Gonggong's D.A

I thot today I can finally stayed at home n slacked, coz for the past two weeks, i've been outside, either working or shopping... Was feeling abit guilt for not spending quality time wif BeBe... *hahaz* But i think she's doing fine without me lahz... -_-" Getting fatter n fatter day by day... My heart almost failed me when i looked closely at her juz den... Can feel tat her neck is disappearing at an alarmingly rate... Guess she's still growing...? *sheepish grinz*

Aniwae, I woke up early to find me mum slogging away in the kitchen, and I knew today got occasion: My ah gong's death anniversary, so she's preparing all the food used as offerings for later on... She asked me if I wanna go... I was abit sianz so I kinda sa jiao to her n told her i dun feel like gg... she's cool wif it... But it's me dad who's not cool at all...

As soon as he got home, he asked me if i'm gg later... I was too engrossed wif The Amazing Race: All Star tat I dint reply him but juz shook my head...

DEN horz...

Lau Pa: "U not gg? But today's ah gong's ji re lehz..." *in a DISAPPOINTED tone*

Tat's it. When he uses tat kind of tone n talks to me, my stand will quaver n i'll surrender... It's like he's demanding tat i MUZ go, but he does it in a un-fierce manner, but he acts PITIFUL n somehow pleading me to go lyktt... So being a soft-hearted kind person, I went lorz...

SHIT.

SOOOO many ppl, or shld i say, sooooo many kids... *haiz* My head started pounding slightly the moment I stepped into my ah ma's hse...

Slacked ard a little coz hafta wait for all the adults to prepare ALL the offerings, which are REALLI A LOT: Bags n bags of food, paper money n other related stuff, one big carton full of NINETY baos (ba bao, char siew bao, cai bao) n etc... There were soooo many such bags tat over 10 ppl hafta help carry them down...

Over at the temple, it was HOT, HOT and HOT... veri crowded n smoky...

We picked one table and lay out all our stuff until there wasnt an inch of space left...

For our practice, we will file ourselves in a line, each holding joss sticks, and slowly made our way inside the temple where all the altars are placed... we look somewhat like a tu-tu train...

Saw my ah gong's altar... wanted to say a few words to him... but ppl behind me were kinda rushing me forward... *sighz* So I dint manage to say much...

Aniwae, tat temple is veri huge... got a section to house all the altars, and another humongous area for praying, which is at level two...

All of us went up dere coz it's much cooling n not as crowded...

Once i went in, I saw er shu n family kneeling in front of a monk, who's sitting on an antique bench, closing his eyes n chanting away in a foreign language, occasionally splashing "holy" water wif a bunch of joss sticks over their heads... And opposite, another relatives of mine also doing the same thing...

This was new... I dint encounter such practice the last time I was there... So i was quite excited when my dad wanna to be splashed with "holy" water too...

Together wif ah ma, we kneeled down in front of dis monk, held onto his long strands of ropes, closed our eyes, and he started to pray for us...

I was concentrating on his prayers altho I dun understand a single word he's chanting (i think it's Thai), coz I was hoping to feel sth extraordinary over me... But nahz... I almost fell asleep coz it took soooo long... Legs got numb from kneeling too long, can't even stand up after he's done...

Oh ya, I felt "holy" water dripping onto my head during the chanting... So tingling kinda feeling... But i felt blessed afterwards... Really.

Thot we could finally head back to ah ma's hse... but still the adults wanna slack ard abit longer... so me dad treated some of my little cousins to ice creams... If I were as young as them, I'd definitely grab a chocolate flavour first... but ever since somebody told me such cheap ice creams are not healthy coz of the cheapo ingredients put in to made them, I dint dare to eat ice creams, unless they are from Haagen Daz or Ben n Jerry... *hehehz* Call me a tai tai or health freak or wadever if u wan, i dun realli care...

Finally, it was time to go back n burn all the offerings...

U know those kind of big, dark brown metallic bins meant for burning paper offerings? We used TWO of them... can you imagine how much offerings we haf? I helped to open the paper money, and gosh, i bet there are hundreds of million dollars dere... AND imagine the amount of smoke we caused... It's like the forest caught fire or sth... It's amazing nobody called the red rhinos...

The smoke became too intense tat I had to take cover... Left the burning to the adults and some daredevil kids...

Stayed underneath the voiddeck, enjoying the occasional breeze, and taking photos wif 3 of my many little couz... *hahaz* They kept wanting to see n play wif my 7390... *shakez head* Was so worried tat one of them might juz snap my hp in half accidentally... Accidents are prone to happen whenever those kids are ard... *shudders*

Spent the rest of my free day at ah ma's hse... So sianz... Luckily got xiao shu... he opened up a bottle n share wif me... *licked lips* Sooo lucky XY not ard, if not my share will be lesser... *hehehz*

I drove home coz dad veri tired (so am I lorz!)... got nagged by him when I drove near to 80km/h... *haiz* I oni wanted to fetch us back to home-sweet-home faster... *innocent face*

Bebe went berserk upon seeing us back... guess she's all alone at home for the day, so she misses us! And the way she shows her affection is to jump on us, scratch us, and licked our hands n legs... *hahaz* so cute...

Okie, I'm damn tired now... muz zzzzzz le... Tmr hafta work...

And speaking of work, hope my cheque find its way home soon!!! I'm sooo damn broke!!!

Random pics I took today:

Aint I look like a tai tai?? *hehehz*

Typical Uncle: Black pants. Short-sleeved button shirt. Gold Rolex watch. Driving Mercedes.

The smoke shown here is juz small case... I took one wif the intense smoke... but becoz it's too smoky, it fogged my camera...

Tat's my 4th uncle's kids. From left clockwise: Jiajun, Jiamin, Jiahui n me! They realli look alike rite... and i like the uniformity of their names... Jiajun is soooo round n chubby n cute!! They are the rare few who behave like normal kids. At least they dun fight n scream n cry when they lose in a game or sth... *ha*