Series of events

12 April 2011 (Tues):

What i'm gg to narrate next happened on Sun, 10 April 2011. I mentioned in my last post that my blog went haywire if i tried to post the videos under the same post as " Ballet ".

At first, i thought it was maybe the post was too long.So i deleted all the written happenings. Then, i did more editing & realised the problems lies with the videos instead. Haiz.

But its true a series of events happened on Sun.

Part 1 - the sky looked dark & gloomy that morning. Not risking to be caught in the rain, i took the bus with Lionel to his class @ 0910am. (his class starts at 0930am). Then i went over to the CC to check on some stuff regarding E-Filing but it was closed. Not wanting to waste time, i combed & tied Rachel's hair (she requested 2 ponytails) first so that i can changed for her once i get back.

At 1040am, i went back to pick Lionel (he finishes at 11am) & rushed back for Rachel has ballet lessons at 11.30am. What a morning!!!

Luckily it did not rained.

Part 2 - In the afternoon, we had our annual tomb sweeping event. The date was 三月初八, 8th day of the 3rd mth in the lunar calendar. The sky was threatening to rain but no worries, we went well prepared. Ponchos, hats, umbrellas, canvas sheet, etc... not to mention extra clothings for the children.

We had in total 5 families with 4 cars (at least 6-7 people to a car). It was a tight squeeze. One of our family car was stuck in the yucky mud @ CCK cemetry (it had been raining the night before) & was not able to move neither forwards nor backwards. The elders tried placing some rocks at the wheels to increase friction while my cousin (the driver) slammed hard on the accelarator. The rest of us helped in pushing the car, whichever direction was needed & guess what? Some of us (not me) got splashed with wet,sticky, yucky mud. Gross!

Part 3 - The rained took pity on us & decided to " helped " us. Down came the heavy torrents of rain & we quickly put on our ponchos, hats, umbrellas & even the big canvas sheet. Luckily we had already got the car out of the mud, otherwise how to push a car while putting on ponchos or hold umbrellas at the same time?

Now this was a sight to behold. If you were at CCK cemetry on that day, seen a large blue canvas sheet over a certain tomb, with over 20 people standing under it, that's us!

For those stepping out of the canvas sheet to burn joss papers, the unbrellas didnt helped much. The rain was just too heavy. Basically, nearly everyone got wet except the kids. These 2 were precious...cannot afford to get them wet ")

This was also a mobile canvas sheet. Haha.... Some of us held the sides of the canvas sheet while the rest just walked under it & navigate round to another tomb after we were done with the previous one. If u happen to see from afar, you will laugh at the sight of a moving piece of canvas sheet. You cannot missed out the bright blue colour.

Final part of this series of events - after we finished with the tomb sweeping ( 5 graves for 5 dearly departed family members), we were all famished. But not before all of us headed home for a nice hot bath.

We had pork floss prawns, butter cream crabs, claypot noodles, claypot spare ribs, specialty tofu, slice fish with bitter gourd, stir fry veggies & many more. The bill came up to $160 per table.

All of us slept early that night for we were all tired out.