did it AGAIN! Snatched the bloody glass from Samuel and slammed it on our table, giving us a half cramped smile but still the killer stare. We were totally stunned, but Darren took the glass, down half the whisky (in fact, 3/4 of it) and then offered Samuel to finish off to wrap up the toast. This time, the wife gave the green light but still giving us the watchful stare. Once he is done with the whisky, she quickly scooted him off and gave him a lecture down on the way back to their VIP table.

So what's all this about? I don't understand. It pissed us off at the table, and it pissed us off as their guests. Like what Jorene mentioned, you don't treat your guests like that at your wedding dinner. Even if she's concern about Samuel's health, but c'mon, it was only 2 glasses of whisky, how much harm can it do to him? We simply can't fanthom her disgust in us toasting him with just a glass of whisky. Anyway, after that ugly situation, we didn't have the mood to enjoy the rest of the dishes, if we wanna be nasty, we could have left after that incident. But we kept our cool and stayed till the dinner ended, we didn't want to bruised Samuel's ego just like the way his WIFE did...

We wish you eternal blessings to you and your wife, Samuel...we have learnt our lesson and will not offer you any more hard liquor the next time... *roll eyes*

I will put in the photos in the next blog, something's gone wrong with the uploading...stay tuned.