Hungry Ghost Festival Taboos

Specially dedicated this post to John Matthew

Taboos to Follow:
1. Avoid swimming during the 7th month. It is believed that those previously drowned evil ghost might cause you to drown in the swimming pool. Such ghost need to find victims in order for them to be go for rebirth.

2. Children and young adults are also advised to return home early and not to wander around alone at night. This belief is due to the reason that the wandering ghosts can possess children easily.

3. Avoid moving into new homes and opening new businesses this month as it is considered inauspicious and bad luck on new ventures.

4. Avoid getting married during this month because couples will have bad ending. Some bad ghost may cast a bad spell on couples during their wedding.

5. Avoid going for jungle trekking and going on camping trips as chances of injuries, possession and death are high.

6. Drive very carefully during this month to avoid accidents, as there may be many wandering spirits who died of accidents previously that are searching for next victims so that they could be reincarnated.


Hotel Taboos:
For those who are travelling, they may want to be cautious when staying in hotels. The hotel is considered as a "yin place" and is normally a favorite settlement for ghosts. The following are some tips that one can follow when staying in hotels to prevent ghostly encounters:

1. Provide a respectful knock on the bedroom door before you enter for the first time.

2. Avoid entering the room right away. Whisper to yourself that you are renting the room to stay temporarily, as a form of asking permission. Let any spirit leave the bedroom first before you enter.

3. Place your pair of shoes or sandals facing the door. The shoes must be away from the bed. One side of the shoe points to the door and the other side point inwards.

4. Display a glass of salt water next to your bed. Salt is an excellent antidote for dirty energy.

5. You are encouraged to flush the toilet bowl first before using it.

6. You are also encouraged to avoid wearing black or striking red colored clothings.

7. Normally there is a bible or quran in the drawers. Please avoid touching or moving them from their original positions.

8. Always keep the toilet's door closed with lights turned off when you go to sleep.

9. Try to avoid facing the mirror when you sleep. If the mirror is designed in this manner, try to cover it with a towel.

10. Avoid placing any shoe next to the bed when sleeping.

11. Watch out the mouth from mentioning anything about ghost. Ghost story telling must be avoided by all means.


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Monday blues ...

I think I have not recovered from that day which i worked for 23 hours yet. I am very sleepy now. Yesterday slept during the bus journey, and also slept for 7 hours at night. But still, I am feeling very sleepy and blur now. How much sleep do I need in order to recover? Taken my B complex and also a cup of black coffee just now. Hope they help. There are quite a lot of things to be done today.

Will try to go home by 7.30pm from today onwards as I read about some taboos of Ghost Month this morning. It says that we shall reach home by 10.00pm. A bit scary because i need to walk quite far from the bus stop to my house. And my landlord put some Ornamental Buddha Head as decorative in the living room too. So, whenever I open my room's door the first thing I will see is the Ornamental Buddha Head. Scary! Especially at midnight.

Namo Amitabha

Sunday .....

Another Sunday. In less than 2 hours, I got to go back to Singapore again. 4.15pm bus. Have to sit in the bus for at least 6 hours, got to queue up in checkpoint with my 2 big bags, got to transfer to another bus then walk home again. This is what I need to do every Sunday.

Dear is sick again. He is suppose to meet me for lunch before I leave. Gave him a morning call, he sounded so weak. I decided not to force him to come over to have lunch with me. Last Sunday, we did not have lunch together as he was tired and lazy. For next Sunday, no lunch date with him as well because I only managed to get 1.30pm bus ticket (tickets all sold out due to Singapore National day on 9th August). But, I dont mind, as I enjoy spending my Sunday morning at home.

Actually, staying at home on Sunday morning, I feel more relaxed compare to go out for lunch then rush to Puduraya to catch my bus. At least, I can wake up a bit later, do my packing SLOWLY, enjoy home cook food, and also to update my blog. lol

Gathering (For Cui Hui)

Cui Hui & her fiance


Cui Hui & me


Cui Hui, me, Wei Tze


With college mates


Cui Hui, the bride-to-be and her fiance were down to KL. We gathered at Kim Gary in Mid Valley for lunch on Saturday. 'WE' refers to Me, Chin Wah, GT, Hong Seng, Wei Tze, Cui Hui and her fiance. Two more "FEI KEI YEOW" are Cath and John. Cui Hui is so "hang fook". She is busy with her wedding. They have already booked for their wedding dinner, bought wedding bands, chosen bridal shops.... It seemed like everything is ready, only wait for their wedding day (04/07/2009) to come. Anyway, Congratulations!!!

After lunch, the guys went for Snooker, and the girls...SHOPPING!!!
I bought 2 handbags and a pair of shoes. I wanted to buy more, but we have no time. Never mind, I will continue next week. They got to leave Mid Valley as they wanted to go to KLCC for the PC fair.

Quite happy today. Met old friends, and did some shopping. Cui Hui and Wei Tze still look the same. GT is with long hair now!!! Chin Wah ar, I can't tell the difference as I see him quite often, for Hong Seng, errr... he has more hair now. lol

OT tonight MC tomorrow?

The clock is now showing 07:30 means it is already 07.30a.m! yes A.M!!! And I am still in the office. I worked from Thursday morning 9.30a.m till now Friday morning 7.30am. OMG! 22 hours non stop! My brain is not working anymore, arghhh! Headache!
The whole team is staying back today (opps... suppose to be yesterday??) as our product deadline is tomorrow (aiyak! today lah, not tomorrow). Then all the staffs MC tomorrow, wuakaka!
Hope I can leave office soon, go home take shower, and go back to KL straight.

Shall I blog about my company product? Hmmm...
Yeah, I think I should. But not today!

Sorry, i got to get back to work.