It’s mudik season once again, time to pack up the bags and get ready to travel. “Mudik” means going back to ones’ hometown, it’s an annual tradition here when millions of people from big cities will go back to their hometown to celebrate Eid with relatives. The season usually begins 10 days before Eid and ends 10 days thereafter. However, the preparation for mudik can start long before that.
Though we don’t have plan to go anywhere during this Eid holiday, at least for now, we too have to make some preparations for the season. First I have to find travel agents for our baby sitter/maid’s mudik trip. Then I need to figure out who’s gonna take care the baby while we’re working and no baby sitter or maid. Last year my mom still could look after Evan during the day. Now with additional an eleven months super active baby, I don’t think she can do that anymore.
I have two choices, either ask my live out maid, who doesn’t mudik, to work overtime to take care the baby or find an inval (a baby sitter hired during holiday). An inval usually costs a fortune so paying our maid becomes my first choice. The only problem is my maid also has grandchildren to take care of after she finish with her chores here. This thing needs to be settled soon.
Fish vendor
My mom also been busy taking notes about our regular vendors’ mudik schedule. This is important because she doesn’t want wasting her time waiting to them only to find out that they already mudik. Right now we still have fish and vegetable push carts show up in front of our door every morning, and so does our garbageman. But by next weekend all of them will be traveling to their hometown.
Happy weekend everyone 
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The city will be at a standstill during this mudik period?
How long is your maid taking leave?
Hope you find the solution for Evan & Eldrick.
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Well, it’s just like the usual long holiday. But since many people take annual leave and choose to go out of town at the same time, the streets, markets, etc look rather empty. The holiday ends at 14th but I don’t expect everything back to normal until a week later
The ones who mudik take 3 weeks, the other one follows the official holiday: 5 days
Yea hopefully soon, we still need confirmation from our maid
We have holidays here in the Philippines where people from the city go home to their hometowns like All Souls Day and Holy Week. I like it when that happens. The city is deserted and quiet
I hope Evan doesn’t get too unsettled with somebody new taking care of him
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Yes we like it too, it’s the best time to drive around the city, no traffic!
The downside is the lack of fresh food in the markets/supermarkets for few days as most vendors will be out of town.
That’s an interesting holiday! I hope you find a solution to your dilemma soon; Evan and his brother need someone to take care of them during the Mudik celebration.
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hmm… that really is interesting..
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I love the Holiday. It should be World Wide. I would love it. Hope you find someone to watch the little one’s.
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Oh the holiday itself is Eid ul-Fitr, an Islamic holiday. So I guess all Muslim majority countries also celebrate it, with their own traditions.
Here, many Indonesians prefer to go back to their hometown (mudik) during Eid ul-Fitr. So “mudik season” happens around Eid which often last longer than the official 5 days holiday
We have mudik culture here and we call it “balik kampung”.. I was in Jakarta once for EID and it was Mudik time and OMG I see buses so full to the door and luggage on top of cars.. scary.. is it still like that now?
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Yes it’s still like that, but the trend nowadays is using motorbike for mudik, lesser cost but more dangerous I think. But the city becomes quiet during mudik, which is nice
Happy Idul Fitri 1431 H may god accept our deeds and yours
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Happy Idul Fitri too! Balik kampung this year?