Aidil Adha 2008.

This year Aidil Adha, my family celebrate it in Penang. It is not as grand as Aidil Fitri, so it's no big deal for us. The main reason we're in Penang is to spend the school holiday with family, and on the other hand, since it is an Aidil Adha, we decided to visit our relatives here in North part of Malaysia (sounds like I have relatives all over Malaysia huh?!).

After breakfast, we heading up to Changlun and Bukit Kayu Hitam
in Kedah, very near to the Thailand border.. visiting my sister ex husband's family. After 2 hours drive from Penang (I can't help myself.. I was very sleepy while driving there - slept at 3.00am last night, lucky Syafiqah, my niece had a driving license and replaced me half way) , we finally reached our destination. While on the way, we went through the country side.. paddy fields and villages, it was an eye catching!! It was amazing, peaceful place far away from hustle and bustle of the city! Cows and chicken are all over this places.. I really love being here. I think, it has been
5-6 years now since my last trip to this kind of country side.

According to my sister, my family used to live here while my dad
was posted in Kedah as a police officer. It really brings back their memories when they're kids.. when they're really young. My sister non-stop talking about their younger years to my nieces while pointing their old kindergarten and primary school and the police quarters that they used to stay.

Spent about 5 hours in the village, we managed to took some nice pictures of this place. Then we moved down back to Penang, stopping by at my cousin place in Bertam. I planned to visit Zahir's family too in Jawi, but we just don't have much spare time to drop by.. probably some other time.

Reached the hotel at about 10.00pm, exhausted.. but very happy to be able to visit this places. Tomorrow, we will spend our last day in Batu Ferringhi (it's time for sun, sea and sand!) and Georgetown. I was very interested to visit all the old buildings here!.