It was his first Chinese Dragon New Year Eve for Chong Hee. A family reunion day for everyone. As usual Chinese will pray to their late relative such as grand parents or great grand parents during the New Year Eve lunch. Same to us. Brother and family came back all the way from US for the New Year celebration. But very unfortunate Jovan was down with cough and mild flu.
We had prepare our grand parents favourite food and drinks, such as hard liquor for my grandpa, fried fish and Kopi-O for my beloved late grandma. She was the one who taking care of me and my brother during our baby hood. We always remember her and sometimes still do dream of her. She changed our life, she educated us all the manner even though she has never been to school before. She cook for us (I miss her chicken porridge). Her level of patient is top class! Never met a person has better temper than her. Take this opportunity we let our child to pray respect to our grandparents which is their great grand parents.
My wife was preparing for the praying ceremony. Evidence showing she was offering her helping hands.
After all the food were serve on the table, light up the candle, it was time for the praying ceremony. It symbolize the meaning we invite our late parents to come for the treat and family gathering. This is a ceremony for Chinese to show their respect to their late parents. At the same time, story telling of our late parents will be carried out to give a good impression to our young one about our late parents.
After the food were served, praying were done, we wait for the late parents to had their lunch. Dad is number 1 in entertainment, he was the entertainer for the day with his grandson. While waiting for the praying ceremony to over, dad was having so much fun with baby Jovan.
