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Its rather interesting to see the change upon the usually Westernised, super-modern Singapore when the 7th Lunar month comes around.
People avoid swimming, stepping on ashes, and you can see altars and offerings everywhere, even in backalleys around our main commercial district. People make offerings, burn paper money, and basically anything they want their dead relatives to have in the after-life..cars, houses, in paper variants.
I think sometimes Singaporeans are obsessed with the dead..we have Qing Ming Jie, which basically means the Tomb-Sweeping festival, where people storm the graveyards to pay their respects and clean up the tombs, then we have the 7th month, and generally every festival we have is related to something dying. Hm.
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