A Precious Gift from Baba

Baba can take very nice pictures. He usually takes photograph of landscape and nature. He mostly takes photographs while travelling. He takes my pictures too. Some of my pictures are very nicely taken. I only saw those pictures on computer.

Yesterday my baba told me that he will give a surprise gift. That time I thought that he might bring me some photos I have taken or a storybook. Today then baba came I was on ground floor playing badminton with my brother-in-law. Apu Bhaia. After parking the car baba told to go to him and when I went to him I saw that there were four pictures of mine in a large 4 feet frame. Baba said that “This is your gift, Matisse.” That time I was really excited to watch these. I can remember those moments when he took these pictures. I am attaching one of those pictures from my baba’s Album.

This picture was taken in 2009 in Eid day. In the picture there are my cousins-Reborn and Gaheen, my friend Saad and I. That time we were on the way to eid field.

Second picture was taken behind Dada bari on last eid day. I and Gaheen were playing on the paddy field. It was a happy moment.

It is the third one, last year before Eid we went dada bari for 2 nights. This picture with ma was taken in the same place, baba taken few more pictures of us that day.

Last picture is with my Dadi taken at Dada bari last year. Dadi is sick now and came to Dhaka for her treatment. You all please pray for her.

Thanks baba for the precious gift and helping me to attach the picture. I will take this frame and show you some day.

 

 

 Relocating post from http://umranmatisse.blogspot.com/2011/01/precious-gift-from-baba.html

Khidirpur day hike

I have an uncle named Sajal. He invited me and my baba for a hike. Sajal uncle is a trekker, mountaineer also a movie director. Recently, he went to climb Mount Everest but he fell sick after climbing twenty-four thousand feet. He took my camera with him. I saw the picture of Himalaya when he gave it back to me.
The trek was in Khidirpur. Next morning at 7:00 am, I and Baba went to Gulistan Golap Shah Majar by car. It is told that there is a grave on the divider of the road. 12 people were waiting for us. Sajal uncle told us that we have to wait for another person to come. I didn’t know anyone other than Sajal uncle in the group. So, he introduced me to them. I said hello with everybody. After 10 minutes that person came. Altogether there were 15 people. Among them there was a foreigner named Dave Washington. He is from London and came here after visiting Nepal.
We didn’t know where the bus was. We went searching for a bus which could go to Kuchiamara Bridge. After searching for a long time we found a local bus that could go to Kuchiamara Bridge which is also called Dholeshweri River Bridge.
We got on to the bus. It was very small and congested. The seats were open. It stopped at many places and took passengers. The bus went across the Buriganga river bridge. After 40 minutes we reached at Kuchiamara. We all were hungry so we went to a small restaurant and ate our breakfast. Then we start walking. After walking around 2 kilometers we stopped for a tea break. There I saw jute being dried. I also saw a very funny thing. A goat was walking around; it was coated in turmeric and looked orange.
After resting at the restaurant we went to walk again. The road was under construction, both side of the road was green and a blue sky over there. I have seen many brickfields towards our journey. Sometimes the river was close to the road, village boys were jumping on the water from the road and playing in the water. On the side of the road there were many big size pots. It is used on wedding feasts for cooking. The road was not busy, but everyone we met always asked that where is we from and where are we going.
It was a sunny day and temperature was very high. We were very tired walking under the sun. We stopped many times to rest, washed our face and filled our water bottle. Altogether we walked about 8 km and reached Khidirpur village. It is Sajal uncle’s nanabari. I was so tired that I sat down on the door-step. There, I took my shoes off and Baba massaged my feet. By this time, Sony uncle climbed coconut tree and plucked the coconuts. We all ate coconut and drank salted coconut water for energy. After eating, we went to the river bank. All men except Baba and I swam in the river. After two hours, we went for our lunch. The lunch was delicious. I ate rice with lemon and chicken. After eating I took a nap about 10 minutes. Then we went to a bazaar.
All of us took tea except me. From there we took an engine boat. I liked the journey by boat. It took about two hour 30 minutes to reach Sadarghut. We have seen many drezars taking out sands from river beds. There were many ships, engine boats and boats carrying sands. The ships were very big. Many people were building ships.
In the water we didn’t saw any fishing because there is much pollution. We took a rickshaw and went to the Ruplal House. Ruplal House was one of the nicest houses in Bangladesh. It was built 200 years ago. It used to be very beautiful once but now it fades. After visiting Ruplal house, we went for searching our car. I saw our car from far away. Baba told Sajal uncle, Sony uncle and Khokon uncle go with us. We dropped Sony uncle and Khokon uncle at Polton and Sajal uncle at Mogbazar.

Photo: The group

Photo: Me at Ruplal house

A trip to the land of thunder dragon

On 24^th June, Baba, Ma and I went to Dhaka airport. 15 other people also joined us there. Altogether there were five families. Our flight was on 10:40 am. I sat with my friend Mobasser and Royal uncle. It took 45 minutes to go to Bhutan by Druk Air.

When we went there we saw that the airport is very nice. There were many designs on the roof of main building and the airport was surrounded by mountains. All the roofs in Bhutan had designs on them. The name of the place was Paro. From there we travelled by a coach. The driver’s name was Mr. Kinle. I sat on the front seat beside the driver’s seat. We went to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan from Paro. It took 1 hour to go. The distance was around 60 kilometers. We went to a hotel called Hotel Migmar. It was a very nice hotel. We stayed at room no. 101. Our room was very nice. There were 2 beds and 1 small bed. Royal Uncle’s room was very big and gorgeous. That was the best room I have ever seen. There was a king sized bed and a small bed. There were many sofas and a dining table. At the bathroom there was a bathtub and also shower. There were spot lights.

After having lunch at hotel we went to a pagoda. I took many pictures there. It has a very nice scenic view. I saw a very large statue of Gautama Buddha from far distance. Then we went to a top of mountain for sightseeing the Thimphu valley. After that we went to the zoo. There were many deer and Takins. Takin is Bhutan’s national animal. I took pictures of Takins. After visiting the zoo we went to the city center of Bhutan. It is a big courtyard surrounded by many shops. A clock tower was there. We were all hungry so the kids and I ate chips and everyone else drank tea and coffee. When our coach came we back to our hotel. We ate our dinner with Bhutanese food at hotel restaurant.



The next morning we went to the Bhutan’s’ king’s office. It was a very nice place. There were gardens at the side of the buildings. Me and my father took many pictures there. From there we went to a vegetable market. It was so clean and dry. We bought peach, asparagus and spices. After shopping in the market we went to the handmade paper factory. It was raining so many of us did not go there. We went back to hotel, packed and started for Paro.






After 1 hour drive we reached at the hotel named Tiger’s Nest Resort, on the way to Tigernest Resort we had lunch on a restaurant called Hotel Airport. This resort is nicer than hotel Migmar. There were gardens and courtyard. The room was big and nice. It was decorated with colorful woods and paintings. In the room there were 2 beds. In the evening we went for a walk. We walked about 1 kilometer and came back. Me and Mobasser’s grandfather ran and came because it was raining. Everyone else came by a taxi. I went Arup uncle’s room to visit Omit. Omit had fever. When I went there I saw him watching Star Cricket. It was the match h of Sri Lanka vs England. I supported Sri Lanka. That time Sri Lanka was batting. Sri Lanka did not play well and scored 128. England won the match by 7 wickets. We went to eat dinner. After eating dinner I went to sleep.

Next morning I woke up at 6:30 am and we ate our breakfast. We went to a place with our bus and from there we all rode on a horse except Baba and Royal uncle. I rode on a golden color horse. My horse was not so good. It always went from the side of the road and it was shaking me. We were going up to the Tiger’s nest monastery. It was told that a man came from Tibet by riding a tigress and built the Buddhist monastery. It is called the Tiger’s Nest. It was made 10 thousand 6 hundred feet high up in the mountain. It took 1 hour to go to Taktshang cafeteria. The café was half way there. We took rest there. After 1 hour Baba and Royal uncle came on their feet. They were very tired.



After taking rest some of us went to the Tiger’s Nest and some of us stayed in the cafeteria. Ma also went and after few minutes later she came back. I also went with Mobasser’s grandfather. When I was resting on a big rock he went past me. I thought I should not go alone so I went down. When I was going down I saw 2 foreigners, Manha and Runu aunty going up, so I decided I would also go with them. Manha and the foreigners were walking fast. I and Runu Aunty were walking alone. After walking for 20 minutes my head started to hurt. At the morning breakfast table Baba told everyone that because of our headache we have to go down to restore oxygen, my Baba knows many things about trekking safety. Runu Aunty and I decided that we should go down. We back to the cafeteria again. I saw that Ma and Mobasser were sleeping in a chair. I sat in the chair and I was waiting for the food.
After half an hour, before the food was served, Mobasser and I went inside the cafeteria. I asked him what his hobby is. He told me that his hobby is to pass the time by eating and watching television. I was laughing hearing his hobby. He told me that he eats 5 breads in his breakfast. His weight is 63 kg and my weight is 35 kg. After eating lunch Baba told me and Mobasser to hold a flag that be brought. We hold the flag and Baba took pictures.

After 1 hour we went down by walking. It was raining. The down trek was awesome. Me, Drubo bhaiya and Duti apu was at the first. It took only 30 minutes to go down. Then we went to a medieval forte. Many of us did not go there. Baba took many pictures of us there. After that Baba and me back to the hotel and everyone else went to a market. I took a hot shower.
Next morning I and Baba took lots of pictures. Then we went to the airport and then to Bangladesh. I like Bhutan very much.

All pictures except 4 are taken by me.