What Is Your Definition of Raya | Assalamualaikum and Selamat Hari Raya to all my blog readers and visitors. How you celebrate your raya? What is Raya for you - eating lemang and rendang? collecting duit raya? playing firecrackers ? visiting families and friend?  What is Raya actually? 

Raya? Nothing much. My Raya this year is about eating good food and wear beautiful clothes. That's it!  I know this is not the real definition of Raya. Raya should be celebrated  with happiness. This festival is supposed to be used as a medium for establishing and strengthening relationships among families. This is the right time to get to know your long lost relatives, this is the right time to seek forgiveness and to hang out with your beloved families. But as I turns adult, my raya celebration becoming dulls. Even though I still visiting my relatives house, but I felt something is missing. Perhaps our bonding time were so insincere and awkward? Perhaps television, gadgets and WiFi have replaced the intimacy of our past? Our increasing age also cause our awkwardness. Who should be blame? No one but us. 

I miss my childhood days when Raya is Raya. The good old days when we happily scramble for bed post in front of television. Playing firecrackers, and counting duit raya that we manged to get from our village tour since morning to sunset. I miss those days when my maktok nagged at us,  I miss my friendly cousins and missing all those loud voices and cries that makes my maktok's house more happening. This is " Raya"  that I miss a lot. I pray for my late grandmothers and grandfathers. May they be among the believers.