Since she was a little girl, every ninth lunar month, Madam Hor Foong Kheng would take the ferry to Kusu Island with her parents to pray for blessings. On Sunday, the electronics operator, now 59, made the pilgrimage alone, as her father has died while her mother has...
ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAYSince she was a little girl, every ninth lunar month, Madam Hor Foong Kheng would take the ferry to Kusu Island with her parents to pray for blessings.
Madam Hor was among some 1,000 devotees who made the trek to Kusu Island on the first day of the Kusu pilgrimage season as at 5pm on Sunday, according to Singapore Island Cruise and Ferry Services. The month-long season continues until Nov 12. “We hope for more visitors this year,” he said as devotees around him filled vases with fresh flowers, which they placed next to offerings of fruit and nian gao .