The day before raya, we welcomed the 3 co-hostess from the residential halls and started to prepare our dishes as early as 5pm. Pizza delivery for iftar was really a yummylicious idea! While preparing rendang daging, kuah kacang, nasi impit, soto, apple crumble, brownies and syrup; we sang our heart out with some oldies and lagu raya followed by acara berbalas pantun. Oh yes, we were that crazy that night and it was so much fun. I laughed so hard listening to the pantun-s, i had ringing ears and throbbing headache. If only the kitchen could speak, i'm sure it'll plead us to stop singing and laughing.. we finished everything around 1am (wow, that was 6 hours!) and dragged our way off to bed. slept in no time.
On the day itself, 6 of us took turn to use the bathroom while blabbering-ing away. Headed to the sports centre for Eid prayers and as always the atmosphere never failed to amuse me. I think amusement would always be the feeling whenever i thought about ppl from all the walks gathered who under one faith. Bliss! We rushed home as our pot-luck event was half an hour away. Each of us played the role for the last mins preparation -arranging, sorting out, re-heating and cleaning up. Some of us needed to change to our actual raya attire but still, we kept everything under control and worked our way efficiently;)
People started coming in and I was pleased to have just nice turn out because it gave time to entertain everyone and at the same time feasted on the food (thanks guys for the satay, sedap!) As some of us didn't get to meet each other as often this year, it was a great catch-up (and gossip session;p) ahh well, it's refreshing to see the old faces don't u think? Photo session went on as usual and good collection of candid-s we had as well. The impromptu berbalas pantun event was a good ice-breaking with the new faces too.
Past noon, we got ready to go to the other invitations. 3 houses altogether and each served different menu. I had my wishes for nasi kerabu, lodeh, kek batik and laksa. I spared mihun sup and a few other dishes as i could always get them during other time. Although we ended up seeing the same faces in those places but it's still nice because it still gave raya feeling. Erm, a person in one of the houses gave me a shock of my life; 90% resemblance. I was stunned there and then. i wished we didn't do the brief talk though because that made it so much more familiar. Jittery for a while but it's not like i am gonna see the face again after this
We reached home (again) at dawn and I got myself little nap because i was so knackered up. Woke up in time for a quick shower and got ready for BBQ. We (ok, that's a bit of exaggeration as i did not spend much time at the grill pit actually ;p) took some time to get the it ready. Men on fire, as if ! and you think by asking me to sing 'Bara' would make it go all fired up?? sungguh hampeh! Everything went well after a few shot (of burning the coal, not me singing ok ;p) and we had good chicken and sausage (also a few other side dishes that i would not bother listing them down) afterwards. We completed the night with sparklers moments and who wouldn't laugh seeing the guys holding bunga api in static position?? Ya Tuhan, korang tak pernah main bunga api ke kecil2 dulu? Aduhhhai... ooh, if only i could upload the 'bunga api dan lagu raya' game in youtube, i would!! It's as simple as circling the grill pit and took turn to light up the sparklers and each need to sing lagu raya. OMG, the last 3 players cracked the biggest laugh of all. We finished up the night reviewing the photos of the days and took our last group photos. No suprise, as soon as we hit the pillow around 1am we doozed off.
Not only me, but all 6 of us been naughty for not calling home on that day. We're so occupied that we did expressed our guilt to each other but claimed we could not find good time to rang the family. As for me, i have one more reason for not doing so- refer to the first line.
It's all perfect, now you believe me?
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