Raya Shopping

my second attempt at writing this entry. wrote on friday but internet hang after i wrote it

i'm not much of a 'raya-shopping' person. when i was younger we prepared our bajus way, way before raya. we sent them to be made, so its not really 'shopping'. the cloth pun usually my mom would choose, and she'd buy them whenever she went back to kota bharu so we would have the kain for the whole of 6 months or so before we had them made.

as i grew older, i would do the same thing. get nice kain, not necessarily towards raya period but whenever i see nice kain. and get them made before the crowd sent theirs to the tailor. if i dont send in time, i would just buy off the rack 1 or 2 days before raya.

this year was different because i wanted to get amir really nice clothes for raya. not baju melayu as we've made ours before fasting month began (theme colour for this year is white as hubby wanted his purple samping to stand out). i wanted to get amir nice shirts and pants as i know he wont be able to stay in his baju melayu throughout the day - either he'll be hot and sweaty or he'll dirty his white baju or both.

i went down to isetan last week. coincidentally they were having a sale so i got a bit carried away. not much choice though, but i think they have a new range of "sesame beginnings". got some really nice pants for amir, and then got really cute checked shirts from "baby poney". i'm still on a mission to find him a white shirt to match our baju melayu & baju kebaya for the first day. that and a pair of shoes...he's outgrown his nice shoes.

maybe next weekend...