It’s been a bit of a hectic week, the Muslim fasting month came to an end this past weekend and as I’m the only non Muslim where I’m staying, by default I took part in the festivities and we had a little open-house and spent most of the weekend cooking and preparing for it. It came to my attention however that in Malaysia, any reason is a good reason to have a holiday. Due to the multi-culturalness of it all or we like to call it “Muhibbah”; the Chinese, Indian and Malay societies have their own very unique set of celebrations, and there is always a massive party almost every quarter of the year and they are pretty ridiculously festive and the best thing that comes out of it is that all the races have pretty much started celebrating each others festivities, like you’d find young Indian men dressed up proper good doing the Chinese Dragon Dance, and then at the end of the year everyone stops to celebrate Christmas. And honestly thats just the tip of the iceberg.

Over here when I found out that Raya wasn’t a holiday because [if I’m not wrong] I thought it was an international Muslim thing, and it was pretty much isolated to whoever decided to have an open house on the weekends. Maybe I’m just fishing for more holidays but I have to admit, it is pretty awesome to have so many celebrations in a single year.

But now I’ve let slip a lot of my work and need to do some serious catching up –