I've just tested our fairy lights, decorating our balcony at the front, and they are functional for Hari Raya. With a third of the fasting month gone it's getting to the time when we start to gear up for the big celebration. We've still not gone to the bazaars at Geylang, or Arab Street as I've been snowed under with marking this weekend and will be continuing to dig myself out in the week ahead, but we usually don't go there until the second half of the month anyway.
Noi is now showing signs of embarking on the annual clean-up of everything around us, which means I can expect curtains and cushion-covers to start disappearing soon. The place will soon take on a distinctly depleted look, as if we've been visited by a particularly choosy band of thieves. Also there's been talk of biscuit-making, one of the great features of the later part of Ramadhan in our household.
One of the great things about the celebration of Hari Raya is the way it has generally resisted commercialisation. Of course, this is creeping in (and I'm sure we'll get to see the logo soon) but since the whole point of the experience of fasting is the cultivation of moderation, it seems to resist the more egregious manifestations of consumerism, such as those poor Christmas has fallen prey to.
Fight the power, say I.
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