Offerings

Offerings

We are taught to look after the dead from young. We are not ghosts worshippers. We are taught to give the spirits offerings, the spirits won't be poor and hungry. We are taught to respect the people who died before us.

Toa Payoh Hospital
Long ago in Toa Payoh families of those died in the hospital, the hospital staff,prayed to the spirits living in Toa Payoh Hospital

There was no cage for burning paper money, paper clothing, and other offerings made from paper. The burnining was on the foot path. The burning was a common thing after prayers and no body dare to oppose or any objection, for fear of offending the spirits.

The cleaner's job was to keep the hospital compound clean. There were burning of offers in the areas and he did not respect another religion.

Disrespect and having a job to do, he pour water on the burning, and his face was scared, it was believed was a punishment from the spirits.