Cerita Raya

So Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2011 is tomorrow! I bet everyone must be busy as a bee completing or finishing up whatnot for Raya. Leaving me alone in this boring room, lying down while trying to figure out the plans for tomorrow.

Well actually, I was quite excited for tomorrow. I woke up early this morning as if I'm going to work today. But with that Raya spirit. Then I thought that I should start cooking stuffs for tomorrow right away. My plan was to get the moist chocolate cake done, then only I'll cook the chicken rendang and kuah kacang. For the night I'll get the nasi impit ready and if I'm still not sleepy yet I'll try the fruit trifle recipe. In other words, the full course meal for tomorrow was almost well executed.

Unfortunately, on my half way through making the most delicious moist chocolate cake, where I've placed everything that should be mixed into the pot, I suddenly forgot that I have no soda bicarbonate in my shelves. I guess that spirit was still burning so I put aside the pot and decided to make kuah kacang and chicken rendang instead. I don't know if I may sound a bit arrogant (sounding like as if I'm a pro in the kitchen) but my mom always tells me that she simply throw everything into a pot and voila! Miracle happens. Sometimes I like to imitate her way.

So before I could get the kuah kacang and chicken rendang, there comes the biggest part of all. The peeling and blending (and crying) tonnes of red onions, garlic, ginger and lengkuas. Since I don't have any blender, I need to use lesung batu instead. You can imagine that in the end I got my wrist sprained by using it. -___-

Well, that's it. That's the only thing that I managed to do so far. When I took a rest from whatever I was doing back then suddenly there's this weird feeling approaching from nowhere. I know that it's kind of lame to put this down, but it made me burst into tears. I'm homesick. No matter what I try to cook, dress, eat or even breathe it won't feel the same like when I'm back at home with my family. I thought I can get through it. Believe it or not I haven't heard any Raya songs for almost 1 month (and never intend to do so). It's not that I don't like Raya songs, it's just that I simply knew that Raya songs will break me a lot faster. Even if I didn't listen to any of the songs it already made me sad.

And there goes my Raya eve story. I'm left with a half-way-there chocolate cake, various blended onions and bucket full of tears. What about you?