SELAMAT HARI RAYA TO ALL.... !!!

Idul Fithru is not the same anymore when you are an adult. It was a must to have at least two sets of new clothes, one is a baju kurung and the other a dress or at least a new jeans/pants with a shirt. New shoes too, of course and sometimes Mak would also buy a us a 'hari raya' pyjama for the nite before raya.

And as an incentive, we were promised RM 1 for every day that we fast during Ramadhan, and the money would be paid as 'duit raya' on the first day of Raya. And RM30 was quite a lot for a kid like me . Its been disputed, in the news paper the other day, whether kids should be paid for their fasting efforts. It has pros and cons, but I think, why not; if only you look at it as an incentive. Yes, there are kids, then, who would not fast if theres no promise of money, but its up to the parents to explain the whole concept of Ramadhan.

I didnt know what Ramadhan was all about when I first started to fast but the money sounded good to me somehow. Abah and Mak stopped giving us the incentive by the time we reached the age of ten, but the fasting never stopped.