Saturday, April 4, 2009

清明时节雨纷纷。。。

又是一年一度的清明节了。对我们的家庭来说,这是我们的 gathering 之一。除了Chinese New Year, 清明节就是我们另外的一个聚会了,聚集了4个家庭的两代子孙。

I'm not gonna blog about my maternal 阿嫲,bcos all my cuzzies were there, nothing special to blog about.  Since maternal cuzzies mentioned that they never been to the "new" cemetry, so I'll be blogging about my paternal 阿嫲。

Maternal 阿嫲 passed away 20 yrs ago compared to paternal 阿嫲 who passed away 3 yrs ago, so both environments are slightly different.


Photos taken from my handphone so the quality isn't that good.
Cuzzies, can yall see the differences between the tombs?  The new tomb got nice cute roundy grass behind the tomb compared to our 阿嫲's one, so botak...
New tomb is smaller due to space constraint and they have a custom made 香炉 with name written on it.
The view out there, very different from the one we went right?
New area very cute one, you will see lotsa 假花 and 风车 插在坟墓上。
Look at this "tree" planted there!
Some even "planted" an umbrella on the tomb, haha...
Special species of plants that I never see before.
Centipedes are common there too, interesting to look at them closely walking with so many legs, haha...
A close up look at the centipede.
My 阿嫲's neighbour 来头不小喔~
是一位国会议员 (BBM), try to read the words below in a vertical direction that are carved on his tomb, quite interesting...

1 comment:

Miko said...

wah, the new tombs really look nicer and more lively with all those flowers and stuff. Hmm, maybe it's time for ah ma to move... Lol.