When is My Birthday?

Tuesday, 08 September 2009

When is My Birthday?

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With all this moving back and forth, immigrating from one country to another, how many of you have had your birthday mixed up? I for one, have three, yes, three.
September 7 - The day I was born
November 29 - The day on my driver's license
December 5 - Go figure, my father couldn't remember when my birthday was, he picked this one.
One year, I celebrated all three, with different people, but with a party nonetheless. When I was younger, I wanted my birthday to come, so I celebrated 9/7. As I have gotten older, I am choosing 11/29, I'm sure that by the time I turn 50, I will be going with 12/5.
Any other weird one's out there with different birthdays as a result of travel?

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interesting that u picked 11-29 for ur profile. i picked my solar calenda birthday for my driver license and all matters. I celebrate both my solar and lunar calenda birthdays.
- 9/8/2009 10:29 AM
- stevew918@xanga (message)
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Um, I celebrate the day I was born on.
- 9/8/2009 10:44 AM
- xa06@xanga (message)
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I don't have any interesting birthday stories, but my grandma doesn't know when her birthday is on the solar calendar since they marked it down on the lunar calendar when she was born. And the Chinese sometimes count your point of conception as your birthday... I think... at least, that's how they measure your age sometimes! Gives you a nine-month boost
- 9/8/2009 11:39 AM
- black_lie@xanga (message)
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Well, I'm normal. I celebrate my birthday on June 6 and don't think about it till next summer. Birthdays aren't as exciting if your family doesn't care or remember your birthday. They stop taking pictures, giving me presents, baking a cake back when I was 12. Never had a sweet 16, and I recently turned 18 and it went unnoticed. Some friends and I just go to the movies, but it becomes more of an outing than a celebration of me living another year.
I promise myself, when I have children, I'll make every birthday a special occasion. How can anyone forget their own child's birthday?
- 9/8/2009 12:14 PM
- EboniYoYo@xanga (message)
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Interesting. But how does this happen? I'm confused. And I'm also confused as to how a parent can be SO off with birthdays. My husband couldn't remember if E was born on the 21st or 22nd when asked today, but our son C is born on the 21st and E is born on the 22nd, so I can understand that kind of confusion.
I would probably celebrate in September if it were me... November/Dec. is too close to Christmas for me.
- 9/8/2009 1:21 PM
- Morningstarrising@xanga (message)
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I celebrate my half-birthday, which is 6 months from my actual birthday. My half-birthday happens to be the birthday of the founder of the middle/high school I went to and my school has a big celebration and ceremony for her. So I'd use to just joke that the school was also celebrating my half-birthday. :)
- 9/8/2009 2:15 PM
- importantnonsense@xanga (message)
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My birthday is on July 4th so there's always a celebration somewhere. Non-Americans, July 4th = Our Independence Day and is considered America's birthday.
- 9/8/2009 2:31 PM
- DarcKleer@xanga (message)
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I celebrate on the day I was born.
- 9/8/2009 3:16 PM
- xraindropsonroses@xanga (message)
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on my birthday, even though i live with my parents, my dad gets mine and my mums mixed up with mine being on the 8th and my mums on the 9th of the same month.

we keep in him in check.
- 9/8/2009 4:16 PM
- my_final_username@xanga (message)
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no ^^
- 9/8/2009 9:47 PM
- soberheartss@xanga (message)
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Just one!
- 9/9/2009 1:32 AM
- mizz_chan@xanga (message)
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@EboniYoYo@xanga - Awe, sorry to hear it. All birthdays are special, even the mistaken ones:P Perhaps when you turn 21 you can have the biggest bash ever!!!
- 9/9/2009 3:00 PM
- unchalan (message)
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@Morningstarrising@xanga - Well, my grandmother couldn't recall (go figure) the exact date, so she just got it for the date in which she went to register me. I do celebrate it in September, this year, it just so happens that it landed on Labor Day, so I did not labor. :D
- 9/9/2009 3:05 PM
- unchalan (message)
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This is funny. I want many birthdays too. Hahahaha..

I want my real one (August 13 = Summer), a Spring one (March 10 = close to my best friend's), a Fall/Winter one like November 11.
- 9/9/2009 4:25 PM
- DeLostSoul@xanga (message)
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My solar one is Sept 23rd, which is the one I personally and legally use. My lunar birthday is Sept 2nd, but it's so hard to keep track of because the rest of the world functions on the solar calendar.

I kind of had a culture shock in regards to age when I was in Korea this July. I was 21 when I boarded the plane at LAX. 15 hours later I landed on Korean soil and turned 23. Go figure.
- 9/9/2009 4:33 PM
- onliadreamer@xanga (message)
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@DeLostSoul@xanga - Hey, it's easy, just ask your grandmother (who doesn't remember when you were born) to have a birth certificate issued for you. Chances are, you will have a new birthday shortly after.
- 9/9/2009 6:16 PM
- unchalan (message)
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I just use my solar birthday I guess, I didn't even know people had lunar birthdays?
- 9/9/2009 7:55 PM
- articulate_silence@xanga (message)
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Wow. That's pretty weird.
- 9/9/2009 10:16 PM
- EpikZwei@xanga (message)
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Ive never heard of people celebrating a different day then the one they were actually born on...
- 9/9/2009 10:41 PM
- ThA_sLo_1@xanga (message)
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My Dad's b-day is September 25th... the date on his birth certificate is Sept 28th. Jokingly he says that he's permitted to celebrate from the 25th-28th.
- 9/10/2009 6:31 AM
- ManoAngeliukai9902@xanga (message)
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I was born on Halloween and I've never heard of anyone celebrating any birthday besides the day they were born.
- 9/10/2009 9:16 AM
- freeeker@xanga (message)
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How exactly do you end up with more than one birthday? >.> You were born on a specific day, and you don't have another birthday until that day rolls around again. It's impossible to actually have more than one, so wtf?
- 9/10/2009 11:10 AM
- babykittytara@xanga (message)
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@babykittytara@xanga - What can I tell you. Some of us are lucky enough to have more than one. It's not that we went back in.
- 9/10/2009 11:48 AM
- unchalan (message)
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my birthday is in december, and i'm normal i never moved from place to place except in 2001 when i moved to Puerto rico.
- 9/10/2009 1:13 PM
- Chris_hybrid13@xanga (message)
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i celebrate 1/12 since thats the day im born in but when i travel to the philippines, it could become 1/13 because of the time difference. born on jan 12 at 09:03PST, or jan 13, 01:03PhST
- 9/10/2009 2:11 PM
- OldFashioned@xanga (message)
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