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The Feelings During and After Cousin Edmund's Wedding

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I attended my cousin Edmund's wedding in Kuala Belait, Brunei Darusalam yesterday. It was a happy occasion as another member of the younger generation along my maternal family line had heeded the holy matrimonial call. Cousin Edmund is a bank officer while his wife, Rachel was a civil engineer. She had just submitted her letter of resignation several days before to take up the role of a full-time housewife. If I am not wrong, they had dated each other for six years. I wish them all the best. I was also glad to have the opportunity to meet up with my relatives including Tatiana and Cousin Andrew(a Croatian Australian of mixed parentage). Despite distinctive differences in religions(catholicism, anglicanism, Islam and Buddhism), we were able to converge for the wedding mass in church joyfully. Shame on some christian relatives who had refused to witness the Islamic matrimony ceremony of a muslim cousin two years back. The invi...