Filial Piety

Junior Tay has stayed with Senior Tay all his life and has looked after him for just as long...filial piety personified.

a simple outing to the barber's required a tremendous amount of effort

he loved my car...knew just where to grip to get in

when I changed to Exora, he lost his grip

his legs needed an extra push

closing the door was a tricky business too

at his favourite barber's

after he finished cutting his hair he waited for my car

Sundays were mostly dedicated to bringing him out for dinner

you can see from his back how increasingly frail be became with each passing year

this is 2009

2007, at Kaki Corner

you can see from his back how frail he became each passing year

loved fish and chips

2006 at Sakae Sushi

2005 at Cowboy Delight, Taman Desa Aman

2008, Loong Yee....btw, all my married life I have lived at his house

(I am the epitome of patience)

..........my kids grew up there.

4 August 2010 LDP (Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan) In Service Course

Today we are staying back after school for an LDP and I found these hiterto unpublished pictures of a previous LDP we did a FEW YEARS ago!!!!

Do like I do.....Ha ha ha!!! (But I cannot remember what team building aspect we were supposed to learn from that awesome stance!)

Camwhoring and hamming it up for the camera!

 (Ling Chern Chiang my student was a substitute teacher!)

Lovely backdrop: the 100 year old hall

the barisan pentadbir

HM

Khoon and youngest teacher- in -training

Panoramic Funeral

My nephew took "panorama" pictures of the house

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from the garden to the patio to the front porch

I stood at one end, my daughter at the centre (but she did not appear!) and my son stood at the other end

so I stood in the centre with my youngest daughter

soothing lull before the prayers

panoramic view of guests seating area

a sweeping vista of a panorama

bespoke of nostalgia..

I

will

miss

my nuptial

home

`~'

Steeped in Tradition

A lot of ritual and ceremonial rites were observed during the funeral and these are in danger of disappearing with the younger set.

He wore three sets of satin silk brocade long chinese gowns.

Efficient workers fixed canopies and awnings

Before

after

branches of the Tay family at the wake

daughter's friends

my colleagues

they don't make houses like they used to before: spacious lawns and generous driveways which I will miss

Modernity juxtaposed with tradition

like tea and coffee making facility

three priests presided

the first night...those who are in KL

Every nook and crany of the house was made use of: here it is an outdoor altar

candles at the corner of the road leading guests to our house

the venue at night

in the early morn...some did not sleep but kept vigil the whole night

grandchildren

the Christians in the family

to be burnt as offering

opening the bags of joss papers

which filled the paper house

all that is left.