4 posts tagged “raya”

I had the most awesome yet tiring weekend.

It started off with Friday. I was working in the lab the whole afternoon. Who knows, identifying different species of river bugs can be so exhausting. Mlmnya, we had ice breaking session where i get to meet newcomers and mingle around. The foods were great as usual and we met two cute little girls, the daughter of a postgrad here. Child-deprived banar kami atu, abis the girls kami surrounded. We played get-to-know game and continuing their legendary tradition, the 688 guys introduced their new bagi-mental game again but i managed to crack it after few patterns.

Saturday follows with 2hrs badminton game at 10am. We watched the BiB guys played football against indonesians after that. Then, Naili and me went to the city with Rad and Hanis for a shopping spree. We were so hungry by the time we went to the first shop so we ate at Yum Yum Chicken. This new food chain at Martineau Place, good menus, reasonable price and great seating place. After we're done we went back to Pallasades, me and Naili went to Home2Home while the other two went to Evolution to buy Fatin's gifts. By the time we finished, both our hands were full with shopping bags. We went to Tesco waiting for the other two to finish their shopping. Something happened while we're waiting outside Tesco, just imagine us two with lots of shopping bags and this crazy guy kept on looking and talking to us sometimes to himself. Luckily, Abu and Azrul were there so i managed to seek their help, jadi bodyguard. hehe. Then we girls balik pakai taxi. On the same night, me and Naili went to Dawlish Road to help the girls preparing for their open house.

Then came Sunday,i woke up way too early than usual cos i was confused of the time. It's the end of summertime and now the clock goes back one hr. The reason for the waking up early was to help the Dawlish girls preparing the foods. We finished at almost 2pm just when the guest started to come. It was a great open house, kudos to Hazimah Hanis, i can see she's really putting her effort into it. And to her housemates as well for being a great hostess. For the end of the night story, let's just say that i almost wet my pants because i was laughing so hard. Happy belated birthday to Fatin, seriously sumo melayu in action is the best birthday gift ever!

Overall, a very exhausting awesome weekend. I havent fully rest from it. I had class trip today to Winterbourne Garden. I havent really get enough sleep so i was kinda off while on the site. It was hailing lagi tu, so after surveying the woodlands for one hr and a half, i went back home.

Im tired but i cant seem to rest.

after badminton (credits to Diyana)my housematesNisa square (credits to Diyana)Dawlish raya open housewith the birthday girlus in raya modeim loving my new snow globe collection :)))) click to play

Weird, i just saw a bruise on my left thigh and it's already turning purple. I dont remember how and when i got it :s

Just got back from Leeds and arrived in Birm at 12.30am, we had to transit via Manchester for 30 minutes and sampat lah liat manchester city at night. BruLeeds was great; most of us were there supporting our Brum friends on stage, 3 meja kami saja yang panuhkan wah. Met Sham, Chip, Amal, Raby and few other long-time-no-see frens and that was fun. c Hanis control ayu, lemah gemalai tariannya hehehe lawaness :) and c Mallie crazy. Hahaha. You guys should have watch him performed the opening song and it was hilarious. Actually i got the video of it tapi inda pulang berapa clear but you'll get the idealah hehe and Alan was recording as well so he's got the better version of this:

A tiring journey but it's worth it.

LOL. This is not a review, just summaries of Birmingham Raya 2007 so far.

688 Pershore Road The Guys House.
Host: Tony, Mallie, Mus, Azrul, Doni.
Time: Fri 12th Oct, Isya' time.
Menu: rice,steamed fish, fried fish, rice, kuah dal, naan.
Summary: it's not an open house, just a gathering for takbir raya so the guys were in their usual tshirt but most of the girls were in baju kurung. Performed Isya' prayer together then we had takbir raya after that; all the guys recited takbir raya individually started by Doni and doa takbir led by Mallie. Few sobbing and tears during the takbir but it's all good. Kek raya were served as well, raya songs in the background and picture session continues as usual.
47 Sandbourne Road.
Host: Saiful, K.Fadz, Yati, Adlina.
Time: Sat 13th Oct, after Zuhur.
Menu: ayam percik, mushroom, laksa penang, tiramisu, nasi lemak, lotsss of kek raya
Summary: it's the time of the year when we all wear baju kurung and parade ourselves to the bus stop. It might looks like an early halloween for others but for us, it's RAYA man! It's the time when you get to see guys in cara melayu (total hotness btw) other than in wedding's ceremony. Any guys in cara melayu with the sinjang and all = smart hottie. Anyway, back to 47 house, Yati cooked most of the foods served and it's great. At 5pm, we headed home because we had another house to 'langgar'.
63 Milner Road The Girls House.
Host: Razan, Hanis, Yani.
Time: Sat 13th Oct, after Maghrib.
Menu: i dont know what's the name of their cuisine but everything's there: there's lamb, fish, chicken, sayur. I only got to eat the fish and the chicken.
Summary: Hanis's parents were in Birmingham for few days and so they cooked all the foods for their open house. Parents' cooked meals = awesome. Met cigu Julie there for the first time and recognised her instantly as one of MD teacher, she's here doing in-service postgrad in Birmingham University. Met Razan's frens as well coming all the way from Notts but they were pretty quiet malu kali durang kan mingle around. hehe. By the end of their open house, we all walked back home. Seriously, it's really sexy parading along the streets in our baju kurung. A lovely night it was. We girls went home to change our clothes before we headed to the guys house to hang out. We were playing DDR (not me :p), Tekken and Need for Speed PS2 games and only went home at 3am.
752 Pershore Road (our house!)
Host: Me, Hudz, E.Fadz, Shaz
Time: Wed 17th Oct, after Maghrib
Menu: We have menus from each of us. hehee.

• From me: nasi biryani, honey grilled chicken, lamb masak kerisik, sayur acar, popia kentang, air bandung

• From Hudz: laksa, fried cashew nuts, brownies, ice lemon tea

• From Shaz: apple crumble, potato salad, stuffed mushroom (and this is from Fadz too! hehe)

Salam all,
You are all invited to 752 Pershore Road Raya Open House this wednesday 5pm onwards. Spread the words.
Ps: we gonna make surprise bday bash for Huda as well. JGN GITAU HUDA! Any bday discussion should only be discussed whenever she's not around. Hehe, c u guys!

Note: we changed the time to after maghrib because we think the cooking wont be done by then. Anyway, back to the surprise, sometime between the picture session and dessert we asked Razan to distract Hudz to go upstairs asking for *cough* girl-related problem *cough* and within that 2 minutes, we panickingly brought out balloons (freshly-blown. LOL) from Shaz's room and excitedly waiting for Hudz to come back downstairs. Here's the sequence: Hudz's upstairs in her room, check. Balloons, check. Banner, check. Cake, check. Candles, check. Presents, check. Lights off, check. Smiley faces, check. Camera on, check. Keep quiet, check. Waiting.... And she came.....*singing Birthday song*. LOL. Mission accomplished. High-five. Hehehehehee.  Huge thanks to all for making it successful.
Awesome night =D

So that's our raya so far. There are still few open house coming soon. Overall week: Hectic. Tired. Lack of sleep. I even took a short nap at the guys house yesterday eventhough the DDR game was on loud.

Tomorrow, most of the BiB are going to Leeds to support our members' participation in BruLeeds raya; Good luck to Mallie (who's going to mc the event) and Hanis (who's going to perform in traditional dancing). It's gonna be fun.

Im off. This picture is nice. hahaha gotta love the purple balloons =D
credits to Alan, our camera guy. The one with the double anti blur. hehee *inside joke* He's shy around camera xP

I just got back from beraya-ing. Hee~ 3 buah rumah kami raya today.

Alderson Road
Harborne Road
Birchfield Garden

Awesome <3 <3 <3

First house,almost every BruBrummies present. The foods were yummy and international. Mcm2 ada~ Credits to Ka om,Ka Yati,Fadz,Saiful and Ka CT. Thank you so much for the wonderful open house. Love u guys to bits <3

Second house to Sukri's phd malaysian friend. Makanannya mee rebus johor and mee bandung. Nyamanness! Ramai lagi tu guest durang,orang malaysians jua. Awkward jualah when we talked in Brunei and they answered in Malaysian accent. But it was meriah coz byk kids di sana.

Third house to Baby and Tony's. We had a meeting about something and it turned out good. Best best best!

Eh eh,krg midnight we have to re-adjust our clock minus one hour cause winter is starting. So now the clock difference between Brunei and UK is 8 hrs,not the usual 7hrs.

Great~