Hi everyone! Guess what, Hari Raya is just around the corner!
So the adults survived another Ramadhan - good on them!
Although mommy looks like this more often than not ...
As for me, I am still under age six. No fasting required.
School holidays started a week ago, and last day was fun because we had a party for early Hari Raya, last day of school and Ayano's last day before she returns to Japan. Will miss you Ayano!
But the highlight HAS to be the red spots that mysteriously appeared on my tummy and back. After turning me upside down to check me 500 times, mommy diagnosed it as chicken pox.
Well, nothing chickenly about them at all, but they sure made me all itchee and scratchee.
Yeah, I was a lot like that.
Anyhoo, Hari Raya is just around the corner and I hope I do not scare people away with me red spots.
Hm, or maybe that would be a good weapon for some undesirable people who think my cheeks are made for pinching.
Regardless, I sure am looking forward to the things typical for the celebration, like:
1. Wearing baju kurung - yeay!
2. Ketupat - rice cooked in woven coconut leaves (you know, like Bottega bags?)
3. Raya cookies - notice 3 out of 4 of the cookies in the picture are pineapple jam tarts.
We never ever grow tired of them, do we?
4. Duit raya! Money kept in green packets and given out to kids
- but I accept online transfers *wink*
5. Sparkles - the sulphuric smell of the smoke,
and the fact that they burn out before you can even blink
But of course, the main reason for all the travelling and enduring the outrageous jam on the highways ...
6. Seeing the family
- the grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, second cousins, nephews and nieces
(yes, I was born an aunt, which makes mommy a grandma, which totally proves that age is just a number heheh)
So to my teachers and mates at CDC - Selamat Hari Raya and thank you for the card and duit raya, sorry I couldn't join you guys or we would ALL have red spots for Raya :-)
To my teachers at Peter and Jane Miss Adrina, Miss Sity and Mrs Liza, and my mates Aiman and Daniel - Selamat Hari Raya!
To my Other PnJ mates Happy Holidays, missing you guys heaps!
Take care and be safe.
Love love, R.A.Z
