Thursday, September 16, 2004

In search of numbers

I discovered distinct similarities between the "adult" and "children". They were conscientiously looking for "zhen zi". Mind you. Not the Zhen Zhi in the Jap horror movie " The Ring". Remembered that there was a piece of notice pasted on one of the pillars that provided the details on ah po's age, time of death, time of ritual, time for departure to the ceremony, etc. Almost every person who came for the wake would spend at least 1 min to look at the notice. Some went to sit down in their table and came back to take a second look. Some stood there for more than 5 mins. Some crowd in front of the pillar and discussed. Just required 1 person to stand at first. A crowd would form few mins later. Some even went to extent of looking at the paper trishaw to look for lucky numbers. It's all the same for adult and children.






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