Selamat Hari Raya! ✨
The Zakarias
So we are done with Ramadan this year, and I hope all of us will see Ramadan again next year. Why I love Raya? Because it's the time people all get together to dress up, forgive each other and just... have fun! Well, at least that's what I do during Raya...
This year is a little different for me. I celebrated Raya as an aunty for the first time. My family is pretty slow on the whole pro-creation part... Guess we all enjoy the whole dating, lovey-dovey part of the relationship. Not so much on cleaning baby's poo, changing diapers and lesser dating time, more parenting time.
Ayra turning 11 months, me turning 22yo
I haven't been sharing this much but recently my cousin (aka Ayra's dad) has been going in and out of hospital. It breaks my heart looking at my cousin and my aunt worrying about his health. I have attachment issues, I swear. Knowing that anyone I know is sick... gosh I'm all emotional but I try my best to keep it in. Most of the time, I failed.
I hope it's better now since my cousin got discharged just now. Ayra still needs so much love from my cousin. And well my cousin... gosh he can be 29 and a father now, but boy he's still a kid. Teasing and disturbing me for the thrill!
I thought he's the only guy like that but NO. My other cousin is also just like him. We had iftar last night and he couldn't stop teasing me as well. Just like a kid, just like before he's married.
My paternal side is expecting another girl in the family. I swear my paternal side... the whole girl game is pretty strong. So I'm gonna have another niece! My cousins really need to work on getting nephews because if they're gonna wait for me, it's gonna take some time...
My paternal side is expecting another girl in the family. I swear my paternal side... the whole girl game is pretty strong. So I'm gonna have another niece! My cousins really need to work on getting nephews because if they're gonna wait for me, it's gonna take some time...
Z's grandchildren with one of his daughters
Getting ready for Raya this year was also a challenge. So my family didn't buy any new raya clothes for 2 years already. We just reuse our old clothes. It's perfectly okay to us because we rarely wear all these "Raya-able" clothes anyway.
But this year.. oh wow. I'm always in charge of ironing the clothes for Raya and we all decided to go creamy-gold this year. Today, during the Eid prayers, it started to rain. My brothers and my dad usually wear their baju raya to prayers. The rain was no joke. It was all thunder and lightning and heavy, crazily heavy. CATS AND DOGS AND PROBABLY ELEPHANTS AS WELL kinda heavy. They came back home all wet. (pretty lucky that the praying area is very very near to our house because they could have gotten even more wet) They were so wet, I can actually perah their baju and get all the water.
So we decided to change the clothes for Raya. My family has this tradition of going all sedondon (basically means, same colour scheme) so I had to iron for the whole family a whole new set of baju raya. I sweated so much because we were all rushing. I had to bathe twice because I ain't gonna put makeup with my body and face all sweaty. ☝🏼
This year we decided to gather at Cik Ita's place for my maternal side and Mak Long's place for my paternal side. When I arrived at Cik Ita's place, my aunts were all talking about how hot the weather was. Really, I just need this country to be a little cooler but not too cold.
After the whole bermaaf-maafan part, all of us headed out to go to other relatives' houses. I'm so glad we still do this even though now Atuk is no longer with us. People ask me why I care so much about family and friends... I don't know how to answer them. I feel sometimes laughing and enjoying time with your loved ones is what keeps me going in life.
While waiting for our "drivers" to bring the cars to level one of the carpark
There's always time for selfies.
Syakir and Mum
I was trying to get a good selfie of myself but this two just couldn't stop photobombing.
Me tryna take my OOTD shot
Clearly too many photobombers in my life and it didn't end there.
They took a photo of themselves instead. 😒
Then they entered into the frame again.
But of course, I got my OOTD shot settled no matter what.
I hope everyone enjoyed the first day of Raya because I definitely did. And in this Syawal, I hope we all can forgive each other from the bottom of our hearts and mend all our broken relationships.
Selamat Hari Raya.
Maaf Zahir dan Batin.
Forgive me if I've hurt you in any way.