Final Week of Ramadhan
Another week to go before Raya and I started to miss it already. In fact, things had been rather quiet with the school holidays staring today, lasting for 2 weeks. I am on call today with an invitation for berbuka in town later.
Hopefully there won’t be much problem for me to get there and back in time. I have cancelled my clinic tomorrow morning and looking at my schedule, the clinics were pretty light next week.
I will be away for one whole week during Raya. And with another colleague going on a conference in Europe during the time, we were down to one Haematologist during the Raya weekend.
We will be staying at Bukit Antarabangsa this time around, and of course a short trip to Gombak. Julia will be in Melaka. My Mum will be going to Penang the weekend after Raya to attend my cousin’s wedding, but I would be back to work already by then.
Hopefully the call today would be a quiet one, and I can enjoy a quiet few days before Raya ...
Season's Trend
Earlier this month, for a kenduri at a friend’s place, I donned a batik given to me by one of my Indonesian patients. It fitted me well and the stripes were more traditional than the local ones. It looked smart but during this Raya shopping I noticed that this more traditional Batik patterns are becoming a trend.
And it was not just for mens, even the ladies this season seemed to wear these more traditional stripes with a more loosen cutting, back to the 70s fashion sense. I guess trends come in cycles.
Anita got me another pair of Batik shirt for Raya to match hers. This one also looked traditional with simple cutting. The colours also tended to be subdued, usually keeping to a single shade. For the ladies, the motif tended to be flowers.
This became really obvious when we were at #RiuhRaya recently as most of the stalls carry these themes. Anita happened to wear something similar when we was at Riuh - a loose flowery Kebaya top - not at all looking out of place. And she had a few on booking, guessing that she was ahead of the trend ...
I now realised why at the said wedding, I was invited to sit at the VIP table. I certainly dressed the part that day ....