The seventh month in the Chinese calendar celebrates the 'Hungry Ghost Month' where (apparently!) the doors to the afterlife are opened and people's ancestors come back to visit. To appease the ghosts, relatives burn offerings of things they might need when they go back such as food and paper represenations of money and cars...after all, everyone needs to drive in Heaven right?! It also seems to involve live shows of karaoke - but so do most things in Singapore! A sign in our condo sternly reminds people to not set fire to things in the corridors, showing that management have seriously more clout than the ghosts!
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