Sunday, December 28, 2003
7th day & annual camp
Just a short one... just got back from campfire.. too tired...
Morning, wnet to bright Hill temple (or Guang1 Ming2 shan2) to pray to my grandpa, as today is what the Chinese called "tou2 qi1"-- the first 7th day from his death....
What i had learnt: according to the Chinese superstitions, the important dates to pray to a deceased are "tou qi", (1st 7th day), "san1 qi1" (3rd 7th day--21st day) , "wu3 qi1" (5th 7th day) and "qi1 qi1" (7th 7th day/ 49th day).
Actually, also went there yesteray, but was to collect grandpa's ashes. Guess grandpa must be suffering a lot during his last few months, cos his bones were very brittle. When we were told to pick up the big white pieces (bones)from the remains, we found only a few big pieces,the rest were small pieces, while we saw the other families picking up a lot of big pieces of bones from their kins. Mum said that grandpa had to eat 8 different types of medicines then... and we did saw how much difficulty he had when he walked......
Afternoon, meet up with my friends from my club to go to the club's campfire. FL was back from her exchange programme in China and bought a handphone accessor with is my last chinese name character and a bottle of Ice tea which Sun Yanzi is the spokeperson for ( got her pic on the packaging leh).
Dunno was it because of the recent events taht made me very tired and moody or was it that i am already too old, i dun really enjoy myself watching the programs at the campfire. Seeing young members of the club playing games really makes me feel that i am too old for that. For the past few years, I had been joining the annual camp as camp members, and was running & having a wild time when playing the camp games. But now... don't expect me to do that......
Anyway, also got a lift home from a fellow club member in his shared car-- a Mazda. Actually if I can drive and afford a car, my realistic dream car is a Toyota Soluna (but now no more, toyota changed it to Vios instead, minus the two extra "eyes" at the rear) or a Mazda.
I personally think that Mazda's curves are nice. but dunno why this Jap brand isn't as popular as Nissan and Toyota. Now that I had sat in a Mazda and spent time scrutinising its interiors, confirmed that my first choice of car is a Mazda.
talk only lah...... cos I dun even know how to drive.....
Dunno if i can manage to pass the practical exams if i do take up the driving lessons....
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