Unlike the years before, there were only my parents, my brother, my 2nd sis, my widowed aunt and myself on the first day of raya. Of course my nephews and niece were with us, only for the first few hours in the morning though for later they were sent to their mom. After the eid prayer, we went to Dato' M's house - a good friend of my parents. Her lontong and soto were beyond praise. Later we headed to dad's kampung, which is just about 30 minutes away. We went straight to the cemetery presenting doa to our relatives especially my grandad whom I never met and my grandmum who loved us dearly. We had fond memories together but she was gone when I was in my kindergaten year. Later, we proceeded to my aunt's house where we met more aunts and cousins there. But the best part was they had MAZOLA cookies! My old time favourite! Oh, and the lemang and rendang was simply delicious! hehe... me and food!
Then, we rushed home to cook our usual - nasi minyak, ayam masak upur, dalca and jelatah. My friend Mun See and her family came around 2.30 and they really enjoyed the food. Our friendship is a unique one.. We don't keep in touch all the time but every year during raya, she would come to my house. She has been doing this way before she got married and now she is a mom to a cute 2 years old Benjamin. Her husband, Simon, a fine young man, is a chatter box like myself, thus, we connect perfectly. Fiona, Mun See's niece has been tagging along to my house since she was in primary. Now, she's sitting for her PMR and has blossomed to a very gorgeous young girl! She will undoubtedly break a lot of hearts! And knowing that she loves lemang, I forced my dad to get some lemang just for Fiona. Really love to have them around during raya!
Sheed and family came quite late.. around 7pm. I thought there would only be herself and hubby but her sisters in law and their family were there as well! Mo man tai though! The more, the merrier. We served them nasi minyak as well. But sadly, I didn't get the chance to have a decent conversation with sheed... hmm....
Later that nite my father's side, two aunts, my cousin sister with her family and my cousin brother came for dinner. We seldom have them in our house. I pity my father very much. He loves his siblings dearly. He visits them quite frequently. When he can't find time, he would call them to ask how they are doing. But they seldom treat him the same way. And for them to come over to our house, well, my dad literally has to force them! They came tonight only after my dad being rather sarcastic this morning. We've been wondering what is it that makes them uncomfortable to be in our house. Why they can go to other people's house, somtimes outside of Perak, but they always find excuses to come to ours. Academically and economically we are better than them, but I believe we have never treated them differently... hmmm... kesian abah...
Nevertheless, today was not perfect but it wasn't bad either.
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