清明

I was reading Leonard's blog about Cheng Meng...

I reminds me of something that i've not done for the past 8yrs since my grandpa died.
I used to do it with my dad every year for my grandpa's dad though.

We'll spend half the time looking for my Great-grandpa's grave.
After finding it, we'll always tell each other that we'll write the row and "unit" number somewhere.... but come next year, it'll be the same old hunting game all over again.

But it was fun lah... illegally stop by the expressway, jump across drains, hop from one tomb to another, examining some interesting ones, playing with fire, cleaning up the place, catching some grasshopper... only when I'm older that I realised the importance of it...

It ain't about fun or making offering to the soul of great grand pa... If there's really such a thing as afterlife, I believed he would already had long reincarnated atleast 50~60 times as ants, earthworms, bird, fish and my fav crispy BBQ piglets.

It's about taking afew hours break in a year to remember our roots, reflect on life itself, be thankful to those that have make our current life possible and to treasure those that's still around us...