Monday, June 28

Sunday at Ubin 

Left home in the morning around Nine plus. Stopped by at Bishan Street 23 to visit 'Tian Zhu Lin Gong' to pay respect to 'Lin Fu Gu Niang'. Took Bus 13 to Yio Chu Kang to change to Bus 72 to Old Tampines Road.

Met up with Ah Biah and Mouse at 'Xian Dan Gong' to prepare for the trip to Pulau Ubin and had a really fun time talking cock and seems like Time has reversed back to my teenage days where I was longing to be like them. Some wishes certainly takes a long time to be fulfilled.

Left around 2 o'clock to meet Gung Dong at Tampines Interchange and over to Changi Point at three plus where we are supposed to meet the SPI people. After much waiting here and there, and when the TV3 Crew staff finally arrived, the group took a bump boat to Pulau Ubin. Been years since I last set foot on this island and all the nostalgic feelings came rushing back.

Too many good times had been spent on this island and looking back, I really did enjoyed myself with people that I thought were close with me then. Did I not treasure the relationships or was it circumstances that made us strangers?

The first stop was 'Wei Tuo Fa Gong' and we spent some time looking at the Deities Images, feeding tortoise and chatting with the kids there. The feeling of sitting at the edge of the pond looking at setting sun with good friends will be something that would be entrenched in my memory for a long time to come.

Next stop was a Muslim Cemetary and I was feeling uneasy all the time. So I skipped the next Cemetary they group went to and waited for them on the main track. We had dinner at a drink stall operated by someone the group knows and was really famished! Call it divine blessings or coincidence, the drink stall actually sells Ah Biah, Mouse and my favorite drinks!

Its was already pitch dark when we left the place for 'Na Du Gu Niang' Shrine. More waiting for the TV3 Crew to complete their filming before Ah Biah went into trance to invite 'Tua Ya Peh'. Some questions were posted by the SPI people in regards to the death and tales about 'Na Du Gu Nian' which 'Tua Ya Peh' answered with the intention of making us analyze things rather than giving us the answer direct.

The bottom line of what he was driving at was:"What's in the past, just leave it in the past. Treasure what the present offers and do what you can to help other. The future not ours to see". Its was eleven plus when Ah Biah came out from his trance and we fanatically packed our stuff to return to mainland.

Reached Mainland after mid nite but we still went back Xian Dan Gong to return all the stuff we brought out.

Finally can have a good sleep after all the late nites.

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andi at 01:56