A Mini Open House

Our house was scheduled to be attacked today. By our cousins who had returned from their kampungs or those who had been having celebrations of their own in the last couple of days. They called first thing this morning, and would be coming late afternoon to visit their uncle and aunts. Busy day beckons.

Since we have already planned for the movie lunchtime, we had to do a bit of shopping first thing, and I can hear my Mum-in-law already started ordering people around. My task for this late morning was to get a quick groceries done as well as picking up some food from Bangsar on the way back from the movies.

The Raya tsunami was finally hitting the household!

Weekend Activities

It has been a busy weekend in the household with the birthday party and last ditch open houses. The last weekend being the final weekend of Ramadhan and all. My sister hosted her daughter's and husband's birthday party on Saturday. My Auntie also traveled all the way from Sg Petani to visit us. The party went on all afternoon. In the evening, there was the Premier League fix after the two weeks international break. The result went United's way apart from Arsenal hitting form. The fiasco with the beach balloon in Sunderland really made my weekend.

On Sunday, we went to over to Cheras to attend Anita's cousin's open house. Likely going to be the last for the Syawal. Spend some time there but had to return early since I was taking my family for dinner that evening. We went to Cozy Corner in Ampang Park, a favourite spot for Anita's family but we were really disappointed last night. The food was off the mark this time around. The steak was dry, the noodles was not nice, even the fish and chips were soggy. Have they changed the chef? It was a disappointing end for a lovely weekend.

Monday arrived today and I spent the evening after work sifting through the photos taken during the weekend. Finally managed to do some post-processing on them and got evething on order. Unfortunately, I am at my Taman Cemerlang residence minus the broadband. Uploading the pix onto my site was a pain. May have to swing over to the Taman Setia home to upload it later in the week. I also need to use the printer to print some articles at some stage in the week. My friend's from college were also asking if I will be playing badminton tonight. Unfortunately it is difficult to leave Anita and the boys alone at Cemerlang and the game only starts at 9. After finishing at 11.30, I am sure that the Terendak boys wanted to hang around for a session of teh tarik. Might be playing next week we are back in Setia.

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Open house at Anita's cousin

Another open house today and it is at Anita’s cousin in Cheras. What is unique is the catering. She actually does some catering herself and decided to host something different. The food were all Kampong themed with real tempoyak and ulam. Petai was everywhere and the rendang tok was heavenly.

We stayed from 2 until almost six, waiting for cousins after cousins to arrive. Most of them were from other Open Houses and by the time they arrive, most are already full. Once they started chatting, nothing can sop them. It's a good time to catch on old gossip I suppose. Will be out later to take my auntie from Sg Petani out for dinner. Not sure yet where we will be headed.

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The weekend just passed

At section 7, Shah AlamIt is almost an unwritten rule that the subsequent weekends following Hari Raya is filled with Open Houses amongst city dwellers like me. It is also a rule that people, the Malays mainly tie the knot. The weekend passed summerised it well.

The Rawang highway stop. Very well maintainedOn Saturday, the whole troop converged on Ipoh to celebrate the wedding of one of our best friend's sister, Itul. As usual, we were worried that the boys may become restless. Well, they did, but I thought it was going to be worst. The wedding itself was pure class. It was a full Perak affair. There was live band of course. Food was nice. No complains really. We wished that the boys were not as cranky so that we can spend some extra time with the the friends. Itul is only back for a couple of weeks. She just started a new post in Yorkshire. Maybe she has some free time this week for us to visit. Syahril is planning an open house for friends this coming weekend as well. Maybe we can spend some more time then.

On Sunday, we attended a few more open houses hosted by Anita's cousins. The problem that day was finding the address. One was in Rawang, right in the middle of nowhere. The other one was in Shah Alam, but getting there was rather confusing. We made it there alright but it was pretty tiring. Once the boys met up with their cousins, they were very happy and did not want to go home.