Cuti Raya Day+3

A mote laid back day today, and the morning was spent at home before heading out to Valencia as in the last entry. It was almost Asar when we left and we went straight to my Mum's place at Bukit Antarabangsa. The traffic in KL was still a breeze and travelling from Sungai Buloh to Ampang only took us around 20 minutes. I wanted to stop by Kepong, at a friend's house but he wasn't in.

After a couple of hours, we went to buy dinner for the boys at a mall nearby before settling in for the evening to watch football.

Barcelona was in town to play Harimau Muda. To be honest, I was expecting the Harimau to get mauled, but they put in a good showing instead. They even scored a great goal. Unfortunately, we didn't het to see Messi play. He was injured apparently. The condition of the training pitch was bad that the venue of the match was switched on the eleventh hour. Which created a bit of a ruckus.

More food after that, and not much else.

Bouncing in Valencia

For Saturday, we went to an open house at one of my work colleague. Initially Anita wasn't keen to go, until.she learned that it was in Valencia, Sungai Buloh. She had been eyeing the place for quite some time, but getting in was a problem since you have to know somebody living inside to be allowed in. Unless you went there to look for properties of course.

And Anita was not disappointed. The houses there were really nice. And really really expensive. The boys were really astounded by the place and wanted to move there.

My friend's house was located at one of the early phases of the area, and a lot greener and well developed. A really cosy place with a golf course running behind the house. A nice cool breeze with green surrounding, I could see myself retiring in this kind of locality. A far cry from the buzz of Bangsar.

The open house itself was fun with great food and good company. Idlan didn't have much sleep the night before, so he was on the grumpy side. But he soon lightened up, and coukdnt stop bouncing on the exercise ball at the back garden of the house.

On the way home, we took a detour around the place. The newer phases has a mote modern design, a bit more minimalist and since they were new, looked rather bare. But some of the designs were astounding. A quick look on the internet, the single storey bungalow was going for RM 4 mil as an asking price ..... Look elsewhere then .....

My excuse was the place was a bit far removed from the centre of town ..... But that did not convince Anita ...... Oh dear ....

Cuti Raya Day+2

The second was more subdued compared to the feast of yesterday. None the less, it was food, food and more food. We had a couple of visitors today, and we did go to visit some friends, but on the whole it was more of a relaxing day.

Come the evening, we went for a movie - more about that later. Irfan especially spent most of the day eating. Idlan was still up at 2 in the morning when I was penning this entry. He was still buzzing about the movie earlier.

Will blog later tomorrow and would also be posting more photos from Hari Raya, plus another open house tomorrow. Good Morning.

Satay Seri Melaka

My Mum told me about this satay stall in Keramat which took orders and supply satay to party at reasonable price, and more importantly good tasting satay. We decided to try. And Anita was impressed enough that she ordered a whole lot of it for the Raya open house at her Mum's place.

The stall was called Satay Sri Melaka. They operate from their regular stall at AU5, complete with a long grill equipped with fans.

We had to pre-order and picked up the satay the afternoon before. Then we quickly froze them and reheat them in batches today for the visitors. I didn't wait long and actually had some for berbuka last night.

They were quite dear at 90 sen a stick, but compared to the cheaper imitations, it was well worth it. The peanut sauce which cane with them were also heavenly. Great combination. Much better than their Kajang btethrens who were usually overhyped, if not overpriced. No need to travel to Kajang when you could get satay this good just round the corner.

Our lotWhen we arrived to pick up our order, we saw the satay already prepared in packages across a long table at the stall, all labeled with the buyers details. We soon got our order just by showing our receipts. No messing about.

I don't think that they had any branches elsewhere. If you were interested to visit, the stall would be along a Medan Selera area next to the AU5 Multipurpose Hall. If you were from MRR2, by taking the Jalan Keramat heading to Taman Permata, the stall would be on your left hand side right after the hall.

Alternatively, just punch these coordinates into your GPS.

Selamat Hari Raya

Selamat Hari Raya. It was a really nice day, getting to spend it with my family without any distraction from work for a change. And I started my day with the visit to the mosque, just a five minute drive from my house.

We were lucky that we were there early as before long, the place soon filled up. And the caretaker forgotten to open up then third floor of the praying area. He already left for his kampung the evening before. Plenty of people ended up having to pray on the pavement outside. Luckily it wasn't raining although it threatened to do so.

As soon as we reached home, it was time for the morning feast while waiting for my brother-in-law to arrive. The children played with their cousin for a while before we had to leave to my Mum's place just after eleven. More food, followed by my Mum's lunch. I was already ready for a nap by then.

We were joined by my Uncle. My boys soon got restless as my sister and her children were in Melaka for Raya.

Their cousin and a classmate of them came to visit late afternoon. And boy, did they enjoy it. So much so that they forgotten about Smurf 2. I was sure they would remind us about that tomorrow. The visitors kept on streaming in until late, and only now that I got the chance to sit down and blog. A long day it has been.