Open house-SSS (plural)

Festive seasons always been associated with food, and food is abundant, in all sorts of names, tastes, shapes and even, origin.

Many people are generous with foods, they organize a custom called an open house. Frequently, they will set time and date and invite people to come and enjoy, indulge, and gobble on variety of foods, free of charge.

Kids will get extra treat in the form of 'duit raya', and the real picturesque scenery during any open houses are the kid chasing around each other, parading their new clothes.

Mine? i'd like to jot down a few experience of the open houses i attended:

1. The Acting Vice Director of KMJ's a.k.a head of Maths Department house

The Boss's house! It was located in Tengkera Malacca

which i had next to no idea where?!!

But, according to the map, i will easily find my way to the house if i turn right at the junction heading to Jusco Baru. After blindly following whichever signboard which points to Alor Gajah, we ( My friend and I) given up altogether and convert to plan B.

We decided to halt the guess and start a quest for the real path to go there. The most brilliant methodology cropped up was none but to start phoning the boss herself! asking for direction..

Then, to our surprise, we weren't lost, we were halfway exactly where we want to be.

Kesimpulan: kami memang pandai cari jalan nooo...

Next thing i remember was nothing but the food, heaven!!!

2.Fellow colleague Kak Yan and Kak Nita's house in Muar and Bukit Katil

We had carefully planned our journey right after the invitation to the open house come up.

Every second of free time we got will be fully utilized to discuss the details of our little adventure that weekend. Our simple motto must be obeyed and proved:

" Musuh jgn dicari, rezeki jgn ditolak, open house kena pergi, makan kenalah hepi, baru tuan rumah tak kecik hati"



Kak Nita has given stern instruction for us to follow....



"Kira Traffic Light tuuuhh, trafic light ke lima belok kiri"

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Kami mengira traffic light



Then the next thing i remember was eating...



From Muar, we off to Melaka, we decided to do some exploration and investigation using different route from our usual PLUS highway.



The sun shone so bright, the day was at the peak of its temperature, the blinding light of harsh sun sap all of how-much-ever energy left, i was sleepy.



The open house in Kak Yan' s house was not due until 8 pm..we were a bit early, the clock arm lee-way points to 5 pm.



One of my friend suggested to loiter around Jusco Lama, while waiting for the cue, to go to Bukit Katil, to attend Kak Yan's open house. We we having light meal ( light kerr?) in Mickey D's



Then, sharply at 8pm, our delegation (haha), literally ambush Kak Yan's house.



Being the first batch of guest, we officiated everything!!!!



hahahahaah


[to be continued..........]

'belah-belah selatan' episode dua

2. Marhaban dari rumah ke rumah

This is the first time in my life ever, i ever joined an activity called marhaban apart from 'marhaban di astro' dan 'meraban secara pro' (professional)

hahaaha

what makes it unique is the method it was carried out, male and female will be separated and travel from one house to another, chanting praise to the ALMIGHTY ALLAH SWT in unison.

According to Non, the custom only made ritual in Johor, during syawal months.

Aiming to strengthen bond between the community members and seek blessing from god.

I was not used to this custom because i was brought up in east coast with no similar tradition.

'belah-belah selatan' episode satu

Aku berasal dari Pantai Timur, pernah melanjutkan pengajian di sebelah utara ( Kolej Matrikulasi Kedah dan Tg Malim), pernah berpengalaman mengajar di negeri Selangor ( praktikal mengajar di Rawang), dan sekarang, mengajar di Negeri Johor, di Tangkak yg bersempadan dengan Negeri Melaka.

bahagian selatan pula!


Utara., Selatan, Timur, Barat......sudah kuhuni ( melancong dan berjalan-jalan not counted!).


Cuma Malaysia Timur ( Sabah Sarawak) belum ada pengalaman samada belajar atau bekerja ( sekali lagi pergi melancong, berjalan-jalan waima pergi berdebat not counted!)


Ini catatan pengalaman berada di 'belah-belah selatan' Malaysia (Johor, Melaka)


1.Melaka



Memori yg paling kejap dalam hati adalah di watu kecil, setiap tahun kami sekeluarga suka benar melawat Negeri Melaka, pergi muzium, A Famosa, perigi Hang Tuah, naik kereta lembu etc.


Mungkin kegemaran itu 44.97% dipengaruhi oleh pekerjaan ibuku pada waktu itu sebagai guru Sejarah ( dan Bahasa Melayu), justeru gemar membawa kami adik beradik melawat tempat-tempat bersejarah, sesuai sekali dengan Melaka yg digelar Bandaraya Bersejarah, katanya


'Melawat Melaka beerti melawat Malaysia'..hah!?


Kali terakhir kami sekeluarga melawat Melaka adalah pada tahun 2005, masih ku ingat pada waktu itu sesudah Debat Diraja di UKM, kami sekeluarga immediately planned a simple family trip heading to our favourite tourist spot, Malacca.




Then December 2009...




Aku ditempatkan mengajar di negeri Johor ini, at first  i thought the nearest city is Johore Baharu, then i discovered , Tangkak happened to be the border separating Johore and Malacca, JB is located hundreds of km from here and the nearest 'better developed' area is Ayer Keroh, Malacca.




Sejak berkerja, kali pertama aku ke Melaka adalah pada minggu kedua di sini, 2 buah kereta ( Toyota Altis milik Mr UZK dan Proton Perdana milik Miss Boya). Tempat pertama yg kami lawati adalah Jusco Bandaraya Ayer Keroh ( Yg mana aku discover ada dua Jusco yg ku bezakan dengan nama Jusco lama, dan Jusco baru)


Kemudian sewaktu family day unit Matematik, pergi main Bowling di MIBC, berhampiran Mydin dan MITC.


Beberapa lama kemudian, baru langkah perjalanan aku dan teman-teman lebih jauh lagi, pergi Dataran Pahlawan, etc etc ( tak ingat nama)


Sebelumnya paling berani aku drive cuma ke Mydin (paling senang)


Sembilan bulan di sini, aku sudah ada sedikit keberanian untuk memandu dengan lebih jauh lagi ( tp tak berani sgt sebab abah pesan jgn jalan2 sangat)


I've been seeing too much of Malacca these days...bosan pulak...he3


Aku pun tak tahu berapa lama lagi aku nk berada di sini???


To be continued....