"Home is where mom is."
So very true. For someone who carried you in her belly for nine months, went through the pain of childbirth and raised you to the become a decent human being, no other person in this world deserve more respect and affection than your mother. As a French novelist once wrote, the heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
My own mother celebrated her 76th birthday last month. She is coping as well as can be, considering her recovery from heart complications two years ago. I visit her as often as I can, which for me, is never enough.
Anyway, I'm putting up this post specifically to share some trivia about the numeral 9 :
a) In a normal non-leap year, the 9th of September is the 252nd day of the year. If we total up those numerals 2 + 5 + 2, we will get 9.
b) Any whole number multiplied by 9, would give an answer whose individual digits when added up result in 9. Example ~ 2 x 9 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9. Or 32 x 9 = 288, 2 + 8 + 8 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9. Or 126 x 9 = 1,134, 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 9.
c) The sum total of the ten digits in our arabic numerical system,
0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9=45. 4 + 5 = 9.
Works equally well in subtraction (change all the plus to minus), where we'll get -9.
d) Okay, let's try multiplication. Obviously we can't use zero in the equation, so it becomes,
1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9 = 362,880. Therefore 3 + 6 + 2 + 8 + 8 + 0 = 27. And further on, 2 + 7 = 9.
And does it work with division as well? I'll let you try that one out yourself.
So why this sudden interest in the number nine. It's just to let you know that this week marks the 9th year that this humble non-money-making blog is in circulation. Since writing the first post on 8 April 2008, I have now published a total of 468* entries. A mixed bag of personal stories, ramblings and sometimes worthless snippets.
Of course, the regularity of posting has somewhat declined over the years, as has the number of comments from readers. But I am not concerned about the figures. I just hope to have the interest and drive to continue writing and hopefully make the 10th anniversary target next year. Let's take it one year at a time.
Thank you to all readers and commenters for the company.
(* Coincidentally, 4 + 6 + 8 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9. I'm dreaming of nines this week :-)
4 comments:
Keep on blogging oldstock. I'm one of your readers via RSS feed. Hence you rarely find me going to the website to post comments. Unless it really seems to need one, like this one. ;-)
Thank you Sdra Sabri. I know you one of my regular readers. Likewise, I have your posts in my G+ feed too. Hope to be able to meet up in person one day.
Hi Oldstock, since the launching of FB and whasapp, a lot of people quit blogging or somehow lazy to write a postings. Thus readers pun macam lost mood to read blog or put comments. Once upon a time before FB, a lot of people jump wagon in fotoblog and blog.
But its ok, we maintain the blog to activate our brain cells.
Happy blogging, keep on writing.
Amelia
Hi Amelia,
I'm encouraged to see that you are a consistent blogger. Keep up the good work in sharing all those lovely recipes. If only I have the time to try them all out, hehe..
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