Raya 2006
This year, the lucky 24th October 2006, declared to be the celebration day for all the fasting muslims all over malaysia. Yupp, it was Raya 2006. It just 2 days after the celebration of Festival of Lights, the Deepavali.
"li dapat cuti raya tak?". Funny, this year i'm a working man already. From the receiving end, just by less than a year, now i'm in the giving end.Raya,will be an arguments(later), to get the leave to celebrate it. Luckily this year, even its my first year working, allah granted me with 7 days holiday to glorify the eid. From hoping to get just a day leave on raya day itself, it added to few days and end up 7 days it goes. Yupp, partly because of my birthday will be this coming friday.
"Li balik kampung mana?,". This is my second year of raya in our new manzil, the kampung teras jernang. It is officially our kampung for my parents, my siblings and our children later. Raya here, is nice, it have the kampung feeling, yet as most of the residence here are in their 30's and 40's, most do went back to other places. Basically, Desa Sentosa only have 15 families in it. Yet, takbir was still on, even only 10 of them rounding the houses with the great takbir.This year sembahyang raya was at Masjid Teras Jernang."Boleh dapat duit raya tak?". Yupp this year, as said, i'm changing role to the giving end. How it feel? Hmm...it feels good, nicer actually. It is actually a gift from HIM to let me have the ability to give. I'm not wealthy neither get the bonus, but the little amount that i can contribute, make me feel better, even maybe to the receiving end, it was nothing. Yupp, definitely, it feel good to be part of the contributor.
In short, few things had changed this Raya:
1. Arif can actually talk-and really mean it.2. I bought my own kain, tailored it, bought my butang and songkok-first time of songkok hunting at jalan tar.
3. Tukar duit raya- even it didn't work out that well, but the feeling of changing small new bank notes was satisfying.
4. Buying raya gift- it is good to give as said, but the point to search for it, was tiring-clueless of what to buy. Next year, i hope it will be a better gift hunting.
5. The raya leave......
6. Shopping stuff-this year, as a working man, having own money.....
and few others that...
Nevertheless saying that, some things will never change....like being with the family, kemaafan di pagi raya....and visiting important relatives......raya maybe change it colours now and then...yet the real meaning of it...is still crystal clear if we look at it sincerely....by the way...Selamat Hari Raya Aidulfitri, thousand forgiveness and do pray for me...wasalam
(Pic courtesy of neo_gillain:
1,2.3. First raya with arif, at Uncle Nordin's house-arif had a bad hair day)
