What I Did This Raya

I'm back from my raya holiday! It was fun, dan letih juga, but mostly gembira.

The day before raya, before going back to kampung, Ibu & I did Ops mengemas rumah, baked cakes, memasak juadah raya. Pheww letih.

Our living room after the Ops.

Our 1st raya was at Ibu's side at Tapah. Pak Uda's family, Kak Nyah, Pak Su, Chik & wife, Mamak Nipah, all were there, except for Pak Lang's family, they could not make it sebab Pak Lang keje on 1st raya. It was meriah anyway.

After solat raye, and bersalam2an & bermaaf2an, we all went to kubur to visit kubur arwah atok, arwah opah & arwah opah cine (my Ibu's real mom who died when she was only 10, melahirkan Mamak Nipah). Sadly, the kawasan kubur was not at all kept by anyone. Belukar, pokok2 tak berjaga, pokok tumbang, keadaan yang menyedihkan. Sebab ada kawasan kubur baru, maka dah takde volunteers to keep this old kawasan kubur. My dad, my bro, and my Chik, dalam their baju melayu raya menebasla sikit2 sekadar yang mampu.

My family with Kak Nyah on 1st raya at Tapah.

2nd raya, we went to Penang (Bapak's side), together with Pak Ngah's family. So it was so much fun sebab ada my feveret cousins, Kak Yong and Siti. As usual we went to kubur arwah Wan, Tok Tam's place (where we got to meet everyone, sebab rumah Tok Tam memang port), Tok Lang's, Tok Wan Hamzah's, Pak Cho's. Tak larat nak makan. But at least on this 2nd day, I got to eat something else other than rendang and ketupat, i.e. laksa, nasi daging, kari terubuk. Kat Penang, all Bapak's siblings (Pak Long & family, Pak Ngah & family, Acu's family) pulak berkumpul. So much fun.

With my Ibu, Kak Yong, Siti and Mak at Masjid Teluk Ayer Tawar.

On the 3rd day we went to Pak Long's after we ramai2 pi pekena nasik kandaq. Bapak's feveret place at Halim's (his childhood friend) tutup. Frust gile die, luckily the nasik kandaq at the place we went to amat sangatlah sedap. Heh.

The same day we headed back to Ipoh, to Pak Ngah's where I finally got to meet Kak Yong's bakal fiancee. Stayed at Acu's place. And on 4th day, after breakfast, after melayan Irfan and the too adorable Izzati, we headed home. Home sweet home as always.

My Bapak with the adorable Izzati.

Alhamdulillah rezeki duit raya masih melimpah. Maybe no more next year. InsyaAllah will already be working by raya next year, maka bersiap sedialah wahai diri. Hafiz is my first cousin yang memberi duit raya! We were so jealous of him. Even his big bro, Haziq pun tak memberi lagi. Anyway, kami kanak2 riang yang masih menerima. Hope you guys had good raya (and good income) as well.

Raya was fun, but being home is heaven. And now, back to reality. Exam!!!