Ramadhan Memories

This marks my fourth Ramadhan as a govt servant...

It feels as if it was only yesterday aku dengan arip and cher berbuka posa di tepi jalan dekat bazaar ramadhan presint 2...and that was in the year 2007...lot has change since then...what i remember the most during Ramadhan in 2007 was the fact that all of us (lantikan 2/2007) had just enter the service couple of weeks before...langsung la semua pon free and easy...

There was this one time we all gathered (about 30 of us) in RASA Alamanda nak buka posa...aku ingat lagi si meran la yang gi awal awal ke rasa tu untuk block abis meja kerusi untuk kitorang semua...there was ha, pali, yus, cher, asmak, azam, meran, fara, zaimee, emmy, deham, aina, mazhan etc...we all came in and just take a seat then all of us together berbuka posa...it was a nice feeling...everyone is quite new to putrajaya...and the ones that we met during unggul was very much the only friends we have around...hahaha...we break our fast...we chatted and then we went for our prayers in alamanda (they had this one area served as a mini surau especially for ramadhan)...

It was a great introduction to how it was like to celebrate ramadhan away from family and long-time friends...then year after that...some of us who still stick close to each other occasionally will meet up in alamanda to break our fast together...or some where...

And as for last year...i dont know what get into me...i got stucked to celebrate ramadhan in the hotels...that thanks to some free ramadhan buffet coupons that i got from some friends...abis la...orang lain puasa makin kurus...aku plak still maintain ajer...hahaha...

As for this year...today is the first time ever since i graduated that i break my fast in masjid...tadi buka posa kat masjid besi...ramai gak orang buka posa di masjid rupanya...we break our fast with dates and ada la satu kuih nie...dengan sirap selasih...pastu gi semayang maghrib berjemaah...then we had the main course...tadi menunya nasi ayam...esok? hurmmm...tak tau ler apa plak menu esok...si Ady dah awal awal suh aku block aku punya date for next week...yeah...our annual hilton pj buka posa...tetiap tahun mesti ada skali buka posa kat situ dengan dia...

But still i miss breaking fast with some of my very close friends...as we had done before...arep and cher...kat tepi jalan...ina with her home-cooked meals together with ned, ha and azrin...cindy always came up with an excuse of why he can't make it...with zaimee, pali, yus and some others in taman warisan pertanian...then we chatted our way till they started to clean up (confirm la kitorang tak gi terawih berjemaah kat masjid kan...masing-masing buat sendiri kat rumah kot)...hahaha...and as usual...one of the weekend i will fly back to alor setar just for the sake untuk berbuka posa dengan parents aku...

Whatever it is...day in day out...everybody have new commitments...and things aren't as the way it was before...but i do know that everything happens for a reason...and only god knows why...but...i still love ramadhan non-the-less...

ajie

10:57 p.m

11 August 2010

Putrajaya