There’s an ongoing exhibition in our National Museum about coffins, both traditional and modern from all cultures and religion. Also, recently there was one episode on TV about the making of coffins. People’s thinking and beliefs have changed nowadays to openly embrace the subject of death, funerals and coffins. People during my younger days would [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Memories of Grandparents’ Funerals
Posted in Childhood, Family, Thoughts, tagged funerals, gradparents, traditional Chinese coffins on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Broga Hill Then and Now
Posted in Mountain climbing and trekking, Temples, Travels, tagged Broga Hill, G.Tok Wan on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It was in 1999 when hubby and I first climbed Broga Hill with members of Backpackers Association. Back then Broga town was a sleepy little village, undeveloped and the only attraction was the temple at the end of the village. Rubber trees lined the side of the road leading all the way to the temple [...]
Memories of Qing Ming
Posted in Family, general, Travels, tagged Chinese All Souls Day, Qing Ming, tomb stones on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the Qing Ming day or the Chinese All Soul’s day. Though today is the exact day of Qing Ming, many families would have completed their annual ritual of visiting and praying to their ancestors at graveyards all over the country earlier especially at week-ends. But only this morning I still heard fire crackers [...]
Penang Hash Walk 26th – 27th March
Posted in Mountain climbing and trekking, Travels, tagged Air Itam Hostel, Gertak Sanggul, Penang, Penang Hash Walk on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My last major climb or trek was about 2 years ago where I joined the Ulu Sepat climb and after a very arduous and torturous time, managed to complete it. If it was not the rescheduling of the days to reduce it by 1 day, we would had an easier walk but that was [...]
