Qing Ming

一年一度的unglam gathering was here again. Yes de, every year we will have this unglam gathering with everyone wearing slippers, shorts, extra large t-shirts, messy hair etc. A total change of what it was like on CNY.

We met up at 6am and the Lim Chu Kang cemeterr. My cousin very jialat. She said she went to chiong the night before till 2am and she is still intoxicated with the alcohol. She looked like a zombie!

For the first time, we bumped into the family of the tomb 2 rows in front of my grandmother's. They were a big family and they make far more noise than us. Considering that we already made a lot of noise at the cemetery at that hour. My cousin told me that she is learning korean and she aims to speak fluent korean like in 1 year. So I think by the next qing ming, we will be able to hear her speak fluent korean! LOL...

Our tomb sweeping event went on smoothly but one family actually overselpt and didn't turn up. My aunt called them and told them they don't have to come anymore cuz we will be done soon.

Newspapers are a must for tomb sweeping, cuz we always need to sit around...

A whole row of news papers where we sat before....

Nicely twirled to a circular shape!!

And very funny, we actually saw someone put a Kong Ming lantern off at the cemetery!! LOL, I was like,"hey look! Got Kong Ming deng!"

But I never took photos of it, it was very cute! It was pink colour... We all watched it float away till it can't be seen. I think I also want to set off a kong ming lantern next year leh. Like very cute. Then we started discussing where the lantern will end up. I am thinking that once the fuel is gone, the lanter will fall gradually. Then if your wishes are written on it, whoever picked up the lantern will read your wishes. Then throw it away. LOL..

After the LCK tomb sweeping, for the first time, we went to Guang Ming Shan to sweep. Normally we will got to my great grandma's tomb at kopi hill but a big tree crashed onto her tomb last year and so her remains were moved to guang ming shan. It was so damn crowded there and very smoky..

The big fire that was used to burn all the offerings were very 壮观 though. Very big fire and it was very very hot to stand around it. Some workers will help us with throwing the offerings into the fire. I wonder, all the offerings burn together, will the dead recieve them? And also, it was so crowded with so many praying at the rows and rows of tables, will the spirit of my ancestors come to our table slot? Probably want to find also cannot find right...

Blogspot is getting from bad to worse. It's paragraphing has got problem leh!!! See the spaces so big! Like shit lor. And I must key in some html codes myself because it doesn't generate them automatically like last time. Dunno what the hell.