My department (IT Facilities Management) had our Hari Raya 'Open House' today. It was a potluck affair, and my job was to bring Baked Macaroni and Cheese. Due to my usual 'unreliable' life - I was late. Fortunately, so was everyone else!
Linda's specially-cut fruits were particularly popular!
The menu for the day included my share, lemang (a sticky rice dish cooked in bamboo), nasi himpit (loosely translated as shoved rice), fried bee hoon, fried noodles (looks like permed hair, don't know what it's called!), spaghetti, kuah kacang (peanut sauce), rendang ayam (something like chicken curry, minus the curry...) and a whole bunch of other stuff I didn't get to eat because there were so many people! Of course, we had a separate table for all the Raya biscuits and tid bits...
Though he really liked the tid bits, Basir was too scared of the secretary to take it back to his cubicle
It all started with The Hamper. One of our partners gave us a hamper for Raya, and due to the odd nature of its contents, we decided to have the Open House. The only stuff we didn't know what to do with was the box of CornFlakes, flour, and creamed corn. If any of you out there ever decided to give anyone a hamper, please make sure that you don't come off as trying to offload old stock - it makes you seem inconsiderate. Remember, it's always the thought that ounts...
After a hard morning's work washing dishes, Reena finally gets to eat something!
Anyway, the day went quite well, we even had enough to feed the Records and Business Recovery people, some IT Applications people, and some end users! It went so well that we've decided to have our very own Thanksgiving feast... sometime in January.
Posted by Najah Nasseri at 2002年12月18日 16:58