I am typing this in my hotel room in Keningau, Sabah. I reached here today 15 September and will come back home to Kinrara on 2o September.  I love Sabah very much! If you have read this blog before, you’d probably know I have been here many times but this time around I am on duty. So automatically I feel very lost, home sick and missing the boys at home very much.

Family and friends in the Peninsular is probably beraya sakan right now but I am working la pulak! Darn.. But I don’t feel that bad coz I have hosted some friends over last weekend. Since we’re not having an open house this year, the food served was not so much and the people who came also not so many lah! Just 10 families only.. Erkk tak banyak ke 10 families?

On second day of raya recently, my aunt, Cik Pura served her special Mee Kari recipe to us at her house in Taiping. It was Azman’s first time trying it and he loves it so much that I gotta learn how to cook that stuff. FYI I am not a noodle person, I am hardcore nasik lover but takpelah demi suami terchenta…

 The Mi Kari is rather different than most of you probably have eaten, this one is curry powder and tomato based, laced with bunga kantan (ginger shoot) and daun kesum ( leaf of  erkkk.. ok I dunno what Mat Salleh calls daun kesum LOL). I put a whole lot of chicken, kerang, fish cakes and fish balls in the soup and served it with blanched yellow noodles, blanched sawi, taugeh, fresh tomatoes, lime and more fish balls and cakes.

Food!

Chillies for spicier taste

On top of the noodles, I also made my favourite chicken rendang served with ready made lemang, rojak buah, cut watermelons.

Above is Kak Iena, she is mad about lemang and rendang. All these food was served at 5pm but everybody was busy watching TV, playing with the kids etc until Kak Iena started to devour the lemang sampai ditinggalkannya laki dia kat luar! LOL lawak giler…

After that baru the rest sibuk nak  makan. Perhatikan gaya Nize mengambil mee kuning! bergaya bukan?

At far back, in the black tudung is my beloved friend Ejam Aris. She is so nice and helped me wash dishes, sort out cutleries etc etc tapi pompuan ni kalau dia kerja maid memang dia dah kena seterika di merata-rata bahagian badan termasuk organ dalaman la aku rasa.Sebab dia sedikit potpetpotpet! But I lap her… muah muah Ejam Aris and Dhea sekali!

Ada sorang mamat ni pulak orang datang beraya umah dia sibuk pakai baju gambar katun penyu. Laki sapa tatau? Dasyat betul bini dia tak gosokkan baju ekk?

Kak Iena ngap ngap!

These are my pretty ladies! Love all of them very much! Thanks for coming, thanks for helping out. Harap maklum I don’t have any maid or mom or helper, just Azman and Miki..

Standing : Yasmin. Sitting from left, Atie, Kak Iena and Ejam. Actually I’m kinda sad that I didnt take so many pics. No photos of Rohaiza’s family, Abul’s family, Anita’s, Nannoor’s, Diyana Yang’s family (eh tu nama aku) etc etc etc.. Sorry! it is my loss.

Despite the lack of pics, I was happy that day because my too-big-for-the-three-of-us house was bustling with laughter and full of people! Coincidently these 4 young girls who live in our neighbourhood came to “beraya”. I invited them in sonce I already have food and drinks to serve and they stayed from 5 to Maghrib time!  

Miki was super happy to get to play with them, he showed them our new baby rabbits and they were playing with the furry cuties sampai kena kencing rabbit LOL! I was so busy in the kitchen/dining area, I almost forgot about these girls until the 4 of them, Miki and Irfan (Atie’s son ) was running in and out of the house, playing kejar-kejar. So meriah and Kak Iena asked who are their parents, then only I realized, “Eh… Entahla Kak Iena, aku pun taktau anak sapa tah main lari-lari dalam rumah ni!” Haha… Don’t worry dik, no kidnappers or serial killers in this house cuma ada bujang available je nama N***.. Opps,, hehehe

Miki and trhe girls at the rabbit cage

Miki and the girls at the yard

I kesian these two guys who went back without second helpings. Lain kali datang lagi OK? Aku masak lain untuk korang. Can’t help it coz all the food habis licin.. Tapi takde la sampai nak makan rojak buah kena share sepinggan kan? Ingat aku takde pinggan ke? Buat manja-manja lak duk rapat2.. ehh tak sesuai! hehehe

Laki sapa tengah amok ni?

Lepas amok terus syahdu peluk pintu! Thanks for coming Apai!

Arnab mangsa gomoi, cubit, dan picit kanak-kanak yang hadir…

At night more families came but like I said I took no pics of them. I thank again to everyone who came and hope you’ve enjoyed the food. Hope to beraya again but gotta wait until i come back from Negeri Di Bawah Bayu.

Enjoy you long weekend everyone! Selamat Hari Malaysia…

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About a week before raya, Miki received the first postcard in his entire life and it came all the way from Germany.  It was sent by my sister Shanaz that Miki was supposed to call Cik Naz but instead he calls her Cinas or Shinas or Dia Tu. The card was also from my brother in law, Abdullah that Miki was supposed to call Cik Abi or Cik Dollah but instead he calls him Chee Ah Bee or Orang Putih Tu.

When we sent  Shanaz and Abi at KLIA in August, Miki cried buckets melalak-lalak because he wanted to follow them there. He saw Shanaz’s photo playing with snow and since then he is convinced that Pororo lives in Germany somewhere near Cinas’s house. *slap forehead*

Miki, oh Miki… so gullible little Miki. You won’t see any magical creatures just because it is snowing my son! First you have to send your wish list to Santa!

My first postcard

This Hari Raya also marks Miki’s first time going trick-or-treating around kampung collecting duit raya. When my niece Farah (age 8 ) and Sarah (age 4) wanted to go beraya to nearby houses, I suggested Miki to follow them and boy wasn’t he happy to be allowed to wander outside with his cousins.

It was my idea in the first place but once he set outside, I started to get so syahdu… waaaa! my son is so big already!! dah keluar berjalan kutip duit raya keliling kampung…

“Miki jaga-jaga jalan tu tengok kereta, tengok motor! Jalan pegang tangan Kakak Farah tau… Kalau dapat duit simpan dalam beg ni.. Ucap selamat hari raya, jangan lupa kata terima kasih… Farah tengokkan Miki jangan bagi jatuh longkang, jangan bagi dia lari-lari kejar cat”

Pesan punya pesan dengan aku-aku sekali sampai rumah sebelah! *pengsan*

See aren’t they cute walking while holding hands like that *love* Sarah and Farah has sling bags but Miki has nothing so I dug out my mom’s junk drawer and found an old pencil case that became Miki’s duit raya bag. hehe..

Jom pergi kutip duit raya! Kerut-kerut muka tahan panas pukul 10am… Perhatikan seorang dewasa berbaju merah yang menyibuk ikut kat belakang…

They went to less than 10 houses only. That’s within 100 meter radius from my mom’s house only! hehe! But his collection was about RM20! Not bad eh?

Jom, pergi umah ni dulu…. Mummy Daddy followed slowly behind, too nervous to let son go…

Makcik… Kami nak raya!

Amboih.. makin jauh nampak…

Hari Raya is a good time to recall Miki’s growth rate and milestones. On his first Raya he was 8 months old. Couldn’t walk or talk. His second raya was celebrated when he was a year and a half months old. He was sick with herpangina and it one of the most painful raya we ever had. The third raya, Miki was already big, super cute and cheeky with long curly hair…

And this year, he walked out of the house to go beraya… what’s next raya has got to offer I wonder… Is he going to 20 houses this time? 40 houses? Is he going to hang around with his cousins and friends more than me? Is he? Is he?

Mummy and Daddy loves you Miki. Be good now son.. be good! Selamat Hari Raya to you..

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Diyana : Someday if I ever get a daughter I want to name her Jasmine. What do you think?

Azman : Hmmm…

Diyana : Sedap kan? JASMINE! Tapi macam pendek sangat la pulak ek?

Azman : Kalau camtu apa kata bagi nama Jusco jek? Kalau nak panjang JAYA JUSCO!!

Diyana :  *heart pain*

My latest purchase. No I NOT yet pregnant, I know you were gonna jump to that. LOL

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