2nd Day of Raya
Current Music: The Moment (Kenny G)
Horrifying Fact: Somebody’s gotten a tad more voluptuous that she could hardly fit into her new kebaya suit…arrrrgghhhh!! That’s it…no more late night suppers at McDonald’s…sheesh!
Started the day off with…erm, no, didn’t get to hit the park this morning. The whole of yesterday really drove me to the extremely absurd levels of fatigue.
Anyhoos, last night was a rather nice moment of…hmm, what shall we call it…recollection? The whole jim gang this particular family who came over to De Yumi’s place to visit Yayi…Goonsey and I had trouble trying recognise all the kids who’ve grown way, WAY, up! There was this girl whom I remember cousin Rai was babysitting for during a relative’s wedding at Holland Drive…at that age, I remember her walking around like a penguin (babies do that, don’t they?) at the playground. And now she’s blossomed into a fine young lady…hit me on the head, "Have I gotten THAT old???"…geez!
So there were about over 20 of them in the family, and it was getting a tad too confusing for Goons and me to recognise who’s who. He decided that instead of just being colour co-ordinated, they should start sitting together in separate groups as separate families and hold up A1-sized name plates or something.
Yea, speaking of colour co-ordination…it’s just this Malay family thing to do during Hari Raya. Not too sure how it originated, but I do remember the old fogies referring to that as boria. To my understanding, boria is a group of performers (from Penang?) who dress alike and interestingly well co-ordinated dance steps. So yea, I suppose the whole purpose is to aid relatives in recognising who belongs to which family…helps, especially Malay families have a knack for HUGE families…hohoho! Well, except for mine…parce que je suis Javanese ;p
That’s all!
