Our Syawal

Syawal has passed by so quickly and it's already the month of  Dhu Al-Qi'dah, and I have yet to update a single entry on Syawal celebration. Sorry for that. Yeah, I know.. I'm a lousy blogger! :p

I was extremely busy throughout the month of Syawal. My weekends were full with 'eating events', not forgetting my weekdays' too. I guess that's the beauty of having to work as business people, we get to attend loads of corporate open houses. Mind you, most of it were held in 5 star hotels! And surely, how could i resist that? Free food like almost every other day! hihi. But honestly, it was not good for my tummy (not forgetting my body. yup, I am expanding!). If only it could screamed, I'm sure it would say "Help!!! Stop stuffing me with food!!" haha!

So, where did i celebrated my Eid this year?

As we are on rotating basis, it was my hubby's turn this year. We went back to Johor, of course. I managed to meet my parents 2 days before Syawal, n then they were off to Rembau. N fyi, this is my 1st raya, after almost 33 years, not having my parents around on the 1st day of raya. haha! Boley? Cuz normally, eventhough we celebrated raya in JB, my parents would still be around and celebrated 1st raya in JB as well. And whenever my parents were around, my hubby preferred to sleep at my parents' house cuz there's room for us. No extra room in my inlaws' house, n my husband doesn't like the idea of us anak-beranak bergelimpangan together with the maid at the living room.. lagi la sekarang I am still breastfeeding and my 'toot' will be exposed to public cuz my baby loves to suck my 'toot' in whatever way he pleases, so no way we gona sleep merata-rata. But, it was not that bad after all for not having my parents around on the 1st day of raya :). But i know my mom missed me.. cuz nobody helped her for raya prep at kampung besides my sis, kawan bertekak dia! haha! 

Purple was our theme colour for this year's 1st raya. Brown for 2nd raya and 3rd raya was caca-marba! haha! And for this raya, surprisingly, i didnt have mood to take pictures. So, i have very lil pictures of me. And yg lagi sedih, no picture of me n hubby! I guess my husband's side are not into taking pictures sangat as compared to my side.. yg mostly are camwhores (esp my sis!), paparazis and mamarazis! 

2nd raya, we shoot off to Batu Pahat and Muar. It was so hot on the 2nd day of raya.. i totally had no mood to even give a smile.. my baju kurung was all wet with sweat. The kids' too. So, mmg jangan harapla nk posing2. But what i like about beraya in Batu Pahat/Muar was, almost every houses served rice and lauk asam pedas! Can u imagine that? they serve rice + lauk pauk to guests during raya! I never had such experience of eating rice and lauk pauk in rembau during 1st - 2nd raya. Selalu makan the normal raya dishes je.. And at night of 2nd raya itself, hubby decided to go back to Rembau. Yeay!

Owh btw, look what i've found after uploading raya pictures to laptop!

The only picture of me and hubby! oklakan.. than nothing! hihihi.. and i found it in my sis' camera! Ade hikmah jugak ade adik yg vain lagi camwhore! :p

We stayed few days in Rembau.. visiting the normal relatives.. and also welcoming relatives to come over to our kampung house. It was fun! Barula terasa raya.. cuz my kampung house will always be flooded with people every raya. it's like we are organising open house everyday! and it will normally continues til the 5th of raya at least. Like seriously! You should come over to my kampung house to witness it. 

On the 1st Saturday of Syawal, the whole of Zaleha's (my late grandma) went to PNB Ilham Resort, Port Dickson. That was actually our 3rd visit there. We like it so much cuz it has 2 to 4 rooms apartment, cool view, a not-that-bad-size swimming pool and barbecue pits! oh, and karaoke session at night plus the extreme activities facilities! We like! We booked two 3-rooms apartments to accommodate us all. 

upon arriving, bbq sessions, swimming sessions :)

Dzarif and his cousin, Humairah.. and of course his beloved bibik :)

us with the extreme activities

Hubby and my sis did the abseiling. I didn't dare to do it. My legs were already wobbly the moment i reached the highest top of the apartment and no way i would go down using the rope! But i did the other Ilham Extreme Challenge (cant remember the exact name for it) and it was quite scary too. And i did it. Should I be proud of myself? hehehe.. well, i know my dad n hubby were proud of me! ngeh ngeh. N guess wat? Irfan did it too! M so proud of u darling! He was pretty fast climbing up the rope, maybe due his super light weight. And he was so cool as compared to his uncle (age 9! :p) who looked like as if he wanted to cry the moment he reached the top of the tree! LOL

3 siblings!  (note: i think the eldest will always be the shortest :p)

 Managed to meet up with my friends too during Syawal. But we managed to get ourselves captured in photos at Awie's n TJ's house only. Rumah org2 lain dah malas nk amik gambar! There are actually more photos, but I havent got the time to upload it to my laptop frm my camera.

Banyak lagi activities actually throughout Syawal.. including went to Sunway Lagoon and get ourselves burnt :p. But laterla, kalau rajin, i'll blog bout it :)