Vesak Day

Its Vesak Day again, which also happened to be my grandpa's 4th death anniversary. We gathered at grandma's place ard 12 noon and surprised to find the crowd quite dense. 3 uncles and their families did not turn up at all, meaning we have 11 people less. Coincidentlaly, those present were all females, except for my dad. Done praying almost to 1pm then went downstairs to burn the joss papers and a new set of clothes for grandpa. As usual, only members of our family went down (last time still got another cousin and brother but they were both not around this time). I finally learnt how to twist and loosen the joss papers for burning. Great achievement to me coz it took me long time to master abit...haha.

When we came upstairs, we settled down a while before grandma started tossing 2 coins to ask for permission to start lunch. The food were laid for grandpa to eat 1st (chinese tradition) and 2 coins were thrown to have one flower and one head side to indicate he had eaten and we can proceed to eat. Grandma did the throwing many times and so did my dad but both coins kept showing the same face. Grandma then "talked" to my grandpa to explain why the others were not here and sort of begged grandpa to forgive them. It was heartwrenching as I can imagine how disappointed grandpa felt. Finally the coins showed different sides and we started our lunch. Dad then explained that grandpa liked crowds and probably weren't happy that so many people were not around.

The food weren't that fantastic but ate quite abit coz was damn hungry by then. Went back home to bathe and prepared to go out to meet Web. Actually bathed 2nd time this morning coz did not anticipated the burning joss papers part which made us perspire and stink from the smoke.

Was supposed to join Web's frens for gathering (movies and dinner) but their timing was too early so we skipped the gathering. Walked around PS for a while and sort of craved for the MarryBrown chicken drummets so we took a bus to Changi Airport for dinner. There were so many people there, possibly celebrating Mother's Day in advance. We only stayed in T2 and sat watching people (especially lots of screaming children) at the viewing gallery after dinner. The viewing gallery has became so miserably small and we think it might just disappear one day to make way for restaurants etc in future, to generate more revenue for the airport.

Finally took a bus back to Ang Mo Kio before we parted our ways to go home.