Left the house to go to the in-law’s first. Aku makan sikit je sebab nak belasah mak aku punya kuah kacang yang sodap. I love kuah kacang, okeh ? My favourite way to eat my raya dish ? Himpun palas/lemang and ketupat and tuang kuah kacang on top. Then some timun. Kalau aku ada hati, ku letakkan lah rendang.
After that, raced home and aku pun start makan. Kuah kacang ibuku adalah sangat superb, okeh ? Oh, terkenangkan rasanya yang sungguh indah itu.
Pastu makan soto lak. Neti made the bergedil and I have to admit, it was really nice. Makan kuih raya buatan sendiri dulu seperti semperit yang jadi melt in the mouth selepas masuk angin, chocolate chip cookies and the very crispy oat cookies.
Meh Abang tolong Mamu...
Posing anak aku...
Tapi posing ini lebih dahsyat.. Abang keeps saying that Ana looks like she comes from the 60s... he he... Macam Beetles lah Ana ni..
Kami tak sempat bergambar raya kat rumah tahun ni. So many things happened. First, Marlin lost her handphone. Handphone pulak boipren bagi. Because they stayed over at my house and kept going back to Mom’s house for stuffs, Marlin went back and forth to look for her phone. Daniel and Ita helped too so a lot of time was wasted there.
Then, I asked Mail to hang the ketupat around the kitchen. Aku pun tak taulah macam mana ia boleh terjadi because alih-alih dengaq “Prangggg !” and Mail masuk rumah bau gasoline. Pulak dah. Bukak lah pulak baju tu untuk aku cuci bagi hilang bau. Nak bergambaq pakai baju besa tak mau, nak ndak jugak baju melayu yang had tu jugak..gatai… ! Sudahnya, bila dah kering and berbau harum, sudah tiba masanya untuk kami bertolak ke Seremban, to visit Daniel’s parents. And I tell you, the kuah kacang made by his mom was super duper delish, too. Had laksa, and tonnes of candy kelapa and kuih makmur. Must remember to order from Aunty next year.
Aku suka pergi rumah mak bapak Daniel ni sebab dia orang layan adik aku macam anak sendiri. Daniel’s mom is a great mother-in-law to my sister and for that we are very grateful.
With Daniel's family.
Mula-mula makan kat luar.. (Awatnya buat muka gaya huduh boipren aku nih)
Pastu Aunty ajak sambung kat dalam pulak. She said untuk makan kek. Kami pun kalau pasal makan, ikut ajelah. And memang betul, meja penuh dengan cakes yang Aunty dah slice cantik-cantik. Ini style orang Sarawak, she explained. Dia orang tak dak kuih raya, cakes aje.... Okaylah... belasah aje. The chocolate cake was superb. Adik mintak tambah to our relief sebab kami segan nak mintak.. kah kah. Itu tengah gelak besar sebab gumbira guling-guling nengok kek banyak2..
Ini posing "Eh ! Apa tu ?" bodoh favourite abang aku.
Gaya bebas. Oh yang warna coklat tu segan nak berposing... nyampah.
Sementara nak assemble semua orang Nak kena buat head count gak dah tua-tua ni.
Balik from Seremban, we straight away went to Bab and Mami Ela’s house in Bangsar. I love my Bab and Mami and seeing their happy faces when they saw us, made me teary eyed a bit.
Menu : Ketupat palas and bloody gorgeous rendang daging and kuih raya
Mami’s rendang daging was oh so good, Hubby forced me to ask for the resepi. Sama je bahan-bahannya, it is the jumlah of the ingredients yang membezakan the taste. Kena berguru ni ngan Mami.
A bit of tragedy happened when we were about to leave. Bab is not well, and walks with a cane so we were much surprised when we got up to take our leave, he hurriedly went upstairs. I proceeded to peluk, cium and salam Mami when we we heard a loud crash. Zuri, my cousin and Bab’s eldest son, raced upstairs with his niece Zafira.
Note : Zafira’s parents, my cousin Zaf and his wife Kak Zu lives in Dubai now plus their 3 other children (Zarifa, Zaid and Zaim. Seriously when Kak Zu was pregnant with her third child, I was nervously waiting to see if it was a girl as my head computes they only have Zirafah left to name a girl. Luckily Zaid came out… he he…). Zafira has to stay in Malaysia to take her SPM.
They took Bab downstairs again and put him on his favourite chair and we queued to kiss his cheeks and salam his hand. My brother Syafiq who was first in line however found his hand had bled. He had managed to cut his palm when he fell. Luckily we have 2 doctors with us and Marlin advised Zuri to take Bab to the clinic as it will be needing stitches.
Awat dia kalut naik ataih ? Sebab dia sebek tengok kami nak balik. He cannot tahan to see us leave, so dia nak teriak kat ataih. Awat lah Bab ni….
So aku balik rumah sedih sebab kesian kat Bab. Kesian kat Mami sebab takdak kuih semperit for raya. Aku buat kuih semperit belajaq kat Mami. Kuih favourite Bab ni. Last year we went, Kak Hanim yang tulung buatkan sebab Mami dah tak larat nak buat. Tahun ni aku memang ingat nak bagi sikit for Mami to rasa tapi aku segan lak sebab rasanya tak sesedap yang Mami punya. Tapi bila tengok tak dak pulak semperit dalam balang, aku jadi sedih bebenar.
Sayang Bab nih.
Us..Raya kan, senang buat orang teriak.
WAAAAAA !!!!
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