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You know you've been trawling the Net way too long (which isn't necessarily a bad thing IMHO XD) when you've done your usual rounds of your usual hit-list 3 times in a row. Minimum figure.
Anyway, I was lurking on Global Voices and got myself a pretty badge (click on said pretty badge on the sidebar to your right to check their site out!) To quote, "Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School." A bunch of bloggers worldwide blog about their respective regions, some doing the rounds of their local blogs to come up with their most interesting posts (their "daily roundups") and a whole bunch of others contribute posts; all this culminating in the Global Voices Online! Pretty neat eh. Have a read!=D
A post from Turkey alerted me to the fact that Ramadhan is referred to as Ramazan there. Granted, there are probably a gazillion different inflects and variations across the globe but it's nice to stumble upon a reminder of that fact once in a while ^_^ So it's that time of the year again... Ramadhan has already started today for those practising back home and due for us in NZ tomorrow at the start of the new week. Since the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycles, the dates and months don't correlate with the arbitrary annum of January to December that the world centres around. As such, the months annually creep up in relation to the standard year and such is the cycle.
The previous 3 Ramadhans we've had in NZ has been quite the gruelling test. Occurring so late in the year, it was close to summer here as opposed to what Ramadhan would be like in the UK. Our Subuh would be at around 4ish and Iftar as late as quarter to 9. This year promises to take less of a toll on my body (currently similar to Brunei but will probably lengthen as the year progresses) which is much welcomed considering that of late, it's more sensitive to low fuel levels and the consequences manifest more as the more horrifying faint spells and incredible headaches, rather than plain old cumbersome borborygmi, albeit of gastronomic audible proportions.
Anyway, I was lurking on Global Voices and got myself a pretty badge (click on said pretty badge on the sidebar to your right to check their site out!) To quote, "Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School." A bunch of bloggers worldwide blog about their respective regions, some doing the rounds of their local blogs to come up with their most interesting posts (their "daily roundups") and a whole bunch of others contribute posts; all this culminating in the Global Voices Online! Pretty neat eh. Have a read!=D
A post from Turkey alerted me to the fact that Ramadhan is referred to as Ramazan there. Granted, there are probably a gazillion different inflects and variations across the globe but it's nice to stumble upon a reminder of that fact once in a while ^_^ So it's that time of the year again... Ramadhan has already started today for those practising back home and due for us in NZ tomorrow at the start of the new week. Since the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycles, the dates and months don't correlate with the arbitrary annum of January to December that the world centres around. As such, the months annually creep up in relation to the standard year and such is the cycle.
The previous 3 Ramadhans we've had in NZ has been quite the gruelling test. Occurring so late in the year, it was close to summer here as opposed to what Ramadhan would be like in the UK. Our Subuh would be at around 4ish and Iftar as late as quarter to 9. This year promises to take less of a toll on my body (currently similar to Brunei but will probably lengthen as the year progresses) which is much welcomed considering that of late, it's more sensitive to low fuel levels and the consequences manifest more as the more horrifying faint spells and incredible headaches, rather than plain old cumbersome borborygmi, albeit of gastronomic audible proportions.
~Ramadhan mubarak, to all those practising!~
Another year of abstinence from yummy local sungkai food and family iftars... I can, however, look forward to the very-real-I-can-almost-taste-it possibility of not missing Raya/Eid what with our academic year due to pave way for an early summer vacation in oh, about 4 weeks;) My feet are certainly itching to catch that plane...
(One of my brothers turned 18 today. May he always be blessed ^_^)
(One of my brothers turned 18 today. May he always be blessed ^_^)
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