Deeparaya Celebration

Kongsi Raya is not a new thing to the Malaysians anymore. In the previous years, the chinese and malay community had their new year celebration around the same time. And this year, Deepavali is just a day before Hari Raya Aidilfitri. For west Malaysians, they will have 3 days of holidays, Monday - Wednesday while the east Malaysians enjoy 2 days of holidays, Tuesday and Wednesday. Why is there a difference though we are all malaysians? Erm erm erm...GOOD question! mwhehee...As a multi-racial country, we have slightly too many holidays for celebrating different festivals of the races throughout the year. Therefore, i-dunno-who decided that west Malaysians are entitled to claim a public holiday for Deepavali while Hari Gawai is a public holiday to the east Malaysians. ^_^

Since this is a Kongsi Raya celebration again, so we, who celebrate none of the festivals mentioned above, will still have to celebrate it in our own way. ;p

CCW, sandbox, @pple, KC, Winnie, CPH, Ben, Boi, TW and I together prepared a delicious dinner on Saturday Night. During the discussion on Friday night, we came to the conclusion that no heavy dinner. So, we listed out the portion of food per pax. The list is as below:
1. Lamb Steak x 1
2. Chicken wing x 1
3. Sausage (small) x 2
4. Side dishes (brocolli, tomatoes, carrot and lettuce)
5. Fruits (Watermelon)
6. Small cup of Red Wine
7. A glass of fresh lime juice

Sounds healthy, right? hehehee...that is the quality food agreed by everyone.

On Saturday, once I got my leave approval from Bulat while he was still sleeping, I sneaked out with CCW and sandbox to shop for the ingredients.

We bought 3 reddish tomatoes, a packet of sausage, a china cabbage (not on the list??!! Well, since we have the lettuce, we should make some coleslaw if not fruit salad, right? ;p), a bottle of red wine, a bottle of Ribena and Sprite each (the 3 of us afraid that we might not have enough drinks). The other items on the list were bought by CCW earlier in the morning while shopping with his mama. Sandbox could not believe that we took less than an hour to gather all the thing that we needed. Mwhehehe...*wink* Wanna shop with me? I am definitely not a picky shopper as long as the price is reasonable. 'x'!!!

Home! CCW's prepared the mushroom sauce. I prepared the coleslaw at home and went over to the party at around 6:15pm. Then, CCW's sis and I chopped down the branches of the big tree (brocolli la ;p). Boi brought the lettuce over and left to attend another dinner. Ben, the first to arrived. Later, KC brought over the fruits. He also prepared the lime juice. After CPH and Winnie arrived, CCW started to cook the lamb and chicken wing. Winnie and KC were then helped to serve it while Ben opened the bottle of red wine.

READY.


TANG TANG TANG TANG!!!


Welcome to OUR Restaurant. A jar of lime juice, a bottle or red wine and the main courses are served.

Mwhehee...Please be seated.

Look what you have in your plate...




Cheers~~



I hear you burping! ;p

Sandbox, @pple, Boi and TW arrived late. So, not much story contributed by them. Oh, got one. They all do the same thing once they reached, that is EAT! 'x'!!!!

After eating, we played games.


Mwhehehe...lazy to explain the game. Anyway, we really had fun playing with 39 dices!