It is the Haj season again this time around. Unlike the recent years, this year has more significance to my family and I as my parents plus my uncle and aunts are joining the pilgrimage.
They are on the last flight from the four chartered flights to the holy city and should be landing in an hour plus. They took off at 6.20am this morning meaning we were already at the airport by 3.00am and it was like day time as many people turned up to send off their loved ones.
Huge crowd despite it being around 3am. Soon there werent any space left as it got really crowded.
It was a tearful farewell despite knowing they will be away for just a month. I’ve never really experienced this when I am an adult, last was my dad going for Haj when I was a little girl, so I never really knew how it felt. And this time around, my mum is going too with her elder brother (with wife) and youngest sister.
We were watching until they entered the door.
So here I am with the responsibility to take care after my brothers, my sister-in-law, and the housemaid. To start with, I’m going groceries soon…
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Posted by anehff9 on November 7, 2009 at 12:35 am
aha, I knew how it felt. I remembered when my parents went to Haj with my brother, masa tu aku form 4 dah kali, and aku ingat menangis all the way from the airport to home, that’s 60 mins straight!! haha. WIth them gone for a month, kami semua bini2 yang tinggal, so my neighbours (masatu tinggal di flat lakat) looked after us lah ehehe. Form 4 atu kira basar jua udah tu, so.. there’s no shame in a ‘tearful” send offs. Mind you, the first time aku belayar pun aku menangis wat… haha
So, do your best, “Mom”. ehe
Posted by bibz on November 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Atu batah, 60 minutes. Heeheh!! They just called after everything has settled down, 2nd day baru ter telipun. I’m surprised Prima doesnt work well there but Easi is okay. So they are getting line sana for convenience.
I suppose I will be a ‘Mom’ this month… ehehehe…
By the way, I just downloaded 3 subbed episodes of My Girl. “My name is Aiba Masaki des”.. lol
Gotta love the guy…