After reading Elisa's entry in her blog http://elisataufik.blogspot.com/... Iwas kinda of smiling non-stop thinking about the past 8 days of EID. Let me just write down my own version of the same cahin of events....
Wednesday Oct. 10....
At 9:00am..went to Ana Zul's house to discuss the final food preparation for our combined open house....together discussing were Ana, Kamisah,Aida & Shalita..we had quite a good and fun discussion plus cooperation to get the 2nd. Eid feast into action...Before going home, Ana provide us with Laksa, kicap and some other stuffs that she says she has huge stocks..ehem...I know where I will be going if I am short of certain things...
Final Iftaar pot-luck at Khaloud....I brought as usual Saadedin cake... well I am not a good dessert maker except maybe for Cake Pisang...but the bananas I was supposed to mash and turn it into a cake has gone sour..excuses..excuses... Zaharah mention that Eid might fall on Friday eventhough they are going to sight the moon on Thursday. So..we shall be fasting 29 days if Friday is Eid day.
Thursday Oct. 11...
Wake Azlan up from his deep slumber..."" Az..bakpe lah dok tidur macam tak boleh bangun-bangun..I ni pun puasa jugak...."" I remember grumbling to him to wake up as I have plans to do my final shopping this morning...We manage to sneak out of the house about 9:00 am... Stop by the Oriental stores to get final stuffs in preparation for Eid... I feel I still have enough time to prepare whatever there are.... Since I have got most of the stuffs..I feel quite relax anticipating the Eid announcements...prepare for Iftaar after Asar and roasted the peanuts in advance... make rendang daging cili api and also rendang ayam...doesn't matter that it's about 1x a year I do this..I hope it will turn out ok...left the 2 rendangs still wet and not fully dry so that we can have it for Iftaar also...
Pick-up Ayman at about 4:00pm...ask him to clean the tables outside etc..etc..
After Isya'prayers...at about 8:30pm..Kimey sends SMS saying that Eid will be Friday...i.e. tomorrow. earlier on after Maghrib..Hannah&I was watching the TV hoping that we can know if EID will be announce...we watch bahrain TV and it did announce something after Maghrib... since we dont know Arabic it was same as useless information...still we wait..but already I start to panic..what if Eid is tomorrow than I have quite substantial things to do....
Still in my telekung..once got the message...jump up and remove the telekung since already done Isya'with Azlan....straight to the kitchen and start to touch everything but do nothing.... Hmm..where to start...ok...gave the peanuts to Azlan to remove the skins..I boiled the nasi impit....cut up the chillies, onions..and so on.....well..everything was done by about 1;30am..
Friday...October 12..EID Mubarak...Eid Mubarak...
Azlan and the boys were late arriving at the mosque...they started prayers at 5:50am... So..alternatively we prayed Eid ourselves in jemaah in our surau....in fact the kutbah given were beneficial to the kids and understanable since Azlan gave it..
Had breakfast of nasi impit,rendang and kuah kacang....about 9:00am head for Ras Tanura for the 1st. Eid open house at Ghazali's house...wow..nasi beriani and the lots.. I was impressed..how could I manage next...Than went on to Sukhairi&Faridah's house and follow on to Zul&Izzah house...so in the end we only return to Dhahran at about 5pm..we did not follow the gang convoy as we were thinking that we want to head home earlier and also get some time to speak to the hosts...if there's too many people than it will be next to impossible. Next after Maghrib..went to Khaloud..Eid pot-luck..by this time everyone was tired and full and I am worrying about preparing for 2nd. Eid open house combined at my place....Still had a fun time with friends and families there...
to be cont....
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