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Saturday, June 16, 2007

yo! came back from Malaysia today. Kinda sad to leave . Yea, and i'll miss u too, ANIMAX =( . and DON"T ask why i'm posting at 12am. ok . whatever .

when i was at my grandparents house, i saw something really cool and fascinating. It was a lizard's skeleton! i closed up on it and stared at it. Well, it died on a fly paper. I guess it was trying to get the easy way out by trying to get its ready dinner on flies stuck to it. Apparently its been dead for about a week. i realised that a lizard had only just a long, flexible bone for its body, and its skull somewhat resembles a fish head. i didn't post the picture of it here as it was too blurry and also quite disgusting. i also felt that i shld respect the lizard(-.-), so i deleted it=/

well, during my stay, i went to this singing competition to look at ppl who are 50 and above singing. it was kinda boring, and there were bugs everywhere. so, i went to the holy temple beside it and explored the place. And there was this really interesting food van. You know those ingredients u see at Yong Tau Foo stalls right? they have alot of varieties. Well, the food van was exactly the same. U chose the food u want, and u cook it yourself in either hot water or oil. My brother and i kept changing the food that the van keeper kept looking at us. And we took such a long time that our grandparents and relatives thought we were being kidnapped(?????). Well, malaysia IS a dangerous place.

ok, to the best part of this 'festival'. There was this 10 metres long coal 'road' being burned, and there was a huge bon fire. After, the fire managed to go down and the coal was only glowing. Then, there was this drum and gong playing this totally offbeat tune with a person holding a Tang San Zhang stick walking with them. Then, a few ppl sprinkled some white coloured thingon to the coal. Then, the guy with the stick just stepped on some holy papr and kinda brisk walk through the coal road. I was really impressed at that time, but was surprised to see no one clapping. After talking to an about 60 year old lady, i realised that it was not a performance, and it was a, erm , ritual. Then , almost suddenly, a whole bunch of ppl went near the coal road , held little statues of gods and begin walking over the road. There were even kids as young as 4 years old walking on the road. Yea yea, i was horrified.

But guess what, the coal road isn't hot AT ALL although it was glowing. in fact, it was icy and cool. Then there was this guy trying to act cool and started walking really fast over the road. But i could tell his legs hurt. Apparently if u walked really fast over the road, you would feel the heat. if u walked slowly, it would feel cool. i wanted to go on it, but my grandmother wouldnt let me. That 60 year old lady also said i couldnt, since we had talked about it(??). Well, it didn't really matter, since i don't really want to get my legs muddy.

i talk too much today. =) well, good morning! :)

12:01 AM