Hari Raya 2017...

For this year we just had a small Hari Raya Open house and we did it on the third day of Hari Raya which fall on June 27, 2017. We just invited a selected few of relatives and friends. We had expected around forty or so would come and celebrate the Raya with us. At just after noon on that beautiful day folks start arriving in groups and individually. 

The first to arrive were the new extended family from the newly wed granddaughter of ours; the eldest granddaughter who got married in July last year. It was nice of them to come and as usual the house soon was beaming with activities. They then sat down to enjoy the Raya spreads that we had prepared. 

Then after they left another extended family, this time a group from the family of our second granddaughter who got married early this year arrived. It was a large group and it does make us happy to get to meet them. They too sat down to enjoy the spread that we had prepared. 

As the day goes buy more and more friends and relative arrived including one a Blogger and Facebook friend, a couple from Sungai Buloh with their two kids. Then a Malay lady Zubaidah Aziz who live in Germany arrived. She is back in Kuala Lumpur for a short holiday during Ramadan. She had said that she would be coming as she had wanted to me us. It was nice to get to meet her in person, a virtual friend that I got to know on Facebook. She then got to meet my spouse and found the opportunity to chat and share notes; woman to woman and mother to mother as she said later. 

All our kids and grandkids were around to help and entertained the guests and in the process, get to know them especially the relatives that came to our house for the first time. One such case was when a group of my late brother Ali's daughter and their mother came. It was the first time that I get to meet two of them. It was nice for Liza one of the daughter whom I had known earlier to have brought along her mother that we have not seen for such a long time. As usual the atmosphere of the house was festive indeed with folks enjoying the Raya with us. 

Although the space in our home is limited it was nice to see that everyone who came had the opportunity to be at the table to enjoy the foods. It was only after eight in the evening that the last guest left the house. In the end, more than the forty guests came, more than we had expected but the foods were ample and everyone had the opportunity to enjoy the spreads. By the time we had clean up the house it was past ten pm. We were exhausted but happy indeed that so many came to celebrate the Hari Raya with us. 

I append here some of the images of the happening on that auspicious day, the third day of Hari Raya or Eid this year. 

Thanks for coming folks; indeed, a successful event in our lives. 


Have a nice day.