and over the weekends, was my cousin's wedding and waahhh, such an emotional one. i think its because its the first the extended family got to experience a wedding. and countless, i tell you, that i heard someone asking my mom when is her turn to be the mak pengantin. wait long-long eh.

but it was fun cause i got to be the OFFICIAL photographer! whoo-hoooo. actually, its quite me-malukan cause when the cousin's di-akad nikah-kan, i can see my dad's, brother's and mom's eyes asking me to go right in front of the tok kadi. i am soo scared that the tok kadi might just ask me to stop taking pictures cause of the flash. but, other than the tak-tahu malu, it was sooo fun lah! cause i get to use my bro's dslr. boy, i soooo love dslr. i want onnneee! haha.

i am soo going to show to the world the nice pictures i took as soon as the home computer does not act up. :)

oh. and we got to witness true-blue kuda kepang. serious punyer. like the really kena rasuk kind. apparently, on saturday, when its the cousin's nikah, theres some kuda kepang event. we thought that it would only be in the morning since its been there ever since 9am. BUT, it lasted till 11pm!

i remember when i watched it early afternoon, theres a barrier seperating the performers from the audience and its reasonably sane. But at night, when i watched it again, its getting more wild and scary. theres no more barrier so, the "performers" or rather the ones that kena rasuk can roam around freely. and they did. and they actually run after the tak-bersalah-passerby. we saw one rasuk guy running after the banglas. and the banglas with their kain lari linkang pukang.

and i tell you, theres COUNTLESS of them. and theres young kids even. whenever we saw strangers getting close to our "circle of trust", we freaked out. and, theres even this whipper all around the place whipping the rasuk people with full force. and its like, they are asking to be whipped.

i got freaked out when one guy ran circling us with his kuda. and i think it reach to a point where i seriously dont feel safe at all even with our "circle of trust" cause theres just too many of them and they are getting more uncontrollable. so, when this rasuk guy walked towards us in his horsey manner, we decided that its enough.

but of course, even at our bawa kelong blok place, we didnt feel safe. every once in a while, theres a need to look out if theres someone running amok. and having their people coming to us and asking if we saw their guy running around, doesnt help at all.

and i am wondering, why oh why do they subject themselves to this? really. does it give them some sense of satisfaction? and the sad thing is, there are kids, young kids, actually practising whipping and performing. i should have taken a video but its serious punyer eerie to even do anything.

okay, to wrap things up, by right, theres only 3 things i wanna say ahh.

1) i love PB. i love being a faci. i want to plan a camp again.

2) if you are getting married, and you want a $0 budget for photographer, you know who to call. i can show you my portfolio. (hahahahah! action or whaattt?)

3) why do people practice kuda kepang? dont they know its scary and its wrong?