Eid Mubaraq

Eid Mubaraq in Malaysia is called raya. Hari raya aidilfitri. As usual since before Mobet it's a hit and miss for me. As far as i can remember it is just a romantic idea of a celebration. I won't say it's a Muslim version of Christmas for fear of crucifixion by my fellow muslim extremists but that's the general idea. Oh forgot to tell you, you gotta fast for 30 days before the celebration.

The first week of ramadhan will be full of sighing and 'trying' to be funny comments of having gastric, uploading pictures of food in the middle of afternoon on facebook and showing videoclips of porn to your fellow friends. as the days goes by, the said jokes are not that funny anymore and people will untag themself or in worst case sceanario unfriend you. nothing personal just that probably you are just too annoying.

The second week usually goes by without any big hoohaa as the fasting hits plateau. If you open up your facebook stat you will see people whining and sighing about their Raya leave has been rejected and what not and that's it but wait till you see the third and last week of Ramadhan

The third week you will see people tagging you left right and center pictures of Biskut Raya and that's Raya biscuit or cake whatever you wanna call it. You will also see people uploading their flight ticket home and baju raya. Baju raya is something like hmm a wedding dress but it's not...duh what kind of explanation is that! Oh and still whining and sighing from some quarters about them not be able to make it home bla bla bla enough already!

The final week is the worst. Forget about shopping. You can't buy shit. It's like the end of days is tomorrow. People spending money like they're shitting gold...ya a bit dramatic I know but that's the truth.

Me? hm I dont buy Raya shoes anymore, it's a Malaysian tradition. I'm using my past year's Baju Raya this year. The bloody company rostered me to arrive at 7am Raya morning. Great. I can't go back cos Bebet is working. It's okay. Bebet IS family though it's only the 2 of us and lil Bebet of course.

When I was a kid, my sis and I, we will wait for dad's Raya allowance. rm 300 and that's it. Imagine juggling between buying shoes and clothes. It ain't enough baby. Watching my friends rich dad buying em kids Reebok pump ( hehehe ) god that is so oldschool! is such a pain sometime but somehow it doesn't bother me. Not that it will leave me emotional scars and become a serial killer or something. Duh that is like so overrating . I'm fine. Promise. God... I missed Dad

That's raya for me. Mom and sis is celebrating in Kuching. Hope they're all well.

So selamat Eid Mubaraq and Happy Independence day. God bless Malaysia.