It has been 27 years since I left my hometown and tomorrow is my mom's memorial day, I miss her dearly....
My late mother was a very traditional chinese woman that her years were full of all kinds of festive celebrations. For every 5th day of fifth lunar calender month, she will take out all her old stuff (things that travelled with her from china long time ago) to sun, it seems that today is the hottest day in a year, she will sun a big baldi of water at noon time and then boil it with all kinds of leaves collected from the trees behind our house and boil with eggs too, I still remember the aroma of the water that we later use to bathe and the eggs we ate. According to my mum, by doing so we will stay healthy for the rest of that year. She will then mix the rice wine and a kind of orange powder and spray it around the house and put around our nose and ears that will prevent the little bugs from going in. I never practise all this but i do remember them every year.
I am glad that you all turned up today and had a dip in the pool, it is always my pleasure to be your host...
my pretty students of year 2008, Mei Yen, Ai See, Sim Zi, Racheal and Joye.
