tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post2111959016108871547..comments2024-03-27T15:32:06.627+08:00Comments on Sarawakiana@2: The Passing of an Illustrious Son of a Foochow Pioneering Father in SibuEnsuraihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-3608204225088524462010-04-08T11:33:31.155+08:002010-04-08T11:33:31.155+08:00Hi Kay
Uncles and aunties form a very important pa...Hi Kay<br />Uncles and aunties form a very important part of our upbringing. <br /><br />As seniors and adults they would often give us good advice and help us whenever possible.<br /><br />Aunts are usually treasures....like you are to your niecesand nephews!!<br /><br />Cheers...Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-38531559695724227782010-04-08T08:53:38.165+08:002010-04-08T08:53:38.165+08:00Cikgu
this is a nice thing to write about the pass...Cikgu<br />this is a nice thing to write about the passing of a dear relative....many students would not think like this today...perhaps not much content..<br /><br />You are a nice relative to have!<br /><br />kayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-10362541043948616422010-04-08T06:47:10.850+08:002010-04-08T06:47:10.850+08:00Thanks Superman for the kind words...
It is amazi...Thanks Superman for the kind words...<br /><br />It is amazing how two would be married for so long 1938-2010 and died almost at the same time. They might be holders of Sibu record for the longest marriage..but have yet to find out.<br /><br />May God bless their souls. Surely they would meet in heaven.<br /><br />I think your parents know them?Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-3216913442193320982010-04-08T01:06:57.945+08:002010-04-08T01:06:57.945+08:00Hope they rest in peace and meet again in heaven. ...Hope they rest in peace and meet again in heaven. It is only two weeks after the wife went to heaven and now the husband...Supermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01888760024661764495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-10403603935804157082010-04-07T06:17:54.919+08:002010-04-07T06:17:54.919+08:00Dear Anonymous...
Funeral or mourning costumes hav...Dear Anonymous...<br />Funeral or mourning costumes have changed for simplicity and efficiency in management. Westernisation is also part of the reason because of religion.<br />Other Chinese religions might not have done away with the old style of mourning and funeral e.g.wearing of sack cloth and canvas shoes with patches of sack cloth.Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-56905445093809231392010-04-07T06:15:20.182+08:002010-04-07T06:15:20.182+08:00Dear Ann
Yes Shirley's family and my aunt'...Dear Ann<br />Yes Shirley's family and my aunt's family are very close indeed. I will let Shirley and Nancy know through Facebook. Fancy you remember that!<br />when we were young anything the adult did was magnified!Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-23125934044093525842010-04-07T06:13:53.595+08:002010-04-07T06:13:53.595+08:00Hi Ann
I can empathise with your Ah Kung...reading...Hi Ann<br />I can empathise with your Ah Kung...reading obituaries etc. I know of several people who do that now. But your Ah Kung was very humourous about his own funeral!! It is amusing to remember a Cantonese burial being Foochow. I suppose it can only happen in Sibu!Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-57405690759238694742010-04-07T05:58:14.412+08:002010-04-07T05:58:14.412+08:00The funeral costume has indeed changed. Foochows a...The funeral costume has indeed changed. Foochows are now too westernised.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-76376923755290577052010-04-06T20:18:41.738+08:002010-04-06T20:18:41.738+08:00You guess what I remember your Uncle Personally. I...You guess what I remember your Uncle Personally. It was my friend Shirley Ling's birthday at Hing Yu park. Your uncle was sort of the MC for the party.<br /><br />After 40 years of separation, I saw Shirley for the first time last year when she came to Auckland. Funny, how I suddenly remembered this, wonder if Shirley remembers. I remembered because he was my dad's friend.Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪https://www.blogger.com/profile/04399207312968010460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-63277591519711773612010-04-06T20:12:32.098+08:002010-04-06T20:12:32.098+08:00CY,
My Dad's old house at Embang Road, my Ah ...CY,<br /><br />My Dad's old house at Embang Road, my Ah Kung would sit at the balcony every day. He read the newspaper at 6am when the newspaper is delivered. At breakfast, he would tell us, so and so died. From the balcony of our house, he could see straight to Queensway, and see all the corteges that went pass. When we came back from school, he would say, so and so, very VIP, there were how many lorries and buses.<br /><br />My youngest bro, once teased him." Ah Kung, when you die, you pass the same route too?" We were horrified, but Ah Kung was philosophical, he said yes, I will have lots of GEE SHUN aka sons and grandsons. He died at 84, in the land of the Foochows, and his GEE SHUN wore the colours of Foochow mourning clothes. I wasn't there. I was in Canada.Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪https://www.blogger.com/profile/04399207312968010460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-70512800028779590292010-04-06T15:57:48.015+08:002010-04-06T15:57:48.015+08:00Hi Ann
It is exactly 18 days apart...and the poor ...Hi Ann<br />It is exactly 18 days apart...and the poor uncle was so aware of his partner having left the world...he was caught sobbing too...<br />Dolly and hubby came back for funeral. She is still like before.<br />Yeah...they had red sashes and red cloth every where...and the table cloth for the lou puon was red too....<br />Will let them know..Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-20983999343045023962010-04-06T14:22:37.874+08:002010-04-06T14:22:37.874+08:00100 years old, VERY HO MING, 100 years old, no nee...100 years old, VERY HO MING, 100 years old, no need to mourn, people should laugh and rejoice, In some Chinese dialect, no need to wear mourning clothes. Every one wears red. When the cortege pass by, people will say that is one very HO MING person. <br /><br />Give my condolence to Peter and Dolly. It seem only yesterday they buried their mum.Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪https://www.blogger.com/profile/04399207312968010460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-29549867366015089172010-04-06T06:48:15.994+08:002010-04-06T06:48:15.994+08:00Hi Fufu
Good looking couple.
He was in Shanghai in...Hi Fufu<br />Good looking couple.<br />He was in Shanghai in his 20's and enjoyed life as depicted in Shanghai Bund...I asked him questions about that time. He enjoyed three years of college life there before 1937. He married in 1938 after coming back from Shanghai!! That's really a wow!<br /><br />Oh yea...he was one of the first in Sibu to own a record player....Ensuraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201156760287157665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765555411888082127.post-51255148396977670392010-04-05T20:43:22.851+08:002010-04-05T20:43:22.851+08:00he was a handsome man... right?
anyway RIP...he was a handsome man... right? <br />anyway RIP...fufuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05495732423341989667noreply@blogger.com