I am not good
with dates and had even forgotten my mom's birthday a few years ago! Add in the
lunar calendar and i am totally lost; hence, i decided to blog about an
important date so that i can refer to it easier in the future.
It's the death
anniversary of my maternal grandmother where my uncle would usually hold a
memorial session at his house where the ancestral tablet is.
As we are of
Chinese descent, the lunar calendar is used more often than the Gregorian one
and i absolutely couldn't keep track of the various events except for maybe
Lunar New Year as it's heavily publicised in the mass media.
See the amount
of offerings (comprising of food and paper money) for my grandmother who passed
away 10 years ago. The common practice is to prepare food that the deceased
loved to have when they were alive. For me, i guess i can make do with satay,
fried chicken, cheng tng, suckling pig etc.
This plate of
orange chiffon cake and kueh lapis was prepared by me! Okay, to be correct, the
kueh lapis was baked together with Joyce's mother-in-law who had kindly shared
her profit-making recipe with me!
My late
maternal grandmother wasn't a tea drinker; therefore, in exchange of tea, my
uncle had to provide her favourite beverage - a can of Guinness
Stout!
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