today early morning at 8am, we reached the funeral parlour. we were told to reach ard this timing as the ritual to move out starts at 830am. shortly after we reached there, we had our breakfast and after which the ritual started. more friends and relatives arrived to pay their last respects to my grandma b4 the final hour to move off. the ritual ended ard 930am. oh ya, 4gt to mention, there were photo taking during the funeral. baby and me were puzzled as to why there were photo taking, could be for memory sake. no idea too, 1st time i see this type of thing happening. :\
ard 1000am, we set off to the cremation place by 3 private buses. the ritual at the cremation place lasted about an hour. all of us were very very sad when my grandma was peacefully sent off to be cremated. haiz, hope my grandma can leave in peace… after that, we did the ritual to clean off all the ‘dust and dirt’ by washing our hands and faces, eating a fruit and taking an ang bao. we also changed our clothes from white/black to red, this is to make sure that we don’t bring the bad luck back to our place.
after all these final stuffs, we went off to have lunch at a nearby restaurant. it was a 8 course lunch if i never remembered wrongly. the food there was quite nice, luckily we didn’t skip the lunch, haha… (initially baby wanted to skip the lunch by driving there in our car. :\) lunch was over very quickly, roughly in less than an hour as the food were served quite fast. we didnt even had enough ppl to fit into the 13 tables, so in the end, we split up to 7 persons per table, haha… eat finish liao is quite full de loh. :P
ard 1pm, we left the eatery place and went back to the funeral parlour. shortly after final checks on our stuff, we set off for home le. i was requested by my cousin to help ferry his mother and sister back to singapore as they were not leaving today, so i did him this favour. :) along the way, we so seriously wanted to find the a & w until we came across this brand, e & w and baby told me it was a & w. we were all mistaken by that e & w, haha… even though we thought that the a & w was supposed to be quite near to KL, n we also assumed that we came bck frm a different way n missed it, i was still determined to check out all the stopovers, haha… finally we were paid off when we came across a & w ard 1hr 30mins of drive! we quickly stopped over and bought 2x root beer double floats, 2x curly fries and 2x nuggets. (they were in fact 2 sets, lol…) n so after buying, we set off all the way straight towards singapore without stopping, except to pump petrol in johor. by the time we reached singapore / home, it was already 730pm. :) finally we were home!