eid adha

its funny that our country only celebrates eid adha for a day! other middle eastern countries would emphasize more on todays celebration like 3-4 days i think... and its more meriah on this day... but ours we emphasize more on eid mubarak. hmm... i wonder why?

anyway this year i wanted to do something different, yeah experienced it first hand, well not that i actually did the sembelih part... but i took the initiative this year to go down to malacca to witness the process of 'korban'. to be honest, since its raya and i should not be telling lies, ermm... i witnessed it from afar! hehe, i cannot bare the thought of being next to the chosen 'lembu' and hear its last gasp of breath! cannot la seriously. plus i do not want to feel guilty for looking at it in the eye... yes dramatic!

so what myself and amir did was greeted all the pakcik's that made it possible for us to have a sempurna korban, passed them the list and stood outside for a good half an hour and sat in the car while they slit the throat of the lembu...

hubs managed to witness the whole thing, yes its the second time and yes he should be proud of the fact that he doesn't faint or pretends to faint by looking at the gushing blood! well i think i'd be totally opposite of that, can't stand the sight of blood. period. not referring to the menstrual cycle ok.

anyway after they had gone through the whole process of de-skinning the a-mi-nal i decided to walk down and talked to all... bracing myself slowly but surely, so i can claim that i almost completed the whole process of being involved in the korban.

dropped by zul's place at ermm... can't really recall the name but i know its after lubok china... yeah okay its at the border of malacca and negeri sembilan... we had some lemang, nasi impit, rendang itik, kuah kacang, triffle, jelly, and nescafe! right after we headed straight to the surau to see the distribution done :) i was seriously pleasantly happy that we made the trip, it was fulfilling.

however, by the time we got back to kl i was just too tired to go anywhere and do anything... even missed hani's open house... sorry love will make it up to you!

hmm... to even think of the weekend is driving me nuts! we're going to be super busy with loads of activities! :( its gonna be one super busy weekend, wish me luck!