Yesterday I said something about the weather, right ? And I also mentioned the weekend starting here, yes ? Well guess what : it's still bad weather today. The wind is coming from the sea-side and is freekin' cold. You can hardly stand straight at some moments.
The title of this post refers to Belgium : every time we got a weekend overthere it always seems to rain.
So I just made it a lazy day, got some paperwork done and played some pool with 2 of my collegues.
In the evenening we went to Al-Huwaylat Panda store, downtown Jubail City, to get some stuff for the household and to fill the enormous american fridge we all have. It can be compaired to the Carrefour we have in Europe, which they also have here btw.
We almost got locked inside, because about 20 minutes before praying time starts, they turn down the lights which means everybody needs to get out. The roller shutters will close and life stops for about 30 minutes untill prayingtime is over.
There are 5 prayers per day of which the hours change a little every day :
Fajr around 05.00am
Ishraq around 06.40 (sunrise, no prayer)
Dhuhr around 12.00am
Asr around 03.50pm
Maghrib around 05.20pm
Isha'a around 06.50pm
The Islamic dating is also different from ours :
Thursday, february 2nd 2012 is Thursday, 12 Rabi Al-Awwal 1433 AH.
The title of this post refers to Belgium : every time we got a weekend overthere it always seems to rain.
So I just made it a lazy day, got some paperwork done and played some pool with 2 of my collegues.
In the evenening we went to Al-Huwaylat Panda store, downtown Jubail City, to get some stuff for the household and to fill the enormous american fridge we all have. It can be compaired to the Carrefour we have in Europe, which they also have here btw.
We almost got locked inside, because about 20 minutes before praying time starts, they turn down the lights which means everybody needs to get out. The roller shutters will close and life stops for about 30 minutes untill prayingtime is over.
There are 5 prayers per day of which the hours change a little every day :
Fajr around 05.00am
Ishraq around 06.40 (sunrise, no prayer)
Dhuhr around 12.00am
Asr around 03.50pm
Maghrib around 05.20pm
Isha'a around 06.50pm
The Islamic dating is also different from ours :
Thursday, february 2nd 2012 is Thursday, 12 Rabi Al-Awwal 1433 AH.
Thursday,February 2 2012 is: Al Khamies;Rabi 10 1433. You're running 2years behind...
ReplyDeleteSorry, didn't get my numbers straight ... probably got confused with the weekends being different. Mistakes is rectified as is ... thanks.
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