RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
525 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006
...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO...
AS OF 5 PM THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN SAN ANGELO THIS
AFTERNOON WAS 98 DEGREES REACHED AT 4:50 PM.
THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD OF 96 DEGREES SET IN 1925.
AS OF 5 PM THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN ABILENE THIS AFTERNOON
WAS 97 DEGREES REACHED AT 4:23 PM. THIS BROKE THE OLD
RECORD OF 94 DEGREES SET IN 1904.
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
502 PM CDT MON APR 17 2006
...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT ABILENE ...
AS OF 5 PM THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN ABILENE THIS AFTERNOON
WAS 98 ( Note : It was 101 out where we were )
DEGREES REACHED AT 4:26 PM. THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD
OF 95 DEGREES SET IN 1937.
Thursday April 13, 2006
By BAVANI M
bavanim@thestar.com.my
Photos by ONG SOON HIN, GLEN GUAN, KAMAL SELLEHUDDIN and LOW LAY PHON
THERE is something good about April 14. The date is of significance to the Tamil Hindus, the Sikhs and the Christians. It commemorates the beginning of a New Year, the birth of a brotherhood and the death of an innocent to save the world, respectively.
TOMORROW may just be another Friday for some but, to others, it holds special religious meanings.
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Members of the ‘bajan’ team getting prepared for the singing of hymns during the Vasakhi celebrations. |
Gurdwaras, Hindu temples and churches everywhere will hold special prayers to commemorate these holy events.
While some see it as a mere coincidence, others think it to be a day for triple joy.
Jaswant Kaur, 54, said Vasakhi was the most important event in the Sikh calendar.
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Christians getting ready for Good Friday and Easter celebrations at the Church of St Francis Xavier in Petaling Jaya. |
Ajit Muker Singh, 58, said Vasakhi was an event important to the Sikh community.
“The fact that it is also a special day for the Tamils and Christians makes it all the more special,’’ he said.
The Gurdwara Sahib Petaling Jaya priest Paramjit Singh said the celebration began in India in 1699 when Guru Gobind Singh organised the order of the Khalsa by baptising five Sikhs.
“That day, which is called Vasakhi, normally falls on April 13 or April 14 and it is celebrated with the reciting of the holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib at Sikh temples non-stop from April 12 to April 14,’’ he said.
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“Temples offer free vegetarian food during the three days and hymns will be sung all through the night,’’ said Paramjit Singh.
For the Tamil Hindus, the New Year begins at 7.11am (Malaysian time).
“The Hindu almanac for the New Year lays down the details of the planets and stars’ positions,’’ said Ganesan Gorukkal, the chief priest of the 60-year-old Sree Arulmeega Veera Hanuman temple in Brickfields.
He said one was able to predict the general happenings for the year based on these readings.
The Tamil Hindus would spruce up their homes a day before the New Year.
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Jaswant Kaur ... ‘a most important event’ Ajit |
Some believe that the “lady of the house’’ would be the first to wake up and she would then lead her family members, whose eyes will be closed, straight to the altar, where they will open their eyes for the first time in the New Year.
Housewife M. Logesh, 32, plans to cook vegetarian dishes for her family.
“I will make ponggal (sweetened milk rice) and cook five dishes after which we will go to the temple,’’ she said.
For Christians, Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross.
“We will retrace the steps Jesus took in the Stations of the Cross,’’ said assistant parish pastor Father O.C. Lim of Church of St Francis Xavier Petaling Jaya.
“It is a significant day, because even though Jesus died, but by his death we, humans, are saved from our sins.
“We may think it to be a tragic day, that an innocent man had to die a criminal’s death, but on a spiritual level, it is Good Friday because upon his death, Jesus saved us from sin,’’ he said. “And, that alone is a reason to be joyful.’’
The week culminates with Easter Sunday on April 16, with the resurrection of Jesus, which also marks the end of a 40-day Lent period when Christians observe fasting with prayers and abstinence.
Today, too, holds special meaning for the Christians.
Holy Thursday is a day when Christian priests re-enact what Jesus did to his apostles some 2,000 years ago – wash their feet.
“It is a symbolic gesture so that Christians will serve others as Jesus did,’’ said Father Lim.
Happy Celebrating, everyone
Spring weather can be so unfriendly out here in the wide open Texas spaces - we're getting winds gusting up to 45mph with an average of about 25mph EVERY DAY!!!!!
*sigh*
Other than that, it's mostly spring stuff happening - lots of planting and cleaning up and repairing and all that Jazz. Jay, a good friend of the family, is helping David get a lot of things done around the house - we finally got a decent roof up on the cattery, got a lot of plants in the ground and started in planters - are looking to plough up the land for a vegetable patch in the back, a big flower bed in the front, maybe a pond and a storage building in the back also, for the trailers ( RV and Airstream ) and Oh, yesterday we put together a Purple Martin House... :)
