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6 Ramadhan, 1440

An easier day today on the fasting front, simply because I got to go back to bed after the Dawn Prayer and felt a good deal more rested as a result when I finally surfaced. It wasn't all fun & games though, with plenty of marking to do.

Then this evening I was watching a programme about the fasting month in Italy. This being summer time in Europe there are plenty of hours to fast. It put my own minor struggle into proportion. As did a wry cartoon Noi showed me just now. The cartoon dialogue was in Malay and went roughly like this:

Son questioning father: Why must we fast in Ramadhan?

Father answering: So we can feel what poor people feel.

Son, puzzled: You mean poor people eat buffet food at Maghrib?