e - Making the wicks
I sat with these two ladies for a while and watched them make these candles. They inverted lime skins. Then they pulled apart and twisted cotton balls into wicks, finally they filled them with a kind of butter that one of them made at home.
The woman on the left was really nice and patient to explain everything to me. She said that she left work at noon so she could be here to help out with the ceremony. I asked her if it was hard to get the time off and she nodded no. She said that these ceremonies happen all the time and that employers know the importance of religion and it's respected enough to take time off for.
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more 
