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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Eid Al-Adha 2012 *

This year, I thought I was going to miss Eid Al-Adha while away on my recent trip but apparently I made it back in time to celebrate and enjoy the festivities and delicious food with my family and loved ones.

Ketupat

We were greeted by the ever friendly Issy who looked splendid with her hair down (at first), clad in a pink modern baju kurung. Doesn’t she look adorable?

Pretty Princess

Where are you baby Issy?

As always, Issy will drag me off for a game and this time we played hide and seek. Happy to see me I hope, Issy was very obliging that day and ran off giving special kisses to Grandma and me!

Kiss for Grandma

One for Aunty M!

B and Ali

The twins were on their way and though B and I tried our best to wait for their arrival before we had lunch, we failed to curb our hunger and proceeded to enjoy some delicious Raya food while waiting for sis and family to arrive. Everything was delicious and B had three plates of food, which he only does when the food is really good! By the time the twins arrived, we were nicely eating away after taking photos of the food first of course!

Ketupat

Lemang

Chicken Rendang

Sayur Lodeh

Beef Rendang

Peanut Sauce

Ross and Ritz

Let's play!

Cameras were snapping all around us that day, mine included as I used my new Panasonic Lumix, which seemed to impress my sister Mel so much that she is now eyeing a similar camera as a birthday gift this year!

Mel

Mel and me with baby Ross

B and Mel

We want toys!

Ross and Issy

Hot from the oven

Yummy chicken macaroni

After our first round of traditional Raya food like ketupat and rendang, we were ready for round two and had some of my Mom’s delightful baked chicken macaroni. I also took the opportunity to get a snapshot or two of B and me in our Raya outfits since there’s none of just the two of us during Aidilfitri a few months back. I was too busy and tired entertaining guests on Aidilfitri that we ended up with hardly any hubby-wifey photos when we got home so our new photos here will do just fine!

Salam Aidil Adha from B and Mariuca

Kids at heart

Mariuca ♥ B

Though I did not do much souvenir shopping during my recent trip to Europe, family gifts are of course not forgotten.

Gifts from Monaco

Gifts from Holland

Dessert made it round three for me that day, which were as delicious as they look in these photos. The red velvet cream cheese cake was courtesy of Issy’s mom and it made for a delectably divine ending for our Raya Haji celebration this year!

Mixed Fruit Jelly

Red Velvet

Slice of Love

MARIUCA LOVES

Friday, August 24, 2012

Aidilfitri 2012!

So how was your Raya Aidilfitri celebration? To those who did not celebrate, how did you spend your long weekend and holiday? Aidilfitri Day 1 as always, was a little hectic and tiring for B and me. In fact, so tired and distracted was I that I did not manage to snap a shot of me with B by my side. Nor did I take as many photos as I did last year. I was too hot and sweaty from running around preparing food for guests and entertaining them.

I gotta say, my Mom outdid herself this year. She cooked up a storm in the kitchen with sis Intan's help and she baked all sorts of goodies two nights before. The house was beautifully decorated and everything looked great so much thanks and love to her for making Aidilfitri extra festive and yummy this year!

By the time we arrived home late evening, B and I were truly exhausted. I did not sleep the previous night so the moment we were safe and sound at home, I walked right to our bedroom, fell right on top of my bed and immediately fell asleep… still clad in my Raya outfit!

B was exhausted too and after hours of sleep and rest, we got up late the next day, ready to enjoy the rest of the holiday. What to do for the next three days? Make that two since B had to go back to work on Wednesday.

Two days leave is of course not enough to see us flying off to Europe for a vacation and stay in beautiful vacation apartments in Lisbon, that’s for sure. We still had a lot of food leftover from the previous day so I didn’t feel like going away either. I did not want to waste food, which I knew I’d end up doing if we went away so we decided to stay put and enjoy our new 50-inch TV while watching Raya TV programmes on TV and eating Raya food.

Not the busy festive holiday some of you may have enjoyed, but definitely a much-needed rest and quiet time we both have been looking forward to. Perhaps next Raya, we will plan something awesome like a trip and stay in awesome vacation apartments in Lisbon. This year however, we’re staying put.

I am leaving you with a few Raya pictures from my Aidilfitri 2012 album. Like I said earlier, I came home with less than 60 photos all in, half of them blurry so some is still better than none yes? Until my next post, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Maaf Zahir Batin from our family to yours.