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Trip planning, afterlife work for the living, musings...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016 21:12Nope, not for myself. I am in no hurry to go on a holiday now, I need to recuperate my bank account. I have my eye on a certain little handbag which I'm still on the fence about. But it's an old model which I'm not even sure if stock is still available or not. It's a cross body sling bag thing, on the small side. It clips on with a long-type wallet, the wallet can be detached and used as just a wallet, or it can be attached back to the sling bag which would make the sling bag look a bit bulky. My cousin has it and I checked, it's secure. It's not overly expensive but it would be really convenient for going out at night and/or traveling, I guess. Still thinking. But if it's out of stock then I don't have to think so much about it. I had been thinking about that bag for almost 2 years, so it's probably too late anyway.
So I've been helping my parents plan their upcoming summer trip to Portugal and Austria. My mom is being all domineering again and saying there's nothing to do in Austria and she has no access to anything, restaurants or entertainment, if she is to stay at my dad's hometown, and that she wants to stay in the city. My dad is now mad as he's going to Austria to go back home, not touring. Ah, clash of intents. I'm siding with dad here, and I'm trying to convince mom to let it be. My dad had planned to stay 6 weeks in Austria, but my mom had already bullied him to spending 4 weeks in Portugal and less than 2 weeks in Austria (poor, poor dad).
oh yeah, today I also went to see my Grandma being unearthed. We have a limited land problem here, so you can never buy a gravesite, you can only rent it from the government. All rents are for 7 years, where then you get dug out, and if you haven't decomposed fully, you can buried again for an extra year, and by the end of the 8th year it doesn't matter how your state of decomposition is, you simply have to get out. Your bones will be washed clean and then sun-dried and put into a box, where then you get put into a drawer grave. I'm not sure if you can buy the drawer space though. But yeah, so my Grandma has decomposed nicely, she had bloody good dentures as those are still intact. It was interesting to see the unearthing.
My boss and other colleagues at work all look horrified when I said I was going to see my Grandma get dug up. I understand Chinese people being horrified, but I thought the English loved all these macabre stuff. Not my boss, apparently, haha. He was totally spooked.
So after Grandma gets cleaned up and dried, there's going to be a bit of a rearrangement of the remains of a few relatives. An uncle is getting out of Grandpa's drawer so that Grandma can go with Grandpa, then uncle will get relocated to another drawer with his wife or next to his with (I think my cousin managed to get 2 drawers next to each other).
With all this fuss and work, probably it's best to get cremated. I suppose.
So I've been helping my parents plan their upcoming summer trip to Portugal and Austria. My mom is being all domineering again and saying there's nothing to do in Austria and she has no access to anything, restaurants or entertainment, if she is to stay at my dad's hometown, and that she wants to stay in the city. My dad is now mad as he's going to Austria to go back home, not touring. Ah, clash of intents. I'm siding with dad here, and I'm trying to convince mom to let it be. My dad had planned to stay 6 weeks in Austria, but my mom had already bullied him to spending 4 weeks in Portugal and less than 2 weeks in Austria (poor, poor dad).
oh yeah, today I also went to see my Grandma being unearthed. We have a limited land problem here, so you can never buy a gravesite, you can only rent it from the government. All rents are for 7 years, where then you get dug out, and if you haven't decomposed fully, you can buried again for an extra year, and by the end of the 8th year it doesn't matter how your state of decomposition is, you simply have to get out. Your bones will be washed clean and then sun-dried and put into a box, where then you get put into a drawer grave. I'm not sure if you can buy the drawer space though. But yeah, so my Grandma has decomposed nicely, she had bloody good dentures as those are still intact. It was interesting to see the unearthing.
My boss and other colleagues at work all look horrified when I said I was going to see my Grandma get dug up. I understand Chinese people being horrified, but I thought the English loved all these macabre stuff. Not my boss, apparently, haha. He was totally spooked.
So after Grandma gets cleaned up and dried, there's going to be a bit of a rearrangement of the remains of a few relatives. An uncle is getting out of Grandpa's drawer so that Grandma can go with Grandpa, then uncle will get relocated to another drawer with his wife or next to his with (I think my cousin managed to get 2 drawers next to each other).
With all this fuss and work, probably it's best to get cremated. I suppose.
