Wanted: A Wedding Date

Updates: Application has been closed due to the vacancy being filled. To all applicants, thank you for your time and interest

Wanted: A Wedding Date

1. Pleasant, decent and respectable


2. Can hold a decent conversation


3. Single or have very secure life partners

Send in your applications via e-mail and bank in your RM100 processing fee to account no. AC18938292921.

Thus far, I have about three weddings to attend this year and I need companions/dates for two of them - because I'm not sure who will be going to those two weddings and nor do I know if I'll be placed with people that I'm chummy with ensuring a good time for all. And I am so not looking forward to sitting all by myself in a table filled with strangers who

1. Already have their own cliques


2. Prefer to cram their mouths with foodies rather than making small talk

It's tough being a single when it comes to special functions like these. You know the couple, you are happy that they are getting hitched and want to share their joy on their special day. But you also do not want to go stag. In the sea of strangers, your aloneness screams out at you. For that few hours in the night, you are reminded that life is moving along, people are getting coupled up while you are still the 'same-old, same-old'.

"So, anything new in your life lately?" a keipoh aunty will come winking by.

"No lah, same-old, same-old," I'll answer with a pruney smile.

However, as all things good and bad go, the night eventually does come to an end. You stash your dinner gown away and prepare to go to bed. You look around your room and see the photos of your dear friends whom you can meet up as and when you like. The books that you can spend hours reading because you don't have to entertain the big baby (hubby dearest) and the little ones. Your accoustic guitar that you play as loudly as you want in the privacy of your room whenever you feel like it. And that warms your heart up. Life suddenly looks as good again. As it always has.

Maybe your Prince Charming (actually, I don't really like the term anymore, thanks to Shrek2!) is just waiting around the corner. Or maybe not. But through being single all these years, you realise that you know what it feels like to be alone, to not have that special someone and still have a fulfilling life. It makes you stronger and more confident to embrace the unknown future. When you meet that special someone, you will appreciate that person more. And for some reason or another if the two of you are separated by distance or death, you know you can cope because you have been there before. And it isn't so bad after all. In fact, it's purty good.

Oh, and ahem any takers for the above-mentioned job vacancies?