Pang Tang La

Let me tell you something... I dun think you will even believe what i have to say... Alex has been really difficult during the hungry ghost month and oso on days when there is a funeral wake at the function hall downstairs. Everytime when the prayers start, he'll start crying non stop... that seem to be endless. Mr Lee being very superstitious, feels that it's becos Alex is a 'pang tang' baby. So when such episodes starts, he'll go to our neighbour's shi-liu plant n pluck a little 'branch' with a few leaves and put them in a tiny pail of water. Then he wet a face towel with the water and clean Alex's head. As if by magic, Alex will calm down and stops crying! I din believe it at first... we tried cleaning his with just normal water but it didn't work. Some how or rather, the shi-liu leaves work. So now Mr Lee has gone to buy a big pot of shi-liu to keep outside the house instead of plucking the neighbour's... cos the neighbour's already a little botak.

We have never done this to Gaby when he was a baby... But interestingly, this is the silliest that I've done to stop Alex's nonsense crying... but effective... And now we even have shi-liu leaves under the ti-lum covers.