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Cerita Raya 2013

Assalamualaikum dan salam Syawal semua~

Well well well dah 2 minggu kita menyambut Hari Raya Aidilfitri dan keriangan Syawal masih lagi terasa. Masih ada lagi yang memganjurkan rumah terbuka. Begitu jugak di hospital, banyak company2 ubat menganjurkan rumah terbuka di tempat mereka.

Hari Raya Aidilfitri kali ini sedikit berbeza kerana nenda tercinta mengalami strok. Jadi kami semua tidak berkumpul di Johor Bahru seperti tahun2 yang lepas tetapi kami semua berkumpul di Banting, Selangor kerana nenek dijaga oleh mak cik di sana. Jadi aku pun drive pulang ke Shah Alam untuk beraya di sana.

Pada 1 Syawal usai solat sunat Aidilfitri, kami sekeluarga seperti biasa berkumpul di rumah Seksyen 4 dan bersesi fotografi. Then, sesi bermaaf-maafan, duit raya, makan2 sikit dan kemas2 rumah sebelum ke Banting. Di Banting, ada beberapa family sudah berada di sana menanti ketibaan family2 yang lain. Juadah hari raya kali ni adalah none other than ketupat, lemang, rendang itik, ayam masak merah, roti jala, rendang daging dan bermacam2 lagi. Memang bertambah2 la lemak lepas ni kan. Hehe..

Family portrait

Bersalam-salaman di Aidilfitri

Rumah Nurul

Durian!

Squad pemetik manggis

Bersiar-siar di dusun

Happy birthday Siti!

Beraya di Kelana Jaya

Birthday celebration for Along & Sufi

Setelah melawat nenek di Banting, kami meneruskan perjalanan ke selatan iaitu ke Batu Pahat untuk menziarahi nenek sebelah bapa pula. Malam tu beraya di rumah Wak Long sebelum kami berangkat ke Johor Bahru. Eh, balik JB jugak kan? haha.. Umi cakap nak beraya di rumah saudara-mara di sekitar Johor Bahru dan Kota Tinggi, so memang kena balik JB juga. Kami membawa pulang durian dan manggis dari kebun Pak Lang. Memang berbau la kereta, maklumlah Alza punya bonet dan bersambung dengan seat. 

Sekejap je balik JB, the next day dah kembali ke Shah Alam. Then beraya kat bandar la pulak. Sebenarnya plan nak ke Dungun untuk hantar adik pulang tetapi dibatalkan sebab budak manja tu tak nak balik awal2. Kalau boleh nak naik bas paling lambat. Dia cakap ada beberapa kelas dah ganti so dapat cuti lama sikit. Apa2 pun boleh la, janji kau bahagia kan. Lepas tu kami ke Segamat pula untuk beraya di rumah Mak Induk sebelum ke Johor Bahru semula untuk menghantarku pulang.

Then next day aku pergi kerja, my family pun pulang ke Shah Alam.

Salam Aidilfitri 2013 | 1434H

Selamat Hari Raya Aidifitri semua!

Di kesempatan ini, penulis ingin memohon seribu keampuan jika ada terkasar bahasa, tersilap tutur kata, tercaci, termaki, tercerca dan sebagainya. Maaf dari hujung rambut ke hujung kaki ye.

Semoga pada hari raya ini, kita semua dapat merapatkan hubungan silaturrahim dan menziarahi sanak-saudara dan rakan taulan.

Eid Mubarak!

:)

Iftar @Mutiara Hotel

Alhamdulillah, finally got the chance to have iftar at hotel like I desired. 

Initially we planned to go to Blue Wave Hotel but later the plan changed to Mutiara Hotel. Mutiara Hotel. This hotel is located in the city near KSL City Mall. Quite easy to be located and the road is quite straightforward. Not so far from my grandma's house actually, can reach within 5 minutes. The participants were the kakak2 pharmacists from our hospital. Don't feel strange, because I'm the only Malay male pharmacist in the entire hospital. So sad.. Hahaha.. Oh ya, the price is RM83 per person.

The restaurant name is Seri Mutiara Restaurant and is located at the lobby. Many tables were arranged including in the hallway. We surveyed the menu first after finding our reserved table. The menu was very mouthwatering ranging from traditional to western food. There were around 10 types of different colourful drinks as well. In the inside, we could find local menu, western, salads, char kuey teow, kebab, porridge, fruits, dates, ABC, cakes and breads while at the exterior are there were kuih-muih, keropok lekor, fried durian, roti john, grilled fish, mandi rice, cekodok, satay, nasi lemak and mee rebus.

Very colourful

Cakes

Cakes

Kuih-muih

Our table

Local dishes

Lemang, ketam ball and popiah

We started taking the kuih-muih first and later to the main meals. For the first round, I had plain rice with sambal puyuh, fried chicken, sotong masak santan, fried shrimps and gulai rusa. This was my first time trying the venison. After finishing the first round, I went to pray first then continued with the second round. I chose western food this time with prawn fettuccine, chicken lasagna, chicken mushroom, lamb chop with thyme sauce and vegetable au gratin. Sedappppp.. The food was definitely delicious although some of them didn't managed to reach my standard. For example, the kuih lopez which was not sweet at all, the lasagna had less cheese and salty kuah kacang for satay. Other than these, they were perfectly fine.

We left the hotel around 9 pm and bid goodbye to each other. Some of us were already on hari raya leave so I'm not gonna meet them next week.

Pharmacy Family Day 2013

This story happened around in June but only now I feel like blogging about it. 

Pharmacy Family Day this year had a unique theme which was Cowboys/Cowgirls. Thus, we had to dress up like desert-like cowboy-style. Haha.. I was appointed as paksarela emcee for the night alongside Hemah. I really don't like being an emcee because I myself quite don't like appearing on the stage. Stage fright gitewww.. But since no one wanted to take the job and the person who appointed me said that I'm good in BM so she chose me although I wasn't supposed to be in the emcee list. Mana orang lain? Orang lain boleh reject tapi aku tak boleh eh? Bias di situ..

Ok la, so event started at 6 pm with games and puzzles. I took part in bowling. Other games included jigsaw puzzle, teka aksi and musical chair. All the pharmacy staffs were divided randomly into 4 groups. Group names included Wild Wild Us, Rhodeo, Sheriffs and Midnight Kaw Kaw. I was in Sheriff group with the leader Kak Ros. Games were started with musical chairs and others started simultaneously after that. I haven't played bowling for a while so there was a few times the ball went into the longkang.

Oh ya, the event took place in Austin Hill Golf Resort which is situated not far from our hospital. After the games finished, we had a quick break before the dinner started at 8 pm. I went to the changing room to take a quick bath and changed into cowboy attire. Luckily there is a prayer room inside the changing room. There's a few Jacuzzi as well. 

Then, sharp at 8 pm we started our ceremony. After a brief introduction, we invited Pn. Mai to gave her speech and also to launch the event. Followed by doa recital by Haji Sam and the dinner. As the dinner started, we asked the first group to prepare for their performance. Food for tonight was international buffet which included Szechuan fried rice, seafood creamy pasta, mini chicken burger, salads, fried chicken, mushroom soup and a few desserts. For me the food was not good at all. The fried rice was quite hard (maybe uncooked??). The only thing I like was the salads.

For the performance, we had 3 judges ala American Idol. They gave comments each time a performance ended. The judges were En. Bad, Cik Renuka and Cik Shafika. Some of the performances were very funny but some were very lame and too draggy. I was surprised that my group performance was very funny. 

Towards the end, we had prize giving and gift exchange. I got an 8GB pendrive. Our group got second place for overall mark. Congrats to us! We received RM250 as the prize. The grand price which was a stay at Austin Hill Golf Result went to Kak Wati. Congrats!

That's all for the night. I quite really enjoyed the night except the part being an emcee. I don't like being an emcee. Full stop.