i attended my great grandmother's funeral yesterday. she passed away last wednesday, at the age of 96. its quite amazing to see the whole extended family have dinner together. though i think many people didnt come. i saw relatives i've never seen before. my grandma is the only child alive. but the families of her other 3 brothers came too. my nephew would be the 5th generation.
we went through elaborate rituals, with the taoist priests chanting prayers. they sang in a hokkien dialect incomprehensible to me. i was quite amazed by the 'musicians'. one could beat the drum, sound the gong and sing at the same time. i didnt know my greatgrandma well but as the females went in to kneel down, i saw my grandma cry and tears came to my eyes too.
but funerals seem to have become more commercialised. we even had the choice of what prayer package we want. of cos, more prayers will be more expensive. and its quite sad that the whole family only comes together in occasions like this.

goodbye greatgrandma...

changed my blogskin more than 1 week ago but feel like changing it again. hee... dont like the harry potter music. skipped my bs203 tutorial today. so stupid to go for 1 hour lesson just to see the tutor write answers on the board.
anyway, i had a great time at sentosa on sunday. went with the s09 classmates. expected more girls to go though. end up me,shiwen and joy were the only girls. i thought i wouldnt enjoy myself cos i'm not close to the guys. we paid $5 each to rent the volleyball and facilities at siloso beach. i totally sucked at playing volleyball. couldnt even serve over the net. hai... but after that we went kayaking. woohoo~ damn fun. i've been waiting a long time for this. i paired up with dennis. realised all of them are quite strong kayakers. after all dennis and jerome was from dragonboat team. we raced with damian and minsiang's boat and came in second. at least not last. haha...i changed kayak and rowed with weixiong for awhile. the waves were quite strong and were pushing us to shore. then when our boat became paraqllel to the waves, we capsized. lol... hope to go kayaking again. 5 hours in the sun and i'm red like a lobster. pain~