Selamat Hari Raya everyone! I know it's a few days off than what it should be, but better late than never :-) This makes my second raya in the UK and in Loughborough. I'm looking forward to the next 2-3 years more I might be spending here. The students in Loughborough have expanded emensely, I wouldn't say that I'm shocked.. but just slightly caught off guard. We've got a total of 33 students studying in Loughborough, including postgrads and those doing masters. It's amazing if you think about how last year's intake of freshers was only 5 and the year before that - 1. This year's intake was a whooping 25 people. O.O

It's been a lot of fun, we had the takbir raya at 76 Hermit.. eventhough my housemates and I were a little late. We had to call a taxi because Hermitage is about 40minutes walk from our house but only a ten minute drive (this is because we'd have to cut through uni, go past a few houses... yeah, you get the idea). But before then we organised a meeting amongst most of the Bruneians and we just had ideas thrown in of how we're going to celebrate it before finally settling on a date i.e that Wednesday.

We divided the "menu" up and I volunteered to make ayam masak kicap.. lol~ Never in my life did I ever cook so many chickens. Every dish was assigned to 7 whole chickens. NYAH! I am so thankful for great housemates; Mas, Syer and Zaed who helped peel and cut onions, potatoes and carrots..hehe :-D

So you can imagine we had a lot of food. We got Mustanir to come as well and he took a handful of photos (that I am yet to get off him!) along with Qian. I think everyone had a good time that day, especially those who continued on with the night by going to Hey Ewe! at the student union *cough* Mummy! I wore my new coat clickkk :-D Anyway, you can check out the Hari Raya photo set at my Flickr.

There are two open houses going on this weekend, one at Mustanir's (which was yesterday) and one at 45 Ashleigh (Lina, Taufiq, Aqilah & Wani).. but we've been specifically told to only come after 3pm. So. I guess I could get some coursework done until then.

Okay, I'm off. Eid Mubarak people!!

xxxxxx