Raya Day!!!

Just finished reading MT while sipping a cuppa of hot MILO. RPK sent this Raya card from his detention center...,and we are here celebarating with our loved ones. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Maaf Zahir & Batin to you too Pete! May God's Blessings Ever be with you and your family on this day and always!!! Please be strong and have faith...,our thoughts and prayers are with you..!!!

Umair is stilll sleeping and Nizam is in Toyota shi for solat Aidulfitri. I had my bath and scrubbed the satay grilling tray from last night. It is now 9.44am and am waiting for Umair to get up.

This is our second Raya that we are celebrating here. For this year I made 2 pairs of baju melayu each for my boys. It was a surprise Raya gift for them. Nizam was broadly smiling no doubt! As for myself, I wore a a new baju kurung given to me by Kak Lin...a niece in Sabah-THANK YOU KAK!!! A pretty brown and purple combination!

This time around, we are celebrating at Seifhul's place in Obayashi. We reached there at 11am. The 3 Kosen students were already there. Raya mood was definitely in the air what with the dining table was prettily filled with a vase of colourful flowers, bottles of Raya Cookies (Jam Tarts, London Almond, Cornflakes cookies, Pistachio cookies and biskut gajus), lontong, nasi impit, mee hoon goreng and we quickly add on with our very own home made satay. Among the ICT's, we were the first to have arrived. Next was Hamidi's family. They brought with them rendang daging and lemang. The last one was Mus's family who brought kuah kacang and ayam percik to add on to the feast. Sany brought a Raya cake. The table was definitely set for the celebration! I think all of us made a great team really, as all of the main Raya dish was there. After some group picture taking session just outside the house (it was actually right in front of a graveyard!),we started digging in for the food!!! We spent the whole day at Seifhul's place and came back only at 8.30 at night after playing with some fire crackers. Some Japanese came to join us to play with the hanabi. For dinner, we had 5 additional guests with Nizam's friends from Pakistan and Thailand came to join us. All in all, we had great fun today-celebrating 1st syawal in Toyota Shi!!!