Open house

Its the season of 'open house'. Its a month of celebrating Eid el Fitr (Hari Raya AidiFitri). Why open house? An ocassion of celebration, an ocassion of inviting your friends, your office mates, and even your relatives for a free 'eat', usually the local cuisine of "rendang" and "lemang" and "ketupat", with of course other additional dishes of local content like "satay" etc etc, and all the sweets that one can cook or get other people to cook. Western dishes may also be included in some rich people houses.

Theoretically one can walk into anyone's house for the 'open house' during the period, but in most cases one is too proud to do that, one waits to be invited. And in one area there may be many 'open houses' going on at the same time, but one can usually pick and choose even if one is invited to all. A sort of a priority basis that is, if one has got so many invitations.

In my housing estate area, the President,

(and his lovely wife) of our Association had his open house on Sunday 26th Oct. 2008, and my wife and I went.

And we met many people who live in our housing estate at the 'party'. They came and they went, and there were streams of visitors till late evening.


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