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Tanjung Rhu (Characters & Characteristics (Ah-Ma (Traditional (Takes…

- - - - He bought binoculars for his mother to allow her to see better
      - He made sure that his mother's burial was done the proper way
      - He decides to take care of the altar room as his mother would want him to
    - - He pushes his mother to give him back the binoculars
    - - Calls his mother 'Ah-Ma', name his daughter 'Ying'
      - Proud of modern life that he has built but still keeps traditions alive
  - - - Takes care of the family altar
      - Makes sure that the ancestral worship customs are followed properly
    - - Insisted on using real candles
      - Refuses to go for an eye-operation to remove her cataracts
    - - remembers the when she was poor but happy when she was close to her son
    - - Rears chickens in the gardens
      - Tells her son that she has everything and does not need the things he can buy
  - - - Concern about her father as his food was getting cold; worried that her father will be late
      - She takes care of her ill grandmother in the hospital; donates blood to her grandmother
    - - Help her grandmother with the ritual at the family altar
    - - argues with her grandmother
      - argues with her second aunt over the burial clothes for her grandmother
      - argues with her father in the hospital
    - - Calls her father and grandmother by their traditional Chinese address; speaks in cantonese
      - Does not see the importance of following traditions properly and keeps telling her grandmother that it doesn't matter