RIDING FAMILY-STYLE
A typical scene here in Dhaka.
Category: Birthday
REFRESHING DRINKS for my grandsons. I just returned from a local store with a bag of Diet Pepsi and water. Ricky, the awesome Remian Raider’s goalie wonders if he could have a drink. I was more than glad to share with him. My grandsons and I spent almost five at this football tournament in Banani. They had a great time.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANTOSHI KHAREL, my Nepali daughter!!! Hope you had a very special day. We got to know Santoshi, who worked in the office that arranged our six-day trekking experience in the Annapurna Range.
CHICKEN ON THE HOOF so to speak! If you want a great chicken curry here is one way to purchase it. I usually go to the market and tell them how many I want. They weigh them live charge me 110 taka/kg (72 cents/lb). Typically each chicken weighs 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs). Then they put it into a mechanical plucker, take out the innards, put everything in a bag (except the guts and feathers!) and I take it home. The one day the electricity was off so they skinned them instead of plucking the feathers.
MAHBUB attempts to score. After 2 weeks of thriling contests between all the top teams of underground football…..JOSephites SOCCER KNIGHTS beat 7NA in a classic final ..full time score was 0-0…but JSK won in penalty….nice keeping by TANZIR…JSK beat rapid fc 2-0 in their semi final and 7NA beat REMIAN RAIDERS on penalty after 1-1 draw.
MAN WAITING ON RICKSHAW in front of Randy’s apartment for someone to open gate so they can enter. I’m standing in knee-deep water in the middle of the street taking this photo. Hindsight tells me I should have had someone somewhere take a photo of me in the water. So it goes.
REFLECTIONS are some of the beauty that comes after the rain!
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR causes flooding in Dhaka on Tuesday as 11.4 inches of rain fell in six hours breaking a sixty-year-old record.
Here is my friend, Halim in front of his small room which had water in it at least a foot above the entrance. The next photo is of a cycle trying to decide whether to go through a water-logged intersection. I saw later that he backed up and due to the traffic-jam returned via the sidewalk. He did use his horn so I could get out of his way. Many rickshaws and cycles took to the sidewalks to bypass the jams. The “Daily Star” blames clogged drains and filled up canals for the waterlogging (flooding). Oh by the way, I didn’t crop the heads off of the cycle photo, they were never on the photo.
MONSOON RAINS bring flooding to Dhaka’s city streets. I was in waist deep water getting some of my photos today. Rains from 1-7 AM dropped 11.4 inches (290 mm) of rain for a 60 year record for a six hour period.
CLOWN BETEL NUT HAWKER chuga-lugging what was left of Matthias’ Diet Pepsi. He saw it in Matthias’ hand and thought he had to have it. In the second photo you see the fizz escaping. He was a clown and sure distracted people from the game. Our team lost 3-2 in this semi-final game of the tournament! 😦
MONSOON RAINS are here. Here are two fellows who used to play with the Remian Raiders waiting between games, oblivious to the rain. It is refreshing after the heat.
SOLAR ECLIPSE? I decided to use what limited Photoshop skills I have and see what I get by combining two shots from a Bengal Bay beach sunset and the full moon over Joypara. Enjoy!
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