PIAJU a tasty treat I saw being prepared in Old Dhaka. It is made with onions and lentils (dal). I’m having fits because I can’t see what I am typing until it is uploaded!
Archive for May, 2009
SADERGHAT, OLD DHAKA
MOTHER’S DAY BREAKFAST
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MOTHER’S DAY
We had a nice breakfast at Austin’s on Mother’s Day. Austin fixed baked oatmeal, and some fruit, served with yogurt.
ELECTRICIAN
Sayeed came to install an IPS that was donated by a friend. An IPS builds up charge while the electricity is available and then when electricity shuts down it runs fans and lights etc. With this option the power outages in the middle of a 100 degree day are more bearable since the fans are still running. We went 19 months without one. Finally during this season when we lost our electricity every hour for an hour we hooked up the IPS and battery which generous friends shared with this. Ironically it has been hooked up for a week. Immediately when it was hooked up we had some rains it cooled down for three days, and until today we only had one outage which lasted for an hour.
POTENTIAL WALL ARRANGEMENT
I’m considering this or a similar arrangement for one of the walls of our apartment. Feel free to make comments including recommendations. If I knew how to use this program 🙂 I would have put spaces between each photo and had every other photo up or down. So it goes! Have a great day! I see that the program when posted put spaces between photos! Hurray! Of course then I had too many for one line!
KRISHNACHURA TREES are blooming nicely here in Dhaka.
RICKSHAW REPAIRER
This lady sits here almost every day waiting for some rickshaw that needs repairs.
TRAFFIC JAM
I was coming home on a rickshaw. Half-way home I saw a traffic jam so I decided to get off and walk. This is how it looked on Asad Avenue after I had walked five minutes. I knew I had made the right decision. I made it home in time for my tutor. In this area there is a big jam because parents or guardians are taking their children to school. The small streets just can’t handle this much traffic.
SAD EYES
This beggar was longing for a hand-out.
BREAKTIME
Taking a break from carrying water?
EYES
These eyes belong to Halim’s nephew and nieces whom I met last week.
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