You must be wondering: what is it?
It was the joss/incense papers burning scene which happened last weekend in JB, outside my bf's home.
That day happened to be the last day of the Ghost Festival Month (the 7th mth of Chinese Lunar calender). According to traditional Chinese customs (to be more precise, it's according to Toaism custum), you need to burn incense papers (烧金纸）on the first day and the last day of the Ghost Festival Month. Those incense papers are worth more than milions dollars in the other world (where ppl who died went to). Chinese believe that the value of the incense papers that you burnt will directly go to your relatives/family who had passed away -- it's meant for them to spend in another world.
And so, we do it, year after year.
If you have noticed carefully, all the incense papers + joss-sticks were gathered inside an self-made round shape iron mesh before the burning scene took place. That was a very thoughtful design by my bf's father. He explained such iron mesh helped to capture ash, so that after buring, they won't make the place in a mess... so as to control the pollution level.
I took this picture coz i think it has a story to tell, which i already did. heh.
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