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seriously, this year's raya doesn't feel special at all to me. due to many different factors. nevertheless, the ritual still goes on unaffected-- the tremendous number of visitors coming to my house on the 1st day of hari raya, the green packets, asking for forgiveness from relatives and family, the spring cleaning of the house, the morning hari raya prayer, the yummy lontong & satay, the F&N gassy drinks, blah blah blah...
lemme list down the factors which made me lost my festive mood:
1) i got chicken pox for the 1st 2 weeks of Ramadhan, the fasting month. thus, can't go solat terawih which is one of the major ibadat of a fasting Muslim in this significant month. furthermore, i can't fast as i need to take medication.
2) the wedding i did for JJ and his friend... the outcome is a lil depressing. partly my fault. the email which the newly-wed couple sent to the 3 of us totally dampened my mood in that early morning of Aidilfitri where i was doing some last minute spring cleaning of my room. was editing the wedding video from late afternoon til late at night. thus, can't really help much round the house for Aidilfitri's preparatioin. sad...
3) work. it's the busy period of the year. thus, they need the workers to overtime so as to finish up whatever orders they have for the week. so end up, skipping solat terawih.
4) i forgot....
well..like i said... Aidilfitri still goes on...
and as a ritual on Hari Raya, i became the part-time maid. lolz i kinda like the job. 
Nur the part-time maid on Hari Raya
my relatives calls me by my first name, Nur.
the visitors (family and relatives) didn't bombard our house til 2pm plus onwards. lolz prolly coz it's a rainy day. i didn't feel like waking up at all that morning at 8am. woke up so early, to find that i was alone at home. coz my family went to the mosque for the Aidilfitri prayer. and i had to vacuum my room coz it's full of dust after i cleaned the dusty crooks & nooks in my room in the early morning. That first day of Aidilfitri, the guests keep coming in one after the other. and everything was over around 11pm. we didn't get to go out on our own Aidilfitri family outing to visit our other relatives. hahahaha...
part-time maid eh... hahahah. some things are different though for this Aidilfitri, the dreaded question was asked, "Bile Nur nak tunang???"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i was washing the dishes when one of my mom's cuz, my aunt, asked me that question. i was speechless so i mumbled a reply bout not so soon lah or something.
my MOM CAME TO THE RESCUE!!! she said something along the line of me need to finish study first. then my aunt commented that study and relationship can go hand-in-hand...
ROFLZ
ah well... 
Nur the part-time maid is trying her best to enjoy the festive season despite certain stuff
Xiuqi's birthday chalet at Tanah Merah SAFRA chalet
i let the pix speak for themselves. hahahaha
huimin decided to play XBox 360. resulted in everyone who's present at that time to crowd around and play as well!!
then there's the BBQ . . . 
BBQ pit right at the doorstep ^^
Nigel drove that day since Pea brought the cupcakes. so he dropped me and Dexian at KAP to continue to take cab home. was a tiring day. the next day is eve of Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
the Tarian girls meet up for a feast before the Ramadhan month comes for its annual visit...
this time, Yati and Dee organised it. they all agreed to go to Carousel @ Orchard. lolz nice place. nice food. nice tummyache too.
lemme intro the Tarian girls . . . 
sporty Yati
joker Diyana aka Dee
chatty Ifah
sweet Naddie
laid-back Syarifah
lil ol' me
yepz this our lil clique during those times when we were in JJC Tarian. *beams* miss those days. some peeps are missing here.
1) my lil sis, Yujie, who is in US right now taking her degree.
2) hamidah, whom i lost contact with. sad. haiz
3) claudia, our Tarian VP
aaa~anyways, we ate till we're real full. i almost can't breathe!!! think i stopped at the 3rd round of food. lolzFood Glorious Food!!!
knowing us girls... we cam-whore a lot!!!!!
and here's some more!!!!
well... at the end of the buffet.. this is how some of us look...
we left the place at 5pm or so coz the buffet end around that time. each person 28 bucks. quite reasonable coz there's lots of variety from the local food such as laksa to sushi and mediterranean food. 
carousel
hehe.. finally got myself convinced to blog again. actually i forgot the reason for me to stop blogging. most probably it's the lack of time after i left JC.
seriously, there isn't any "Me" time anymore when i started working after my A levels. well, at least that is as much as i can remember. because i know i kept going out with friends, colleagues and got home pretty late into the night which gave me no time at all to pen down my thoughts.
not only did i abandon blogging, but my journal as well. so it'll be kind of weird for me in the future to look back on my life with nothing solid such as a diary entry to confirm my memories of past events. hmmmz... it's as though there's a huge gap in my life!! hahahahaha. imagine that...
i suppose there's some events which are just meant to be fleeting memories...
i've been blogging here (http://amethyria.spaces.live.com/) instead when i totally stopped blogging at blogger.
well, it's time for me to work on bringing this blog up to date. hehehe. seriously, i just realised i miss writing especially when it comes to my thoughts and feelings..
