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Happy Birthday!

K Anish Pokharel June 2, 2003

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#1 Posted by septran on June 2, 2003 9:31:22 pm
thanx,anish something light to read.
i wonder you are medical student and writing so lively article,because doctors are usually one track mind.keep it up.
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#2 Posted by yossarian on June 3, 2003 7:28:54 am


Welcome to the club buddy... I too share your fate of having to celebrate my b`day twice a year... the reason is same as yours... I guess people in charge of admission in schools in India should do something to prevent more such tragic cases :-)

btw... nice article
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#3 Posted by goonga on June 3, 2003 7:28:54 am
WoWoW...nice subject...simple diction:D
good dissection doc.
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#4 Posted by septran on June 3, 2003 9:55:51 pm
to clebrate one``s birthday is a joy ful event.it reminds you``self love``.self love means accepting your self as a worthy person.some people may link with ego,but a refuse to grow into a self loving person is a death like choice.it is the day to denounce old things,behavoir and fresh resolution.
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#5 Posted by septran on June 3, 2003 9:55:51 pm
to clebrate one``s birthday is a joy ful event.it reminds you``self love``.self love means accepting your self as a worthy person.some people may link with ego,but a refuse to grow into a self loving person is a death like choice.it is the day to denounce old things,behavoir and fresh resolution.
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#6 Posted by Ajeet on June 4, 2003 2:51:03 pm
#3 by yossarian

And I thought I was the only person in the world with two birthdays. One the real one and other the official one because my uncle who took me to school to get admitted, forgot my birthday and fudged it.
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#7 Posted by semipreciousme on June 4, 2003 10:02:51 pm
...it would be interesting to hear about your experience of living/studying in pak from a nepali perspective...
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#8 Posted by Ali87 on June 4, 2003 10:03:40 pm
We rarely or never celebrated my birthday as a child except for my mother making some sumptuous dishes for the family on that day.

In college living in a hostel I even forgot the day. However I had a roommate whose aim in life was to remember everybodys birthday send cards to people that he had met may be a few times. I thus was reminded of my birthday by a cheerful face and usually with a feeling of doom as it happens to come near the end of the month which was usually a lean(financialy) time for students in hostel!!

Upon marriage I who did not even my own birthday was expected to remember my wifes birthday and not only that remember in advance and buy her thoughtful gifts!! To this was aslo added the responsibliity of remembering the wedding anniversary. It took some I must say to get into that.
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#9 Posted by ZeeshanMahmud on June 5, 2003 12:43:55 pm
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In college living in a hostel I even forgot the day.

Oh c`mon man. I thought this sort of stuff was only true in bad PTV dramas where successful businessmen were reminded of their birthday`s by their lovely sexless girlfriends after having a big execky meeting. ``Mujhe to bilkul yaad nahi raha!`` ``Chullain, chorain. Hum ick-khuttay dinner kurtay hain.``

Meetha Eesa!
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#10 Posted by annieqb on June 5, 2003 3:48:57 pm
#8 ``Upon marriage I who did not even my own birthday was expected to remember my wifes birthday and not only that remember in advance and buy her thoughtful gifts!! To this was aslo added the responsibliity of remembering the wedding anniversary.``
:-) Some of us also have 2 wedding anniversaries to remember - one wedding back in the old homeland, one in the new - hopefully you`re not in that boat...
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#11 Posted by dost_mittar on June 6, 2003 7:18:55 am
Double birthdays were a common phenomenon in old days and one of the birthdays was likely to be 1st or the 15th of the month. There were two reasons for this. One, most parents simply did not know what their child`s birthdate was and there was no system of registration, especially in the villages. In other cases, people knew the birthdate but according to the desi months, sawan, bhadon, etc. So, when they went to the school for the child`s admission, they did not know the exact date or the date according to the Western calendar. The headmasters, in such cases, assigned an arbitrary date, usually a round number like the first or the fifteenth of the month.
I have had two birthdays since that day in the nineth class when we learnt to convert desi dates into the western dates!
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