Hari Raya

A Happy Hari Raya Eid Ul-Fitr to all Muslims - please binge and grow fatter than me - and for those who are not, have fun and do gate-crash your Muslim neighbours' open house or whatevernots for free epicurean delights (if your neighbour happens to be my mum you'll probably have your face slammed by the door).

I missed the Hari Raya Prayer because I was snuggling under my blanket too lazy to wake up. That's the 3rd Hari Raya Prayer I'd missed it borders on blasphemy.

I hate the seek for forgiveness from parents session because it is soooo awkward and I don't think I am not sincere in my apologies in the fact that I always repeat the same things and hurt them again later so I always feel this part is useless but what the hell.

Ate so much food I wonder how my stomach can digest all those sin. And I am proud to say that I add a nice touch to the usual lemangs (glutinous rice stuffed in bamboo poles) by slicing it to coin-shaped slices and make them look like hors d'oeuvres with a touch of Malay cooking. Serundings substituting caviars (these look like sushi), a drop of ayam korma gravy with a shred of chicken on top, ditto with the ayam masak merah, , and beef rendang in between two patties of lemangs, it gets mixed reviews with most saying it is really nice but pointed out that for Hari Raya there's no such thing as appetisers. Well, there are some truth in it. I mean, after a whole month of fasting naturally you would just drive in straight for the main course.

And I am really ashamed to say this, but I gorge myself silly with food eating up to five servings at every house and my female cousins complaining how come I still remain anorexic-skinny even though I ate more than all of them combined.

Surprisingly, I am often camera-shy at family functions and I'm often known as the "serious, unsmiling boy" which makes me look like the Miranda in the family.

And this last pic is my oh-so-minah sister, who's like, (almost) polar opposite of me. she is so happy to get a C in English but excelled in maths what even. And she's bringing her Chinese boyfriend, which my mum is so vehemently against the idea of BGR in secondary schools and even worse since he is Chinese (mother's scared that the guy would introduce my sis to pork or something wth) but frankly, I don't care as long her boyfriend treats her like how a boyfriend should be and at least scraped through O levels. I am surprised she got herself a Chinese boyfriend, knowing that her friends are all minahs so I expect a mat with floating cap and skinnies.*

*she claims that that guy was not her boyfriend even though it seems quite contrary to me. Like asking him out for Hari Raya outing?