First day of HARI RAYA

What a long.. but VERY enjoyable day it was yesterday...

Morning,
Woke up early... cause have Wushu practise...
drove to my coach's house where they were having the practise... instead of the routine practise at the Indoor Stadium.. probably because it's Hari Raya and the stadium is closed for the public holiday...
First time ever I was so out of breath while practising!! I was completely fatigued.. and it was only a few rounds of it....
anyway... I only did the practise for one hour, then had to go home.. to prepare myself to go visiting...
Reached home at 11.30am.. and had a shower....
while waiting for Iqbal to pick me... had a light meal.... fast noodles.. hehehe!

Anyway.. afternoon... we, Iqbal, Abel, Sara, Jenny & Seryna, first went to Azie's house...
Her house is so beautiful and so comfortable... It really is!

Here's the front of Azie's house (Jenny in pic). Nice, isn't it?

While there, Abel just had he idea to borrow someone's Malay shirt to have the Hari Raya feeling...
He got to borrow one from Azie's father.... then Sara thought to follow Abel's example and borrowed one too... and then with the suggestion from the others, I joined to borrow one as well!

This is how we looked like with the Malay shirts. The man in the middle is Azie's father.

We had our lunch here as well.. the food was nice!

after that we went to the back of the house... wow.. the back was really nice too!

The sitting area at the back of Azie's house.

After some while of just talking and getting to know a lot Azie's father (very nice guy), we 'reluctantly' (Azie's house was just that comfortable) went to Azie's cousin's house which was just opposite her place... Dian was her name if I am not mistaken...
my apologies if I spelt her name wrongly... or even mistakening the person herself! XP
Unfortunately, Dian was not there anymore.. but her father still welcomed us in.

The place was really nice and comfortable too!

Not only that, he also got to entertain us with his electric guitar.. Boy.. he was really good... Enjoyed listening to him.

After about another hour, we then moved on to the next house.. which was Fera's house...
It was about 6pm if I am not mistaken when we arrived to her house...

There were quite some number of people that came after us as well!

We got to meet with Fera's family..... While most of us were having dinner and after his, Abel got to talk with Fera's parents...
I was already feeling my eyes burning... lack of sleep I suppose... but I forced myself not to dose off there...
eventually... we moved on to the next house... the fourth... Aishah's house.

Wow... her house was REALLY nice.. I liked the place a lot... sigh.. how I envy them all to have such nice houses....
Anyway, we spend quite a while here. Later, Azie and her family came as well, somewhere between 8-8.30pm if I am not mistaken....
We spend some more time together... then shortly after Azie & her fmily went off, we left as well.

Sara playing with the antique pistol with Jenny.

Final house we went for the day... Abel's house... He wasn't celebrating Hari Raya... but we went there to have some of my mother's homemade pizzas...

We also had another dinner here...

At the sitting room, Abel brought out a bottle of tuak (rice wine).. but this tuak wasn't like the one we had before...
this particular bottle had been kept since 1996! It's almost a decade old!
All of us, except Seryna, had a drink of it. But most of us had very little to drink because... Iqbal had exams the next day... and Jenny & I didn't want too much to drink....
Sara and Abel only had one glass of that old tuak... I think.. I'm not too sure...

Cheers!

At 11pm or so.. we made a move back...
It had been a great and fun day... some more Hari Raya fun on Tuesday when we will be going to Nadia's house.... Will keep you updated on that!



DISCLAIMER: The photos above were taken from Jenny's Multiply.