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selamat hari raya..

well here we are. already raya ke 7. still not too late to do a raya entry right?

this year we celebrated the first day of raya at my parents. we came over the night before and wouldn't you believe it little jj got her walking legs there and then. i guess she just felt the time was right for her to do the whole 'look ma no hands' trick. chalk that off the baby milestone book eh.

so it was off to the mosque in the morning. then we came to the food. oooh. masak lodeh. ayam masak merah. lemang. staple raya food and my mom made it just the way i like it. this year raya was a tad quieter. my sister and her family is in india. so nabil, aidil and farzana is rayaing bollywood style. so there was no extra drama during our traditional drama session. i think u guys are familiar with the raffali clan family drama by now. we have our traditional 'anugerah burung' award for the most melodramatic apology by a family member. i think this year it fell to khalil.

we ziarah arwah kak ima's kubur a bit later in the afternoon. has it been 6 years already? ...

then we were visited by my brother in law, faizal's family. now this was a contender for another anugerah burung. we skyped the indians. they were still fasting over there. so we had another tear-jerking moment with faizal and his family. the kids were all cool enjoying themselves la. i don't think they even register the fact that we're thousands of miles away.

so it was food food and more food.

the second day, we were on our way to ipoh. the drive over wasn't all that bad. stopped over a couple of times. there were two cars in our mini convoy. my fil and mil were in the other car. we listened to michael jackson tunes all the way to ipoh.

we were visiting my fil's relatives in ipoh. stayed for two nights at the impiana casuarina. a quaint little hotel which was fully booked this raya season. did my booking over a month ago via the internet. the food was good, the staff was okay. overall we thought that the service was good. will probably go there again if we visit ipoh the next time.

we made our way home on the fourth day of raya. visited some more relatives on the fifth day. and chilled the whole sixth day. and back to some more rayaing today.

and that was pretty much my first week of raya.

the highlight is definitely lil jj walking. penat gak melayan lil jj. she can walk on her own but she just wants me to hold her hand sometimes. this one time i was holding her hand, then i switched with my brother in law, she kept on walking and walking until she saw me sitting, kept walking for a bit, looked up and say my brother in law. looked at me and then cried. hehe. drama sungguh.


look ma, no hands..

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