Time do fly fast.. Without even realising we are in the middle of Ramadhan..
Yay!! Its gonna be Raya soon.. Everyone is busy preparing themselves not to forget their house for Raya.. And speaking of which remind me that I haven’t got my Baju Raya..
Well, neither one of us in the family got their baju raya yet.. hahahahaha…
it just seem not soo important for us to get NEW baju raya.. this few years back seem like nobody even care bout baju raya.. and which makes me think, since when NEW baju raya become soooo significant with Hari Raya itself…. Well minus the fact of baju raya is for hari raya..
I don’t see any need for people buying NEW baju raya every year.. thank god that raya is once a year.. if raya is monthly… huhu.. who knows.. this also ring a bell for me.. like, when it only raya time people do visit each other.. if not for raya, people just pass by like they are stranger.. then, to those who just seek for forgiveness only on hari raya.. hahahaha.. that’s even funnier.. they just build up a year worth of mistakes just to ask for forgiveness on raya… its not that hard to apologies when making mistake.. why need to build a year worth of mistakes.. these kind of things makes hari raya WEIRD.. yes! W.E.I.R.D. hari raya has lost its original meaning.. isn’t raya is celebration( more like being thankful) after a month of Ramadhan?? <<correct me if I’m wrong.. so why need new clothes, why ask for forgiveness worth a year (since we just can apologies after made some mistakes) and why only visit during raya??
Its not like it is a wrong things to do.. but giving that Hari Raya has lost it own meaning due to these new culture..
if you ask kids what is raya for them, they’ll answer duit raya( oh yea, forget to mention it earlier), new baju raya, kuih raya, and balik kampong… ahahahaaha… cute~~ at the same time just not true.. they need to be educate the true meaning of raya.. instead of some material memory of raya.. what I’m trying to say is, if the kids don’t have new baju raya, their parents didn’t give them duit raya, cannot balik kampong is that mean their not having raya??
They need to be told of the joy of hari raya.. the feeling of thankfulness( not sure if that word even exist) as they have gone a month of fasting in Ramadhan..
Alas, looking at the bright side, getting new baju raya is the way of expressing joy for this special day.. it not like everyday we cant buy new baju raya.. well given that the baju raya will remain as baju raya, even they just a plain baju kurung.. if put with others baju kurung, we wont call it simply as baju kurung rite.. we gonna say like “ini baju raya aku thun lepas, y biru tu 2 tahun lepas… y merah 2 baju kurung biase jer.. aku bw p kuliah jer 2” hahahaha.. special isn’t it? Well visiting on raya is just and excuse.. what I mean by excuse is, when suddenly you come to visit your relatives, that might become AWKWARD~ so, on hari raya it can be an excuse to come visit..”alah, hari ni kan hari raya.. kena la lawat sedara mara..” nice excuse there~ hahahaha.. but asking a year worth of forgiveness is just… not that right.. one should apologies after making mistakes.. maybe not on the spot, but holding it for a year?? Well.. not cool~
So as I’m saying, those new emerged culture is now a part of our hari raya, but still I hope we don’t lose the spirit of hari raya.. the true meaning of hari raya itself.. so that’s all.. now I’ve gotta think what colour is my baju raya gonna be.. CHOW~~
