Hello everyone, it is going to be a morbid week anywhere with a predominantly Chinese population (not sure about Vancouver and San Francisco, though). April 5 is Qing Ming (pronounced Ching Ming), when the Chinese honour their ancestors at grave sites. With entire families working long hours these days, people tend to observe Qing Ming starting from the weekend immediately before and after. People are already burning paper replicas of things they believe their ancestors need in the afterlife, like television sets (flatscreen), computers (ipads), cars (Mercedes or BMW of course). It's a ritual that goes back more than 2,000 years so it's actually quite nice to see young, modern families still observing this tradition in the 21st century.