Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Tomb Sweeping

A very tiring sunday, woke up at 5am, washed up and left home at 5:20am to uncle's place (rendezvous point) to meet other family members and set off in dad's pick up to our first location, the choa chu kang cemetery. 6am traffic jam, road marshals everywhere, roads converted to one way... paid respect to grandpa and his mum there.Next stop, bright hill temple. grandma and her mum's ashes were place there. another long traffic jam, super crowded, warm, scorching sun.Next up, mt pleasant, this is the real challenge, bash through thick vegetation, search for tomb, siam all the creepy crawlies, found them after a while, cleared up the year's worth of growth over the tomb, lucky there was no fallen tree.Last location nearby, took a long time to find the tomb cos it was totally covered by growth, dad remembered the location and found the tombstone after searching under the vegetation.On the way back home, sudden downpour, totally drenched at the back of the uncovered pickup, umbrella was useless... totally shack out at at 3pm..

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yours is really the real "ching ming" ...wow...

Anonymous said...

I really love dat beautiful yam plant and dat colourful windmill !! gegegegege

Anonymous said...

Hey, Can I check, where the last location? beside CNY, think this is another good time to have a family gathering ya?

jx said...

silver-crv: yar lor .. authentic mah

seaweeds: i had to ask what plant it was and why so many people like to plant them on the tomb. i didn't ask about the windmill though, anyone can enlighten?

missche3rful: last location also at mt pleasant area. cannot remember the exact road name