Another year, another raya..

From The Clan's Blog:

Clan Raya V1.08 saw a total of 12 participants, namely:

1) Ab bas
2) A dam
3) Ai zad
4) Ai zat
5) Ar man
6) Az har
7) Fai sal
8) Hi kam
9) Is kan dar
10) Na waz
11) Naz li
12) Yus ry

As to what made this year's Raya Unique, let's come up with a list. (Feel free to update this list.)

1) A dam going off halfway to get play ball. (This simply had to be first)
2) Yusr y joined us. (for the first time, me thinks)
3) Naz li joined us. (first time, clan induction)
4) Khai rul did not join us (for the first time).
5) Fai sal's accident.
6) Surprisingly, not so much GF problems.

And some things which never changed.

1) Nobody came on time for the first house.
2) Another feast at Fai sal's.
3) Karaoke! Same sound, different location!
4) Trying to re-create music video madness ala Raya V1.05.
5) Ended way past midnight.

Overall, I'd say it was actually not a bad Raya. Quite relaxed since we didn't have too many houses to cover. At the same time, enough of our regular crap to go around. Special thanks to the parants who tolerate us every year, yet still cooking for us each and every year.

EXERCISE KEBAYA

The Annual Clan jalan raya finally took place after many changes. This time round, The Clan is missing a few members, but features a new Honorary Clan member too. And he's not even Victorian! Please welcome Nazli =) As for the missing ones, they include Khairul (studying in Australia), Alvin Alverdian (studying in Australia), and Zulhairi (yes the same one in Maelstrom, studying in Malaysia). That left just the twelve of us Abbas, Adam, Aizad Grandmaster, Aizat Tong, Arman, Azhar, Faisal, Iskandar, Nawaz, Nazli, Yusry and Yours Truly. Well, usually, a very important side-benefit of The Clan's jalan raya is the sight of Malay girls in kebayas riding on bikes... or in cars... or at the back of pick-up trucks/lorries, but unfortunately this time around there were hardly any, probably because Hari Raya is coming to an end. So much for Exercise Kebaya. The following are the antics of a bunch of 24-year old guys and a 22-year old (that's me!) on their annual Clan jalan raya. Join us as we surfed on laptops, stuffed ourselves, banged into cars, eat, karaoke-d, menjamu selera, played chess, had dinner, prayed at Masjid Taqwa, ate a meal, watched the Chelsea-Liverpool game, devoured fries, played RISK, downed coffee, played cards, kapok-ed sweets and did jumping photos all in one raya outing!

*Video to come soon =D

Morning² first house da start surfing on laptops The Pasir Ris-ians

TKH Footballers: Hikam and Al Capitan Yusry

We hid Adam's helmet to stop him going to OVA's football match at 3pm!

Reverse, reverse, reverse... and BANG! There goes the bumper

Cousins... ...and Cousins

Yusry suara rockerz Alleykats, Iklim, M Nasir, Search, Wings ... Karaoke Rock Melayu Beb!

From this...

...to THISPoor tired ClannersThe Clan @Hikam'sOur favourite activity: Playing Ches...s.Our group jumping photo tak menjadi

Admit it. You girls LOVE doing this jumping pose innitThe Charlie ChaplinThe Banana SplitThe Bruce LeeBaru nak start main Star Wars Monopoly......Arman came back with RISKNawaz at 3am Abbas at 3am Ikam at 3am Azhar at 3am ...and this is Tong.Ni la Stairway to Heaven! God knows what we were doing at 3am in the morning The battle was so vicious......that Nawaz nye seluar koyak 0_0

Al-Fatihah

Please, sedekahkan Al-Fatihah to my friend and fellow trainee from Leopard Company, Delta Company and Hotel Company, MUSTAFFA, who passed away in a motorbike accident yesterday afternoon. He was going to ORD in 2 weeks time on the same day as me.

Inalillahiwainaialaihirraji'un.
Semoga Allah mencucuri rohnya.

MUSTAFFA

1983-2008.

OPEC Summit '08 (VS Maelstrom Raya '08)

SMS from Samir:

"Annual VS jln raya on 19th October. Meet at 10am at Azhar's. Please reply to facilitate planning and transportation. Costume for this year: JUBAH"

And so I went to look up high-and-low for my Jubah's. Maelstrom's Raya outings are always a scream, last year the concept was Batik, but I couldn't make it (Army...as usual), and with a concept like JUBAH you just KNOW I wasn't going to miss it would I? I actually forwent my family's raya trip to Johor to catch up wit' the old Gin Gang. I'm always up for anything crazy. Heh heh. Unfortunately, we were missing quite a few members who couldn't make it, such as Sakban, Zulhairi, Ismail, Fid Kapak, Fid Monday, Azri Dedek, Azri Boner, Jihad (now tat WOULD be interesting in Jubah...heh), Apit, Faisal Mamak, Hazwan, Farhan Sabil, Ibkaar (in Malaysia) and of course, Sa'eed (motorbike accident... see pic no.10) Did I miss anyone out?

*Video is on the way =D

Sheikh Samir STOPPIT Sak! Watch out Hijab Iran... Jubah Arabia trend generasi terkini!

From Al(Oil?)-Sheikh to Pengganas

Tag-team Champions of the World say...

Ya Goin' DOWN!

Sheikh Sam and Sheikh Sop OPEC Members from left: Algeria, Angola, Iraq, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iran, Indonesia (suspended)

Mysterious Arab consortium strikes deal to buy Manchester United Wali Songo? No, Wali TakSnono...

Poor Sa'eed Majlis Pernikahan

The Kelas Ugama ended late at night

Waiting for our rented untas to arrive

Things Women Don't Know...

I found this great thread while surfing Football365.com

Some would say it's sexist, others would say its stereotypical. some would say it's tongue-in-cheek, others would swear it's true, but at the end of the day it makes you laugh.

At least I did anyway.

Check out some gems:

Things Women Don't Know...

...how to read maps despite having an A level in geography . (hairymac) (How true...)

...That their muffled screams only turn me on even more. (Professor O 'Rye) (Heh Heh)

...I know a girl who thought the past tense of Squeeze was "Squoze".

And she's a journalist.

Also a different female journo I know couldn't point to Australia on a map (bigmouth)

...I was in a pub once and arguing with my friend saying that I considered Maradonna's goal against England to be the best in any World Cup and a (hot) Argentinian girl came up and hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek (Bananinho) (ZOMG!)

...that you don't have to support one of the teams playing to enjoy watching a game of football (frvegar) (Why can't women understand this eh???)

...My ex didn't know whether the earth revolved around the sun or the sun around the earth. She spent an hour debating this with her flat mate (electrodent)

...How to be reasonable. Or rational. (Willy Mouse)

Conversation about the Twin Towers the other day.

Girl: "See when people were jumping out the windows of the Twin Towers? How did they get the windows open? Cos they wouldn't be able to open them that high - they'd be locked"
Me: "Yeah, but chuck a desk chair at them hard enough they'd break"
Girl: "No they wouldn't, what if they were perspex?"
Me: "Granted, they'd be harder to smash, but chuck something heavy at them hard enough and they'd break"
Girl: "Doesn't matter anyway, if they broke a window near the top of the Twin Towers, they'd be vaccumed out, like on planes" EH? (The Dazzler)

...While dscussing Bullseye the TV programme:

My gf: Is that the one with the hippo on it?

Her mate: yes, that's right.

Me and my mate: no, it's a bull, hence the title and the f**king big horns on it!! (Merson's bookie)

I remember watching The Godfather with an ex before, and there's that bit where Michael talks Italian to Solozzo but there's no subtitles, now I don't look like an Italian major, and wouldn't have a clue what they're saying, and being my gf at the time she'd know that, but still she turns to me and goes "What they saying??" me: "I don't know, I'm not fluent in Italian!" (the neck of tevez)

...The offside rule. Don't ask me every f***ing game, i've already explained it 4324234 times (Egon Spengler) (HOW TRUE IS THAT!)

A girl I worked with didn't know that no matter how much music you put on an MP3 player, it would still weigh the same (ramit and jamit)

...They don't understand Teletext.
...They don't know why Soccer Saturday is so entertaining.
...They don't know that we don't tab our willies with paper after a wee, a lot have no knowledge of the shake and wiggle (urm...)
...They cannot get into their heads that sometimes we would rather watch football in a pub with strangers than sit snuggling on the settee stroking their hair and watching Strictly Come Dancing
...They don't understand how sh*te shopping for furniture is, yes dear that's a lovely throw
...And they certainly don't get that whistling for pleasure really is enjoyable. (Grimandinho)

...I read a woman's magazine the other day, and in it they mentioned that "43% of all men masturbate at least once a week". As if this was a shocking and new discovery.

if only they knew I beat off three times a day, everyday. (the neck of tevez) (Wasn't me.)

...My older sister, who is a teacher, didn't know what a torso was
and she teaches biology (csafc)

...they don't understand the joys of a great big, 20-second long pitch bending fart (ridderz) (Hmmm)

Similar vein.

When the iPhone first came out I showed my gf it on the computer. I explained what it did and how it was touch screen and you scroll through your messages, music, contacts etc. anyway she proceeded to start tapping the picture of the iPhone on my computer screen thinking somehow it would work. I was actually speechless. (Ringo's Drumstick)

...that I spend most nights searching for that one perfect porn scene (veebo) (DEFINITELY doesn't apply to me)

...My missus won't accept the fact that the stars are actually distant suns. She has a masters degree in education. (FatboyTim)

...My ex thinking Brazil was the capital of Spain and her mate calling her an idiot and saying Brazil is in Asia.

My head just went down when they were arguing about that (Leighton)

...doing a conference call once and had to get the participants to login to a website - anyway gave them the details and the access number (to the website) when I heard a 'beep' in my ear and then some woman say it wasn't working. asked her to try it again with the same results - cue a couple of seconds of stunned silence before I go 'are you pressing the keys on your phone rather than typing the number on your keyboard?'

colleagues fall about laughing (Bananinho)

That cricket is played outdoors in hot countries.

Watching the tv and ad for Sky sports winter of cricket comes on...

Doris: "How can they play cricket in the winter?"

Boris: "They play in other countries, like India, West Indies"

Doris: "What indoors?"

Boris: (PabloHoney)

...That I don't exist purely for the purpose of telling them they aren't fat (training slave) (Women just don't get THIS do they)

Have Fun! =)