Tag: chinese

My liang po po

When my grandmother passed away roughly 5 years ago, I was furthering my studies in Melbourne. I got one of those calls, from my Dad in Malaysia telling me not to worry and I didn’t have to return to Malaysia. Many thoughts crossed my mind, but I just said okay and found friends to console during this period.

My popo is always watching over me

I notice half the time, my dreams are visualized as I’m about to wake up and yesterday was one those times. As much as it was me worried about work, and being stressed it, the last bit of my dream left me awoken in an emotional state.

The last bit was arms wrapping me from behind and a whisper from an assuring voice I recognized very well, my grandmother. While others have their passed relatives shared 4D numbers with them, my grandmother just said:

Don’t worry, everything will be okay.

I woke up in a state of tears. Not only because I loved and missed my grandmother very much, it really gave me the feeling she’s always watching me.

Thanks popo.

Party with the Dead

Had to get up at 7:00am today because parents scheduled one of our cheng beng (ching ming) visits on this fine day of morning rain. Argh, I can only imagine what it would’ve felt sleeping in the weather under my warm blanky. Oh well.

We had to drive to Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih. My mama’s (Dad’s mother) ashes is placed there. It was quite a distance making our way there from Petaling Jaya, although we took the Balakong highway and headed on to the LEKAS highway.

Besides the good in paying respects to the passed relatives during this season, I’ve found this period the time when families will get together. Other than, Chinese New Year.

We’ll be praying, burning papers (forgive us, Mum) and later, sitting around talking to one another. The talking is to pass the time while our passed relatives get to spiritually eat the offerings we’ve made for them at the altar.

Seriously, I felt it was a time of bonding. Though my Dad and brother (Gary) were talking about buying and selling of cars. How to get bang for your buck, so to speak.

After we got back, we were saying “we partied with the dead”. Hence, the title.

Then, I followed up with the line “introducing a new scent; Death”. LOL!

Well, this season doesn’t have to be all gloom, right? 😉