Peak Time of Hungry Ghost Month
Friday, August 15th, 2008
It was 2 nights ago, Wednesday midnight, ushering into Thursday..
That’s the peak time of this year’s Ghost Month, where the so-called hell gate opened at its full..
So it’s also the time where fellow Chinese started to burn joss sticks, candles, hell money notes, and many other things which I don’t really know..
This incident happened at the open field across the road from my house balcony..Ironically, the field is next to a surau..
Yes, there was an opening burning for the Hungry Ghost Month just right beside the surau..
*They are lighting up the candles around the burning spot*
*Getting ready to burn all of the hell money notes*
*There goes the burning*
Well I don’t know what to say but that’s the way it is in Malaysia..
On Fridays we have fellow Muslims double-parking and even triple-parking nearby mosques and suraus..
While for fellow Chinese we have time for “legal” opening burnings i.e Hungry Ghost Month, funeral,
Where as for Indians, they have “legal” time for street rally i.e Thaipusam, Wesak Day, etc etc..
Well I’m not discriminating but yeah, just stating the obvious..
August 20th, 2008 at 5:34 am
It’s just funny that ppl still believe that burning something made out of paper will reached the other world.