This year is our turn to host my father's side of the family for Hari Raya Haji.
The previous night, Kak Lily was all into baking 2 batches of Honey cornflakes (SUPER YUMMY can!?) and choc chip cookies. 150pcs of Ketupat all ready hanging in the service corridor. It's kind of a potluck so we didnt cook so much.
Out of the 9 bros & sis (excl my dad), only 3 came plus 4 of their children & family ie my cousins and nieces. The other 3 have migrated.
Just as well cos i tot it was a rather cosy gathering. They really had a nice chit chat. Something that my father and his siblings are not known for!
I especially salute Ayah's effort of preparing this sort of "khutbah" notes read after Zohr prayer together and even TAKBIR. The Khutbah is basically an English translation of 40 over verses from Surah Al-Hajj. Then, at the end was an anology of Allah's existence likened to oxygen.
Interesting. I've never thought of it before. We can't see oxygen. Nor can we touch it or feel it. Nonetheless, we KNOW it exists and it is also ESSENTIAL to our living! We can't see Allah. Neither can we touch Him nor feel His physique. But we BELIEVE He exists and He is the ultimate reason we are alive! Subhanallah. Glory be to Allah.
While the guests were in the house, Kak Lily & family went out visiting Abg Fai's side of the family. And then they returned after picking up Nur and Yayan with Ee lagging behind in his bike. What's different this time is that both their parents and even the youngest one were out working on a PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!
The almost "compulsory" pose onthe couch of Datuk's house.
Coincidentally, i was dressed in red to match the 3 siblings.
Yayan and Datuk
He had his hand casted!
Syifaa' having her bland ketupat.
She was feeling extra smiley at that time. Even before my shutter got to snap her pictures she already totted to me to look at the screen! So clever! and so cute and sooooooo GERAM!!!
It was a bit after 5pm when we finally left our house to start our visiting. So it wasn't surprising that we only visited 2 houses. Second is of course my maternal grandma's side.
The Lift shot gone wrong
In conclusion, the difference celebrating Hari Raya Haji this year are:
- Pple came to our house
- 4 were absent from the visiting
- Only 2 houses
- and of course Zubair is not here with me.
At 1:30am i was still not so sleepy having just finished Ahmad Thompson's The Way Back. Prolly bcos i felt so refreshed waking up at 11am that day! But yeah i missed Eid Prayer! Shame on me!
2 glasses of Juice:
What are honey cornflakes? The sound good!
It is indeed! They mix it with "fresh" honey and then bake it... So u have a sweet, crispy n chewy cornflakes! It's very unlike the cornflakes GOLD or something.
Hmmm... now where's the recipe? *thinking* hehe
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