Makan-makan raya at Hidayah's

I have been so excited about this since last week. Hidayah and I planned a small Eid gathering at her house. We have been planning about it for a week. We had the gathering yesterday and had so much fun.

The invite

I made this invite and send to those in our invitation list. I used the Typorama apps in my phone to do it. Since I discovered Typorama about 2 weeks ago, I have been obsessed with it. It is so much fun to put words on photo. The app offers a lot of layout for the words. 

All of us yesterday with Cotton the cat

We could only invite so few as Hidayah's house is not equipped to host for a lot more than this and since this is our first time of hosting a gathering, we were pretty clueless on how to handle things. So we figured we should start small and maybe next year we can invite more people. 

For the menu, we had keropok for appetizer and fettucini in cream mushroom sauce as the main course. Dessert was strawberry cheese cake and we had rootbeer float for drinks. Of course there were some kuih raya as well. 

I am so proud to say that we did most of the cooking ourselves, except for the kuih raya and rootbeer. 

I am most proud of the strawberry cheese cake. It looks so pretty. It tasted great too. Our friend Thiru is vegetarian every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Since we had our gathering on a Thursday, we made sure our menu were all vegetarian. The cheesecake were supposed to have gelatine in it but since we could not find a vegetarian gelatine, we omitted that and prayed hard that the cake would form well. And it did! Look at how pretty it is. 

I love our table setup. The colours bring a lot of fun to the atmosphere. But then, it look more like a 13th of July celebration rather than Eid. Lol. We didn't realise that until we set up the table before the gathering. 

Our kuih raya..combination of mine and Hidayah's. We didn't have a fancy container to serve them hence the plain container in where they are kept. Tan HJ brought some chips to add on to our kuih raya too.

We had a lot of fun yesterday. Before the day ended, we were already making plans for our next gathering. A movie night and sleep over or a picnic at nearby park. Both ideas seem so exciting. 

Till more exciting days to come..daaaaa~

Post Raya

I am back in Ipoh and tomorrow I am on call in ICU. Oh how depressing. Back from raya holiday and straight to on call.

I am looking at my raya photos. I am swept by mixed emotions; happy because i got to spend time with my family, sad when i think that this might be my last raya with them, overjoy looking at the photos of AKJ gathering together and having fun.

Here are a few of my favourite shots.

On the way to atuk's grave on 2nd syawal

Atuk's grave

Reciting  surah yassin for atuk

4th syawal OOTD

Love Ati's raya outfit and it feels so good to see her smile brightly like that

di 'puncak' with Ana

Overly excited in this photo :-)

Mom who never smile in photos, lol

Youngest and the most manja 

Raya at Cijan's house

Raya at Anjang's house

I wish I can spend more time visiting my relatives. But too bad I have to return to Ipoh already today. 

Praying hard for a good call tomorrow. 

Ipoh people, any open house invitation? Ngeeee :-D

Selamat Hari Raya!

Happy Eid Mubarak everyone!

I would like to take this opportunity to ask for forgiveness for every wrong doings.
Wishing everyone a happy hari raya and please stay safe on the road during your journey to everywhere. Traffic is crazy during this festive season.

Family Photo

Our theme color this year is blue. Mom didn't exactly said what kind of blue. Mine turned up to be totally off the theme color. Lol.

Started off the day with going for sembahyang sunat aidil fitri at the nearby mosque. The mosque was crowded. Glad to see a lot of people there all in their baju raya with songkok and telekung. Listening to the takbir raya brought up the melancholy thought that Ramadhan has passed.

Selfies with my sisters in our telekung before heading off for sembahyang raya

After sembahyang raya, we dolled up nice and pretty. 5 ladies getting ready took a lot of time and involved a lot of laugh and shouts as well. 

Then it was time for salam-salam and asking for forgiveness followed by giving the duit raya (angpau). 

                    

Part of the 1st Syawal routine is going to Batu 1 to visit my uncle. Wo (my grandmother) used to live there before moving to Kuala Lumpur. When she was still there, raya was much more fun. All my relatives will go balik kampung to Batu 1. We have a very large extended family. So when everyone came back for raya, I used to think the house could topple down. Nevertheless, it was so much fun. We would play firecrackers, fireworks, baked cakes, fought for pillows, roamed around the big house at way passed midnight looking for a spot to squeeze ourself and get a few hours of sleep. But now, only papa (my uncle) lives there. His children and grandchildren came back for raya. We ate some raya delights then began our photoshoot session. It is a kampung house hence we get a nice pretty background for our photos. 

Imran and Hana

My cousin, more to a sister, Kak CM

My cousin, Erna

Papa and my family together 

After visiting Batu 1, next routine is for lunch at Secret Recipe. This tradition started a few years back when 1st Syawal fell in early August, around Ana's birthday. We went to Secret Recipe to celebrate her birthday and since then, it has became a tradition in my family. 

This year's raya is no different from any other before this. But the time spent with my family is priceless.

I hope everyone has a great raya celebration. 

Happy eid mubarak!