Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Yesterday nite was HK Café @ ECP with Jane & Chixy. Tried watching horror movies online but it was so slow that we gave up & we had a surprise guest – Miss Eng Kailing. Haha. I think it was a good thing we didn’t watch the movie cos after sending the girls home, I had to drive home myself and I hate taking lifts. It didn’t help that it was a HK movie which takes place during the lunar 7th month, which is like now lah. Oso yesterday was apparently the day when all the ‘brothers & sisters’ come out in full force, which explains the crowd & the jam along Joo Chiat road. When we were stuck in the jam beside an on going ge tai, Chixy & I were saying how long it has been since we saw a ge tai. I guess we’ll only see less and less of them bcos of the regulations that control the location & timing etc. It doesn’t help that there’s a great reduction of open space due to all the new buildings popping up all over the place, and oso the influx of condos & decline of HDBs. I guess all these factors leave ge tais with little choice.
Not that I really mind lah, cos I never felt comfortable with all the burning going on everywhere, trying not to step on joss sticks that are stuck on curbs & grass patches, and avoiding all the ashes that fly everywhere. Just afew years back, the magnitude of the Hungry Ghost Festival was really rampant and I would actually make a mental note everytime I am out at nite. But now, I barely notice that it’s that time of the year but I do miss watching ge tais. I’ve never watched it proper but I have caught it abit here & there when I happened to be out it the past & it’s really entertaining. It’s like a Chinese cabaret. It’s loud, it’s colourful, it may be tacky to some, but it’s fun nevertheless.
Asphyxiated at at 11:08 AM
