SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Since she was a little girl, every ninth lunar month, 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 mobility issues. At the keramat, she replaced the fraying amulet around her wrist from the previous year, and got two more amulets to give to her mum and younger sister.
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