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Day 189

PHOTO PAYBACKS

As I took a photo of this street black-topper, he whipped out his phone from somewhere in his lungi and decided to take a picture of me. 

Cell phone in action

Day 188

CHAIRS for any event.  If you need chairs for a party or football finals, call these guys and they will bring them for you.

Loaded Vangari

Day 187

A REMIAN RAIDER enjoying a KFC burger!  What a celebration party it was. 

Finger-lickin' good!

Day 186

REMIAN RAIDERS winners of the Level Next Talent Hunters Football tournament.  Here is the trophy they worked hard for.  Akib, the captain on the left, and Afif the team manager on the right, are quite happy!

Akib, captain, and Afif, manager.

INDEPENDENCE DAY for the U.S.A.  It’s amazing to think that the U.S. was only 195 years old when Bangladesh became a nation!!  We missed the fireworks usually a part of this day, but there were another kind of fireworks as the Remian Raiders celebrated their latest tournament win with a great meal at Kentucky Fried Chicken!!!

Champions celebrating!

Day 184

KITCHEN of the neighbor of Day 182

I doubt whether this recession has hit him yet, though the price of rice went up a bit.

Kitchen

Day 183

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROTHER BOB!

Bob an I are both 60 years old.  That makes us Irish twins.  Irish twins are siblings that share the same age for a period of time, meaning of course that they were born less than a year apart. It is interesting that Alice and her sister are at this time both 61 years old.  I don’t know if Bob was born at Noon, but if so, he was born smack in the middle of the year.  That means this afternoon we are sailing into the second half of 2009!!

Here is a photo of Bob with his wife Rachel.

Bob and Rachel

STREET DWELLER neighbor

Notice this fellows feet sticking out of his shelter.  I’m not sure what put this fellow on the street.  He has lived here for a long time.  Every so often I buy him breakfast.  One day I bought him a bag of rice.  Later I saw him filling plastic bottles with the rice.  I noticed that every grain he spilled was picked up to be used.  I had wondered how he would survive Cyclone Sidr in 2007, but when the storm calmed I saw that he and his shelter were ok.

Sleeping peacefully

Day 181

VEGETABLES on street vendor’s Van Gari.  I haven’t tried hurrying to the street from our 9th floor apartment to buy vegetables when I hear them yelling “Torkari!”  “Torkari” is curried food.  These vegetables are cooked with whatever kind of curry is being prepared.  I have however bought some on the street if I see them when I am walking.

Veggies for Sale!

BLACK-TOPPING continued.  Here is a lady worker who keeps feeding sawdust into the fire to heat up the gravel, tar, etc. mixture.  There are other fires to heat up the tar to pour into this mixture.

Feeding the fire beats begging!

BLACK-TOPPING on a street in Iqbal Road.  This street has been one of the roughest streets, and finally it is being blacktopped!  I posted this for my friend Paul Troyer, who is a black-topper in Ohio.

Van Gari dumping it's load!

REMIAN RAIDERS win the “Level: Next….Talent Hunters” Underground Tournament with a stunning defeat of the “Soccer Knights, 2-0 in the final match.  Here is a photo of the jubilant team.  In addition to the satisfaction of winning they also won 20,ooo taka and a nice trophy.

Champions!!