7th mth Celebration
This is the first time I experience how a Singaporean company do the 7th mth celebration.
The scale of the celebration is really amazing!
This year, the date of the celebration falls on 12 Aug.
The participant will be given a “goodies bag”, which consists of groceries, food, fruits and poultry (a roasted chicken and a roasted duck), all in all, it worths more than S$120/ea.
This year, there are 75 participants, thus, there were 75 goodie bags to be prepared.
Technically speaking, this can’t be called a goodies bag in view of it’s size and the weight.
Early in the morning, volunteers had arrived to the scene and started doing the packing.
An “assembly line’ had been set up to do this at the fastest and most efficient way.
At 12.08pm, the celebration ceremony started with the boss burning the joss stick, and followed by the employees.
All the goodies bags & poultry were put for 拜拜 before being given away to the participants.
These are part of the ‘gold & silver’ to be offered.
And they are the results of the employees' hard work for weeks.
The rest of offerings include ‘shoes’, ‘clothing’, ‘money’…etc.
The burning ceremony started at 1.30pm.
The offerings were brought to the roadside for burning.
Look at the quantity!
After the street burning, 10-course lunch was served.
And the most exciting event was the bidding program.
Auspicious items (like 貔貅，玉龙，发财蟾蜍，逍遥佛 etc... ), electrical stuff (Digital Camera, MP3 Player, Oven....etc) and even TOTO tickets were being auctioned. And most of the amounts called were auspicious numbers like 4888, 3138, 1288…….
It was quite fun and exicting watching our bosses fighting over some of the items.
The whole event ended at 5pm and everybody left with a smiling face and full-handed!
The scale of the celebration is really amazing!
This year, the date of the celebration falls on 12 Aug.
The participant will be given a “goodies bag”, which consists of groceries, food, fruits and poultry (a roasted chicken and a roasted duck), all in all, it worths more than S$120/ea.
This year, there are 75 participants, thus, there were 75 goodie bags to be prepared.
Technically speaking, this can’t be called a goodies bag in view of it’s size and the weight.
Early in the morning, volunteers had arrived to the scene and started doing the packing.
An “assembly line’ had been set up to do this at the fastest and most efficient way.
At 12.08pm, the celebration ceremony started with the boss burning the joss stick, and followed by the employees.
All the goodies bags & poultry were put for 拜拜 before being given away to the participants.
These are part of the ‘gold & silver’ to be offered.
And they are the results of the employees' hard work for weeks.
The rest of offerings include ‘shoes’, ‘clothing’, ‘money’…etc.
The burning ceremony started at 1.30pm.
The offerings were brought to the roadside for burning.
Look at the quantity!
After the street burning, 10-course lunch was served.
And the most exciting event was the bidding program.
Auspicious items (like 貔貅，玉龙，发财蟾蜍，逍遥佛 etc... ), electrical stuff (Digital Camera, MP3 Player, Oven....etc) and even TOTO tickets were being auctioned. And most of the amounts called were auspicious numbers like 4888, 3138, 1288…….
It was quite fun and exicting watching our bosses fighting over some of the items.
The whole event ended at 5pm and everybody left with a smiling face and full-handed!
posted by evelyn at 6:42 PM
3 Comments:
What the heck is 7 mth lar? Ghost festival ah?
told you Singaporeans are kiasu, everything also must be big big one.
Actually, didn't realize anything from China regarding the celebration.
Well, to be exact, it is called 中元节and not Ghost Festival, OK!?
In fact, I am not one of the participants, but, I volunteer to help so that I can witness this 'event of the year'!
su yin, i wish we are still "sai lou kor.." who know for another 50 years we will end up on the street finding food from a candle
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