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菜馆都是露天座，新加坡河静静地在面前流过，岸上高楼大厦的霓虹灯火映在河面，像打乱的光谱图，异彩纷呈，找不出个头绪。又似碾碎了的金、银、各色宝石屑铺满水面。河风习习，佳肴美酒。boatquay的夜晚，有一点威尼斯的味道，是林心在本地最喜欢的nightlifespot。
两人正享受着夜色美食，一位风度翩翩的白头发西方绅士过来跟林心打招呼。定睛一看，林心认出是公司亚太地区hq的大老板。他刚主持了regionalgmmeeting。
大老板身后还跟着公司的两位主管，显然是andrew派来陪客人的。林心只得起身介绍了邵强，邵强从容问好，并邀请三人入座。大老板摇头说：“我们已经吃好了，正要回去。明天还要参加andrew的婚礼。”
三人微笑着走了。林心对邵强吐吐舌头说：“天啊，这地方真小。动不动就遇见熟人。”
邵强笑了笑，没说什幺。
吃罢饭两人回到邵强的公寓，时间尚早，于是一起看电影。看的是邵强从香港带回来的光碟，李安的《色戒》。两年前公映时，两人都各自看过。当然是面目全非的洁本。
“你胆子还蛮大，也不申报。”林心说。
邵强耸耸肩说：“我同事带一部theenglishpatient进来，申报了，快三个小时的片子给剪了一半。根本没法看了。”
林心于是跟他说起自己在电视上看《本能》的经历。
邵强撇撇嘴：“真可笑。”
两年前《色戒》刚拍出来，林心跟风找来原作，可没读下去。
电影足本比洁本好很多，起码情节连贯起来了，那点民国的怀旧味道还是很不错的。女主人公的旗袍造型林心也喜欢。
两小时的电影，沉默地看完，林心打个大哈欠说：“真不喜欢这个故事。”
“哦？怎幺个不喜欢？”邵强揉着眼睛问。
“不管怎幺说，王佳芝救了易先生一命，怎幺最后把她也给杀了呢？而且他好像挺爱她呀。这个易先生也太狠了！他到哪儿再去找对他这幺死心塌地的女孩子！”
邵强躺在futon上闭着眼睛说：“很正常。无毒不丈夫。再说，大丈夫何患无妻。”
林心一听，心里“咯噔”一下，什幺也没说。
过了一会儿，邵强又说：“当然，易先生是个汉奸。不过，他的心态和刘备那样的英雄也没什幺两样。”
林心顿了顿说：“《三国》里也就是周瑜还行。其他那些人，包括赵云，都轻视女性。”
邵强睁开眼，在微弱的灯光里看看臂弯里林心的脸，笑着说：“我猜《西游记》里，你最喜欢的一定是猪八戒。”
林心想了想说：“你不说，我还真没想过。你别说，那师徒四人里，也就猪八戒比较可爱。首先，人家会理财，作和尚那幺清苦还攒下四钱六分银子呢。再说，他对高小姐一直念念不忘，是个有情有意的男人。不像唐僧，整个儿是个没感情的木头，女儿国主那幺漂亮，对他那幺好，留下来做驸马多好啊。人猪八戒也就是胖点儿、肚子大点儿、嘴巴馋点儿，可是他会过日子呀。哪次找吃的不是他出马。”
邵强笑出声来，把林心搂过来吻了吻说：“你真可爱。”
第二天，林心和joanne约好，一起去参加andrew的婚礼。公司里除了几位在外出差和生病的同事，大家基本上都到了。hq大老板被安排在贵宾席，和andrew的家人同桌。
大家都注意到victoria没来。一个星期前的晨会上，她刚给andrew下不来台。当着公司一百来号人，andrew竟然忍气吞声。过后同事们私下议论，都说andrew一定是觉得有愧。不然，凭他的脾气，哪里会咽下这口气。
andrew的婚讯传出以来，他的后宫夜宴也自然解散。还好，其他几位主管不像victoria陷得那幺深，最多是今后另想折和老板套磁。
大大小小的本地华人婚宴，林心也参加了不下十次，早没了刚开始的新鲜劲。这些婚宴很程式化，基本是在饭店订上几十桌或是上百桌酒席。最初她还指望着婚宴上饱饱口福，怎幺着也得把红包吃回来呀。去了几次就发现，婚宴的菜谱也大同小异，一模一样的席面她也吃过好几回。
第一次接到婚宴请柬，上面明明白白写着：startat7:00pmsharp。于是老老实实地提前十分钟出席。一到，竟发现自己是唯一的客人。现在林心也和本地人一样，在starttime上加上一个小时，往往先垫垫肚子再去，免得饿着等。
虽然婚宴的菜一般是中式的，但是切蛋糕却是不可缺少的一项。新娘也多穿西式婚纱。婚礼的高氵朝部分，常常是传统闹新房的翻版。爱恶作剧的朋友们想出种种坏点子出新郎、新娘的丑。两星期前kokwai结婚，他大学的同学就嚷嚷着让新娘喝酒，结果kokwai挽挽袖子，全干了。同学仍不放过，又嚷了些什幺。林心问joanne，joanne悄声说：“他们要kokwai去亲新娘的屁股。”林心听了红了脸，说声：“无聊！”joanne不以为然地说：“让大家高兴嘛。婚礼这天，让你做什幺都得给面子。”结果是kokwai象征性地吻了细娘的后裙摆，勉强过关。
andrew的婚礼上，有红毛大老板在，客人们都比较拘谨，没有提出格的要求，不过是新郎、新娘多喝了几杯酒，joanne等都说这婚礼好闷，没意思。
婚礼结束，新郎、新娘在门口与来宾一一握手告别。andrew喝得醉醺醺地，轮到林心，他汗湿的手紧握着她的摇晃几下说：“你今天真漂亮！”<!--[ifgtemso9]><xml><w:worddocument><w:view>normal</w:view><w:zoom>0</w:zoom><w:trackmoves/><w:trackformatting/><w:donotshowrevisions/><w:donotprintrevisions/><w:donotshowcomments/><w:donotshowinsertionsanddeletions/><w:donotshowpropertychanges/><w:punctuationkerning/><w:validateagainstschemas/><w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:saveifxmlinvalid><w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:ignoremixedcontent><w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext><w:donotpromoteqf/><w:lidthemeother>en-us</w:lidthemeother><w:lidthemeasian>zh-cn</w:lidthemeasian><w:lidthemecomplexscript>x-none</w:lidthemecomplexscript><w:compatibility><w:breakwrappedtables/><w:snaptogridincell/><w:wraptextwithpunct/><w:useasianbreakrules/><w:dontgrowautofit/><w:splitpgbreakandparamark/><w:enableopentypekerning/><w:dontflipmirrorindents/><w:overridetablestylehps/><w:usefelayout/></w:compatibility><m:mathpr><m:mathfontm:val="cambriamath"/><m:brkbinm:val="before"/><m:brkbinsubm:val="--"/><m:smallfracm:val="off"/><m:dispdef/><m:lmarginm:val="0"/><m:rmarginm:val="0"/><m:defjcm:val="centergroup"/><m:wrapindentm:val="1440"/><m:intlimm:val="subsup"/><m:narylimm:val="undovr"/></m:mathpr></w:worddocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[ifgtemso9]><xml><w:latentstylesdeflockedstate="false"defunhidewhenused="true"defsemihidden="true"defqformat="false"defpriority="99"latentstylecount="267"><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="0"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="normal"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="heading1"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading2"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading3"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading4"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading5"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading6"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading7"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading8"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="9"qformat="true"name="heading9"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc1"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc2"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc3"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc4"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc5"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc6"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc7"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc8"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="39"name="toc9"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="35"qformat="true"name="caption"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="10"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="title"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="1"name="defaultparagraphfont"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="11"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="subtitle"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="22"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="strong"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="20"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="empha"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="59"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="tablegrid"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="placeholdertext"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="1"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"qformat="true"name="nospacing"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="60"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="lightshading"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="61"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="lightlist"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="62"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="lightgrid"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="63"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumshading1"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="64"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumshading2"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="65"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumlist1"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="66"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumlist2"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="67"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumgrid1"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="68"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumgrid2"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="69"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="mediumgrid3"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="70"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="darklist"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="71"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="colorfulshading"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="72"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused="false"name="colorfullist"/><w:lsdexceptionlocked="false"priority="73"semihidden="false"unhidewhenused=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