Of Sneezes and Saffron, part II

The minute my dad and i arrived Wednesday afternoon i was put to work by my aunty - joined my cousins who were running around like drones waitering and helping out in the kitchen. Never ending flow of relatives and well-wishers coming in all day - most of which hardly missed a beat to pay their respects to go straight to the food. Imagine waiting on hordes and hordes of seriously kampong people, dressed all in black when its 40+ celcius outside.To top it off, not many of them spoke english OR malay.. This went on through the night and until lunch the next day.

After lunch and another barrage of ceremonies the next day, our entourage brought her to the temple for final prayers at the crematorium. FInally had some rest after that. THe next morning at the temple when we picked up the ashes we had a lunch for the immediate family at the temple. Just as luck would have it, that was some special monthly day or of worship where people come over to the temple and offer food to the priests for blessings. Needless to say there were lots of random kampong moochers at our lunch in the main temple dining hall - some of them even packed our food to go. Started the drive home around 3-ish - parents made me drive. Boring ass-4 hour drive on the highway.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop

Next couple of days were pre-tty boring asides from a coupla friends coming over and the odd cybercafe/supper sessions- and of course the odd 1-meal a day binges- i don't think i'll be eating Nandos again for a while after scarfing a whole Peri Platter ( 1 chicken, 3 sides and a salad) all by myself at lunch with my parents Saturday. My capacity for gorging has fully returned, but then i'll be full for the next day or so...

Some of the more notable acts of boredom include:
-Sharpening everything with a blade in the house
-Spear-fishing( with a sharpened broomstick) for rats behind the house at dusk - caught one!
-Reorganizing all upstairs bookshelves.
-Putting sharpened sickles and parangs to use - some cosmetic gardenwork