Trip to Tokyo

" Morioka ??? Mano tompat ea tu... corok ulu mano diam ea umah ko nih...."

Script that usually be heard when talking about my current place of study. "corok" it was, Morioka located far far away from Tokyo. To drive from Morioka to Tokyo, it will take you about 8 hours driving and if in Malaysia it would be like driving from Johor to Kedah, never ever gone through it and will be going to, soon.

1. First Hari Raya after marriage in foreign country. Which do I prefer, abroad or local ? I cannot tell. As for now I think it will be the same all the way. Although less preparation needed when you are abroad, the feeling of Hari Raya is much more enjoyable in Malaysia which I think is a good thing for your emotional and stress relief.
2. And of course at the end it depends on how you spend your Hari Raya. Visiting relatives have been an obligation in my family and maybe most of us. My parent especially my father will be the most excited person when it comes to relatives visit. He will try not to stay at home during the Hari Raya holiday as he try to pay a visit to every single reachable house of our relatives.
3. I myself  have a big family from both my father and mother side. The wide-spread relatives of mine is one thing that my father like us to acknowledge at. I recall that one of my grandmother (cousin of my grandmother) is a college of my wife. She is actually at the same age as me and yet we addressed her as a grandmother.
4. As for my wife, you don't have to go as far as her grandmother. Her herself already having 13 siblings, from one mother. Productive ???, that's my mother in law (MIL). To gathered all the siblings at my MIL's house already require the man to sleep at the outside of the house. With a genetic pattern pass on by their mother, all of my wife sisters have at least four children and the average number of children that all her siblings will have is five. Count it yourself... it already like a "kenduri".
5. All the excitements make Hari Raya worth of what have been spend for its preparation. And all this, you would not be able to find it abroad... be grateful of what we have although it look like something unworthy to be appreciated...
6. To dampen down the sadness during Hari Raya, I will be traveling to Tokyo and join the gathering hosted by Malaysian Embassy. Hopefully it will give some relieve for us may Allah make our journey save and joyful...