THINGS I HATE WHEN IDUL FITRI COMES

Happy Eid Mubarak!

Varied feelings present when idul fitri comes. Some are happy since it means Ramadan has come to its end. Some are sad since the best holy month has passed by, the time to hunt merits has already ended. Some can’t figure their feeling out because they don’t even care about how important Ramadan is.

I don’t write about those feeling though. In line with the title, every year, besides happy or sad welcoming idul fitri, I feel annoyed of some things around me. Let’s make a list.

FIREWORK

I don’t know in other countries but here, in Indonesia, most people celebrate it by (what you said it?) lighting firework. OK. It’s beautiful seeing that sprinkling fire in the dark sky, but don’t you think it’s sooooo... noisy. Surely, it’s annoying. The sound isn’t even nice to be heard. It’s just like a bomb explosion. Very earsplitting.

The worse is, every year, my neighbor is never absent to light that firework. And it will last for almost an hour for us to hear that dar…der…dor… Oh Gosh! Can’t you lemme live in peace?!

Actually, last year, when listening to the information from government that they made a regulation to prohibit firework trading, I felt sooo happy. I thought, “Thanks God, I can meet idul fitri peacefully from now on. No firework. No annoying sound.”

Then it turns out the opposite. The seller found it too easy to escape from that bullsh*t regulation.  So, I WAS HAPPY FOR NOTHING. #yay! -_-

The thing I can’t explain is, why should they spend much money to buy firework? You need days and months to earn money then you burn it in a blink. So wasteful.

Why should people celebrate it with firework? [possibility answer: lighting candles or obor is NOT nice at all] expressing happiness? Are you happy that Ramadan ended?

I want, really want to enjoy idul fitri peacefully by not hearing that firework sound but I cannot. Sometimes I think, I also wanna enjoy it like my lil sister does but I still can’t. It’s hard to love it.

Or maybe, could you make the melodious-sound firework or firecracker so I can enjoy it in the end of Ramadan?

Hehehe…

ROASTED PEANUT

Welcome to the hardwork!

Do you like eating roasted peanut a.k.a. kacang goreng in idul fitri? Many people will say YES! I like it too but, I dislike the process. It’s torturing. Before you enjoy it in delicious form [most of you know], you have to boil it some minutes. Then, you need to peel its skin off. Cleanly. And that… that… that thing irritates me so much.

You know what, my mother is roasted peanut number one FAN. It means she never slide it over in idul fitri moment. Consequently, her children, exactly her daughter will always be the slave of peeling peanut’s skin off. It looks easy but wait until you experience it yourself.

So boring

You must completely peel its tiny skin one by one. Actually, my granny has showed me the easy way (her opinion) to do it but it made the peanut broke apart and it destroys peanut’s  beautiful appearance. So, I don’t apply her suggestion #sorrygranny.

Usually, my Mom ordered us (me and my lil sister) at 8 am and we’ll do it up to dzuhur time. Huhuhu… It’s a really really boring time besides doing my administration job in my office. Trust me. It’s BORING.

What I hate the most about peeling off peanut is the after effects. It makes your palms wrinkle and your beautiful nails pale. Sometimes, I feel my palms numb.

Although we have suggested my Mom to buy the ready roasted peanut sold in a market, it didn’t waver my Mom a bit. She persistently said that homemade peanut is more delicious and doesn’t contain dangerous substances such as borax. OK, mom. Do it your way and keep making us your annual slave.

Home Sweet Home, July 29, 2014

Enjoying kacang-goreng