Posts Tagged ‘Ramadan’
Back to Normal
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27 Oct 2006Our sick days are finally over and so is the long holiday. They say time flies when you’re having fun but it does too even if you’re not. We spent the long holiday including one weekend just staying home because Xiane and her dad we’re nursing cough and colds. I’m just glad that they’re both [...]
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- Tags: Eid, Ramadan
Ooopsss! My Apologies
25 Sep 2006Yesterday, we were in the Souk, hoping that we would be able to send money through the remittance office. But to our dismay, we found out that the office won’t open until 7pm. So I just decided to go to a Filipino grocery (not that it’s owned by a Filipino, it only sells items from [...]
Ramadan is Here
25 Sep 2006Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Since Islam uses a lunar calendar—with each month starting with the sighting of the new moon, so does Ramadan. More than a billion Muslims around the world, spend Ramadan with prayer, charity and most of all fasting. It is the Muslims belief that during the month [...]
Start of Ramadan 2006
24 Sep 2006Ramadan Kareem! It was the start of Ramadan last Saturday. We went out at 5:30 PM and found the streets amazingly empty! We got to our friends’ house in 15 minutes without really stopping at a roundabout. Cool. How I wish it would always be like this in Doha. However, when we were going home [...]
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