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Originally Posted by Mas Joki
Yes correct. The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated for a month. And the festival is quite colourful with all type of offering for praying like ‘Black Gold’ (黑金) for Prosperity, ‘Rice Pot’ (米桶) for Abundant, ‘Fortune Prayer Pot' (发财炉) for Fortune, etc where the biting (竞标) can go up to at least 50 of thousands of Sing dollars………….
Hungry Ghost Festival is commonly celebrated in Sillypore ...
Well, I need to check it out and be more observance this coming ghost month when I cheong in Batam. But nowadays, young Sillyporean do not believe in the Hungry Ghost Festival or ‘pantang’. So it made no different to them for cheonging…...
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Bro joki, thanks for your detail description of the 7th month celebration.
When we were a kid back in the 80s, we were always afraid when the clock strikes 12 midnite on the first day of 7th month. We were advised not to go out on the eve of the first day to avoid seeing things that we should not see.
Heresay that people with low luck will tend to see the spirit and he/she will get sick for a few days like as though kena possesed. After that the person refuse to talk much with the family members. It takes a few days before he/she recover back to his/her normal self.
However, people with high luck 运气高 will not meet any. Till now, i still do not understand by the term low luck or high luck. Do you believe that all these heresay are just rumours or real ?
Probably because during that time (in the 80s) singapore was not so urbanised, population density is low like msia and still lots of kampung and remote & quiet housing estate tends to give people an eerie feel (令人毛骨悚然) when walking alone at night.
I think the present day spore has become more densely populated and with more infrastructure, lightings, crowds of people, social network and advance technology, people tend to forget that there is another world exists.
There is an old chinese saying that
"信则有，不信则无".
Kalo kamu percaya ada hantu, akan ada satu.
If you believe there is, there will be and if you don't, there isn't any.
Sometimes after watching a ghost movie, phychologically you will tend to be a bit sensitive to darkness and quietness especially when sleeping alone in the batam hotel room that is why i refrain from watching horror movie in batam or else I will have to switch on the light till the next morning.
I remember about newton hotel being haunted before....
