Catalogue of delights 3

Maharani talked me through so much symbolism everywhere. For example, various white flowering trees (which she always called jasmine but couldnt all be) signify an Indian family live there. These are non fragrant flowers. Each morning the mother picks off the white flowers, and these get ritually thrown away as a means of ridding the day of bad spirits and giving something nice to the gods. Variations on attitudes to Malaysian flag. Seemed a bit like Australia in that some are patriotic and some arent. None of the USA flag fervour here but still some hang over doorways. Something the older generation are more likely to do. And we talked about the worldwide similarities with Gen X and Y