Hosting Own 'Eid Celebration

I have been slacking in updating my blogs. This is mainly due to me not being well while bearing a constant back ache for the past few weeks. It has been (almost) a week since we hosted our own 'Eid celebration. I guess it is long overdue for me to post the pics that I have during the event.

The event started off wuth my in-laws decided to come to our place for 'Eid. Thus, we started to invite our family members, neighbours and close friends. We did not plan anything really special, an ordinary lunch with plain rice. Gradually it went bigger and we ordered more food. I also extend the invitation to our theory group members through Dr. Nurisya.

So here are the pics (with no particular ordering).

The last pic is me with Aqwa, my former MSc student who did Categrical Quantum Mechanics, who graduated after I have retired. I have not seen him for quite a while and was pleasantly surprised to see him come. It seems that he read my blog post on Kashiwara and we discussed a little bit the state of affairs of theorists and pure mathematicians in the country. He is currently waiting for a PhD opportunity abroad and I hope he will get a scholarship to do this.

The following pics are courtesy of Dr. Nurisya and Faisal.

During the event, we had to put our cats in cages, so that they do not get in the way.

Some unfortunate things happened. As the day progressed, some of the food went bad, without us knowing. We sincerely apologised if anyone was affected by this. Before this, we had no problem the food caterer and was surprised by the outcome. Perhaps they had prepared the food too early since we heard they had to cater another wedding event on the same day. I felt silly going around taking pics of the guests, thinking that they are enjoying the food. Our apologies again.

The other unfortunate thing was the car of my son, Ihsan, got scratched sometime during that day. Despite that this is minor, one can't help feeling frustrated.

In any case, we are most grateful to everyone who went out of their way (going through the traffic jam) to be at our event. May Allah reward your generosity and kindness.