Qing Ming festival

Today mommy, baby and myself woke up at 4.30am to get ourselves ready to set off to pray to our ancestors at three locations. Shamefully to say, this is actually my first time accompanying my mom to offer my respect at my ancestor'. In the past, it was always the elders who are involved in this mission once a year.

This year, mommy asked us along as she would have to drive alone all the way to the cemetery and she didn't know the way too well. Now that I have my weekends off, I'm more than willing to accompany mmmy, anyway it's only right for us to offer our respect to our ancestors. This year round, we have 3 locations to visit, first would be great grandmother, mommy's biological father, and grandma. It was still very dark when we reached our first location at the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery. Luckily we were in a large group together with my uncles, aunties and cousins.

But what surprised me was a lady who kept taking photos in another group of visitors. The flash lights from her camera kept me distracted, and I thought it was some young teenager from that other group who was interested in taking such photos. Then, out of a sudden, that lady came by to our side and I realized it was actually a middle aged lady. She identified herself as a reporter working on a "Qing Ming" story and wanted to take a photo of our group as we were the largest group she saw that day. So my uncles, aunties happily posed before the camera. It was rather interesting to meet such reporters, and it kept me wondering if our photo would ever be published. Heez.

After praying at Choa Chu Kang and Mandai, we headed for a lunch at Thompson and my uncle treated all of us as he striked 4D last Wednesday. After our lunch some of my aunties accompanied mommy and us to offer our respect to mommy's biological father at Bishan's Guang Ming Shan. It was my first time there and I was amazed with the sights I see. So many visitors!! We weren't allowed to burn incense in the air conditioned Columbian, so everyone had to offer their prayers outside where tents and tables were set up. We would only pray towards our loved ones in our heart.

Overall, it was a enriching day for me, having seen how "sao mu" is done.

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