My raya

a picture showing that height has nothing to do with age :)

half of the cousins on my mom's side

a display of nice teeth, growing teeth and braces

with ayah's kak yang (the elderly lady in the middle)

with ayah's kak yung (the elderly lady in the middle too)

This is a brief retrospective entry of my raya this year.

After my forensics posting, I went back to johor with ayah. I had only 3 days at home then off to Kuala Kangsar stopping for a while in KL to pick up hafizah. The next day, we went to SG Petani. Munibah went staright to Sg Petani with the IIUM anak2 Kedah bus. Hehe, habis2an kitorang gelakkan dia.

Last year, it was just my family and pak su’s. This year, 5 families crammed into a 3-bedroom house. The bathroom queue was long I tell ya. But, there were more hands to do the raya preparations.

On the night of raya, I started having abdominal cramps and had full blown diarrhoea in the morning so I couldn’t go for the prayer. Orang lain sume sihat walafiat je except for one cousin of mine who might have eaten the same contaminated food. Alhamdulillah I was okay for the traditional phography session. But after the annual laksa preparation, I was feverish and had to rest. In the evening my intestines still didn’t settle down but I didn’t want to be left behind when my family visited my relatives. I spent practically more time in the toilet at mak cak’s then outside. I could only look at all the glorious food. Everyone gave me all sorts of remedies which didn’t really work. As we were all leaving the house, I suddenly felt nauseated and went to the sink to vomit. The wretching hurt a lot but I was relieved afterwards. I think it was the biji selasih rebus that mak made me eat. We went to pak long’s after that.

The next day we went to a few more houses and went to kuala kangsar. Everyone had heard from pak andak that I stayed at his place for my forensics and asked me about it. Angah said I dah kurus and she guessed that the only reason could be due to ‘bercinta’. Hehe, ape la angah ni. Orang tak boleh makan sebab diarrhoea je la. Sekarang dah regain whatever little I did lose during the fasting month hehe.

The day after that, Kak ngah and abang ngah came to the house. Then, we visited perak relatives because ayah wanted to introduce abang ngah to them. I couldn’t really eat much for fear of more diarrhoea but the jalan2 was interesting. All my smaller cousins attended to Aisyah so my sisters and I just played with Ayyasy. We took the oppurtunity to take photographs at the houses we visited since we rarely see them.

One more day in Kuala Kangsar then one in Ipoh and then a few days in KL. And then back to Kuantan for the new posting.

My holiday was full of travelling. It was tiring but satisfying at the same time.