HaRi RaYa 2007

Well, raya is here already. Thank goodness things are not much of a difference.

Every year, the day before raya, my cousins and I would go to Gelang Serai in Singapore. It's more of a routine for us cousins to go there, late at night to either do out last minute shopping (coz most stuff would be “cheaper” on the last day), buy dendeng to munch on, and also just plain jalan-jalan.

This year, we really made an effort to go, since it's going to be my last raya here in Singapore. We went there at around midnight. After going around with nothing much in mind on what to buy, we finally went to the dendeng stall to get some of our favourite meat. Gawd...imagine the long queue we had to go through. We decided to go to another stall but to our dismay, the dendeng was already very limited. My cousin asked for 1kg of dendeng, and the guy got so shocked of the order. Since there was a long queue, my cousin agreed to only 300g of dendeng. My other cousin was surely not satisfied and decided to queue at the 1st stall that we went to. Surely enough, we managed to get another 700g. Sigh...the things we go through just for dendeng. Hahaha.....

We reached home at about 3am, but only managed to sleep at only 4.30am. Damn....I was sooooooo sleepy the next morning. Thank goodness there was nothing much to prepare that morning. Everything was done the night before.

Surprisingly, everyone came to the house that day. You'd think that once grandma is not around anymore, all the aunts, uncles and cousins wouldn't come over. Am so happy that they came. It was so cheerful that day. I hope it will continue to be that way.