Marhaban Ya Nurul 'Ain

Last Saturday, we had an aqiqah for our youngest, maka tumbanglah seekor kambing tempatan dan terus dijadikan gulai yang marvellous...other dishes that we paid for : ayam goreng, gulai nenas ikan masin, tenggiri goreng berlada for 200 guests. My MIL added in sambal udang petai and ulam2an with sambal belacan and cencaluk. Masak-wise, I just took care of the desserts, the easiest was agar2. I finished off the last box of my ready-mix choc cake and made about 40 cupcakes, snapped even before the event started.

In the morning we served some kuihs to the geng marhaban, about 40++ of them. We had kopi ala kapal api, teh o and teh tarik (Go and try the F&N Teh Tarik condensed milk). Kuih yang ada : tepung talam, apam, peneram (telinga k****g), kuih koci etc so the very traditional. The event started as early as 9am with reciting of the surah Yaasin. The event is a combination of aqiqah, tahlil and do'a selamat. 3 in 1 gitu. They finished about noon.

Half of them

Hannah cried, no, she actually wailed... all through the renjis2 ceremony. Normally they will do the potong jambul as well, but where got jambul ?? So we excluded the potong jambul part.

Melalak jangan tak melalak

Took her away ASAP

Healed with a mini tub of Calci-Yum

We turned our porch into kedai kopi-like and it only ended about 8pm when the last guest left. The post event, as expected, was the most painful part, luckily throughout the day, our soon to be SIL on both side were there. Ala2 menguji gitu, they passed with flying colors...hehe

One of them family-to-be

Thank you to my family (my SIL, BIL, MIL. FIL, my policeman bro) who helped me with the event, as well as to the soon-to-be family members J@mie & Aishah. Sadly none of my family from Trg can make it because our uncle had a kenduri as well. Anyways...all in all it was another good experience and I can conclude that :

1. if you have the dosh, just pay the caterer.

2. do the aqiqah & marhaban thingy earlier on when the baby preferred to sleep not wailing. On their 7th day is better.