Out of office..

..for the holidays!

Happy Eid ul-Fitr to all readers.
Take care and travel safe, ok!

(pics googled from the net)

Syawal Greeting

It's 1st Syawal, the Eid ul-Fitr celebration, to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadhan.
By the time this auto schedule post generated, my family and I are out of town celebrating Eid in Pekan, Pahang.

It's a fisherman's village, on the east side of Peninsular Malaysia, breezing the South China Sea air.

Just to share with you my kids art work for this celebration.

Amin came home last week, happily flaunting this greeting card he made at nursery, together with a paper woven basket.

He said he painted them all, and weaved it, but teacher was the one who cut the strips of paper and then stapled them together to make a basket.

The basket was filled with cornflakes cookies, which the teachers made.
And none of us are allowed to eat it until Raya !

Arif was very excited to snatch this from Big Bro Amin but of course, Amin put this high up the shelf.
I thought this was it, until the next day, Arif came home with his own basket of cornflakes cookies!
(which yeah, the teachers made all this of course, as Arif is just 2 yrs old, which I doubt he made it, anyways.. LOL)

Hence, now we have 2 basket of cornflakes cookies, and since Arif has his own basket, yes, all cookies have been eaten within that very hour !

Once again, my family and I would like to wish you Happy Eid ul-Fitr.

May your Eid be celebrated with joy and happiness.

Please forgive us for all our wrong doings.

Take care and Muahhhsss to all !!

Chapter 4 : Let the fun begin

Last step is to boil the Ketupats.

It's going to take a few hours, with several times changing & refilling the boiling water.

Do not forget the tips to lather the outer part of the pot with oil and paper, so that cleaning the pot later, will be easier.

And what better way to spend the time waiting for the Ketupat to cook, other than get together in a circle, and play the sepak takraw !

Chapter 3 : Lock & Loaded

The last step is to lock the Ketupats up, by weaving in the top part and tighten up any loose ends.
Then, knot them up in fives before cooking.
The final count for this year, is 150 pieces of Ketupats !

Chapter 2 : Quality Control

This is the most important part of all, stuffing the ketupat with rice.
Looks easy but actually you have to make sure it is in slightly more than half, but not reaching three quarter the volume of the ketupat size.
If you accidentally put more, the rice will be too hard when cooked, and if you put less, it'll be too soft and mushy.
Hence, that's why we called this phase, the QC phase.
Similar to years before, hubby is the appointed chief for QC.

Chapter 1 : The art of weaving

In the event of Eid ul-Fitri celebration tomorrow, our must have is the Ketupat.
First step is to weave the coconut leaves into Ketupat shape.
Yes, proud to say that I am born to do this.  It's like a ritual for every Eid celebration.
Maybe later I'll make a special entry on the step by step to weaving this Ketupat.
For now, we have to get as many done as possible!