lagi lagi raya

Gent sightseeing and open house

We have been invited by Zaini and ros for their open house in Gent since last week. Actually, the open house was held today but we went off to Gent a day earlier and stayed overnight at their house to complete our mission ( not like mission impossible k!heheehhe) which was sightseeing in the town. The journey by train took one and half hours . Prior to our arrival, I had all the tram and town must visit places in Gent ready in my hand to make our plan run smoothly.

After arriving at Gent train station, we took tram no.1 that headed to Koren Markt, where all the must see buildings and places are situated. We took A few pics around the Gent castle, churches and the surrounding area before we headed to the souvenir shops to buy some souvenirs for us. When we finished, straightaway we took the no.4 tram to go to Zaini's house. By the way, the autumn season is finally here..look for the orengey colour for this pic..The weather was absolutely damn cold thus, we ended up took less photos.



Despite being busy by sightseeing in the town, I still allocated some time to help Ros to cook some dishes, well..not me myself, there were Natrah, Helmi and Am as well..Together, we helped our host to prepare the foods and all sorts, since Ros has a new born to entertain. Natrah ended up cooking soto (actually this was the potluck by them ), pudding and fried the spring rolls. Whereas,I ended up cooking Beriani Rice, Ayam masak merah, Laksam and few more dishes, We were cooking up a storm in the kitchen to make sure all the boxes were ticked in the menu's listed items.
I could not imagine if we let our host did the cooking and other jobs by themselves, since their new baby was not feeling well, the condition was getting worse when, during the middle of the night, their baby kept waking up and crying out loud of his healthy lungs. I could feel that Ros and Zaini at their wits end when the baby reluctant to settle down. I dare say that the things happened hourly until dawn. Sigh!

Well, I think that is the price that all parents have to pay in order to take care of their kids until they grow up. Anyway, It made me realize how difficult it was for my parents when they were taking care of me when I was a baby. Since, I am the only one among my siblings that used to cry a lot until I was 5 years old. I could not imagine how pathetic and awful the condition of my parents were at that time..Ya Allah..Please make both of my parents live longer..Amin..

Well, I can say that the open house went very well, with the new guests and to all..

Do not forget our open house on 19th October 2008..All are welcome!

p/s..sory wei post gambar kat blog..hehehe..ok the rest of the pics as usual, in my fotopages...ciao!

Raya esok

ler..kami rupanya raya esok gak..kikikikii..ingtkan rabu..rupenye selasa..huhuhu..last puasa la td rupanya..

Eid-ul Fitr is coming..

Ramadan has come and gone..Now, there is only one day left before we celebrate Eid-ul Fitr. Since the past two weeks, I keep turning on my online radio and Imeem playlist simply just to hear Raya songs. The songs that can only give me the feeling of Eid-ul fitr environment in a foreign land. This coming Eid keeps my mind lingering and thinking about elderly great and grand parents that has passed away. Thus, making me reciting any "surah" in the holy quran after my prayer, to the those who has passed away. Nowadays, the raya feeling is getting less merrier than the past few years.Why has this happened? Is it because I am getting old or just because the modern life makes raya feel like normal days? I can precisely remember when I was a kid, every raya we will bring one small bag to keep our duit raya and we will challenge each other ( I mean between our siblings), who will get more duit raya? Truthfully, the highest collection of duit raya I ever had when I was a kid was just Rm 200..But if, during adult time is counted here, the highest amount of duit raya that I received ever was worth RM 2000. Sadly, I just went on a shopping spree with the money and nothing was left to be put in my savings account. what a shame! hehehe.

Talking about Eid, I hope this year is not the last time I am celebrating fasting and Eid. I pray to Allah to give me and my family a long life to give us a chance to celebrate it together as a family. I can't imagine Eid without my parents beside me.. To my friends who have lost their parents and family , I hope you can celebrate raya happily even only with the memories with your beloved ones left to be remembered..Together we pray and dua for them so that their souls will be placed among the pious people..Amin

Where we will go to celebrate Eid? Well, I think maybe just in Liege since I have a class on the Eid's day. Maybe we will have an open house in a couple of weeks. But, everything is still in the planning stage. So, if we do make it, we will invite all the relevant person to join our open house. For our Eid menu, I will cook soto, nasi himpit, instant lemang, kuah kacang, maybe satay and a few more dishes to be written down in our list...

So, I take this opportunity to wish 'salam aidilfitri' to all my family, friends, cyber friends and all. No matter how long we have not meet each other face to face, no matter where we are?, no matter who we are? but one thing for sure, we look for the same crescent and moon for this raya..and I hope we can enjoy this coming Eid-ul Fitr as better muslimin and muslimat..InsyaAllah..

P/S - The melancholy entry is in commemoration of the celebration of Eid-ul Fitr in a foreign land, a thousands million far away distance between my family and I...

Salam Aidilfitri

I want to take this opportunity to wish "selamat hari raya adilfitri and maaf zahir batin" to all my family, friends, my blog readers ( not to forget for the silent readers ) and all muslim people. Makan kuih raya tu ingat2 la kat kami ni..last year eid-ul fitr was the same date with my birthday..tahun ni nampaknya takle..hehhehe..anyway enjoy hari raya and cuti sepuas2nya k!!!!

cheers!!