ANOTHER RAMADAN, HARI RAYA

ANOTHER RAMADAN AND HARI RAYA HAD JUST ZIPPED PAST LEAVING ONLY MEMORIES. THANKFULLY, THIS TIME RELATIVE TO THE PREVIOUS ONES SINCE MY AFFLICTION, RAMADAN AND HARI RAYA HAS LEFt a very happy IMPRINT in my THOUGHTS, AS IT HAD BEEN A VERY GOOD RAMADAN AND HARI RAYA.many pluses and hardly any negatives except of course the perennial exhaustion.

alas, herewith are the feel good memories:-
1. all throughout ramadan, my son no.2 had taken ramadan in his stride and every day dutifully fulfill his fasting and buying food from the ramadan bazaar for the breaking of fast, ramadan seems a breeze to him
2. together with my 2nd, 3rd and 4th son we departed home with a heavy foreboding with regards to the traffic, which proved to be wasted energy since the traffic to and fro was smooth. kudos to PLUS, it seems that after all these years, PLUS has learnt the lesson well.hopefully raya'S extreme gridlock is a thing of the past.
3. no.4 son COMING ALONG was a very pleasant surprise for me.ALHAMDULILLAH
4. my mothers happiness upon our arrival makes it all worthwhile. so just the simple things no need to shower her with any material baggage.
just the fact that all her children are back celebrating raya with her was good enough to minimise the sadness of another raya without her beloved husband, my dear father. alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.


of course raya cannot be narrated without mentioning the joy of meeting each other, seeing the next generation ALREADY growN ANOTHER YEAR, visiting graves of our dear departed, the communal raya prayer and the hearty raya breakfast and of course finally visiting our dear relatives. it is all these social encounters and shared endeavours with loved ones, of course AT ALL TIMES minimising the encroachment of commercialisation which if lusted upon would destroy the very FABRIC of what raya should BE AND mean to us.