Tuesday, April 7, 2009

QingMing

It was QingMing Festival last Saturday. In order to escape the horrible traffic jam, my family decided to go for this Tomb Sweeping Activities on Sunday. But out of our expectation, the traffic still terribly jammed.

We started our journey at 7.00am. We have to go to 2 graveyard for QingMing every year. One for my grandpa at the KwongTung Cemetery of Cheras and one for my grandma at the KwongTung Cemetery of Sungai Besi.

We reached Cheras KTC around 8.30am. Every since the maintenance work is taken over by Wah Mei Landscape Deco & Build, it really ease our tomb sweeping job. Before we reach there, the person in-charged already clean up the tomb area. We don't have to involve in cleaning and gardening work anymore. We just need to pay RM30.00 per year as the maintenance fee. So, here what we did was just to give all the offerings that we prepared for the simple praying session. The whole procedure only took us around 45 minutes.

After that, we straight away proceeding to KTC at Sungai Besi and again we were trapped in the traffic jam as expected. Luckily the traffic is slow but still moving. Managed to reach our destination at around 11.00pm. To our disappointment, although we are paying RM30/- to the same organisation in-charged, Wah Mei Landscape Deco & Build, but we were shocked by what we saw. Bushes, rubbish and water are all around. We didn't bring any tool for the gardening and cleaning purposes. So, before we paid the fee for current year, we pushed them to clean up the tomb area for us since they are the one who did not do their part. Luckily, they are so good enough to listen to our complaint and took immediate action to rectify the situation. Thank God!! Everything is settled on the spot and in time.

Reached home at around 1.00pm. This year is considered quite early to finish the QingMing praying. Few years back before the maintenance of tomb is set to be compulsory, we always utilise whole day and all our energy solely for this QingMing Festival. Now.. is unbelievable fast!! hehe.....

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