Aidilfitri 2011

Eid 2010 – The Poseurs

Didn’t get the kids’ baju kurung tailored this year. Gap designers will be so ticked off by my modification of their Kids dresses into a modern malay outfit.

Stoppit with the cekak pinggang pose, makcik.

I had to do a bit of work here cos this would have been the preferred color to her bottom.

If you can’t tell, Younger One hates cameras.

Eid 2010 – The Poseur Corner

Bitten by the Martha Stewart bug. Hello NOOB.

Eid 09

Main culprit for the absence has to be the (not so) new handphone cos my little twitter community enjoys mini-pics and text of less than 140 characters (i love my intimate twitter circle btw cos they’re small and consists of mainly girls).

And Eid this year hasn’t been very merry cos Matriarch was away for a mini-pilgrimage and was back only on the 2nd day which we then spent catching up and bonding with her and her side of the family who all came to fetch her from the airport and convoyed back to our house (yes we dont call her matriarch for nuffin).

I know I only had one day of visiting so far and it was rather bad of me to be complaining about dragging two fidgety kids from house to house all decked in the traditional outfit and trying to maintain my (not so) poised kebaya and make-up. But I took my words back almost immediately cos I was self-reminded of the less fortunate. There are ppl out there who’d give anything to be able to spend eid with healthy kids.

So yes. I thank God for what I have today.

Jalan Raya

The bigger reason why I don’t take that many photos of Pumpkin is because she’s always sleeping. Which I’m truly grateful for, syukur alhamdulillah, that she’s been sleeping through the night since three weeks old, pretty much the opposite of Munches both in behaviour and ermm.. size (just look at her).

Munchkin, now approaching 3, is still waking up at night, ok?

Eid 2008

Munchkin threw a professional tantrum on the morning of Eid.

Hello lilac and purple to us and 3/4 of the malay community we saw on the streets that day.

Early for Eid

Eid always comes as a shock to me especially since I’ve got Munchkin. We were often too occupied to realise that we have not gotten our outfits ready, then I would end up doing the way the Matriarch and I never used to practise which is buying a ready outfit off the rack. This, I find inappropriate because the Matriarch herself sells nice fabric to be tailor-made into your own preferred design. This year, I foresee with the coming of a new family member, we’d be even twice as busy so I’ve decided to begin my quest early for the perfect color and design.

Then comes another problem. Finding that perfect design can be a chore because,

1. I have to rule out the sweet, conventional, roomy, baju kurung pesak because of Mister’s opinion.
2. I’m done with layerings, what more with the hot weather. I’m so tired seeing the same see-through/lacy trend that’s been going on for years.
3. No more tight, breathless kebayas or bustier inner-wears. The Mister likes his missus hot but sayang, I would need to give allowance to a 3-mths post-natal belly. Plus we’ll have 2 kids to deal with this year so as much as you were able to handle one all by yourself the previous years, this year I will have my fair share.

So that leaves me with what?!!!

Tummy-sucking tight, french-lacy, bustier inner-wear kebaya like this cannot make the list anymore.