Cart in SG : His big day
Mon 31 Dec 2007
It was a big day for Cartcart. After studying Islam at Darul Arqam for several sessions, today was the day he converted.
It felt sort of festive with my relatives and family bearing witness to the entire ceremony I wonder how it would be like during the actual wedding itself.
I mean, Cart and I already looked like a bride and groom, with our matching green outifts.
Coupled with my relatives whom were already wearing colourful clothes themselves, I heard someone quip, “Was there a wedding going on?” while we were having our lunch together -_-”
Tues 1 Jan 2007
We spent the new year visiting my maternal grandmother’s place. It wasnt anything eventful, but it was nice to get together and interact with the extended family anyways.
But the air seemed a different there with my relatives all teasing me to hurry up and get married. Oh so stressed -_-”
After we visited my grandmother’s place, we decided to drop by my maternal aunts place. It was kind an interesting experience as Cart and I reached there on my scooter!
Thank goodness that I did not get lost trying to get from one part of the Island to the other. Well … not too much anyways :P
It was already reaching nightfall when we reached there. We rang on the doorbell. No answer. We rang again. Doesn’t seem to be anyone inside. No one is home? We almost left for the elevator when the door opened gingerly and out popped my cousins head.
“Come in! Come in!” they invited us in warmly, “We thought that you couldnt make it”
My aunt and cousins were one of the first of my relatives to know of my relationship with Cartcart. They were there when I first brought Cartcart to meet my parents for the first time. They are very nice and both Cartcart and I are very comfortable being around them.
We both made friends with their cat called baby!
Isnt baby absolutely cute? :D
Naturally our conversation flowed to baby, the star of the day. Cart starts to ask why baby had such a short tail :
Baby the cat from rinaz on Vimeo
I dont know how I could suddenly thought of Muslim Cat. My mind can be quite off tangent sometimes. Edward de Bono will be proud.
My aunt invited us to have dinner where we had pasta and vegetarian finger foods that resembled mini sausages and squid balls that tasted quite yummy actually.
And we had dadih! This is a rather popular malay dessert which is made up mostly of yogurt and fruits. It tastes light and fresh and absolutely delicious. And its a whole loads of fun to play with as its quite shaky :D
We had a most lovely evening. It was really nice to be there with my aunt and cousions, laughing the evening away feeling very relaxed.
So much so that I did not realise that it was already past 10pm! Reluctantly, we had to say our goodbyes as I had to go to work(!) the next day. I rushed to send Cartcart back to his bed and breakfast while I went home andhad to force myself to go to sleep. BUMMER!
Next : Heavenly Chocolate Fondue at the Esplanade and yummy pizza at Da Donato!
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January 27th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I’ve never attended that ceremony, even though i’ve got a few family members who went through it. : ) The celebration after that seems really nice. I love dadih!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Mintea
Its how we describe as … “Kecoh” with everyone being noisy and lively :)
Dadih is one of my favourite desserts!