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Ramadhan..

Now we are in the month of Ramadhan, during the month of Ramadhan, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset every day, I have to get up early in the morning at 3:00 am. Preparing the breakfast and waking up the whole family.....tomorow is the first day...

Indonesia's view from a Canadian artist name Ken Pattern. He has lived in Jakarta Indonesia since 1989. Pattern works in a variety of media including drawing, painting and printmaking (stone lithography). This posting is for my Canadian blog friends Bryn - Maizzy and Gurl. To Maizzy, I can't do the posting everyday.. sometimes my English is an obstacle for me.. I have to learn more..

Word of the Day
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The Word of the Day for Oct 26 is:

Ramadan \RAH-muh-dahn noun

: the ninth month of the Islamic year observed as sacred with fasting practiced daily from dawn to sunset

Example sentence:

Maliha explained that she couldn't join us for lunch because she was fasting for Ramadan.

Did you know?

observed 11 days earlier each year, so that in a cycle of about 33 years it passes through all the seasons. Supposedly, however, it was originally one of the hot months. Thus, it is ultimately derived from Arabic "ramada," meaning "to be heated or hot." Muslims are required to fast during Ramadan to commemorate the revelation of the Koran to Muhammad. Fasting during this month is also considered one of the five Pillars of Islam (the others are the profession of faith in Allah as the one God and in Muhammad as his prophet; prayer five times a day; the giving of alms to the poor; and the hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca). The first print usage of "Ramadan" in English dates from
approximately 1595.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.