I though I would not write about this issue. But no way to escape. It is now a widely discussed in Bangladeshi community. After all these recent unstable political events, Bangladesh community here in Vancouver is full of doubt where it will be ending.
The Shahabag event in Bangladesh started with very high spirit and patriotism of young people undoutbaly put this revolution very high up. A strong movement from young Bangladeshi after liberation generation. Their strong voice against the war crime that took place back in 1971 during the liberation war. A very emotional movement from ordinary Bangladeshi young generation.
It is a matter of identity unveil, how we want to be remembered to our next generation. It is a kind of soul search, will Bangladeshi after liberation generation be a part of mixed cultarul soceity whose ideology defeted in 1971 or will emerge as a winner. They had a strong voice for the justice of war crime.
But very soon this noble idea was hijacked by awamileague.

 

We are at another spring. Today was a wonderful sunny day. Temperature was very comfortable; around 14 degree Celsius.

We went to Boulevard park close to our home. Farhan- Fahmia  got the chance to play around and we got the chance for photo shooting.

I tried to upload bigger size videos, seems like they limited the size of the video.
Fahmia was in a learning process of count by different numbers. Interestingly she could learn the other numbers but it was really difficult for her to learn count by eight. Here Farhan is also giving a push to Fahmia.
This is a four five months old video, however by this time Fahmia improved a lot. She started to learn division, multiplication and all difficult mats. But Fahmia always mention that math is most difficult subject for her. It will be really interesting to see how she does in math in coming days.

It is quite sometime since I last wrote in this blog. This is yet another rainy winter in Vancouver. Last December we went to Bangladesh. It is always nice to visit Bangladesh, to meet with friends and family. 

Language barrier is probably the biggest barrier in a new country. For us we were lucky that we came in Canada where the language is English. Since begging we had English in our curriculum as a second language. So it was much easier to accommodate the new language. It could have been much worse if we were in a country where we were new with the language. 

But still I can not say that I did not have the problem. The reason is, though we could understand English, studied in English, we never used spoken English for our day to day activities. So when I was in a situation I could probably understand most of it but still I was not one of them. 

When I was in Toronto, I had to go for a job fair and they send me to participate in an exam to get the English speaking course. I did well in that exam though it did not help me to get any job. 

In my next writings, I will spent some time on this topic. 

I am writing again after so many days. In this blog I wrote last time in 2011. Time is just flying.
During these days there were so many changes but for me changes were small. We still live in the same house where we were living. Sometimes I though we will buy a house. Still so far it did not happen. In this case my test is not matching with Urmi. She really  likes North Vancouver. Undoubtedly I like this place also but it is too expensive to get anything here.
By this time Farhan started his schooling. He is going to West View School in Strong Start.  

I enjoy the music very much. I enjoy old Bangla music, Rabindra sangeet, Nazrul sangeet and variety of songs. But undoubtedly one type of song I enjoy very much; Qawwali and when it is from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, one of the greatest musician of the history was born in 1948 in Pakistan near Faisalabad. His family was involved with Qawwali with generations. He possessed a six octate vocal range and could perform at a high level of intensity for hours. He is considered the only songster of this kind.

How I fist knew about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? When I was in University, once I heard his music "Allah hu Allah hu" in stadium market. In my first listening I could not forget some of the lyrics, the ups and downs of the voice, the beat and the sargam and the reality is still I can feel the song inside me.

Since then I started to collect the Qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali. My favorite way of listening the qawwialis---

-Sit on a sofa chair

-Put the back on the sofa and be relaxed

-Close the eyes, don't think what's happening around

-Consider music is coming from another world

Some favorites..

Sanu Ek Pal

Allah hu

Pilao Saki

Maste calender

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was taken ill with kidney and liver failure on August 11, 1997 in London while on the way to Los Angels in order to receive a kidney transplant. He died of a sudden cardiac arrest on Saturday, August 16, 1997, aged 48.