despite my initial resistance to all things raya this year, i couldn’t help myself – there’s just something about last minute raya preparations that make my adrenaline pump, lol!

and of course, it helps when your husband is extra generous this year, ha ha.

when you think about it, it’s a little silly how we go into a mad rush to buy new things or do a makeover, for yourself and the house, to meet the ‘deadline’ that is 1st syawal. surely that’s not what it should be about. but you somehow find yourself sucked into the vortex of self-indulgence that is geylang. a spectacular spectacle of mounds and mounds of clothes, carpets, curtains, everything you could possibly think of, and the highlight of it all, the carnage of food, nevermind the people in other parts of the world who have little to eat, coz just we gotta have those dendengs, right?

in any case, i admit i was suckered in. for the search for good deals. for the last-minute things you think you need. and for the keropok lekor, the japanese balls, and what-have-yous. (but hey you can’t deny a nursing mum who’s fasted all day, the food all goes to the hungry baby! :p) all silly, silly things.

anyway, after four separate trips braving the hot and sweaty shop-lusty crowd, jostling for elbow and not forgetting carpark space, i think we’ve been duly geylang-fied. even aniq has added ‘geylang’ and ‘hari raya’ to his ever-expanding internal dictionary. (his daddy’s currently trying to get him to acquire a taste for old p.ramlee classics with vcds bought from, yep, geylang.)

so tomorrow, the eve of raya, there will be yet more tasks to complete before ‘deadline’ (nothing in the house is cleaned yet, coz, err, too busy going to geylang ha ha).

and to add to the list of things to do, is to celebrate Chewren’s Day at aniq’s school in the morning. of all things he has to wear, instead of a nice baju kurung to celebrate the upcoming raya, he has to wear something denim for the photo-taking, coz, erm, that’s the theme, apparently. now how come we didn’t see a baju kurung in denim, i ask you, geylang?

ok, it’s sahur time. (the last for the year!)

selamat hari kanak-kanak, and good luck meeting your deadlines, people!

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