Today is the 2nd April 2010 and in chinese religion this is also known as the Qing Ming Festival. It is the day where all the chinese descendants will bring incense paper and incense money, along with some favourite foods of the ancestors and pay respects to the ancestors and clean their tomb as well.
Everybody in the family woke up especially early at 5.30am for this big festival. The purpose was to get there before a heavy traffic jam awaited us. However it is never early enough. We reached there at approximately 6.33am and there were a hell lot of vehicles waiting to get into the car park. Luckily we found one very quickly at the other side and managed to reach in time and pay our respects to the ancestors. Practically the whole family was there as well.
I have one query. Namo Di Zhang Wang Pusa Chant, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, also known as Earth Store Bodhisattva, which means "the one that encompasses the Earth." Ksitigarbha is also known for his vow not to achieve Buddhahood until all hells are emptied; therefore he is regarded as the Bodhisattva of all hell beings. Here is my question......Is he under the jurisdiction of Rulai Buddha, who is the supreme of the buddhas?
After that we also went to the Ashes Tower( Direct Translation from Chinese) to pray to the ancestors. We finished at around 8am and went to the coffee shop at Yio Chu Kang to eat. I regret not going to pay respects for the ancestors earlier when I was much younger. Honestly speaking, it is a very good experience to know more about own religion and spend more time with the whole family as well. I will try my very best to go and pay my visits and respects to my ancestors every year from this year onwards. Let me try picking up some responsibility from now on.
Breakfast was delighting and we went to the wet market beside the coffee shop. After a while everybody went back to their respective homes and my auntie brought me to see her primary school which was somewhere nearby Nanyang Polytechnic as well. Then she fetched me back home.
It was not long before I was outside again. This time it was to meet Yong Yang, Gintat and Fusen to play lan/ As usual, the meeting time was always late and in the end we only met at 2.45pm. Yong Yang was still on the way and Gintat and Fusen had not eaten so we went to KFC. After that we went up to the Star factory for a short while as Yong Yang had reached the chambers so we went over to meet him after that.
There were more than 10 arcades around in that area near chambers but we could not find any seats to play only until 5pm at the chambers. L4D2 is extremely fun and Counterstrike rocks as well. Fusen left much earlier at 6.30pm as he said he had a headache from watching the computer screens. Lol. In the end Yong Yang's girlfriend helped Fusen by continuing.
We chionged all the way in the chambers until 9.10pm and we went to eat at a nearby indian coffee shop. Anyway the costs were $6 for me and $7 for each of them. I played slightly later as there was no available seat. That was one thing. I did not like the smoke there as well. Second hand smoke to make it worse. The experience was fun. This was the first time we went out together to lan and it was indeed a good time to accomodate.
After dinner at the indian coffee shop, which the Nasi Briyani made me perspire like a dog, we went over to the other side to have beancurd. After eating we headed to the Mrt station and went back home respectively.
Today was really a long, long and long day. However it was a fruitful one though.
Cleverness constitutes to 99.9%, but attitude constitutes 100%.
Your Attitude determines your Altitude!
This is one good quote from my auntie indeed.
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