There's no rehearsal for today although it is a Saturday. Just four days ago, we had a performance at this temple off Jalan Bahar to mark the birthday celebration on the temple God, and today is the final day of the celebration, which ended with a dinner gala that we had to attend.
Usually for temple celebration dinners, there will always be an auctioning session as well, and whoever win any of these items on bid will be blessed with good fortune or wealth, or maybe both. This dinner gala is of no exception, but what took me by surprise was that the closing bid for the first three items (religious offerings) were over $10000. I have attended many of such dinners, but so far I have yet seen such high bids.
Throughout the night, many items on bid were closed with bidding amounts more than a few thousands, even though the market price of these items are usually less than a fraction of the amount. A troupe member remarked that perhaps in future we could turn to the temple for sponsorship; to them $10000 is almost like a small amount of money! That is something we could work out, I guess, but it will have to depend on whether the temple is willing to support Chinese opera, and also if my troupe leader is willing to approach the temple!
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