been a while but i think i should update this blog...

on 1 oct i finally played on a finals in a sangokushi taisen competition...NOTE: FINALS (i always lose in preliminary matches due to either stupid mistake or stupid deck choice), hey but wad the heck i entered the finals using a stupid deck too.....zzzz

i got.....4th..........zzzzzz

that was rather.......frustrating cos i had win everyone yet am not on the top 3....
but i also had a lot of problems within the top 4 bracket cos of deck disadvantages.....i absolutely hate that......which was also the reason i killed my play count of sango this year alone.

another stuff i wanna talk about is.....about my grandmother's wake.

no it's not gonna be some emo crap, but i rather want to talk about my experience since it is my first time sitting through the entire ceremony.

sadly i was never really close with my maternal grandmother, i only see her less then 10 times a year, and due to language barrier we hardly communicated.

she passed away last sunday, 2 oct and everyone rushed to the hospital. her health was on the rocks the past few years but this time round it time.

the ceremony was held throughout monday to thursday. monday and tuesday there wasn't much. i just went to the wake, talked a bit mingled around people.

wednesday was when we had to go through a ritual, so we were supposed to kneel down for about 5 minutes until the monks finish their chanting, and we made 3 rounds around my grandmothers coffin and went back to pray and bow in respect.
that repeated for 4 times.

the monk told us to sit instead of kneel the first three times, and now i agree with the monk, if we all kneeled down for all 4 times we would be numb.

so after all that, it was only the cremation left on thursday. we went though one longer ritual on thursday. and next we followed the hearse for a short distance to 'send our grandmother on her final journey'

we took the bus and went to the cremation center, were my family made the last round of ritual, and send her off in the viewing room.

throughout this entire day we could only wear socks, no shoes, which i believe if it was in the past we could not even wear anything.

it was a pretty long ceremony i have to say......seeing this as my first time sitting through a wake.

so i guess that it.....until so other massive stuff happens in my life...i don't know if i still have materials to blog.
still playing lots of games and lots of games....