Its a double celebration this year for Malaysia when Hari Raya falls on the Hari Merdeka or our National day. Hari Raya falls on the 30th of August and National Day was on the 31st of August. Our Prime Minister announced that this year, the National day will be on the 16 September. This date is actually the date when Sabah & Sarawak join and formed Malaysia.
The usual atmospher of raya in Malaysia is that the muslims will be going through a month of fasting and after that they celebrate the raya by going back to their home town or they balik kampung and visit they relatives and also to go to the grave yard to pray for their beloved ones who had gone to the other side of the world. In the fasting period, they usually will do preparation for raya.Such things as making kuih raya and making baju raya.
One thing I look forward about hari raya is the food such as kuih raya. oh, the batang buruk, makmur and many more and food like lemang, serunding and all the rich flavoured food will be my target when visiting friends or relatives house when they do open house for raya.
This year, even though we don't celebrate hari raya, since it was a long holiday, we decided to do family gathering. Our family is quite big and thanks to my aunty for creating a family page on facebook and thats the place where we do our discussion all the time. So we decided to do barbeque and kareoke! The party started lated afternoon on the first day of raya and the man or the boys will usually get the fire place and the set up ready out side and we ladies will be in the kitchen preparing the food. Each family contributed something but since it was a bbq gathering, we decided each family must bring at least one packet of chicken wings and one container of ice cream. Usually when we put a terms this way, some will still bring other food like pudding, ribs for bbq and since it was raya holiday my aunty brought along a few containers of raya cookies. Ohh..she didn't buy them, her students gave her as raya goodies.
One thing about festive season in Malaysia, indirectly, every one will get to celebrate it because there will definitely be a holiday and even we are not celebrating that particular celebration, we will be doing something with our family.
So to all muslim friends, selamat hari raya and please drive safely when you guys balik kampung and balik report duty.
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