Showing posts with label Hari Raya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hari Raya. Show all posts

Raya Music Video 2016

Monday, July 18, 2016


RAYA MV 2016 (MESDY FAMILY) from fazmals on Vimeo.

Long time no blog but there is always time to share my extended family's Hari Raya music video!!!

You can also watch our past music videos - for Raya 2012, click here and for Raya 2013, click here, for Raya 2014, click here (and its accompanying "Terjah" interview sessions here), for Raya 2015, click here.

Love the fact that our extended has grown from strength to strength (Especially my batch of cousins! All of us are married now, which explains why we didn't have much breathing space during our dance segment lol) 

Also love the fact that my husband has morphed from the bewildered new member of the family caught in headlights to a more-than-willing participant in our yearly family tradition hahahahaha seriously our future anak is going to grow up thinking every family makes a music video for hari raya in Singapore HAHAHAHAHA

Hari Raya Dah Habis La

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Long time no blog!

My blogging mojo is really perangai biskut seh, kejap ada kejap takde. I didn't have the inspiration to blog because firstly, I've been really busy at work and home (always like this at end of the year!) and secondly, I was (kind of) jaded with blogging and social media.

I won't elaborate too much on the second point; I was just trying to limit my usage and minimize the negative feelings I had against it and its users. I still used social media la, I never really went away or anything, but I just didn't want to blog the thoughts I had because of it. Maybe not yet. Or maybe never!

Trying to restart my blogging mojo so I'll start with the latest pictures I have in my phone. Saliheen and I took leave on Friday so we had a good and long Hari Raya Haji weekend to meet our families and friends ♥


Ok fine, I only have 2 pictures from Hari Raya Haji - one with my sisters, and one of my favourite little boy Chah Inn, who wailed and cried bloody murder because his brother and my sisters took a picture without him lolol I wish I had his problems! #kidlogic #kidproblems

The rest of the time we stuffed ourselves with good old Malay raya food, both at his side and mine. Perut kembung sampai sekarang, beb. Recycled my one-piece baju raya because I knew that was gonna happen. Note to self: Buy a black loose fitting jubah for occasions like Hari Raya Haji and other majlis!

Posting pictures from Hari Raya Haji just made me realize I didn't blog about our Hari Raya Aidilfitri festivities few months prior! Shall I use this entry as an excuse to post outdated pictures hwa... hwa... hwa..........


Kept our baju raya cheap and simple, the way we like it, because we value comfort over anything else! It was our first Ramadhan and Hari Raya in our own home and it was very enjoyable - picking out our first lampu lap-lip, ordering kuih raya (Makcik pro tip: order kuih raya 1 month in advance!!!) and having our relatives and friends over for Raya celebrations. Ramadhan was lovely too, we managed to cook for most of our sahurs and iftars, didn't miss any sahurs, went for terawih together and hosted several iftar sessions. 


(Love my lipstick in the last picture! It's NARS Audacious Lipstick in Vera. Damn solid.)

We had full bird's eye view of SG50 fireworks which set off in front of our friends' new house during one of the raya visits! How lucky! I'm not a sucker for fireworks but I have to admit the ones we saw that day were sooooo pretty ♥ Saliheen and I also visited his cousin's place one of the Raya days and his cousin and wife dah macam ada cat cafe kat balcony rumah la sia. Gerammmmm!!!!!

We entertained the idea of getting a cat as our house pet but some of our friends said I won't be able to clean the cat's poo once I get pregnant in the future (something about parasitic infection???) and can you believe it - betul betul during Hari Raya Haji, my cousin's cat berak inside the toilet just before I needed to use it and the stink was nauzubillah min zalik! Nak kena beli gas mask dulu ni sebelum beli kucing haha.

But aku seriously berangan je k. Taik baby aku belum nak handle, ada hati nak handle taik kucing. Cis!

HARI RAYA MUSIC VIDEO 2015

Wednesday, July 22, 2015


I would like to interrupt my series of NYC-related posts (MASIH AH) to selit masuk my extended family's Hari Raya music video for this year! I always look forward to lip-syncing, dancing and brainstorming ideas for this piece of madness every year, and everyone is always more supporting, more rowdy, more creative than the year before haha! 

Last year, Saliheen and my cousin's wife fell sick after joining our jalan raya sessions for the first time, kesian dorang kena terjah terjah segala HAHAHA. They fared better this year (although Saliheen tried to gelek his way out at the start of the video hahaha bo chui) but next year, we're going to see who else will jatuh sakit - four of my cousins are getting married next year - BUSY! - and will come with their new spouses next raya MUAHAHAHA WELCOME NEWBIESSS 

Once our younger cousins start dating seriously, they should really consider letting their bakal jodoh watch our family music videos and ask him/her whether they are willing to lip-sync, dance and be supporting nak mampos during Hari Raya for the rest of their lives. For those who are eyeing our single cousins lolol, you may also wish to refer to our 2012 Hari Raya Video, 2013 Hari Raya Video and 2014 Hari Raya Video (which came with a special 'terjah' segment here)

Selesai Sudah Si Bulan Syawal

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Aaaaannddd we're done with another year of Syawal.

Some snippets of our Raya celebrations this year for memories sake! 

I'm in the midst of privatizing my blog entries from the past 12 years (more on this in another entry) and came across tons of Raya pictures from past celebrations that I've forgotten about! So I figured I should post up some pictures from Raya 2014 so I can laugh at them di tahun 2024 kelak. Hehe.

Salam Lebaran, You Guys!

Wednesday, August 6, 2014



Selamat hari raya and maaf zahir batin to all our friends and family! 

I had 10 million friends celebrating Raya as a married couple for the first time this year - well, according to my Instagram feed, at least - and I wouldn't be surprised if all of them celebrate their "first Raya with a new member" by next year pulak!!! For those who are bodoh tak paham bahasa, when I say "a new member", I'm talking about a baby lah. Takkan isteri kedua kot.

I guess the "Dah ada isi ke belum?" questions will intensify by next Raya since I don't think we'll be toting a baby by then. Need to start prepping myself to tackle such questions! My weapon of choice shall be segugus ketupat, which I will use to smack faces.

Hahaha okay I'm kidding. Kau nak aku kena boycott pe?! Of course my reply will be the politically correct "Insya Allah, Cik doakan ye" instead lolz.

Raya 2014 has been crazy tiring but fun so far, cuma I haven't really seen or felt much perbezaan in terms of my jalan raya routine. Might be because my husband's parents were away for umrah so we haven't been able to visit his relatives as much as we would love to. 

Our last Raya outing will be on the 16th of this month then lepas tu can concentrate on other things already!!! Like our rumah, which we anticipated to get end of this month but HDB cakap next month pulak. HDB pun sebok nak kasi my husband birthday present.