Papa's return after 7 days...

we believed on the 7th day, after midnight, the soul of a deceased will return to check on the house, family members and stuffs, to make sure that there's enough stock of this n that for the family so that he can rest in peace.

so last night, we witnessed our eldest brother filled the pail, full of rice (uncooked) and level it nicely.
we left a pail of rice outside the storeroom which will be easier for him to see.

at 11pm, korkor lighted a long red candle and placed it standing right outside our door.
bought some of papa's favourite food and served.
lighted the joss sticks and off we went, into our rooms, before midnight.

switched off all handphones so as not to have any sound in the middle of the night because papa might just leave when he hears noise or sound.
and we were told to turn in before midnight.

it was a very thrilling yet exciting night.
mummy, aunt, sis-in-law, niece & i squeezed into & shared my parents' room.
korkor & jiejie in the 2nd room.
eldest bro alone in the last room (jiejie's room).

many funny things happened tho.
when the 5 of us tucked in... the next moment,

we heard someone handphone ringing outside in the living room.
somemore the ringtone is thai chanting de.
we stared at each other...
it's my mum's spare phone, she forgot about it. lol~
then she asked my sis-in-law go take.

okay.... tucked in....
mum: "i forgot to eat medicine......"
the rest of us: "aiyooooo~........"
she again, asked my sis-in-law go take. we were all laughing at her. loL~

okay.... all done... back in bed...

it took me just awhile to totally knock out into my sleep.

(coz i didnt sleep at all the night before, was really tired).

the next morning, 7.30am,

i was awaken by my mum, aunt & sis-in-law's talking.

their first question to me was..... "u dreamed about papa?"

i shook my head.

my mum & sis-in-law claimed that last night, when they were all still awake, they heard me calling out for my dad.... "pa~"

at first they thought i did it on purpose.

but mummy tried calling me and realised i was already asleep.

then they became more scared and faster tucked back in bed. LOL~!

my aunt did dreamt about papa, in our house, smiling.

okay, the next thing.......

we all went to check out on the pail of rice, to our surprise.........

there's like a hand print yo!

seems like papa did grabbed some rice to see or smth.

we're glad.
we believed papa came back. he really did.

48 days to go.

will papa come back every night?

hmmm...