Raya 2007

Raya...or Bayram in Turkey..... Well... If u were born in Malaysia.... or at least have stayed in Malaysia....for Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Ramazan Bayram... u will of course get used to eating (or at least being served (depending on the states u r in or ur family background)..........

at least 10 types of cookies on the table..
Dishes such as...nasik himpit..
Ketupat (my favourite is ketupat pulut dicicah dengan rendang yum yum)

Lemang or lomang my mak long used to say...when pak long was alive, he used to go into the forest himself n get the bamboo for making lemang for her...

Rendang... rondang nogori... omak masak sodappppp

all types of cakes..ie this special Sarawak steamed layered cake

and other traditional varieties...

Of course.... living in Turkey... with raya (bayram) food generally (am not complaining)....

Chocolate
or sweets or lokum (turkish dessert)

One type of dessert ..ie baklava..

one type of salty thing ie..börek...

will come a bit less festive...(again... am not complaining hehehe only that i am salivating everytime raya is here n i think of Malaysian food)...

But one thing is precious of course is the visiting of each other....be it in Turkey or in Malaysia..the young visist the older generation....the young visit each other... in the spirit of celebration which is prominent every eid mubarek everywhere around the world...

But of course...in Malaysia... we are so used to say... Maaf Zahir Batin... u apologize to each other as u *salam* (shake hands) with each other in Malaysia...this is the time when previous disagreements r put behind... angers..hate ...being put aside...i havent been able to shake hands with anybody Malaysians here...my maaf zahir dan batin is only penned off thru letters n phone calls...

So what did we do this bayram? Well... Meşe n family decided to *escape* the zaim family this bayram (heheheh) n so they went to Gaziantep to visit a close friend...(tabiki yanık etli nohut da bize biraktı mese ya hahahaha şaka şaka..eline sağlık meşe... guzel olmus)...and so on the first day and the second day of Bayram... trying to be a menantu mithali that i am (perasan hahaha)...i sit house at baba on those two days... serving whatever needed to be served...

Meşe came back to istanbul on the second day.. n since that second day of raya nite, there was a football match, we left the fort of serving the guests at baba to meşe hehehe... I was not so lucky though... i was attacked by a violent tummy pain that whole nite... leaving halil scared to his wit that nite... him insisting that we went to the hospital which i refused (i had that same pain when i was teaching in sarawak more than 8 years ago.. they hospitalised me.. this second time.. i didnt want to take that chance of being hospitalised again)....started antibiotics the next day.. and Alhamdulillah..i am fine now :0)

Bayram celebration is only 3 days in turkey unlike in Malaysia which can last a month... and so... on the fourth day... school resumes.... and life goes on...

My digital camera is still broken of course...i had to snap using my old non digital camera... had problem uploading the photo.. so in the end... i asked for help from my sisters in law regarding the photos.. n funda sent me some photos of the bayram..esp the family photo (of all the zaims)...(THANKS FUNDA..i owe u one)...the rest i painstakingly scanned the pictures one by one (malasnya..sebab tu lama nak masukkan entry ni).....so here we were during the eid mubarak 2007....

Ramadhan...pergimu akan kembali (tahun depan)

Syawal... iyea la..iyea la... akan ku cuba posa 6

Bulan yg selainnya... posaku akan ku cuba ganti secepat mungkin (ala pompuan la katakan heheh)

:0)

Jom kengkawanku sayang... Posaaaaaaaaa ..:0)

My daughter...

amboi..dah besar dah minah ni..dengan subang gantung dia lagi.... pandai berfesyen tau! Sekarang dia suka sangat beli subang..

My son...

umur 6 thn tapi dia suka sangat baju tu (utk budak 8 tahun).. jadi terpaksa la anne dia beli jugak...

well..at least 2 tahun tak yah beli shirt kat mamat ni hahahaha

2 siblings who love each other... though baddin always drive her crazy hehehe

My family 2007

My sister sent me that banner..

*Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri*

The head of this family...

This year baba spent his bayram with a terrible back pain... Still he managed to entertain his guests as best as he could...bila ramai datang kesian tengok dia tak dapat rehat.... dah la tetamu dari pagi sampai malam datang tak henti henti...

Nur Hatice, Zeynep, Keremcan

Ülya Elif,Ediz, Sabahaddin, Ekrem

Minik mustafa in suit

All the kids (almost)

The Zaim family..(minus meşe n family)

Thank You for hopping by...Hope to see u again the next time..