Continued from Johan's
first Hari Raya.
Monday 20th September, second day of Raya. Me and wife brought the kids to visit the grave of their uncle, my youngest brother at Bakri Batu Enam, Muar.
There, we also visited the graves of my mum's father and mother. Then we went to town and found to our delight that our favourite Mee Bandung shop, a very famous delicacy of Muar was opened.
We felt lucky upon finding out that the Mee Bandung shop was closed during the whole fasting month of Ramadhan and was only reopened that day! Next we brought the kids to the recreation area of Tanjung Emas to play with monkeys.
This was followed by a stop at our favourite coffee hang-out, Kopi 434.
Ah. Muhammad Al-Aminul Rasyid who is going to be 3 in less than 2 months just can't stop making faces...
At night we went to our late grandma's house for a traditional family event.
It is when the extended family, my mum's siblings, their children and grandchildren get to converge and then display their performing talents, at least by singing.
For many years we have set the event starting in the evening or night of second Hari Raya. This year's was originally set to start at 4 but many family members who came for many parts of Malaysia got caught up in traffic jams.
We ended up converging after 8 pm. Even then we can't start the performance yet...
You see a relative invited us for a function starting around 9 or so. At the same time some family members had to leave early.
So we decided to take pictures first.
Mind you this is only about half of the family. There we some overseas while others had to spend second Raya at their respective in-laws'.
The function at the relative's...
It was a qeqah function, a Muslim celebration for newborn/s.
In the centre is master of the house, my second cousin who was the local wakil rakyat (people's representative) at Johor state assembly and an executive council member.
He was asking our grand-uncle Tok Yahya, the oldest man in Kampung Temiang and its surroundings to bless his grandchildren.
Then it's makan (eat, dinner) time.
My wife with baby Johan and a nephew posing with Tok Yahya.
We only get to start our performance session after 11. This time I didn't take much pictures as I was just too tired and decided to catch some winks.
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