Nirvana Memorial Park @ Semenyih
09/03/08
woke up as early as 5.30am on Sunday morning... joined my relatives from my mum's side for Ching Ming or Qingming at Nirvana Memorial Park at Semenyih...it is the day for mourning the dead, a day for Chinese families to visit our ancestors graves... it falls in early April every year, and this year, it falls on the 3rd of April... the descendants will need to "sweep the graves" of their ancestors... and it's also a time for happy communion with the family members to show respect to their ancestors... like US !! hehee....
this was the first time we joined my mum's side for the Qingming... cos, after my mum married to my dad, she's considered as a part of the Soo family... and we, the children will only pray to our grandparent from father side... except for this time, cos my grand uncle came all the way from China with his family members, so we just joined the crowd.... :)
slept in the car till we reached there at 8-ish.... hehee...
bright blue sky....
7 sisters... out of 10 siblings...
camwhored while waiting for others...
me and Ken... with a big dragon behind us...
Nyan, YY, Aunty Alice, CC and Ken....
ME !!
we took the photos according to our Chinese Zodiac animal.... me the PIGGIE lor....
Jasmine, Nyan and me....
a peaceful land...
my great-grandparent's (Mum's side) grave...
they offered them a big roasted piglet.... the whole family kneeled to pay respect...
a hot sunny day ler... must use umbrella... :P
paper money was burned... know what, they even burned a "
paper LV handbag" for my great-grandmother...
you can stand under my umbrella, ellla, eh eh eh.... hahaa.....
we had our breakfast at this restaurant inside Nirvana Memorial Park called "Yi Jia Ren" (One Family)...
went back home to get some rest.... tired-nya..... next, all of us went for buffet dinner at Uncle Albert's house at Sierramas ....
and again, we took lots and lots of photos.... please dont get bored by those photos, okayyy ??? :)
ladies who love to take photos...
us again...
CC, Jas, Nyan and YY... at the pool side...
nice Balinese decor at the garden...
gals.... galss....
the golf course is just right behind my uncle's house....
the Soo sisters....
after much phototaking session... it's time for dinner.... the caterer was from Mum's Place in Damansara Perdana...
an array of food...
they served some kuih-muih, fruits and ice kacang as well...
i only had this plate of food... so damn full ler !!
the main activities of the night = singing.... i sang a few songs as well but too bad, no photo taken... :(
us with the white wine.... yam sengg.... i drank quite a number of glasses... tipsy ler !!
all the Chang's member.... the seated white hair man is my Grand Uncle from China... his wife sat on his right....
lastly, before we left... we took a big family photo.... can you spot me ??? hehee...
waiting for my food !!
the staff preparing the bulgogi for us...
varies Banchan (small side dishes) served at our table... the most famous Banchan is Kimchi, which i dont like the most... i remembered last time when i was in Korea, they served Kimchi in every single meal... and for sure, there were some left overs on every table which was the Kimchi... hahaa....
Dolsot Bibimbap... yummy yummy :)
" Vegetables" diet ???
let's stand and eat together... hehee....
