Showing posts with label calendar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calendar. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

synchronicity

It seems like every few years there are interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar. Unfortunately, it seems like this year, Eid al-Fitr may fall on 9/11. Ouch.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

happy birthday to me

So this year my (Gregorian) birthday landed on a date close to the Islamic new year and I just realized that the same was probably the case when I was born (which should give a hint about how old I am). It all reminds me of how arbitrary all these methods for marking time are.