Raya tak berapa sakan 2011

Ayang and I reached SP on Friday early morning, and yes, ayang is my younger sis (xde maknenye ayang lain2..huhuhu...) As mentioned before it was raining cats and dogs until the day before raya, so some of the things that we planned never happened.

Normally we would have buah melaka at the very first few days for iftar, sort of like a family tradition, but since this year we only managed to gather with mum towards the end, so it was a late appearance for the sweet treats.

Despite the rain and slight objection from mom, I vetoed to buy the paint and proceed with the original plan. We painted the bottom half with a new colour, this was almond cream, and left the top part to its original colour. The border was intentionally blue to match the new drapes but still would match if we were to change to pink drapes next year :)

Sebelum start cat, dah warning mak budak dua orang ni, kalau dorang nampak gaya nak mengacau, kita cat anak dia dulu, so that tak kira cammana dorang kacau, the paint is not affected, amacam, kijam tak mak ngah ni? hehehe....

For the first day raya, my older sis was not with us. She only make it to SP on the morning of 2nd day raya, but by that time kakdik has already left for the hubby's side in Perak. So yet again we could not get a complete family portrait.

This was taken on the second day raya. Cucu sorang lagi, si Tisya dah lepas ke Perak.

Selalunya first day raya dah sampai ke umah njang and lang, but this year we only went after kak arrived. First pit stop, Pokok Sena, umah Njang. There's a new addition of nephew, my cousin, abang chik (my age btw) just got his second son, and this time nobody bother to ask when is my turn :P

Next, we went a little bit up close to the border, Changlon to visit Lang, normally all of her kids would be there, but this year some can only go back later, so I only saw 2 of my cousins there.

The rest of the raya was spent with more shopping (stocking up the groceries), running errands and doing odd jobs. We only managed to cook something up for people visiting on the Saturday. We have the begedil-less soto. Dah siap baru perasan x buat begedil..hahaha...and we had another not so northern cuisine, lontong (kat SP dah boleh jumpa tempe...very the globalised you know, ye la, kat Texas ada, kalo kat SP xdak, malu weh...)

The guest arrived until night time, but we (my sis, me and our niece and nephew) cabut pi tengok Smurfs 3D at Kulim, the only 3D cinema in Kedah!! First we thought that we need to go all the way to Penang Island and since people are already heading back to KL, the highway are jammed packed with cars, so its good that we only need to go to Kulim, and avoid the massive jam on the highway.

We drove back yesterday, thinking that most people would have driven back during the weekend, but we were wrong, still the traffic were pretty heavy but bearable, ahamdulillah no accidents along the way and we reached KL by Maghrib. Jadi itu sajalah cerita raya tak berapa sakan kali ini. Tak sakan sebab tak dapat kacau dodol..sungguh tak best :P its OK, next year, come rain or shine, I'll make it happen, insyaAllah :D