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I came across this term “Black Friday” in the last few days and wondered what is it. Prior to that I was thinking that could it be something unlucky or some unfortunate incident that had happened in the past on a Friday, so they named it Black Friday. So out of curiosity I decided to check it out. Fortunately I was wrong and according to Wikipedia, Black Friday is :-

The day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically the busiest retail shopping day of the year. Many consider it the “official” beginning to the Christmas season. Most retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and usually provide massive discounts on their products, and offer doorbuster deals to draw people to their stores.

And how did the term came about? Well here is one theory and again from Wikipedia.

One theory is that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year’s profits (the black).

Well that’s it, thats why I came across Black Friday sales, Black Friday that..so it has to do with shopping.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

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On the 10th of November, it was the last school day after which there will be a long school break till next year 2007. We were at the community hall attending a graduation ceremony for the older kids ie Kindergarten year 3 ( Christine is in year1). Well Christine did well in her year end “exams” as she came out first in her class, so she was given a prize. Prizes were given for the top three students only. She was also selected to perform a dance presentation. I was amazed at how these kids could remembered all the moves and steps according to the music. Simply enjoyable and entertaining. We are all so very proud of you, Christine.

Here are some photos taken during the ceremony.

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My eldest daugther, Christine fell sick on a Saturday evening, she came down with fever and it was rather high as it was hovering between 38 to 40 degree Celsius. The next morning we brought her to see the doctor and learnt that she had throat infection, there were ulcers near her tonsils. She was given antibiotics with medicine to reduce her fever. Just one hitch, apparently she doesn’t like the orange flavored medicine so we switched to strawberry flavor. She recovered after a few days and was back to school on Thursday (9th November)
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