Raya Kebaboom!!

Assalamualaikum

It’s been weeks since my last blogpost. Sorry. Almaklumlah puasa raya ni memang chek kalut sikit buat kuih kuih and biskut raya nih >.<

Excited sebenarnya sambut Syawal kali ni. Sebab selepas sembilan tahun tinggal di asrama, ni la first time bersahur dan berbuka puasa bersama keluarga sepanjang panjang bulan Ramadhan. Sebelum ni, bersahur dan berbuka puasa di rumah ni cuma pada hari pertama puasa and seminggu terakhir puasa saja. So, Syawal kali ni memang terasa lain dengan segala macam jenis kuih yang first time dibuat sendiri (project Ramadhan with Ibu) and few new experiences

Our first raya pic :P

The jerawats said, "Now lemme raya on your cute face,"

In the morning, we went to Abahwan’s new house; the grave. I really miss Abahwan and all his nagging and advices. The facts that we've been celebrating our third Syawal without Abahwan had brought so many changes in our life

And as always, we went to Paksu’s house and gather for some ‘mintok maap bebanyok paihtu kutip duit ghaya’ session. This year, too, Maktok gives everybody their duit raya. Hoyeah. Then, we have our annual ‘tangkap gambaq’ session. Macam biasa < ---------- and we got our selfies too

Umi's family were not here at this time. Still early time ni :

 

cousins

Mr. Monopod doing his job

Makan makan di rumah Paksu tak pernah mengecewakan. Semuanya sedap. Maktok masak sedap hingga menjilat jari. Hew hew hew

Omnomnomnom

Habis part raya belah Ibu in Jitra, Kedah. Now, belah Abah puloks

For the first time too, Abah brought us back to his hometown in Sg Seluang, Kedah, the place we’ll always visit on our second day in the month of Syawal. But this year, because of the lost of our beloved uncle (Abah’s lil bro) and aunt (Abah’s elder sis), we got ourselves back there in Sg. Seluang on first Syawal. Alhamdulillah

Makcik Min, Abah’s sister in law, wife of arwah Pakcik Anuar, went to Sg. Seluang with her daughters. So, kami sekeluarga meet Makcik Min’s family kat rumah Ayah Din (Abah’s elder bro). Memang setiap tahun pun kami beraya kedua di rumah Ayah Din. Sebab Ayah Din and Mak Ndak(Ayah Din’s wife) masak sedap :3

Family belah Abah :)

After enjoying our hari raya kat rumah Ayah Din, meeting aunts and cousins, kami ke Masjid Kg Sg Seluang. Melawat family. My great grandmother, grandmother (Tok Melah), grandfather (Tok Mad), uncles (Paksu Amin and Pakcik Anuar) and aunts (Mak Ngah Salmah, Mak Njang Asiah, Mak Nab and Mak Ani) were all buried here. It’s a blessed to meet them again. Memories of them will never fade

Then, Abah and Ibu bawak melawat Tokcik Mariah, our grandmother’s cousin. A lot of stories were told. Salah satunya, how everytime arwah Tok Melah nak masuk meminang untuk anak anak lelaki dia, Tok Melah will tell Tokcik Mariah “Hm. Hitammmm…” (refer balik kat kamus kedah; hitam maknanya gelap). Walaupun bukan gelap mana pun >.<

Tokcik Mariah's family. Not complete..

Lepas rumah Tokcik Mariah tu, we went to rumah Ayah Lid. Abah’s cousin. Seronok la pulak raya tahun ni banyak jumpa saudara mara yang jarang nak berkesempatan jumpa kalau hari hari biasa. And raya rumah Ayah Lid pun syiok. Hehe :)

With kak Ila, anak Ayah Lid. ignore the light please

So, our first Syawal ended after a long journey from Jitra to Sg Seluang. Ibu said, “Maktok dari Sg Seluang dapat Abahwan dari Jitra. Ibu dari Jitra dapat Abah dari Sg Seluang. Anak Ibu empat orang ni, siapa la nak balik Sg Seluang?” -.-