Hari Raya 2009 with my Bukit Batok Childhood Friends

27 Sept 2009, a bunch of us were out celebrating Hari Raya by visiting each others house. Here was the itenary for the day.

1. 10.30 - We assembled to Hendra's house for Mee Soto Session. Hendra said he was the one who cooked it but I doubt so becos it is very nice!

2. 12.30- We proceed east to Nizam's place at Bedok Reservoir. There, I had Burger Ramly even though there is other food like Nasi Minyak and Ayam Bryani to eat. The Burger was good!

3. 14.00 - We then proceed over to Cik Yahya's place at Eunos. We ate delicious lontong goreng prepared by Makcik. The Lontong was really good!

4. 15.30 - We proceed to Shahril's place at Macpherson for a spread of kueh and tidbits.

5. 16.45 - We then go over to Fazly's place next block for another round of Mee Soto. The Mee Soto was very good! LUvvvvvvvv it.

6. 17.00 - We went over to Choa Chu Kang where the group come over to my place. The Nasi Buah my wife cook turned stale and as a result we have to serve our guest with Bread instead.

7. 18.15 - We went over to Achik's place at CCK too. for a round of Mee fen Malay style.

8. 19.30 - We went over to Jujup's place and watched the F1 race start. We missed the Taufik Batisah performance where he made that blunder in our National Anthem's Lyrics.

9. 20.45 - Last stop - We were at Din's place to have PIZZA!!! Yum Yum..... and watch the end of F1 where Hamilton took the checked flag.

10. 10.30 - The end of our visiting tours... We will definitely do this again NEXT year!

Second day Hari Raya 2009

Guys. Sorry for no photos for this addition as I was too bz taking care of my son and was to preoccupied with other stuff!

We basically start out this way for the second day of Hari Raya 2009.

1. My son was so tired for the previous day exertion that he woke up ard 11.30 am.
2. We arrive at Bedok to fetch my two sister in law and mum in law at around 12.30 pm.
3. We arrive at my wife's grandma's place by 12.50 pm at Tampines.
4. We would then proceed to my wife's aunt's place at Tampines too by 2 pm.
5. We had a quick meal there and would reach at my wife's uncle's place at Punggol by 2.30 pm.
6. We watched a movie there and proceed over to my wife's aunt's place at Punggol too by 4.30 pm.
7. We left there around 6.30 and then proceed over to her aunt's place at Bedok Reservoir.
8. I Send my wife's family back to Bedok by 7.30 pm and then proceed over to bukit batok, my parent's place
9. By then my aunt and uncle is already there and we had a short chat before we go over to my elder uncle place also at buki batok.
10. We proceed over to my other elder uncle place at bukit batok too!
11. Before we end the day at my aunt's place at bukit batok as well.

A total of 8 house visitation we manage to do onthe second day. By then everyone is tired! I have to more days of holiday and will make the best of these off days to recuperate from these exertions!

First day Hari Raya 2009

20 Sept 2009. The first day of Hari Raya.

1. Was up by 7 am to go to mosque for Hari Raya Prayer.

2. Make way to my in law's place by 10 am.

3. Went to Bukit Batok to my parent's place by 2 pm. My aunt and cousin was there at my parent's place and we did the Hari raya stuff - asking for forgiveness and to start anew.

4. Went to my aunt's place at Bukit Batok around 3.30 pm.

5. Proceed to my eldest uncle's place also at Bukit Batok by 4.45 pm( By then we have 4 cars convoy with at least 25 people moving together for visitation)

6. We proceed to my grandma's place at Choa Chu Kang by 6 pm

7. We then proceed to MY PLACE at CCK too by 7 pm. There, I ordered four Canadian pizza for my guest to consume! I ordered Peperoni, Singapura Special, MEat Lover and Hawaiin Pizza to the delight of my guests! Every where eat rendang and Ketupat.. My place its time for a change!

8. We left my house by 8 and reached my uncle's place at CCK who had just being discharge from hospital after a throat surgery and left there by 8.30 pm.

9. We then proceed to my cousin's place at CCK too by 8.45 pm.

10. By 9.30 we went over to my mum's cousin's place at CCK too.

11. We left there by 10.15 pm and would then proceed over to my Cousin's mother in law's place by 10.30 pm.

12. By 11.30 pm we left there and proceed to my cousin's place at Bukit Panjang!

13. Finally we come back to bukit batok to my parent's place for one last visitation!

What a day! A Total of 14 places went on the first day of Hari Raya! It was that hectic!

First Hari Raya Weekend!

SATURDAY 4th Oct 2008

We had our doors open to my wifey's family.

My wife cooked Tomato Rice and Shan's mixed spicy chicken gravy. On top of that she also cooked spaghetti. My mum in law brought some Fried chicken wings and we make salad for a balanced diet feast..

Around 3 pm - my mum and Sarah came

Around 5.30 pm - Cik Amnah and Family came

And around 7.00 pm - Cik Noh came with his family...

My wife's spaghetti was a big hit.. It was gone ion double quick time.. Those who missed the boat has to make do with the Tomato Rice...

Around 8.00 pm - We went out from my place to Mak Yam's place at Sengkang. She is Nurul's (my wifey's sister) godmother. They are having an open house and we had Sakura Buffet there. Damn Shiok!

Around 10 pm - We make our way to Cik Noh's place. there we watch a korean movie... 200 pound beauty. Quite a good movie..

12.30 pm - We left there and headed to Bedok to send my mum and sarah home.

1.30 am - We reach Choa Chu Kang finally!!!!

Sunday 5th Oct 2008

Due to the good response to my wife's spaghetti, my wife and I was left with no gravy to eat the left over of the spaghetti noodle. In the end my wife cooked another set of gravy for us to savoured!

Around 1.30 pm - My sister arrive with her fiance and we had spaghetti for lunch again!

Around 2.30 pm - I sent off my sister to her future mother in law's place at Jurong East before proceed to my mum's place at Bukit batok

Around 8.00 pm - We left to Woodland to Cik Misah's place.

Around 9.30 - We went to my uncle Raub place.

We reach back at Bukit batok around 10.45 pm. and I reach home back to CCK around 11.10 pm. Just on time to watch my beloved Liverpool makes a miracle comback from 2 goals down to win the match against Man City 2-3 yahoo...

By the time the match end, I turn in at 1 am..... And I am working the next day!.. What a day!

1st-3rd day Itenary for Hari Raya!

The last three days, Hariz, my wifey and I has been celebrating Hari Raya Non stop! To briefly describe what we have been doing I will try to give you all and idea how many places we have been!!

1st October 2008

I went out with my dad's sister family. A total of 6 families went out together to visit our relatives.

1. Went to my in law's place at Bedok

2. Then we proceed to my parent place at Bukit Batok.

3. Then we went to my Aunt's place.

4. After that we went to my Dad's oldest brother's place.

5. Then we went to my grandma's sister's place at Choa Chu Kang.

6. Followed by my place.

7. We then proceed to my cousin's place Kak Mama

8. After that we went to Abg Din's mother's place

9. That is follwed by Abg din's place at Bukit Panjang

10. We headed back to bukit batok.. to my mum's place for one final place!

A total of ten houses for our first day of celebration! I reached home that day around 1 pm totally exhausted!

2nd October 2008

After such and exhausting day, the second day was not that bad! we started..

1. Went to my mum's place to fetch them. That was around 2 pm before we left our house.

2. Went to my dad's nephew's place at Bukit Batok.

3. Followed by his other nephew's place at Jurong West

4. Finally we went to my mum's sister's palce at Bukit Batok.

5. My family separated from my parents and we proceed to Bedok to fetch my mother in law and Sarah

6. We then headed to Nyanyi Kala's place at Tampines.

7. Then we went to my wifey's auntie's place also at Tampines

8. We then went on to go to Farah Hani's place at Punggol

9. Lastly we headed back to Bedok to send my mum home and rested there for a while and left home around 11.30 pm!

Second day hari raya was not that hectic but it definitely tiring as well....

3rd Oct 2008

Due to Friday's prayer, we started slightly late today.

around 5 pm.. we

1. Went to my mum's brother's place at Bukit Batok

2. Went back to my mum's place for margrib.

3. Followed by to my mum's oldest brother's place also at Bukit Batok.

Not so tiring but we reach home around 11 pm and was extremely tired after three days of late nites and visitings..

Oh well we have not describe the details for the weekend.. that I will mentioned once the weekend is over... suspecting a busy weekend ahead!!!

The one and oni

Nizam

Bamboo carpet

This Hari Raya.. The theme is RED.. Thus we manage to get this bamboo carpet for $40.00 was a good catch! My mum brought another design which is slightly bigger for $ 50.00. This design blend in quite nicely in my house!