Six eleven, the digital clock, the Samsung S6 displayed when the first photograph of the day was shot.
24 bowls of rice, 24 pair of chopsticks and spoons and 24 cups of tea are neatly laid on the table. The sun has not set.
A sumptous meal is ready to feast the ghost.
A white SUV pulled up outside the main entrance of Yong Chuan Tian and the Lo Chu stepped out.
The toaist priest putting on the religious robe when the devotees are lighting the joss-sticks.
They gathered in front of Tua Di Ah Pek and the prayer begin.
After several lines of toaism relics pronounced, the priest dipped the brush into a ceramic cup for the red ink.
The priest wrote on a round mirror and stringed bundles of thread to his left fingers.
With the brush the priest "Tiam" the Tua Di Ah Pek to make them alive. (Tiam is a Hokkien dialect meaning to restore)
The priest than unveiled the Tua Di Ah Pek. That was the movement the priest instructed to kneel three times. After that, the priest told us to stick the joss-stick in the prayer vessel
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Devotees lighted more joss-sticks to stick on rice bowls, dishes of mushroom, stewed chicken feet, chicken curry, red beans and more than fifty others.
A committee member soaked the facial towel in a old-practice basin, pressed toothpaste on toothbrush, open soap bars, uncovered oldies makeup set and others cleaning items.
On row 2, a big plate of tamaring rice, plates of rambutan, and pineapples are the main offerings. At both ends Chinese muffins are shaped into big cone-shape.
Row 3 has my favorite dumpling, nangka and duku.
Row 4 has abundance food and beverage, snacks.
Roast chickens, and roast pigs are offerings nearest to the priest altar.
The priest trumphet, bell, talismen, relics and a few other items are on the altar.
Three sessions of prayers has been done right now as I write this line. It is now 9:08 pm. Looking to the night sky, ROSA is like an embossed alphabets.
A crowed of more than 30 persons, women and girls are folding incence papers for the departed.
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