It's That Time Of Month Again ...

Today my Muslim friends start fasting for the holy month of Ramadhan. Today also starts the day I put on a lot of weight again for the entire month. Yes, yes, it's cos of all those buka puasa (breaking fast) goodies that are sold in the evenings. Oh well, like I always tell myself every year, it's only once a year. Besides how can I resist when there is this huge Ramadhan bazaar right opposite the main road of my house!

To be honest, I didn't even realize it was the start of the fasting month until wifey said this morning that she want's to go to the Ramadhan bazaar later this evening.

'Say what? Ramadhan bazaar?' I said.

'Yes honey, didn't you know the fasting month starts today?' she replied.

Ok, now that I didn't know but I was happy all the same. I couldn't wait to go grab some of my favourite goodies in the evening. Even the boys were pretty excited and kept reminding us constantly to get them a 'Roti John' each, which happens to be their favourite during this time. For my foreign reader, 'Roti John' literally translates to John's Bread, don't ask me who came up with that name but it's basically a mix of chicken or beef meat mixed with eggs and cooked on the bun directly or something close along those lines.

But I guess wifey and me were a little too eager to head to the bazaar that we went a little too early. Most of the stalls were in the midst of setting up and only a few were open. So we walked along the stalls that were open and found nothing interesting.

I don't know, even though we were pretty early, this year the bazaar looked a little lacklustre compared to last year. There were hardly many people there unlike last year where we had to jostle with tons of people. We then decided to head to a different bazaar a couple of blocks away. Maybe they had more stuff there. But when we got there we saw the same kind of lacklustre atmosphere there too.

This bazaar is supposed to be even bigger than the one opposite my house and yet it was pretty dreary. I guess either it was still too darn early (which I doubt) or people were either really affected by the economy or were just too afraid to be in public places cos of the H1N1. But I'm guessing we were too early. I'm going to give it a try again in a day or two and maybe this time I'll go much later.


Anyways, in the end we didn't really get much stuff. We bought the boys their 'Roti John's' and got ourselves some murtabak, kebabs, pancakes and that's really about it. It was a far cry from the stuff we used to buy last year. I kinda felt like we were missing out on something.

The only exciting thing that happened was that I almost got hit by an ice truck delivering ice to the drink stalls there. If this was Seattle instead of USJ, Subang Jaya, I could probably hire one of those Seattle personal injury attorneys and sue the pants out of that ice truck ... LOL!

And with that I end my post, see, I typed 'post' and not 'pose' Bem ... LOL ... (a little personal joke that Bem would understand) by wishing all my Muslim blog buddies namely Bem, Marzie, Emila, Soulie, Maslight, Diya, Khemy, Nurul and anyone else that I may have forgotten a happy fasting month :D
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