Last 2 days, an old couple who were friends with my aunt came to invite to their adopted son’s Buddhism ordination on 5th July. The woman one seemed so excited to see me and asked me a lot of questions. I didn’t remember her since I was very young when she saw me. We talked a bit and as expected, we agreed to go to this event.
Next day, my dad and I were talking about things here and there then ended up talking about that couple we met. Our family knew them for very long time as my aunt resided next to them and my dad was just only high school boy. The woman whose name was Nee, brought up my cousin (aunt’s daughter) along with her own adopt son. She was very hard-working and rich.
My dad then told me, she asked him if he would let me carry a pillow while parading her son into ordination.
He then asked
“You know what it means, right?”I nodded, though not excited but honestly, I was a bit in awed that she asked that!
If you have no idea what is this parade, see this picture below. You will see the soon-to-be-monk who’s already bald. And you will see, there’s a woman on the left side who carries a yellow pillow in her arms in the parade along with another people.
You may wonder why I had to be in awed then, just carry pillow in parade, isn’t it indifferent from another who carry another things?
No. It’s totally DIFFERENT!
Any woman who is carrying a pillow in a Buddhist priesthood parade....always means she is the one who is a bride-to-be for this monk when he leaves Buddhist priesthood!!!Unless she is his own mother or another relative or already his wife.
And their son is in his thirty and , of course, SINGLE.
So, that means...you can guess now..
I just got wedding proposal! The third since I turned 18, indeed.(The first and second were from clients who stated they wanted me to marry their son, one is a doctor who’s currently married to mental wife in USA, one is 28 and not normal himself!)
OMG, if my dad “agreed”, I might be on my way to arranged marriage!!! LOL.Fortunately, he said he told her that
“It is her [my] decision to make”.
Whew, after all, whoever I want to marry is still my own choice to make :)
I love my dad!
Reminder: if you were to be invited to carry a pillow in Buddhist ordination, if you're already his girlfriend, consider yourself lucky to get accepted to his family as his potential wife!
If you're not, consider yourself getting wedding proposal!! At least it means they see you as a great candidate to be their son's wife because if they not, they will NEVER said a word about it. Kudo to you! :P
P.S. Anyway, I'll share you all my photo at this upcoming ordination. It's very important tradition in Thailand that every son should ordinate once for their parents. It's beautiful culture and I would love you all to see it from my view :)
Have you ever gotten any strange wedding proposal and what did you do then?
Comments (10)
Wow, congrats!
Reading yourpost I realize how very little I know about this culture and how much more I would like to know. Here I thought the monk's were celebate their whole lives. Oi.
Wait... you might have said this already, but are you actually going to do it? What is this guy like? Would you consider marrying him?
Wow..you are quite lucky to have all those proposals. I have had none.
@Lady_Kelacy - Hehe, thanks. Well, Buddhist monks can leave the priesthood anytime they want (or when they breach the rules that forces them to leave). Anyway, most of monks (especially in rainy season or we call Koa Pansa season) come to ordination just only temporary (3 months) which is tradition every son should do for once in a lifetime for his parents. Whoever does it will automatically considered as a good son :) I'll post more about Koa Pansa season and the related topics when the event is finally occured.
@Pieces_of_a_Melody - I don't even know him. I never actually known these old friends of my family before. It's only unofficial proposal but I don't think I'm going to have a go on it, LOL. And honestly, I'm too young to get married..and to someone I don't even know? No way.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Hahaha. I take it is compliment, thanks.BTW, you never had someone proposed you before? :P
Wow that's really cool. congrats!!
Interesting! Are you going to check him out at least? It could be a strange way to meet Mr. Right
I had an odd wedding proposal when I was 23. I was leading a Bible study with a short guy from Los Angeles (I'm VERY tall). He and I became very, very close friends. But just friends. We were both living in Virginia. We both had friends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so we shared a ride up there and then parted ways to stay with our different friends. He wanted to spend time with MY friend too, so he joined us for the last day. On the drive home, he asked me to marry him. I thought he was kidding, like we were bonding over a really enjoyable trip and we were just joking about not wanting to be single forever. So I said yes, still thinking it was a joke. We stopped at McDonalds for a snack, and he told the cashier that we just got engaged. That gave us a ton of odd attention in that little roadside restaurant. Two days later, at our Bible study, I figured out that he thought we were engaged for real. I freaked out. I had to tell him I thought he was kidding. He asked me to take a week and consider it. I did, but couldn't picture myself with him at all. The friendship ended badly then. His roommate helped me through the hurt of losing a friend, and his roommate and I became very close friends. Then the first guy moved back to Los Angeles and I became roommates with his roommate. And my new roommate eventually married a friend of mine. Anyway, I heard a few years later that the guy who proposed to me married a girl who looked just like me. That's kind of creepy.
Phew. I was worried you'd said yes!
My parents were always trying to set me up with guys when I was younger (19-ish). It was really awkward. Fortunately they don't know that many single men.
Ohh wow sis!! Lol the 3rd already? I have a lot of mothers who ask my mom to arrange me to their sons T^T So will you do it? If he's a good person, which I'm sure he is =D
Of course only the best for my sis!
@iStephanieMarie - thanks! :)
@BigToePeople - Eh, don't know. He's 30+...a bit too old for me, eh? LOL. Wow, your story is indeed creepy. That guy must have been fancied you from whatever you had between the trip and thought you liked him back too!
@heidenkind - Haha...I'm glad your parents don't know many single men...or else you would be on a date once a day :P
@eimin_blog - haha..I hope you don't have anymore suitor to choose! :P It's kinda hard enough to choose from those Asian guys :P Hmm...I'll not do anything since I don't know him and he's 10 years senior (You know, the guy this age and with his parents trying to set a girl up with him...they are expecting grandchild!!). Not a big deal (well, at least I'm not serious). But yeah, I still considered myself lucky that all parents want me to marry of their son :P
wow. This is really interesting. What were the other two proposals like?