to ashes....

this should be the last post on ah ma's passage to the netherworld.

it was on 27 january, friday. 2 cars went up to kampar to collect the bone fragments to be brought to the memorial park in kampar. again, the eldest son must be there.
aunt's maid stayed home to take care of grandpa while we were gone.

we arrived at 9a.m. in kampar as arranged. by that time, whatever was left of grandma were already in 2 pans. the bigger pan was for body bones while the smaller one was for the skull.


everyone took turn to pick up a piece of bone to put in the urn starting with the eldest. we also picked up on behalf of all those who were not present, including those overseas. both hands must be used to transfer the bone into the urn.

after we had done our part, a worker there just poured everything into the urn, with the skull going in last.

the final look before the lid was put on.

sis carrying fruits and cakes for prayer purposes in rawang. luckily everything was prepared and we did not have to do any shopping.

again, the eldest son was to bring the urn to the final resting place.

then we continued our journey to rawang. the rest who did not follow us from tg malim waited at bukit beruntung exit and our convoy became 4-car convoy from there.
this memorial park is visible from the highway after the rawang rest area if you are travelling from south.

we reached the reception area first before going to the niche wall block.

everyone took turn to pray to the deities guarding the place there.

can you find the empty wall? that is a place for 2 urns so grandpa's ashes will be there too when his time came. grandma was the one who went to choose her own resting place in 2007. it had a good view of the highway and the rolling mountains and lakes.
the view in front of grandma's block. very serene and green.

after following the monk's chants and bowings, it was finally time to place the urn in the niche wall.
food offered to ah ma.

oh, we found an old friend of grandparents and my sister friend's parents here in the same block. so i guess ah ma will not be lonely.
the piece of yellow cloth which draped ah ma's coffin was placed together with the urn.

the carvings and words would be completed on the wall in about a month's time. we would be informed by the management but we need not go there to see the installation. they had already shown us a draft at the office.

block f- ah ma's block.

a view of the burial grounds in the memorial park.

2 cousins then left for kl as one of them still had to be at the office while the rest of us headed to a restaurant in bukit beruntung for lunch.

it was a good finale to all the events in the past few days. lou lou lou...the higher the better.

this is ah ma's temporary altar at home now. she will join the other ancestors on the present altar on the 49th day of her passing.

aduhai....some of the postings from my siblings and cousin are making me tear up again. ah ma has been so so long in our life so it is impossible that she will be forgotten.