Everything You Can Imagine Is Real: Cuti-Cuti Raya

Salam to all. October is gone and welcome November. :) Two more months and it's exam time. :/ Far from prepared for it. Assignments are still undone for i just don't know where to start. I have all the info i need for the assignments but every time i want to start writing.... my mind will go blank. Tak tahu nak tulis ape. Masalah betul la. If only ideas for writing my assignments would flow like when i write here. hahahahahaz

Anyway i wanna share with all my eiduladha days right here in Malaysia. Yup i didn't went home for eid celebration. My roommate and I choose to stay here to celebrate our eid. At first we wanted to experience raya at kampung. But unfortunately the friend that we intend to follow didn't went back to her kampung as well. So we are stuck in KL. Thank God we have our Ustazah Ani (who used to be Zakiyyah's form teacher during her first year in Indonesia) who stays in Gombak. So on Thursday afternoon around 6pm we left the hostel for Gombak. We took the Rapid KL. The journey was like travelling from Clementi to like maybe Bugis. We arrived at about 645pm and Ust Ddy was supposed to fetch for us from the station. However we waited and waited, from it starts to drizzle to heavy rain to drizzle and finally the rain stops, still no sign of Ust. Tried calling Ustazah Ani but we couldn't get through. We panic no doubt. Yela just the two of us stranded at the station, heavy rain some more. It was a cold and chilly night ( mcm setting cerite hantu pulak, hehehehe) and luckily infront of where we were seating, there's this stall by the taxi stand that sells what we first thought was Yong Tau Foo. Since da kesejukan, and the smell of the food makes us want to taste it, i went over and asked whats the price like. It's RM1 per stick. Took 5 stick and after she boiled the stuff she puts in on a plate and pour 3 sauce, Chili, tomato and satay sauce. Wow....something new for us. The taste definitely did justice to the smell. It was yummy. We waned to go for second round but paiseh like that. 5 stick was alot la. hahahahaha... So finally Ust arrived at around 730pm. When we reached Ustazah's house it was almost 830pm. Played with her kids and we went to bed soon after we ironed our clothes for solat eid the next morning.

Was up bright and early for as usually i will have problem sleeping in a new environment. We prayed subuh and got ready for solat Eid. We went to University Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIA), where Ustazah is doing her Masters in Education if i'm not wrong, for solat eid. The feeling was like when i was in Mecca. hahahaha... why? because all there was international people from various countries. Be it Europe or Asia all come together for one purpose, to worship The Creator, The All-Mighty, The King of all Kings.... ALLAH S.W.T. It was a wonderful sight what more when the kutbah was said in three different languages. In Malay, Arabic and English. So the international right. :) love the feeling when i was there.

Ustazah Ani & her cute son, Nawar.

Zakiyyah and I after solat Eid. :)

Us after solat eid together with Ustazah's friend.

Done with solat eid we went back to Ustazah's house and waited for a few of her friends who happens to be my form teachers when i was studying in Indonesia. It was a wonderful feeling being able to see them all again after like two years since we last saw each other. They are all married with kids now. It's funny when once they were like a mother, a sister, a friend to us when we were far from home. And after so long they are now all married with kids. It indicates one thing that we are ~~old~~ all grown up now. hahahahah.. Aunties already. :) We went to UIA again later in the afternoon to meet up with the Ikatan Keluarga Pondok Modern (IKPM) Malaysia for they sacrifice a few goats and 2 cows for eid. We reach just in time to EAT!! hahahhahaaha... the guys did the sataying of the meat all we just went to eat. Baik punye anak dara kan.

Yummy right. Just look at the spread of satays. :) Perut kenyang hati senang mata pun ngantuk la kan. hahahahahha.... PBG betul kan. Since Ustazah needs to meet her friend at Ampang Point so we have to make a move as soon as we are done eating. Da la datang tak tolong pape balik pun tak tolong kemas.... ish..ish..ish... teruk betul la kan. But what to do...we were in a rush. We took a cab back to Gombak for Ust needs to send ustazah to Ampang Point later. We knew he needs to rest after driving around the whole day so as not to trouble him any more we decided to just get a cab to the train station.

Have you ever made an impromptu decision? Like when you already know where you want to go but all of a sudden u decided to make a pit stop? Well that's what happen to us. :) We were tired no doubt. Just wanna reach hostel as soon as we can and rest.
But....
on our way home, in the train i saw these two, tall, brightly lighted building. It's like they are waving to me and say "come stop by for dinner" and so i ask Zakiyyah. "Zak wanna stop for dinner at KLCC?" She turn, stared at me like as if i was mad and than she smiled and nod her head. "ok jugak" was the reply i got. hahahahahahahaha.... i love my roommate!! Off to KLCC we went. We had Bakso for the night we were at Gombak and Pempek (it's a Palembang originated food). It was haven on earth to be able to taste this food agian. hahahaha...so for the night we decided to go western and conclude our raya meal at Secret Recipe with cakes and Caribbean style fish fillet. No rendang no ketupat no lemang for raya this year. hehehehe

Now our raya celebrations don't just end here. We continued our raya celebrations to the next day. Wanna guess where we went? Ok i give you clue ar... they have snow and forest of lights. :) Any idea where? hehehehehe....

None other than Icity.

I was so amaze by the beauty of lights and mini game rides available there. It was really...really...really nice. I don't know how to describe the feeling when i was there. The Snowalk was so much better than snow city i tell you. It's much more bigger and if you can stand the coldness you are most welcome to stay in there as long as you want. :p The ice sculptures are amazing plus the lights and display there and the slides yes people slideS not slide ar. There were about 3 slides if i'm not wrong. Be a kid and took all 3. hahahahahaha.... We were freezing cold but we still refused to leave the area until our hands got numb (cause we act tough and not use any boots or gloves).

One advice for all, bring your own gloves and boots ok cause boots rental is RM 10 per boots and its the yellow Phua Chu Kang boots so if u don't mind having pictures of you in that boots while you are on holiday than by all means rent the boots there. If you do mind (like us..hehehehe) than either you bring your own boots or...feel and embrace the ice at your feet. As for the gloves..they don't rent it, you have to purchase it. If you wanna feel what snow fight is all about than do get yourselves the glove ok. Don't be like us...touching the 'snow' with our bare hands and later complain that our hands are numb. Smart us. :)

Defrost with some coffee and had our dinner at Old Town White Coffee. ;)

After we did our maghrib prayers we went into the forest of lights..... No words to describe just pictures for you to enjoy and see.

There are more pictures actually, but if i were to put everything here, you might just have a problem to view it hehehehehe... We were so engrossed with the lights and rides that we forget about the time. By the time we reached the KTM komuter station at Padang Jawa it was too quite and the ticketing counter was closed. Aiks...Panic ready. How to go home???? Than there's these very nice local chinese couple that told us that we can enter if we have the touch and go card. Lucky for us our student matrix card is also our touch and go card. hehehehe... but the next train will only arrived in about 20 mins time so we had to wait.