Unwanted Invitation

A notification appeared in my FB account "You've been invited to an event!" I clicked to open, and an ex-school mate (whom I rarely talked to in school) had invited me for her wedding. OMG! You don't know me well yet you are inviting me to your wedding. Are you desperate to have people to crowd your wedding? Sorry, but I have to say that you are trying to make money from these invitations.. Right??? (Sad to say .. people are doing these in Asia). I was not reluctant to click onto the "Not Attending" button. I didn't even bother to reply "Sorry, unable to attend".

Few weeks later, I received another event invitation in FB. This time, a 'friend' had invited me for a birthday party of her 8yrs old daughter. I don't even know who she is!! Well.. She's in my friend list because I have been adding people to promote my Lasagna or Shepherd's Pie for sale in FB. Again, I wasn't reluctant to click the "Not Attending" button.

Few days later, she sent another 'invitation' notification & followed with a Private Message in my inbox pleading me to come (I really mean pleading because she wrote 'I hope you can come, please'. I guess this lady is lonely or desperate. I went home, told my husband about this lady & was told that she was an ex-girlfriend on hub's old long-lost friend whom he met some time ago. Gosh! He was actually the one who had suggested she adds me as FB friend if she wanted to know me more. Then, he suggested we should attend her party. I said "For what? You lost contact with her so long time ago & it's not that you were close to her" He said, "Well, we just go. Maybe I might see my long lost friends there." Actually, I find that was his excuse to go & at the same time I was quite curious why hubby wanted to attend this event so much. Does he have some kind of history with her? My thoughts were going wild for a moment, but that is another story.

The day came for us to go to this party with our kids. Once there, hubby immediately claimed, "Our party for our kids are more GRAND!" We started to compare on the location, the people, the food, the goodie bags, gifts & games. Well, it was Sunday evening & not much people were there. I, as a parent will not plan a kid's party on a Sunday Evening. Firstly, it's already the end of the week where people are tired & might need their last minute rest. 2ndly, people need to go to work/school the next day. Well, we were like strangers while we were there. Sitting in a corner eating fishballs. The host didn't even bother to speak much to us. She just told us to help ourself with the foods & drinks & went away. Such a lousy host.

Anyway, discussing back about unwanted invitations, I hate them. My mum & aunts used to send me invitation cards for weddings of people whom I never knew but they are my long-distant relatives. When I refused to attend, they requested that I should atleast passed a 'Green Packet' to congratulate them. WTH!! Now, no wonder there were so many people I'd never seen before during my wedding! Isn't such event to be celebrated with the closed & loved ones?

Such mass invitations should be done when having Sale Promotions, open celebrations, exhibitions etc but not for personal events. To me, it reflects that the host is desperate to gain from the invitation, meaning to show off to rivals that they have many "contacts" or collecting "Green Packets" to earn monetary profits.

By the way, I made Roasted Chicken for lunch! Bon Appetit!