The night before we were there till 12.30am. My mother-in-law sweep and clean up the kitchen while the 2 of us, install the bed for 3hrs, dining table for 1hr and the coffee table for 30mins.
The actual day [4th Nov]
0915 - pick up my wife & my mother-in-law & we head over to our new place
0930 - take-away 3packs nasi lemak
0955 - arrive @ new plc
1000 - set up stove with charcoal while we remove the empty cartons
& rubbish & sweep the floor for the last time
1030 - we have a small bowl of rice grains, salt, amulet ash, pomegranate leaves
+ some other leafs & water. we go around splashing them from the kitchen,
around the house & out thru the main door.
1035 - carry the stove with red hot charcoal which is on fire, by the way.
1040 - boiling water on the stove with a kettle
1100 - makes hot tea using the water from the kettle
1115 - eat nasi lemak and drink tea
1130 - pouring rice to the rice tub to full, sugar & salt into containers
ceremony complete.
There are plenty of move in ceremony, some rolling a pineapple, some jumping over the fire and even include shout while kicking the door open & knocking all corners of the house using a chopper. Many many extreme style do share with us.
The rest of the day, we carry on wiping the furnitures [no sweeping allowed]
We also cook a simple humble dinner, teochew porridge style. Please pardon the newpaper cos we havent got the placemats yet. The Menu
- Porrigde [mixed grain brown & white rice]
- AAA brand chai xim
- boiled veg w oyster sauce
- fermented beancurd paste
- olive veg
- fried eggs w dark soy sauce
- spice pork cubes
All those that needs cooking is cook my the husband.. wonder whats d wife doing?? hmmm..
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