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Monday, August 9, 2010 ♥ 11:21 PM
The Meaning~
What does National Day means to you??
Celebration??
Fire works??
Songs and dances??
Well...
for me...
A day of tears...
not for the country...
but for my god-father...
The fifth day which he passed away...
The day that he's bein cremate...
also the day that his remains driftin away in the sea...




Vehicles along the road...
of sincere friends and relatives...
sendin my uncle off...
















With a ritual...
We took 1 last look before his coffin was covered...


The small band played some simple songs...
while my cousins lifted his coffin onto the "van"...



Drivin slow paced...
we dragged our feet...
and followed the "van"...



Boarded the chartered bus...
we head to Mandai Crematory...




Another ritual and we sent off my uncle in tears...
his coffin was slowly bein pushed into the furnace by a mechanical device...
We waited awhile while uncle is bein cremated...
Head back to bedok..
had lunch...
Short rest...
Back to Mandai to collect his remains...
Chartered bus again to Changi jetty with uncle's remains...
The small boat could only ferry 12 of us...
Boarded the boat...
Somewhere between Pulau Ubin and Changi Jetty...
we stopped the engine...



The Priest did 1 last ritual before we really bid farewell to uncle...
His remains were slowly lowered into the sea...
and it sank quickly...disappearin from our sight...
Back to Jetty...
Chartered bus back to bedok...
Cleared up the void deck...
The funeral officially ends here...
creatin a new meanin for me on National Day...
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