Every 9th day of the first lunar month, the hokkien community will set out for a night of grand prayer to the Heavenly God. It is a ritual that has been going of for ages and it usually include lots of offerings and loud firecrackers.

Unfortunately for us, the presense of firecrackers which can usually be found over at pasar malams are a rare sight. Since our government banned firecrackers entirely, we no longer have the luxury of having loud blasting sound of fireworks and firecrackers.

I read The Star newspaper yesterday and I came across this article on StarMetro. It was basically an article telling how the hokkien community celebrated this auspicious event. The article also feature the Ooi family and as you can see from the scanned clipping above, you can tell that they are one happy family.

It was really nice of the Ooi family to be willing to share and allow The Star staffs into their homes. Perhaps Mr. Ooi thought that their faces will be on a newspaper and it’ll be cool. But what they didn’t realised is that they’ll be caught red-handed too!

Check out this image below

Those red bits and pieces on the floor… yep…you got it, it’s the left over from burned firecrackers!