Qing Ming is the time of the year where everyone pays respects to their parents/grandparents who have passed on to the nether world. This is also a time to think about the past where they still exist and reignite those memories of the past. On top of that, there is a custom that is always practised-the burning of kim zuas as offerings. As I watched the offerings being burned, I can't help but think of the following scenarios.

1) How will they receive the money we sent to them? By appearing in front of them, by depositing in their bank account, or perhaps there's a system that will send them an email stating "You have received ************ dollars, please click "OK" to accept".

2) There are so many different patterns of hell currency. Do they exercise foreign exchange also?

3) Inflation has set in since who knows when in our world. Judging at the money we burn, eg. 1 000 000 000 hell dollars per note, I think inflation is worse off there. Time has gone where burning 2 dollars or 50 dollars help anymore. Or maybe it might work given point 2.

4) Many people have been burning handphones for their ancestors. However, is there a telecommunication company down there? If we burn a telecom company building for our ancestors, won't they make it big faster?

5) Let's say a kim zua store gets into a fire disaster? Where do all the money go to? Cuz there's no direction and it's not for anybody already, but money can't disappear like that. Perhaps it'll drop down from the sky and everyone can pick it up.

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