Subsequent to my memory post about The Smokehouse Hotel & Restaurant last week, I decided to write a long post of the story of the Smokehouse Hotel Cameron Highlands. The story appears to be interesting to me but might be boring to you. Depend on how bored you’re to read a documentary post to kill time. ~*~*~*~*~*~ Smokehouse Hotel was...

  I decided to blog about my grandpa’s funeral ceremony as Chinese funeral custom is one of the important and distinctive cultures in Malaysia. Unfortunately in this modern era, Chinese traditional funeral customs have been eventually simplified over the years due to the complexity of the rules and ceremony. Many modern people would not follow the exact customs anymore as...

It has been raining regularly lately implies that this is the time again for the celebration of the nine emperors gods (known as “Jiu Wang Ye 九王爷” in Singapore and Malaysia) festival. The “Jiu Wang Ye” festival is one of the renowned festivals in Malaysia that is celebrated yearly starts from the last day (28th or 29th) of the eight...

Finally, this is the last episode of my grandpa’s funeral. Took me so long to accomplish the writing of whole process. After the procession, the buses took us to the cremation center. Before cremation, all the guests were served with roast pigs and food for lunch. After lunch, we prayed again before the cremation. We burnt the paper bridge so...

In the fourth day of the funeral, we were ready for the cremation ritual. It was a big day that’s why you can see 3 gigantic roasted pigs were laid on the table. Don’t know why Chinese hate pig so much. The pigs must sacrifice their lives for any big occasion that the Chinese have. Taoist priests all were nicely...