Raya 2014
First of all, Selamat Hari Raya.
So as all of you might have known, i went back to my kampung in Terengganu for raya. We went for 6 days. I just got home yesterday. So let me tell you a little bit about my kampung trip this year.
25th July
We left the house at 11am. It was an 8 hour trip so it was pretty exhausting. We stopped only twice and thats it. We arrived during Maghrib and then iftar. After that we went to our obligatory trip to Zul ikan bakar. Damn son, i was thinking about it the whole the and the moment it went into my mouth, heavenly. We didn't sleep at kampung this year since there are no room for all of us so my parents booked a guest house that was near to our kampung.
26th July
We went back to kampung at 4am for sahur. After subuh i went out to get some fresh air with my cousins.
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| I always thought this abandoned house looked beautiful |
After that i tried to study and guess what? Yup i failed miserably. I slept whilst studying that Saima actually kemaskan all the books for me. Then Iram asked me for a walk so i willingly go. I always loved walking. We walked and talked. I told her that i didn't bring any maroon dress or baju kurung or raya so that afternoon we went to Jerteh to look for a freakin kain to make my dress! Crazy? SUPER! Hahahaha. It was exhausting since it was ramadhan and not to mention, scorching hot!
So when we got home Izzati started sewing the dress for me. Iram and me just hang out like lazy baboons in our nenek's room taking selfies, videos of us singing and all that crap. Along also joined us and we just talked and talked. Back then it was the five uf us. Both of my sisters, Iram and Nabilie. Izzati would sometimes join us too. I miss the old times really. We would slack of anak dara chores and hang out together. I managed to watch Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire before iftar with Saima. We had bubur lambuk for iftar by the way!
At night, i decided to sleep at kampung je since theres one room, so i slept in the room with Saima and Iram. We hang out again. Ayah mak along aus and my brothers went back to the guest house already. That night consists of karaoke-ing and stupid videos making hahaha. It was just a normal day we had.
27th July
Me and Iram couldn't slack off anak dara's duty this years since its only the two of us left so we bukak all the daun palas for ketupat after sahur. We did planned to slack off but FAILED. After that half awake session of bukaking daun palas, we slept like the world is ours. We woke up at 10am and had a movie marathon on Izzati's laptop. All of us watched Harry Potter & Enchanted.
In the evening we bathed and went to Bukit Keluang.
I was literally holding back my tears. This place holds so many memories. The good old raya times, and memories with Almarhum abang & my cousin, Izzat.
More shots on my sister's GoPro but she's not here so i can't post them. We went staraight back home and had our iftar. At night we went to the masjid to perform the last taraweeh of the this years ramadhan. It was pretty sad tho.
We had our inais on too, thanks to the talented Iram!
28th July
THE FIRST DAY OF RAYA! Can you believe how fast time flies? Yup.
So it wasn't as merry as it used to be which is kind of sad. I'm not really sure why. Probably the absence of lot of people (especially abang & izzat) or its just that i'm growing up. I woke up at 7.45am which was pretty late considering it was the first day of raya and had my cold cold shower. Back then i would be the earliest to wake up and i would berebut the turn to mandi with abang but it is now just a sweet memory for me to cherish.
I got dressed and went downstairs. Iram forced me to put some makeup on so i did. I looked funny i have to admit. I always think i look much better without a make up on. Not saying that i think im a natural beauty, its just that im much more comfortable that way. We had the ketupat palas we made and wait for all the guys and makcik to get back from the masjid. After that we had our mandatory sesi bersalaman. I remember how crowded and long the queques were back then and comparing it to now, it kind of makes me sad. We did have our picture together this year. We didn't have one last year.
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| Not all are here so thats why not that ramai |
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| Family potrait! Bummer that my other sis, Immi and Mikail wasn't around |
We received duit raya, makan makan and went to sawah to have a little photoshoot. This is what we always do every year. We went raya too to neighbours houses with the whole household! Memang ramai. That was when i felt happy and i was starting to get my raya vibes. We even found a small kitty that we took her around to raya with us.
Alot of our nice photos are in the GoPro so that just sucks that i couldn' blog em.
That afternoon, we decided to have a dip in Lata Belatan. Again, our routine every single year. We went by van. There were Imraan, Mann, Along, Aus, Saima, Adik Alin, Lee, Wari and Hashib. Usually the van would be jam packed that we can even barely sit but yup, it was still loads of fun tho! We mandi in a private place that is owned by my aunt (and by private i dont mean posh sungai or anything it was literally private meaning it was a closed environment i guess). The place was surrounded bu trees and it was in the middle of the hutan so it was super great! I didn't take a photo of it unfortunately. We had our underwater photos but again, its in the GoPro. It was super fun! We laughed like babbling bubbling bands of babboons, shouted, jump and all the good stuffs. I got bullied my Lee and Wari especially. It was so much fun i swear! We didn;t even realize how many hours we spent there. We stopped went it started raining so we went into the van soaking wet! Hahahaha. We decided to stop at one of the booth at Lata Belatan to dry ourselves off. We ended up eating junks there hahaha! We shared maggis, hot dogs, jajans and all. Luckily my bro Mann brought his duit raya since all of us are pretty much broke (we left our money je sebenarnya). After 30minues of hanging out we stopped by one of our uncles house that was very near to Lata Belatan. We were half dried tapi selamba je hang out rumah orang. Ala closed family anyway. So we finished the foods and kuih raya and went back to our kampung.
I kind of forgot what happened that night, all i could remember is drifting into a heavy sleep since it was a fun, exhausting day.
29th July
The second day of raya wasn't really anything. Iram went back home that day so i was pretty bored. I tried to study and shit but dang it, i failed again hahaha! I went to Jerteh that morning with my mum, Mann, my aunty, Izzati and Wari for some grocery shopping.
In the afternoon Along, Aus, Imraan, Mann & me went for keropok lekor hunt. In the evening we went to this beautiful pantai that we have never been to. Even nenek followed us so it was really really fun!
That night we went to our last ikan bakar trip before we go home tomorrow the next day! Long long tables since it was a lot of us. After ikan bakar, we, youngsters decided to lepak some more, so oldies went back home and we went to another of our favourite routines every raya which is to go to kedai makcik sangkeng. Hahaha basically we just loved the tapai and the hanging out part. Dulu we would go by van and sing along together since there were bunch of us and order loads of air tapai. I really really missed those good times.
After hanging out there, we decided to cerita cerita hantu. Hahahahhahaha it was super funny to remember how freakin scared Apip was. We are a bunch of bullies really. After that we went straight to kampung but my sister asked all of us to join them in the guest house to have some more cerita hantu. So we stopped for a while at kampung and grabbed selimut and all and went back to the guest house. We ended up just hanging out and watched the Commonwealth Games till we fell asleep. Still, it was a great great day and night we had.
30th July
It was the last day in kampung. So nothing really happened that day. After subuh we stopped by nenek's kebun and had a really nice freshly plucked manggis. I even had this beautiful shot of sunrise that morning.
Then we bathed and got ready to go home. It is always sad to leave nenek and kampung.
In a nutshell, i had a pretty great raya this year. Eventho it wasn't as fun, havoc or meriah as before but still, i had an amazing time!
Now back to reality. Trial is in a month time. You're screwed dearself, good luck.
Goodbye and Assalamualaikum! :D
