Raya This Year.
Dear Sister far away,
This is the first time I celebrate Raya with a real difference. As a wife who is also expecting, and also not having my sister with me.
Compared to our usual crazy packing the bags for our long 6-7 hours journey on every other years, this was so easy. 2 hours dah sampai kampung Poncho.
Prior to balik kampung, we have prepared all the buah tangan to be distributed to our colleagues in the office. Duit raya sikit aje, as Poncho only has 6 anak buah. Compared to the bomb we usually have to prepare for KB. So, there's a lot of room for colleagues and staff's children to receive.
The day time isn't much different then being in Kelantan, it's so hot so we ended up bathing at least 4 times a day. The practice here is, everyone makes rendang in big, big kawah on the kayu api outside the house. Mother-in-law brought 4 big bags of santan kelapa from KL.
Your bro-in-law sat infront of the kawah outside the house under the atap zink for 2 hours jaga api and the rendang. I sat inside and used my pregnancy as an excuse to be precious.
Before nightfall, they cooked sup tulang, also one big periuk on the dapur kayu api.
We get to sleep ramai-ramai at night.
The next day was still puasa day. The rascals, anak anak Dr. Lily arrived. That's when things got much more merrier.
Look at this, RM300 worth of mercun! The baby somehow doesn't show signs of distress like he usually is when I sleep on my left side. Dia suka la kot bunyi letop letop ni. Asal bukan tahap terrorist punya minat dengan bahan letupan sudah... kan Poncho!
On raya day, as usual, it is very difficult to make Poncho wear full gear baju Melayu and it doesn't help when I brought the wrong samping for him; kain pelikat sembahyang yang aku bawak! Memangla it got my MIL pelik, I saw the big question mark on her face, but I pretended Poncho was cool about it.
End up, si Poncho Mat Salleh tu walked to neighbouring places (dua rumah aje) without any samping. Serupa suruh dia pakai pyjamas aje.
Oh yes, thank goodness you have some baju kurung with you there.
We were back and Raya with mummy and dad and Comot at 6ish. So dead tired but did it.
This is the first time I celebrate Raya with a real difference. As a wife who is also expecting, and also not having my sister with me.
Compared to our usual crazy packing the bags for our long 6-7 hours journey on every other years, this was so easy. 2 hours dah sampai kampung Poncho.
Prior to balik kampung, we have prepared all the buah tangan to be distributed to our colleagues in the office. Duit raya sikit aje, as Poncho only has 6 anak buah. Compared to the bomb we usually have to prepare for KB. So, there's a lot of room for colleagues and staff's children to receive.
The day time isn't much different then being in Kelantan, it's so hot so we ended up bathing at least 4 times a day. The practice here is, everyone makes rendang in big, big kawah on the kayu api outside the house. Mother-in-law brought 4 big bags of santan kelapa from KL.
Your bro-in-law sat infront of the kawah outside the house under the atap zink for 2 hours jaga api and the rendang. I sat inside and used my pregnancy as an excuse to be precious.
Before nightfall, they cooked sup tulang, also one big periuk on the dapur kayu api.
We get to sleep ramai-ramai at night.
The next day was still puasa day. The rascals, anak anak Dr. Lily arrived. That's when things got much more merrier.
Look at this, RM300 worth of mercun! The baby somehow doesn't show signs of distress like he usually is when I sleep on my left side. Dia suka la kot bunyi letop letop ni. Asal bukan tahap terrorist punya minat dengan bahan letupan sudah... kan Poncho!On raya day, as usual, it is very difficult to make Poncho wear full gear baju Melayu and it doesn't help when I brought the wrong samping for him; kain pelikat sembahyang yang aku bawak! Memangla it got my MIL pelik, I saw the big question mark on her face, but I pretended Poncho was cool about it.
End up, si Poncho Mat Salleh tu walked to neighbouring places (dua rumah aje) without any samping. Serupa suruh dia pakai pyjamas aje.
Oh yes, thank goodness you have some baju kurung with you there.
We were back and Raya with mummy and dad and Comot at 6ish. So dead tired but did it.
The next day..... aaaaahhh best, pergi jalan at The Curve and it was as if it is closed just for us to saunter around. Bought study table. Soon I will be a tauke. Bisnes apa tak taula lagi.
With the little cozy place we've made ourselves, we take Raya guests 2 couples by 2 couples at a time. Poncho prepared full Northern Indian food on DeepaRaya last Thursday. When I have the time to upload pictures, I will put them up here.
Hope next year our family will get together again, this time with an addition of the baby and Comot's full grown kittens.
posted by Maine at 4:45 PM
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