Eid Mubarak

To All My Friends:

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
Maaf Zahir Batin

Today is Hari Raya...and i celebrating it in the same day with peoples in Malaysia...so today is a very happy day...woke up early this morning to have a nice shower and haing a great breakfast...there are leftover from last night such as rendang, nasi putih, lodeh and nasi impit or as some people like me call it lontong and a few more dishes...

Then, rushing to Central Mosque to have Eid-ul Fitr prayer since we're a little bit late but thank god we made it...actually there is a few prayer session and we're going to the first session which started at 8 a.m...but since we're already have a plan this morning, therefore we agreed to go the earliest prayer...

Masa tengah dengar khutbah raya dalam Arabic, so can't understand at all
The Imam is the one standing that wear the white clothes if you can see

Then back at home, wait for Zwan, Farid and Yusri to come, managed to call my family...talk a bit, ask what they doing at home, what are they cooking and that make me wanted to fly straight home...but i know it's not possible...

Then, by taking bus, or buses...we're heading to Erdington...there is a raya feast hold right there organized by PMPMB (Persatuan Masyarakat dan Pelajar Melayu Birmingham)....and there is nice crowds when we reached there...unfortunately there is a lot of unfamiliar faces...and there we are...sitting among ourselves, all undergraduate students...hahaha...what a waste going to such an event without making an effort to know the others Malaysian...

Majlis Raya PMPMB where you can see most of the guests are womans
and childrens. All the mans and boys are either at outside smoking or
chatting at the back of the hall

The dishes are plenty and we can eat as much as we can but since we need to keep a spaces in the stomach, so just eat a little....but i quite disappointing with the dessert...not because it's not delicious but it's not enough for everyone...

After eating,...lepak at the outside...not for smoking yeah but for taking pictures session...

Majlis Raya PMPMB

And at this point i realised that, this is my last raya celebration in UK...next year i'll celebrate it at Malaysia...

So tangkap gambar here, tangkap gambar there...kena tarik here, pegi tarik there....

The majlis end at 1 p.m...after bersalam-salaman, we're heading to bus stop to go to our next destination which is Abg Sulaiman's house at Harborne...and the food are really yummy...although it's a little bit cramped since his house is a 2-bedroom flat...

On the way home from Abg Sulaiman's house.
As you can see, it's autumn so there's
a lot of fall leaves.

Then, balik rumah dulu untuk berehat...sebab this evening, there is still 2 open houses we need to go....i managed to megheluh (sleep) for less than five minutes before Zwan call me...

We promised to Iqa we'll reach her house at 5, but ring her house's bell 1/2 hour late...and Dr hafizal are there too...so makan-makan lagi...and as Hairi and i predicted, there is a tuna casserole by Aishah...hahaha

University of Birmingham and
University Hospital of Queen Elizabeth

After a quick makan2 session, head back to my home to perform maghrib and straight back to bus stop to go to Dr Hafizal's house in Hall Green...i hate the 1 hour journey by bus to go to his house since we need to change bus at city centre because if we go by car, it'll take less than 15 minutes or so to reach his house...what a complete waste of time but when we reached there, it really worth all the nausea cause by the journey...

And what else can i say about Dr Hafizal and kak Mag, a nice couple living in Birmingham...a couple that really took care all of us...and the food cooked by kak Mag, it was marvellous...and i hope one day, i'll found someone like her...

Ah, what a day...i think we've covering whole Birmingham in one day...from Erdington to Harborne, Edgbaston to Hall Green...