But for me it was special allright.
It started that I wanted to call Simon, my brother-in-law via Skype to congratulate him with his birthday but was unsuccesfull doing so because I could not go to a wifi-spot with my Macbook because Kik took way too long for his visit to hospital (docters check-up on a face job he had done!) and his mother in nearby Kamala.
When he returned I felt it had no use anymore because in Holland it was allready getting too late in the day, haha, so I sent Simon an sms instead.
The rest of the day we labored in the garden of our rented house and planted all the plants we had bought the previous day in Phuket Town.....and I can assure you: Thats a hell of a job with the warmth here.
Luckily friends of ours (actually ofcourse first of al Kiks) came down, or should I say up to our house in the hills around Patong, to help us out and advice ofcourse where everything should go. Quick enough I was only allowed to veto some of the spots for certain plants.all in god spirits by the way! Nonetheles we were all swetting like ....well, you imagine, haha
Around 6.30 Kik and I had to hurry down to the theater to drop Kik off for his two performances of the day and I could continue to Club OneSeven to take my daily shot of internetconnection with the outside world, ergo the Netherlands mostly ;-)
When I switched on my comp I saw that my godson, and cousin, Jeroen, was online so I messaged him on skype to congratulate him with the birthday of his father. he replied and son asked if I could be reached...he had something to tell me.
Immidiatly I got nervous, because when relatives start to say things like that one immidiatly start to assume the worst.
So, he called me very quickly after I messaged him my Thai mobile phonenumber. Instead of bad news though he was dying to tell me that he and his girlfriend had decided the wanted to marry!! And the even better news was that they wanted to ask me if I was willing to officiate their wedding as special registra (having done so, so many times before but never ofcourse of close family!).
I can now write quietly that I was very trilled by him asking me this and felt very very honored and proud of the question so naturally I was delighted to accept.
Later, when he had finished the phoneconversation and we also stopped messaging via Skype, I had to talk to someone, simply to share my happines and emotions.so I called my sister, first on her mobile, because Simon had sms-ed me back to thank for my wishes and same time announcing that he and my sister had spend that night at my house in Delft. But no respons, as happens more often, so I tried the housephone of my sisters and Simons residence..and yes, she answered.
Preparing for Simon to get home from work in Delft ;-)!
After exchanging congratulations on Simons birthday I immidiatly switched to the big news from Jeroen, en she replied " A, he asked you allready, good!".
For whatever reasons but Jeroen and I seem to share a special bond, don't ask me from where it originates but I believe most of my family feels the same, and certainly Jeroen does.
My sister Cuny and I joked that I better stay in the best of health so I could perform the oficial duties around Jeroens wedding....which , and now I could surprise my sister, jeroen annouced would take place, for now, on the 30th of may 2009!
Explaining that Bibi, Jeroens girlsfriend wanted at least one year of preparations!! Good for her, its still a once in a life time excercise and would stick in their minds and their close family and friends for the rest of their lives. So a good preparation is sooo important...and fun!
Except sharing our emotions on this very happy news together and our shared believe that Jeroen made a very wise decision, and so has Bibi ofcourse, hehe, we also exchanged the latest news in and around my family.
Seems my brtoher sms-ed her the same warning as I had received for Kik and me while on our trip to Bangkok.
I told her what had happened a couple of days before when celebrating Kiks 27th birthday (28/11/2007) and that a couple of hours later allready Kik visited his Bangok orakel asking him about my brothers news.
Boedhists give great value to such people and very often folow their advice if they want to fight off possible bad 'karma' (if I may use that word here).
According to 'mother' , as Kik called this man, I had nothing to fear, but he had received some warnings indeed and got instructions how to fight them off...and so afterwards and back in Patong we folowed most of 'mothers' advice.
Well, also an incident on Kiks birthday which involved the breaking of his lucky Boedha and what had to be done to fight of the bad luck of that one, made it clear to me that Thai are very aware of signs of bad luck and such omens and when the realise whats happening or expect to happen the y do their utmost to please Boedha and the gods in such a way that the bad omens will pass and bad luck passes by without causing any further troubles.
Well, and to make the day complete, being a special day that is, the governement announced that that day, the 14th, as well as today the 15th, all bars etc. should stay closed and no alcohol could be drank by the Thai....because they needed to cast their vote by proxy if not living in the district of their birth!
This meant 2 days of no drinking, etc...specialy in tourist areas where a lot of Thai work from all parts of the country......only curious how many used the opportunity to vote by proxy for the 23d of December elections, when a non aclohol policy is into effect as well ;-)
For me it means a chance on a couple of nights of relative quiete and no parties and such things, haha
Well, a lot of words just to transfer my feeling of this special 14th of december: My Godson Jeroen and Bibi are getting married, and if all goes well, by me! WOW, still very impressed and happy by that news!
I pray that jeroen en Bibi will be happy and fortunate in their lives and that all will go down well and smoothly towards the 30th of may 2009 and ofcourse long there after!!
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