there was a big scale prayers organised for my late grandpa, late grandma, late great grandpa, late great grandma and late auntie. apparently i had this auntie who was born before my dad. she passed away when she was still a child, because she was having high fever, and at that time the family no money to see doctor, so my great grandma fed her opium, hoping that she will recover from the fever, and sadly she passed away. if my pharmacist wife read this i can imagine her eyeballs stare big big.
so on fri, which was the last day of term 2, i left the sch exactly at 1240 pm to go back home and bathe, then travel down to bedok for the prayers. reach there at about 3 pm and the prayers havent start yet, so i was folding the joss papers and paper ignots with my cousins. then my uncle said... on fri night we have to 守夜...
3 years ago when my grandpa passed away and 2 years ago when grandma passed away, it was my little sis who did the 守夜 roster for the cousins. so she took up the responsibility again, and she said those who are married and the wife is pregnant, are excused from 守夜. #THANKYOUSIS
and one more thing to share... i found out that 思 is actually not the family name for the next generation. because my cousin's son is named 思敖 (SiAo hahahahahaha). so both my dad and myself assumed that 思 is the family name. then my cousin told us that he did not follow the 家谱. so my dad immediately went to check the next generation family name from his 6th aunt (who is also my 6th grandaunt). and so the next family name is 源.
so instead of 思赜 (SiZe), we shall call him 源赜 (原则). a man of principles. hahahahaha.
and the next generation (ie our grandson) family name is 后. i will psycho my son to name him as 后裔. 太阳的后裔. HAHAHAHAHA. i am totally enjoying this name calling thingy. :p
