Happy New Year from Bahrain! May the new year bring peace, love and better times for everyone, wherever you are.
Posts under ‘Celebrations’
2009…the year that was
Time flies, as always. This is the time of year when everyone wonders…where did the year go? It never fails. It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed 2009 and soon its time to say goodbye. We were on board the Crystal Symphony on 1st January 2009 – cruising the Palmer Archipelago – a group [...]
Celebrating Eid a.k.a. Raya
Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Eid al-Fitr is the festival that follows the completion of Ramadan observance and its celebrated quite differently depending on where we are. While living in Malaysia, we would traditionally hold our “Raya open house” on the second or third day of Eid. Many of our Muslim friends would usually be [...]
Salam AidilFitri
Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri, Mohon Maaf Zahir dan Batin Rashad, Rohaizan & Danial …Eid Mubarak, wherever you are!
Cooking in the new kitchen
Ramadan is a time when, despite fasting, people go out of their way to cook something special for family, friends and neighbours. Sometimes we invite people over for fast-breaking (berbuka puasa in Malaysia or iftar in the Middle East). If we don’t feel like entertaining, we have the food sent over in good time for [...]
Running away from foam
Every year in the last week of February, there is a big exodus out of Kuwait. This is the time of the double celebration of Kuwait’s National Day (25th February) and Liberation Day (26th February). National Day celebrates the independence of Kuwait from Britain in 1961 and the reign of Sheikh Abdullah Al Salim Al [...]
Happy 85th Birthday Daddy!
Today is my Dad’s 85th birthday. I had asked Mum what they were going to do to celebrate and she had told me that being a week day, she was just going to cook a special meal for him for dinner. At the weekend all the family including grandchildren and great grandchildren would come to [...]
Birthday with a difference
At the end of the cruise, we disembarked the Crystal Symphony in Buenos Aires where we spent two more days. We met hubby’s Uncle Ricardo and Aunty Margarita whom he had not seen for 15 years and whom I met for the very first time. Then a domestic flight to Puerto Iguazu to go to [...]
