hmmmm.....
finally my baby is back with me. after almost two long months! TWO LOOONNNGGG months!!!
its just three days into the new year, and already so many good things have been hapening to me...
i just hope this good start is not shattered by untoward happeings in the coming 362 days
4.1.06
3.1.06
its the weather man
as in most european countries, it snowed heavily last week. knee deep snow everywhere....
the bright white looks beautiful, but getting around isnt easy, specially for those like us who cycle.
the bright white looks beautiful, but getting around isnt easy, specially for those like us who cycle.
thank God, the snow stopped this week.... but,
the digital thermometer on my way home proudly informed me it was -10 C last night.
i think i prefer the snow........
chronicles of christmas holidays
written on 28 dec '05. posted: 03 jan '06
tanim, a good old friend, and some of his frends from goteborg, sweden came over to spend the christmas break with us. masud, another old friend joined in from helsinki, finland.
so the next couple of days, it was just food food and food...
in the five days here is just few of the things we devoured...
beef bhuna
bhuna kichuri
chingri bhaji
asto ilish bhaja
and special mutton haleem... (mama haleemer cheye hajar gune valo)
[these are just names of some bangladeshi 'finger licking' dishes]
we did little bit of sight seeing (and siteseeing for some) and indoor games during those short gaps when we werent either eating or sleeping!!!
a walk in gistrup forest (a nearby village)
visit to viking graveyard (visits to history page is always entertaining, but at zero C and strong winds.... i would have rather preferred the warm bed with a cup of steaming tea. and better yet, some muri vaja and gorom pianzu)
and some indoor games...
this is all what we had time for...
pictorial update will be soon (yes, its my soon... the undefined soon)
tanim, a good old friend, and some of his frends from goteborg, sweden came over to spend the christmas break with us. masud, another old friend joined in from helsinki, finland.
so the next couple of days, it was just food food and food...
in the five days here is just few of the things we devoured...
beef bhuna
bhuna kichuri
chingri bhaji
asto ilish bhaja
and special mutton haleem... (mama haleemer cheye hajar gune valo)
[these are just names of some bangladeshi 'finger licking' dishes]
we did little bit of sight seeing (and siteseeing for some) and indoor games during those short gaps when we werent either eating or sleeping!!!
a walk in gistrup forest (a nearby village)
visit to viking graveyard (visits to history page is always entertaining, but at zero C and strong winds.... i would have rather preferred the warm bed with a cup of steaming tea. and better yet, some muri vaja and gorom pianzu)
and some indoor games...
this is all what we had time for...
pictorial update will be soon (yes, its my soon... the undefined soon)
21.12.05
priorities
Appreciate five things before five other things:
(1) Your youth before you grow old
(2) Good health before you become sick
(3) Your solvency before your poverty
(4) Your relaxing time before you become busy
(5) Your life before you die
- Saying of Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon Him)
(Imad vais email signature)
(1) Your youth before you grow old
(2) Good health before you become sick
(3) Your solvency before your poverty
(4) Your relaxing time before you become busy
(5) Your life before you die
- Saying of Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon Him)
(Imad vais email signature)
16.12.05
nobbo 'mohajon' (the new Shylock)
A pathetic tale of unrelieved poverty driving a family to suicide has been reported from Rajshahi.
All the six members of a family in the village Bagmara in Rajshahi attempted suicide by taking poison but were saved by timely intervention of neighbours. The reason, simply failing to completely repay NGOs a mere loan of 97,000 tk in time, though most of it has been repayed. According to news report, Alam Hossain, a rickshaw van driver, his wife, their two sons and their wives had drawn a loan of Taka 97,000 from four NGOs, namely BRAC, Caritas, IRDP and SHARP.
Obviously, the loansharks were not simply talking of loan but the loan plus the oppressive rates of interest. Last week officials from the NGOs went to the house of the beneficiary and pressed them for payment by Sunday, or else ----- . Or else they would confiscate the house and all that the family possessed including the CI sheets of the roof. All the pleas of the poor family to grant more time for payment went unheeded. Impoverished, harassed by NGO officials and driven to desperation, they tried to avail themselves of the ultimate escape chute which they felt was their only escape from the pain and humiliation.
and yet the leaders of these NGO get to wine and dine with the top brass, and are more than often potrayed as national heroes and 'saviours of the poor and downtrodden'. Bill Gates, on his 12 hr trip to Bangladesh, made time to visit a BRAC project. so, one can just imagine how far their arms reach!!!
we are always taught to hate the monsters in our history book, at the same time turning our eyes away from the present day monsters.
will not we, humans, who proud ourselves as the best of creation, learn to raise above the self and put humanity and justice above all? will the day not come, when poverty alleviation will not be just empty rhetorics, but sincere will of our leaders?
read the complete article from daily independent-bangladesh
All the six members of a family in the village Bagmara in Rajshahi attempted suicide by taking poison but were saved by timely intervention of neighbours. The reason, simply failing to completely repay NGOs a mere loan of 97,000 tk in time, though most of it has been repayed. According to news report, Alam Hossain, a rickshaw van driver, his wife, their two sons and their wives had drawn a loan of Taka 97,000 from four NGOs, namely BRAC, Caritas, IRDP and SHARP.
Obviously, the loansharks were not simply talking of loan but the loan plus the oppressive rates of interest. Last week officials from the NGOs went to the house of the beneficiary and pressed them for payment by Sunday, or else ----- . Or else they would confiscate the house and all that the family possessed including the CI sheets of the roof. All the pleas of the poor family to grant more time for payment went unheeded. Impoverished, harassed by NGO officials and driven to desperation, they tried to avail themselves of the ultimate escape chute which they felt was their only escape from the pain and humiliation.
and yet the leaders of these NGO get to wine and dine with the top brass, and are more than often potrayed as national heroes and 'saviours of the poor and downtrodden'. Bill Gates, on his 12 hr trip to Bangladesh, made time to visit a BRAC project. so, one can just imagine how far their arms reach!!!
we are always taught to hate the monsters in our history book, at the same time turning our eyes away from the present day monsters.
will not we, humans, who proud ourselves as the best of creation, learn to raise above the self and put humanity and justice above all? will the day not come, when poverty alleviation will not be just empty rhetorics, but sincere will of our leaders?
read the complete article from daily independent-bangladesh
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