1st Raya as a WIFE

A few months before Raya, I had prepared our Raya outfit. Raya theme this year was peach color and not quite difficult to find it one as my hubby will wear back his outfit during our solemnization day. I had 2 outfits only and bought it at Sogo Supermarket. I’m not really fancy about Raya outfit as I’ll think twice to wear it again after Raya. Beside I wear it to the Kenduri; it really unusual to see me wearing Baju Kurung to office.

so ugly right???

I was so excited to celebrate this Raya as a wife. During Ramadhan too, I manage to gone through the fasting days and break fasting dinner with my hubby. This month also, he started to learn how to pray and remember the surah to read during prayer. A bit funny to listen how he pronounced it, but may God will accept his weakness and sincerity for doing it.

Hubby is even excited to celebrate it. He sponsored a lot of thing to bring back home. Every Raya, my task not to buy the Raya cookies but the snack and sweet that we can give to the children. So we bought cheap stuff at Selayang, a few big packs and all were finished in the first day Raya.

Every house that we go, all our neighbors also excited to see my hubby as a person. They are even happy to serve my hubby with the local cookies and dishes since hubby is a Chinese. My parents are happier than us as to see the neighbors that always hangout with them are willingly accept my hubby as a new person in the community.

This Raya too, all my siblings and nephew were at my parents’ house to celebrate the Raya. Around 35 people in the house and trying hard to find the space to sleep and sit =). We were also celebrating it in the new house (partly). 2 weeks before Raya, the contractor only manages to complete the front part of the house only and you can see so obvious the house half 'batu' and half 'kayu'. We went back Kampong a bit early to paint the new house to golden yellow color. Can you imagine how we manage to complete the paint after 'sahur' till to the dusk during Ramadan? It was really tiring and all of us were dehydrated but still happy while doing it.

the whole family

Only the Mother & sisters in the family

Hubby is in charge of the wiring and maybe to hot and tiring, his BP goes up very high 2 days before Raya. Luckily, still have the shop open to complete the wiring thingy. So end up, he needs to sponsor for the wiring cost. Serve him right.

On the 3rd Raya, hubby left the house for Sabah to work. I was sad to let him go and my cat Pinky was even more. 1 day after hubby left, Pinky went missing. Hubby kept calling from Sabah to find out about Pinky every single hour. I knew he was really sad and even more when he can’t do anything to find Pinky from there. I supposedly to go back to KL with my sister, but Hubby insist to go back Kampong to find Pinky first. Too bad, it wasn’t easy to find a cat in a huge place and we finally went back KL without Pinky and his tears burst along the way.

One week after that, my sister called and informed us that Pinky was back home. We both damn happy and without thinking, we were going back straight to my parents’ house. Pinky was so thin and dirty. He was also hurt and bleeding. He might not have anything to eat during those 7 days. Quenny and Tommy are really happy to see pinky back again.

Since that day, we grounded Pinky and he seems very scared to see others cat too. But we were happy to see how he eat and put some weight so fast. This Raya really give us all mixture feeling while celebrating it. But some say, this is what we call life…

Okey not too late to wish all the Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Maaf Zahir Batin.