Tis year's theme and dress code is all black or all white, not black and white together, so most of the err... more matured guests (like me) were in black, whilst the younger generation (children/off-spring) were dressed in white. Tis created a really formal and sombre atmosphere. Being a multi-racial function in Malaysia, many of the guests were wearing tudungs, which created even more black, because then, they were black from head to toe! Luckily, there were lots of sequins and diamonds to add much needed sparkle! Te decor (the host hired professional party decorators)
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was creative, but long strands of Mother-of-Pearl discs hanging from the ceiling separated dinner guests seated at long tables all night long. One had to peek around them inconveniently to see each other! Tere were only two very long tables for the more than 150 guests. All along the tables, there were short, fat black candles
on high iron-black candelabras, dripping its black wax onto pieces of white tiles decorating the white table cloth. In between the candelabras were square glass vases, each with a single bunch of tiny apple-green chrysanthemums. Chairs were either covered in black or white cotton. Transparent apple-green voile hung from ceiling to floor and a single black and white painting was
've just come home from the birthday party of a very important and very prominent friend. It wasn't half as successful as it was last year when the dress code theme was a casual white shirts/ blouses and blue jeans. I will now attempt to describe this evening.
by Quenie Fong
hung on stage in place of a backdrop. All guests were seated directly opposite each other at very crowded long tables. Tis created confrontational energy all around. More guests turned up than expected and seats were
grossly over-subscribed. Right from the start, there were a few sour-puss faces as some guests had nowhere to sit and it took the catering staff a long, long, long, long time to squeeze up more places. Te narrow and long function room was too cluttered with people and chairs and decoration and the buffet line. Te long strands of mother-of-pearl discs successfully divided the party and blocked everyone's view of everything that was going on. Show time was an entertaining Chinese guy who was
very talented and very funny, and he made some of the guests perform funny dances on stage. Everyone enjoyed his act and finally, the ice was broken and laughter was loud from all around and there were even hoots from the kids. Tis was the one reprieve to the otherwise sombre evening. Oh... and some of the teenage off-spring sang very well. I swear one of the young men sounded exactly like heart-throb crooner, Patrizio Buanne! Te food was glorious and generous and the guest list oh so distinguished but more than half of the guests left after the show, probably for friskier and greener pastures to continue a Saturday evening. I'll bet if the decoration was better done with better feng shui in mind and was a little bit more auspicious, the party would have taken off as it should have... after all the effort and money spent... Ten everyone would have partied till the wee hours of the morn and my mind wouldn't have been thinking all night long of the Chinese phrase... 'Choyyyy!'
QUENIE FONG offers onsite and offsite feng shui consultation for homes and commercial properties. Phone: (+6)09 508 3168 Email:
kuantan@worldoffengshui.com
86 FENGSHUIWORLD | JAN/FEB 2011
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