May 30, 2010, 11:00 pm, Dhaka
Sitting here, in front of my laptop, I just can't find a suitable topic to write about! Nothing to be surprised about, such things usually happen to me...first, the uncertainty as to how to start and then the major problem of figuring out how to end it!
Anyways, my wandering mind just happened on some memories...memories of days gone by years ago. At times, it seems like not just one but several lifetimes have passed since I left the Middle East. It's been exactly 12 years since I first arrived in this country, a land which my folks called 'home' and one which I still have problems relating to :-( However, the whys and hows of my predicament of feeling like a stranger in my parents' homeland is sth I might talk about in some other post, some other time.
Moving on to the lives that I seem to have left behind...well, first in line comes my childhood, spent in Naif Road. I can still smell the fragrance of fresh pastries ..aaahhhh...no prizes for guessing, but there was a pastry shop right next door :-D And how can I forget the uncle in the furniture shop downstairs, who used to treat me like his own kid. Have a lot of fond memories of the times spent with him...I still remember how much I used to feel irritated if someone addressed me as TUM / तुम, and so he used to always talk to me in English :-P Was such a snob...and maybe still am :-D at least that's what people 'not-so-close' to me usually have to say :-P Well, life back in those days consisted of going to school early in the morning, attending classes taught by fabulous teachers, coming back home, watching cartoons on chanel 33..my fav were Rainbow Brite and Care Bears :-D ... doing homework, being fed by mom and so on...
Then came the pre-teens and teens...and I think i was an absolute jerk during those years! Instead of enjoying life and appreciating all the good things that God has bestowed on me...I spent all those great years of my life aspiring to be what I never was and never could be! I went on crash diets, binge-eating sprees, tried to learn make-up (which is SOOOO not my cup of tea), ignored some really good friends and started hanging around with people with whom I had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common! Got into some really shady activities/past-times(!!!) and well just made a COMPLETE MESS of a lot of things. However, as they say TRUE FRIENDS are always there for you, and I did have the good sense to forge some friendships that are going strong till date :-D
After appearing for the class XII exams, we (my folks mainly, I had no say) decided to move over to Bangladesh...their own country and the golden land aka Sonar Bangla ... but my heart, soul and a part of me stayed back there...living through my friends, and only recently through Facebook was I able to get reacquainted with those buddies of mine :-D And thus opened the floodgates of memories...however, this post does absolutely no justice to all the good times that I had, spent sharing and caring with my dear friends, instead it loses this very essence in its attempt to be factual!!!
Oh well...life goes on..and so its is for me too :-D Slumber time for me...shabba khair, shubh ratri and GOD BLESS!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Taking baby steps into the world of blogging!
29th May 2010, 11:55 pm, Dhaka
Have been seeing the 'blogging fever' on an ever-rising high since the last couple years, but never really thought that one day I would also have a blog of my own! But today, when my social lifeline (aka Facebook) was cut off brutally by the telecommunications regulatory body of the country, I had no other option but to wander around in search of entertaining stuff on the net. And it this search, that eventually brought me to this BLOGGING site and I decided to open up an account of my own :-D
So guys, yes FB has been officially blocked/banned in Bangladesh, though no-one's coming right out and explaining why! Well, this is Bangladesh...and people like me are quite used to such unexplained happenings...though the human mind still wonders why and can't help trying to find out and assign reasons for such an occurrence. To cut a long story short...currently there are two stories doing the rounds...one version reasons that the site has been banned because of certain anti-state activities of someone using a pseudo-account on FB, while the other version is strongly trying to link the ban here with the recent FB ban in Pakistan! Who knows whats the truth and well, my question is 'would it matter?' Well, for people like me who basically live, eat, breathe, drink, sleep via Facebook, what matters is that their social life is no longer there! I know I am being hyper and going overboard in my reactions, but well what would one expect my reactions to be...when in this age of freedom of communication and expression...we are being cut off from the rest of the world! Though I am sure many would like to argue just for the sake of it, for me FB is an essential medium to be in touch with the hundreds of people who are/have been a part of my life (past, present, what does it actually matter?) and without it I feel so....alone!
Though the ban has not been able to prevent me from accessing FB (haven't u heard of the saying...'where there's a will, there's a way!') ... it still irks me to be doing it on the sly and not the usual, normal way! I have been receiving a number of mails in my FB inbox asking me as to how do I manage to do it (and these are mails from people outside Bangladesh)...and I really don't know if I should tell or not. On one hand, I am tempted to tell them all and then on the other, I wonder as to whether they are really that naive as not to know! Confusing, right?
Anyways, have to call it a day today and try to go to sleep, cos I have to wake up at 6:00 am sharp. So ciao buddies, hope to see u soon (dunno if I can make blogging a regular daily habit or not, only time will tell if this will be my one and only blog OR if more will follow it :-D )...so for now... good night, bonne nuit, buenas noches, शुभ रात्रि !
Have been seeing the 'blogging fever' on an ever-rising high since the last couple years, but never really thought that one day I would also have a blog of my own! But today, when my social lifeline (aka Facebook) was cut off brutally by the telecommunications regulatory body of the country, I had no other option but to wander around in search of entertaining stuff on the net. And it this search, that eventually brought me to this BLOGGING site and I decided to open up an account of my own :-D
So guys, yes FB has been officially blocked/banned in Bangladesh, though no-one's coming right out and explaining why! Well, this is Bangladesh...and people like me are quite used to such unexplained happenings...though the human mind still wonders why and can't help trying to find out and assign reasons for such an occurrence. To cut a long story short...currently there are two stories doing the rounds...one version reasons that the site has been banned because of certain anti-state activities of someone using a pseudo-account on FB, while the other version is strongly trying to link the ban here with the recent FB ban in Pakistan! Who knows whats the truth and well, my question is 'would it matter?' Well, for people like me who basically live, eat, breathe, drink, sleep via Facebook, what matters is that their social life is no longer there! I know I am being hyper and going overboard in my reactions, but well what would one expect my reactions to be...when in this age of freedom of communication and expression...we are being cut off from the rest of the world! Though I am sure many would like to argue just for the sake of it, for me FB is an essential medium to be in touch with the hundreds of people who are/have been a part of my life (past, present, what does it actually matter?) and without it I feel so....alone!
Though the ban has not been able to prevent me from accessing FB (haven't u heard of the saying...'where there's a will, there's a way!') ... it still irks me to be doing it on the sly and not the usual, normal way! I have been receiving a number of mails in my FB inbox asking me as to how do I manage to do it (and these are mails from people outside Bangladesh)...and I really don't know if I should tell or not. On one hand, I am tempted to tell them all and then on the other, I wonder as to whether they are really that naive as not to know! Confusing, right?
Anyways, have to call it a day today and try to go to sleep, cos I have to wake up at 6:00 am sharp. So ciao buddies, hope to see u soon (dunno if I can make blogging a regular daily habit or not, only time will tell if this will be my one and only blog OR if more will follow it :-D )...so for now... good night, bonne nuit, buenas noches, शुभ रात्रि !
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