Posted under Everyday Life & Life & Me & My Thoughts
It was a Sunday. It’s an annual event with some arguments and stuffs like that the day or days before but it will all fade on the day itself. We normally make our journey in the late morning, but this year was bout noon. I, as always will drive, as with almost all family occasions.
The drive to Nirvana Memorial in Semenyih jam packed with cars as this is the season to visit those departed. It took quite some time to get there and perform the age old traditions in a more modernized way.
We used to tread along the sides of the hill, up and down and around graves just to get to my grandparent’s graves. Those were the time, distant memories. This year, somehow I felt different, may be I was different. I just did not felt myself starting the day before until it all ended.
During my visit, I could see some were actually having a picnic there. There was food enough to keep a family of 5 from hunger free for a week or two. However said that, it seemed that the cemetery no longer posed the eerie feelings, even children.
I noticed this girl in her teens, wearing dark blue jeans, which has beads sewn to its back pockets, with a white tee and an Adidas white cap. She was caught my attention in particular, but I do not really know why. She had thick lips, and her long hair pony tailed from the cap. Reminds me of myself when I used to do that too. Along side her there was a twin sister and also a younger sister.
The ordeal was not so bad, apart from a fool whom set an innocent tree on fire and fled pretending nothing happened, as well as inconsiderate and illiterate idiots that brought and lighted fire crackers when it is clearly informed not only by the government as well as the management with big banners to not do it. I know it’s tradition, but then we still can live without it, and especially without summons and jail terms if caught or injuries or death.
angel on 22 Apr 2007 at 23:41:19 237 #
I dun understand, why firecrackers… -__-”’
day-dreamer on 22 Apr 2007 at 23:41:38 237 #
Wow… you go for ching ming so late??
This year, my uncle brought me to the graveyard extra early (at 6.30am) to “paint” the words that has faded, because according to him, I’m “young and energetic”… =.=!!!
day-dreamer on 22 Apr 2007 at 23:42:41 237 #
Ooo… angel was faster by 19 seconds only… hahaha!
stev on 23 Apr 2007 at 01:18:07 304 #
definitely good to pay ones respects
a close relative of mine passed away this year just before CNY
somehow in a way reminds us of the fragility of life
yet it all somehow seems so peaceful yet surreal at memorial places
pelf on 23 Apr 2007 at 01:18:55 304 #
Set a TREE on fire?! Whack him la!
Pink Cotton on 23 Apr 2007 at 10:23:33 683 #
ha?need to light firecrackers wan meh??
kekeke i guess the impression of graveyards and cemeteries have been “commercialised” by horror movies until ppl also sked when they see graveyards
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:04:59 711 #
angel
I’m scratching my head too
May be it’s their presonal new year gua
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:06:38 712 #
day-dreamer
Well, we try to avoid the crowd, I think next year will be later
Muahahahahaha, rat race ah
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:09:21 714 #
stev
Yes, it’s just funny when we think about it sometimes, we seem to be the superior beings but then we are so fragile
That’s why we should always take care and treasure what we have now
jonzz on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:09:37 715 #
A tree on fire? Hmm, never been in Nirvana Memorial Park. How big is this tree, by the way?
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:10:31 715 #
pelf
I don’t know why I did not do that
Everyone was just stun of the sight
Poor tree
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:12:18 716 #
Pink Cotton
Yes, the sight of corpses crawling out from the ground is not really a nice sight
LOL
But then the commercialized ones like Nirvana seems to have made it into a playground for children
zeroimpact on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:13:34 717 #
jonzz
Not a big one, bout a meter tall
Nirvana is very commercialize but I must say, it’s really a very nice place to visit if you don’t know it’s a cemetary
laundryamah on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:22:44 724 #
wah y so long no updates one?? ya my fren told me about her in laws wanting to have picnic there too so gila lor…eat at home cannot meh…
Chen on 23 Apr 2007 at 23:06:06 212 #
fire crackers? in the cemetery? my goodness…..
zeroimpact on 26 Apr 2007 at 10:15:50 677 #
laundryamah
I do agree with you on that notion as it is not meant for picnic though some people seems to want to change it to a recreatinal park for jogging
By the way, welcome to my place
zeroimpact on 26 Apr 2007 at 10:30:24 687 #
Chen
Yes, despite all the sign and the ban from the government
Though I do not agree that much on the ban
But that is another story