Everybody welcomes Raya …
The wonderful thing about being Malaysian is that you have lots and lots of celebrations*! In simpleton language, that means the right to have a holiday, overindulge in rich delicious food, dress up like a Christmas tree and spend money on tasteful/tacky decorations!
On the 1st and 2nd of October, we celebrated ‘Hari Raya Aidilfitri’- a 2 day national holiday filled with fun and meaning.
Fun because you can’t be a successful festival if you’re not fun (it’s the prerequisite, along with being colourful and noisy. Everyone knows that)! And meaningful because Hari Raya Aidilfitri isn’t the marketing brainchild of a sneaky entrepreneur but instead it’s a genuine time old event with religious origins as testament.
So on the 1st and 2nd of October, I was enjoying myself visiting my friends at their, ‘rumah terbuka’ (open houses) and being a successful avoider of the ‘balik kampung‘ traffic!
What were you doing?
*You don’t have to be Malaysian to celebrate our festivities, anyone and everyone from around the world are welcomed, and that’s the beauty of it.
Here’s your invite:-
