Mum brought more silver, gold papers so that we do not use the parlours one. Yenn went to buy some groceries - drinks, snacks etc. I brought his remaining clothes. She broke my trolley but it was ok. I am grateful she was around, else in that emotional state, i would have collapsed. She stayed with me over night. She also handled the finances.
We went there around 10.30am, Andy (his friend) came earlier to pay respects.
We set up the place and then i went with Mr Lim (referred by Mr Wong) to mandai to pick the niche for him. His wishes was to put his ashes at mandai columbarium. Chose the slot and the marble slab design. Couldnt get the nea counter to print the documents as the system is down. Got back to the wake at 1pm.
Yenn went to buy lunch. I waited for my colleagues. Jenn came, followed by the rest. Didnt cry in front of my colleagues, cos i was very zombie. Slept only 2 hours in 48 hours. Couldnt sleep as the scene of my husband's death kept replaying in my head at night.
My colleagues all chipped in to help me fold the paper ingots as we need 13 bags. In the end, they made 8.5 bags. We made 2-3 more.
My friend F came. Wj came later at night.
The taoist rites began at 6.30pm. Another session at 9pm.
His friends came also at night.
We left 10.30pm at night. Went home, was finally able to sleep that night. I slept 7hrs.
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