Here's the pictures of Shannon's engagement party. I want the pictures to mainly speak for themselves, but a little background might be useful. The party was held at Shannon's father's factory on the outskirts of Lugang under the truly multi-purpose rainbow tarps. (Weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, block parties: it does them all.) She was excited for us to experience this custom because it's limited to only the middle/rural areas of Taiwan. As the pictures partially show, you need a LARGE space to hold one. In the first picture, the girl on the left is Emily, the other secretary. The whole shebang lasted almost three hours and featured a 10 course meal. And when I say courses, I mean course. It was a seafood-lover's paradise. I'm not one, but I did my best. Two kinds of fish, several kinds of shrimp, crabs, sea cucumbers(grosser than you are capable of imagining, I promise), three soups, fruit, dessert, rice balls, the list just goes on. Paul shares that his main complaint about the food was not so much about the taste, but the general wobbliness. It went way past uncomfortable levels. Each of the tables with stocked with complimentary gifts of scotch (Johnny Walker Black Label, aged 12 yrs) and cigarettes, in addition to all of the regular food and the very free-flowing Heineken. Paul commented he felt like we were about to bribe some prison guards.
On the stage introduing the couple in the black vest is the Democratic Party Head for the county. I think he was there because Shannon's father is a party captian. This picture was taken after he had let loose a karaoke love ballad. He was a very gregarious fellow, probably good politician.
The boy band was a relative's and it was their first gig. They were amazingly bad. The guitar player and the drummer couldn't stay in the same rhythm and the guitar singer also couldn't sing and play and stay on his rhythm. It was painful. The other "entertainers" have pictures that speak for themselves. Oh, and the woman in the hot pink and black was the emcee. She robbed me of at least half of my hearing, temporarily anyway.
Oh, and yes, there is a picture of Shannon with me, but it is so hideous that I cannot post it even for humor-related purposes.
2 comments:
Wow. This reminds me of the wedding party I went to over there. Including the bad, bad entertainment.
On the plus side,bad karaoke by politicians. I'd pay serious money for the candidates for the democratic party's nomination to do some serious karaoke showdown. Maybe that's just me, though.
(Oh, and that was where I had shark-fin soup which was (A) jiggly and (B) endangering the oceanic wildlifes.)
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