Birthday

a couple of friends have emailed me happy birthday early and it makes me smile. maybe i have been accidentally circulating the wrong bday date to my friends, lol. actually, the truth is i've never been very big on birthday celebrations for myself. the kurds themselves don't really celebrate bdays either. those who do have either lived abroad or have relatives who have lived abroad. in fact, most of the kurds that are my age or older don't even know what day they were born on - they only know the year. i've heard a theory that this is because of the oppression by sadaam - none of their bdays were written down so they couldn't have large gatherings for that because that could be a good mask for a meeting of conspirators.