It’s not only the first day Malaysia is formally gazettes (ayat bajet) 9 September as ‘Hari Radio’, and this 090909 is the first day, but there’s many interesting facts about 090909:
1. Sign of a Lucky Fortune.
090909, not only the last single digit number in this century, but the numerologists believe that the number 9 has power, as it is the final number in numerical order. According to them, no 9 associated with forgiveness, compassion and success on the positive side as well as arrogance and self-righteousness on the negative side.
The famous Greek Mathematician, Pythagoras (everybody should know his theorem) believed that number 9 has a very unique properties.
If you multiply 9 with any single digit number, and you add the result together, you’ll get 9.
9×1 = 9
9×2 = 18, 1+8 = 9
9×3 = 27, 2+7 = 9
…. 9×9 = 81, 8+1 = 9.
Look if we do for 9 multiply with double digits..
9×11 = 99, 9+9 = 18
9×21 = 189, 1+8+9 = 18, 1+8 = 9
How about triple digits?
9×263 = 2367, 2+3+6+7 = 18, 1+8= 9
Wow! So it is really a powerful 9!
2. Lucky number for Chinese
Other than it is associates with The Emperor of China – his royal robe has 9 dragons – it is also means ‘longlasting’. As we often use this in wedding, lots of Chinese get married on this very day.
3. The beginning of a new life
Human usually get pregnant for 9 months 🙂 except for special case like Fahry.
4. Signicant numbers in many relogions and philosophy.
- Hinduism – a complete, perfected and divine number.
- Christianity – 9 choirs of angels.
However, for Japanese, number 9 is unlucky number. It means pain.
And the last but not least, should remember this OK!
5. Ramadhan is the 9th month in Hijri calendar.
What a coincident 090909 falls during Ramadhan 😀
6. I liked Brazilian Ronaldo and he was the no 9.
So that’s the end of the last single digit day in this century. Nine-nine-nine. Next year would be double digit lah, ten-ten-ten. Until we meet again one-one-one (01/01/01) January 1, 2101. Which I don’t think I can live for more than a hundred years, LOL.
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