What Hari Raya Puasa is :
For Muslims in Malaysia
This Year's Hari Raya for me.
Hari Raya is finally here for a month! Many Muslims are off to celebrate their two week holiday as they "Balik Kampung" to have a scrumptious feast with their relatives after having a restless moment during their fasting month... What's in for the rest of us? We college students got like a week break only. *Sob* So probably some of us are like relaxing, playing around, slacking about, shopping, studying, watching movies, hanging about, etc.
Well… during every Raya, I’d normally be over-sleeping at home, play some stack of video games, chill out and annoy my little brother... he he~
But, this time around I’ve gained weight due to sleeping late, very late. Oh and a friend of mine gave me my very 1st green packet, it had like RM +100? And I spent it on a nice bokuto! And the rest for augmentation! XD
Here’s what the staff did when I was having a short trip at KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center
Nice? Not nice? Up to you lah… Green is the main theme for Hari Raya, but why so? I’ve learnt & heard from some of my neighbors who are senior citizens here; that there was no such thing as a coloured theme for Raya during their time and so was there any existence to giving green packets around the family at all but as time pass by along with exposes to other cultures like Chinese New Year for example, the Muslims thought about giving it a try so now it a tradition well practised amongst the Muslims here in Malaysia and anywhere else where it is done. Ah yes back to why it had to be green, from my own point of view they must have got the idea from one of their dishes called: Ketupat
It was kind of funny though that I didn’t even realize that the leaves used to wrap up the dish itself was from Ketupat leaves, whatever plant that is…
As I was about to leave the convention center, a short performance came on stage with a “Raya” music which I did not recognize, was made to entertain any of the guests who were around the mall & I too have noticed that they were playing a 12-gong Idiophones, a set of “Membranofons” which are both traditional musical instruments for the Malays and a different set of modern musical instruments were brought into play; which were the Flute and the Bass. Which was unexpected ^ ^”. I thought it’d be better if they use the TRADITIONAL instruments all the way.
The Hari Raya Deco around Sunway Pyramid :
Man, the actual one was SO much brighter than how it was taken, not to mention it hurt my darn eyes for doing so ha-ha~
Isn’t that a beautiful picture.
Wow I love the Flower pic it's shiny bright!
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