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Ashley.This daughter of a devoted catholic and an excellent chef grew up in the heart of city - rain and shine. Paved her way to university to becoming an entrepreneur/marketer, her journey of twenty-three continues as she unravels the mysteries of life through her love for photography, food, traveling, the streets and beautiful things. |
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
(still in the peranakan blood) Today marks grandma's last prayer offering since her passing on. We had to be at the temple much earlier as the prayer was going to last longer as compared to the previous weeks. Upon reaching the temple, we were welcomed by a 10ft tall paper house that my uncle bought. It had two pavilions with a table and 2 chairs at each end (I presume they are for my grandparents), two servants, a car with a chauffeur, a trishaw + trishaw rider as well as many rooms. All of us took turns to put paper money and nuggets into the different paper windows while the remains would be thrown and scattered when it is time to burn the whole house. look how big it is!  ~  ~ After the usual prayer by the Monk, we all helped to carry the paper house and bags of paper money and boxes of paper clothes to the temple next door which had a place specially for the burning procession to take place.  ~  ~ Surrounding the house with the remaining paper money, nuggets and taxes  ~ We were then given each a joss stick, say our last prayer and slot it onto the house before burning  ~ We were told to call out to grandma to take everything that we were burning for her  ~ then the heat became really HOT!  too HOT, we had to stand back   ~ Not long after that, we had to face our backs to the burning house and not look back because according to the Chinese belief.. if we were to look back, our soul might get trap. So we made our way back where my grandmother's tablet was being put up onto one of the shelves.  "its only on these occassions, it brings a full family closer." Labels: 14 (-2) days left penned by ash.
12:45:00 PM
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