A boat trip on Christmas day

Yesterday was a public holiday to celebrate the Christmas day. I, along with 2 of my friends (Razib & Jashim), went to a boat trip. We used this route several times before for our boat trip. Yesterday we started in the afternoon. The boat trip was almost 2 hours long. We had a break in Trimohoni (meeting place of three branch of water source). We bought ring chips, chanachur and mineral water at the time of break. You will see those in the pictures :D





This is the place from where we hired the boat... the starting position of our trip. We came to a deal, 40 taka per hour





We will go through this channel





On the boat leaving the shore





The view of the shore (ghaat)





People are passing by in boats





I have seen this kinda boat(having shade on the top) after a long time





Ducks are strolling around on the lake side





One of the travelers, Jashim. Looks so relax on the boat.





Another traveler, me :)





Yet another traveler, Razib. Looks so happy





The tree in the last light of the day





A house standing alone





This Ghaat is in trimohony. They will start calling you as you arrive there.





In trimohony, we were looking for junk food shop to take some foods with us in the boat. By that time we were already in the middle of our trip.





A football match is going on in Trimohony amidst of green field





Exciting moments in the match. After few minutes the Black team scored a goal.





3 cup of tea is being made for the 3 travelers





The guy didn't get relief while peeing. Razib grabbed him well :P





A date tree has been cut. Its winter so suitable time to cut a date tree





Ring chips are finished, now chanachur runs so well :D





At the time of coming back. It was much cold and Jashim just put on his cap to protect his ears. He is much prone to cold among the 3 of us :D





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Eidul Azha

Yesterday was Eidul Azha, the Eid of both sacrifice and joy. I took some pictures and wanna share with you. Those who are uneasy with blood please avoid this post; you may not like the gross things shown in some pictures.





This is our bull that we bought the day before yesterday to sacrifice on the Eid day





The butcher(they are not professional. They are low paid labors throughout the year who become butchers at the time of Eidul Azha) started their work to get the bull down.





They tied the front legs of the bull





The bull is down now





All the legs are tied together and people hold the bull with all their strength. The man(hujur or imam) with long knife is ready.





And he gave his first slash in the throat





The man has done his job and we were hearing the roar of the bull





Here goes another one just beside ours





And so many :(





I am sitting there to help them to manage the flesh of the bull





That is my hand at that time





Looks too tired because of the hardships


I have taken more pictures of the day while strolling around after the eid prayer but I am not sharing those here. May be you people will feel sick.




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Buy a bull for Eidul Azha

I went to animal market this morning to buy a bull. From my childhood I liked to go to animal market before Eidul Azha. Even if I am very busy I still try to manage to go to buy our own bull. So this year also I managed to go there and accompnay our other partners to buy the bull. The bull is supposed to be sacrificed tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is Eidul Azha here in Bangladesh.


It took more than 3 hours to buy the bull. After that I brought the bull to our home along with two other guys (Shajib(my former student) and Babu). So I had to walk a long way with the bull. I walked almost an hour and came home. The walk made me so tired and gave a terrible headache.





Here is our bull. It costs 42,000 taka(before tax) !!!





Shahid the farmer is with the bull :D Babu is standing behind.




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Celebration of National Victory Day

16 of December is our National Victory Day. People try to celebrate this day. We(me along with my friends) celebrated it in a different way this year.


On 15 December we were gossiping and wasting our valuable time(as we do everyday) sitting in a dirty and unhygienic restaurant of our area named JINJIRA HOTEL. Suddenly Khalid proposed to celebrate the victory day at night in the rooftop of jashim's home. His proposal was to decorate the whole roof with small flags made of paper and a special fireworks (you will see after awhile) at 12 midnight. We agreed and at once went to buy flags. We bought 500 small flags and again came back to Jinjira Hotel to make a final plan. As I am a bit epicurean I proposed to arrange some foods for our dinner :P We fixed our menu - naan ruti(a special bread made of flour), bot vaji(beef... I better say fried stomach of cow), grilled chicken, salad and soft drinks. Among all those items we decided to prepare the grill of our own. So the night would be a barbecue night :)


We started from the evening. It took a long time to prepare all the thing. Finally we took our dinner around 1040 pm. Then after few minutes rest khalid started to write 16 (in Bangla) using sand on the floor and we flamed it at 12 midnight. I think you will get a better idea if you see some of the pictures :)





Razib is preparing the torch with sand and kerosene.





The torch is burning :) Another one is ready beside the flaming one





Jashim is pasting flags on the highest position of his roof. Please keep your eyes open while seeing other pictures. You will see flags all around the roof :)





Khalid and me are preparing the fire for the barbecue





Aha... the fire is ready to be used






Shahid baburchi is grilling the chicken :D





Khalid also was a great hand to prepare the grilled chicken





Jashim is preparing the salad. He likes salad so much; specially tomato :)





Khalid was having hard times with the smoke. Me too :'(





They are ready to attack the chicken. Look at razib's teeth - those are good enough to destroy that grilled chicken huh :P





Just a snap of 3 of us while Khalid is shooting the picture like a professional photographer lying on the floor :D I wish I could show you his action at that time





Khalid seems so sad for killing that chicken





After the dinner - gossiping and drinking coke.





I am so tired after the tiring work since evening





Khalid is writing 16 using sand





It was about 12 midnight and we are flaming the number 16. This is the special fire work that Khalid proposed earlier :)





The number is burning. We couldn't flame the number fully as we were running out of kerosene :( Otherwise it would be so nice.


After doing all those things everyone agreed that none of us did celebrate The National Victory Day in such a way before. This time we did it spontaneously and it was really a great fun for all of us.




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