praying for Fan Tai Sui

had dinner @ circuit hawker after picking my father in law from work. happened to pass by the eunos temple and decided to do some 'brief' praying as i havent done so since the cny.
as my mother in law mentioned that she had prayed for tai sui for us already, i decided that i would do it again (for kiasu reasons).
anyway this was the first time i prayed for fan tai sui (this info is from someone else's blog) myself. it was a very wierd process. first i had to take a number and get in line. this old (very) man asked for my name and 八字. not very sure of my chinese birthdate, i gave him my ang mo one. and he whipped out an extraodinary calculater. i took a peek at it and it actually calculates your chinese birthdate. amazing. and it displays figures in chinese. hee
anyway after writing the info on this yellow paper i had to queue and join a group of pp (obviously with the same purpose) to pray for fan tai sui. the taoist priest would then say a chain of prayers occasionally asking us to repeat after him and he ended with saying about 10 plus names (all from the yellow papers) followed by chain of prayers again. it was really wierd.
but anyhow, i hope everything goes smoothly for both of us this yr. its always better to be safe than sorry