Life can be quite monotonous recently...such as waking up in the morning @7am, working till 6pm, go home have your dinner, surf a little web and sleep by 11.30pm. I have also been reading alot of news and commentary articles ever since I started working @ starhub purely out of boredom but at the same time I have been gaining from the diverse view offered by different writers and it does make me "think" about Singapore social-economic issue @ present and in the future.
Qing Ming festival is now ongoing. I went to pray to my grandma who pass away last year @ the bright hill temple @ bishan. A lot of things have changed ever since the last time I went there when I was a little kid so it kinda of shock me a little.
Monks praying @ 1 of the many large hall.
Offerings made to the deceased or ancestors. During the day I went, I could not help but noticed that most of the people visiting were ard 40-50 years old and I pop a question to my cousin whether this tradition will be able to substain when it is passed down to our generation which she non-chalantly remarked "they will be forgotten". It's a sad but true fact though.
This is the dining hall of the bright hill temple. When I was small, the place is old, dark with colored ceramic tiles, large round wooden table and chairs spread out. I think they tore the whole building down and rebuilt a multi story building with aircon. It's nevertheless a change for the better.
The design on top of one of the prayer hall. If you look close enough you should be able to spot the golden dietys among the pillar. The centre red flower should be the lotus. The craftmenship is excellent and I'm glad I have the chance to witness it even though I been there since young. I mean, when you are young you don't often appreciate stuffs like that right.
The sharp silver golden structure is actually the top surface of a building that house a 3-4 storey high buddha.It is actually quite prominent and you can see it quite a distance away if you are in Sin Ming Area.
Monks chanting prayers inside 1 of the room honouring the previous abbot of Bright Hill Temple Venerable Yen Pei. He was very well respected during his time when he was a abbot and I have the honour of lunching with him when I was very very young at the old dining hall I wrote about on top.
This is the first statue that greet you when you enter bright hill temple through the main entrance. Big, tall and awesome looking, it is always occupied with believers who will chant prayers with the monks on every festive occasion without fail. Fortunately, this is one of the few remaining hall that I could identify with because nothing changed much for this hall. It is still the same, just like the first time I step foot on bright hill temple to visit my grandma when she was a volunteer over there when she was alive.So that's all for a very brief intro on Bright Hill Temple. The compund is really very big and till now I still have not got the chance to explore finish the temple. And sometimes it is quite heart warming to see familiar structure that I can identify with during the time when I am still a kid and now when I am an adult.
posted by Immortali @ 2:14 pm
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