Eid in Durham

We celebrated Hari Raya today, which is one day earlier than Malaysia.We got to know regarding the date from the London mosque before break fast.Lucky me, I have already prepared the ingredients for my cooking. This is the first time I cooked for Eid as usually in Malaysia, I will only assist my mum. As usual in the morning, Faizal went for prayers and after that we headed to Bowburn community hall to join other Malaysian for our Eid gathering. Since its a potluck gathering, there was variety of foods such as briyani gam with ayam masak merah and pajeri nenas, laksam, mee rebus, nasi impit with kuah kacang, masak lodeh, dessert and cakes. As for me I brought chicken pitta and chocolate cake. Eryna siap dapat duit raya lagi from the Malaysian society. After the said event, we pay a visit to Abg Asmady and Kak Jaizah's house and had pulut kuning with rendang and kuih raya. We had a fun day celebrating Eid in the UK especially with our dearest daughter Eryna. Some pictures taken during the gathering.

Cheeky Eryna

Iftar @ Keenan House

Yesterday, we had a potluck iftar with our fellow Malaysians at Keenan house...Most of us turn up for this event with their specialities...therefore, the spread of food was marvelous, kind of like buffet at hotels...there were nasi lemak with sambal sotong and sambal tumis petai, pizza, nasi kerabu, mee hoon sup, laksa penang, lauk - rendang ayam, ikan asam pedas,ayam percik, varieties of kuih-muih and cakes, fruits and lots more which i can't actually remember...as for us, we brought nasi minyak with acar sayur and daging dendeng...

While the parents are busy eating, the kids were happily playing outside at the parking compound...feels like raya celebration...terasa macam kat Malaysia lak... Eryna was happy as she met her friends...although at times she was grumpy as she was sleepy...

This activity was fun and the coming next event will be the aidilfitri celebration... Here are the pictures taken during the event...

Ucapan Salam Aidilfitri

Link1 - Utusan

Link2 - Berita

Fasting in the UK...

Alhamdulillah kami selamat menjalani ibadah puasa di UK...For time being, Imsak is at 3.56am and maghrib is at 7.51pm...but time imsak and maghrib berubah-ubah setiap hari...imsak will become later while we will berbuka earlier everyday...but, more or less we have to fast for about 17 hours...luckily the weather here is cold taklah rasa sangat masa yang panjang tu...Eryna pun bangun masa bersahur...1st day buka puasa we had nasi ayam and samosa...2nd day we had rice with beef brown sauce with vegetables and telur dadar...3rd day, we had rice with ayam kentang berlada and mixed vegetables, cucur udang and cekodok pisang...Called home yesterday and miss all at home...teringat masa buka puasa with the family...mum will always make sure the food is ready and lay on the table before buka puasa...dad will always be early at the table to wait for the azan...me and sistas will be at the table a few minutes before azan...those were the days...

Ina Ila drink for me air tebu and air mata kuching...
Charlie eat for me roti john...
Dad eat for me pulut panggang and tepung pelita...
Mum eat for me kuih lopes and bubur pengat pisang, jagung and pulut hitam...

Selamat berpuasa...semoga puasa kita mendapt keberkatan dari Allah SWT...

Note: Happy 53rd birhtday to Ayah and 51st to Mak on 4th & 9th September respectively. Have a pleasent birthday during Ramadhan this year.