End of the 7th month...
In a flash, or maybe just to me, since i've been doing fuck all for the past 1 and a half year, 7th month passed.
As the years goes by, the decline of these traditions become more evident. Not much ge tai around anymore, just a few tentages set up here and there for people to jia tok, not to mention about the operas that was so common all around everywhere in the past.
From a personal point of view, the feeling of being paranoid over almost anything during this month seem to get lesser and lesser as i grow up. Sure i still have the goosebumps when i go to the toilet in the middle of the night, eerily quiet at work, and the place is a perfect set up if you want to film a horror supernatural movie, but its not as strong as before.
In the past, we were always told not to talk crap during the 7th month. Now, we joked about them coming out for holiday, peak period for everything etc etc. Of course there are still superstition of what not to do during the 7th month, but would we still not do it if not for our parents warning. Tv also ran out of ghost horror movie to air, i remember in the past it was so overhyped that everyday the tv can't do without a ghost.
OR maybe i'm so holed up in my house these past weeks that i'm not concerned with everything that happens outside. Hahaha, this looks more higher probable.
Seemed like i'm starting to treat the 7th month like any other month now, except that there's some rituals to be done. It doesn't sounds scary to me anymore, just more people on the roads. If a small group gather around some ulu area and talk about ghost stories, i'll still freak out, whether its new year or christmas, but the legendary feel of the 7th month seemed to have lost its X factor.
Oh well, guess i can only confirm this this time next year...
As the years goes by, the decline of these traditions become more evident. Not much ge tai around anymore, just a few tentages set up here and there for people to jia tok, not to mention about the operas that was so common all around everywhere in the past.
From a personal point of view, the feeling of being paranoid over almost anything during this month seem to get lesser and lesser as i grow up. Sure i still have the goosebumps when i go to the toilet in the middle of the night, eerily quiet at work, and the place is a perfect set up if you want to film a horror supernatural movie, but its not as strong as before.
In the past, we were always told not to talk crap during the 7th month. Now, we joked about them coming out for holiday, peak period for everything etc etc. Of course there are still superstition of what not to do during the 7th month, but would we still not do it if not for our parents warning. Tv also ran out of ghost horror movie to air, i remember in the past it was so overhyped that everyday the tv can't do without a ghost.
OR maybe i'm so holed up in my house these past weeks that i'm not concerned with everything that happens outside. Hahaha, this looks more higher probable.
Seemed like i'm starting to treat the 7th month like any other month now, except that there's some rituals to be done. It doesn't sounds scary to me anymore, just more people on the roads. If a small group gather around some ulu area and talk about ghost stories, i'll still freak out, whether its new year or christmas, but the legendary feel of the 7th month seemed to have lost its X factor.
Oh well, guess i can only confirm this this time next year...
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