Sunday, September 27, 2009
post raya
Despite lack of mental preparation for the Eid, it came anyway.
And it was celebrated with great joy with my family back in batu pahat and other parts of the state.
And it was celebrated with great joy with my family back in batu pahat and other parts of the state.
5 days in a row of going back and forth in the name of meeting relatives and savouring the moments.
pre-raya;
left bukit beruntung for my hometown on friday night-suprisingly, the road was clear! we were prepared for the worst, but traffic was ok all the way even around seremban area.
reached home before 11pm. which is a record - we always arrive somewhere around midnite or later in our previous trips back home.
saturday, was the busiest day. went to get everything for the masak-masak. the lines for chicken and beef were especially long~~
preparations for masak-masak commenced right after we got back from the pasar.
we had ketupat, rendang daging, ayam masak mambo(family recipe, will post the pic and recipe later), sayur lodeh and sambal sotong kering.
we only finished cooking around buka puasa time. as always, ketupat & lauk-pauk were then packed and sent to neighbours and relatives house --> in johor this is called 'mengunjung'. in total i think we sent out about '15 bungkus' of mengunjung this year.
later that night, we went to do some very-last minute shopping at BP mall ( 5 minutes before closing time~~)..
then to the bazaar at BP walk - where they had everything from songkok to tudung and ready made baju kurung.
lepak2 for a while at one of the stalls, had some overly-salty maggie goreng, then went back home at around 1am!
and we were still not done for the day!
mak and others still had bits to do for the baju rayas - common scenario on malam raya ;-)
and me, still stuck with that dirty-messy white car.
urghhh...had to wash the car since the carwash had already closed down obviously.
so there i was washing the car at 2 in the morning of eid!!
the outcome was satisfying, but deymmm tiring~~
err baru pre-raya nye story dah panjang giler.
the rest nye story sambung later lerr..
gotta chow dulu.