Sold my first car

Sad to let it go

I have sold my first car two days ago. It took only 2 weeks after I put the ad online. The interested guy came, drove the car, negotiated the price a bit and then took the car after we signed the deal. Now my Volkswagen Golf is not anymore with me :-(

I got the driving license in 2010 and after I got the license I bought this car right away. It was my first car and I drove it for 5 years. It served me pretty well - aside from daily commute and short trips I had many long trips with this car and it never disappointed me on the road during long drive.

Since I have got a new lease car from my employer I had to sell this one. Keeping 2 cars at the same time is not yet feasible for me. So I decided to put the ad online and it went pretty quickly. I must say it was like a family member to us. Sharmin and Ninad were also sad to say goodbye but it had to be done. I hope it will keep running well with its new owner.


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Ninad has got a place for piano lesson

Ninad is very interested in music. From his very early age, If somebody sings or plays any instrument he is listening to it with great attention. Noticing his interest in music we enrolled him in municipality music institute last year. He has been going there for a year now and he was liking it. It is very basic for young children to habituate them with music. It helped him to catch different song tune easily.

Since he has been liking music we thought how about an instrument. We talked with her music teacher and she said it's a bit early for him but he can try this year for some instrument if he wants. By this time, we managed to get a second hand acoustic piano last summer with the help of two of my friends - Mohsin and Saad. Since we had this piano in our home we sometimes play without knowing anything :-P Ninad also does the same. So, we thought why not let him learn piano. As a result, he appeared in a test in June this year to enroll in individual piano lesson. Unfortunately he could not make it. Most of the kids are 6 or 7 years old and Ninad is 5 and there were quite many interested children. Needless to say Piano is the most demanding instrument here. Ninad was in waiting list. Just two days ago the piano teacher called and said that one place got empty and if we want Ninad can join the lesson already this year. We agreed right away :-)

We are so happy that Ninad could get in to Piano lesson in Kirkkonummi municipality music school. I heard that these music schools are quite good while being very cheap compared to private ones. From next week he is going to piano lesson once a week. Let's see how it goes :-)


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Ninad started his pre-school today

Today is Ninad's first day at pre-school. He has been excited about it for few weeks. He was having summer break from daycare for 12 days and finally he started new season by entering pre-school today.

In Finnish early education system every child has to spend 1 year in pre-school before they start their schooling. As far as I know the idea of pre-school is to prepare children for school. When they go to school they become more independent while it comes to taking their lunch, organizing their own stuffs etc. Also, I heard they will start some sort of formal education in pre-school just to get the flavor of school. They will spend some time everyday to start learning alphabets, numbers and so on.

It feels that time has passed really fast. I still remember holding him in the hospital and feeding him milk with a bottle. He was so tiny that he felt like a small cushion in my hands. It feels it was not long ago, but, in reality it was almost 6 years back. That tiny little cushion, my son, is starting his pre-school today. I wish him all the best and I really hope I can get along with him the best way possible.


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Ninad's first EID

Ninad had his first EID on 28 July, 2014. It was Monday, so a working day for me. But I took one day off from work to spend this day with my family and friends :)

The day started very early. We woke up around 7 AM in the morning, freshened up ourselves and got Ninad ready as well. He was wearing his Eid panjabi which he got from Shanila's mom just couple of weeks back :)

At 08:15 we started from Olari heading to Vantaa Eid Jamat. We took 3 cars with us - mine, Drishty vai's and Gagan's. It's half an hour drive in a very busy time of the day. So the road was busy but we managed to be there on time.

There were separate places for men and women in the hall. So I left Ninad with Sharmin and went to men's side. The whole ritual took almost an hour. After that we left the place and along with many of our friends headed to Otaniemi, Shobuj's place.

We had our breakfast in Shobuj's home. It was really heavy for a breakfast. From there we went to Mortuza's place to have tea. It was a very hot day. So we were seating underneath our cloths and Ninad was wearing only his diapers at some point. Thank god he is not an adult :D

From Otaniemi we came back to Olari. Sharmin was finalizing preparations for the guests, I was taking care of Ninad. When Ninad fell asleep I went to Drishty vai's home and had lunch there. They had more than 25 guests. I came back home and then Sharmin went there because all her preparations was well taken care of already. At around 5 PM people came to our place.

We had around 20 guests in total. Ninad woke up by that time already. He was a bit suspicious seeing so many people at a time. Everybody was so full after heavy breakfast and lunch but they have no choice but to eat in our place again. What can you do? It's Eid day :)

We didn't serve food as soon. We gave them some time to digest what they have had already by then. So we offered coffee only. By this time Gagan, as a game master, arranged Mafia game among the guests. They were playing and from the scream we could easily get that they were enjoying a lot. Around 7 PM we served the food. It looked like they were a bit hungry by that time already. So could eat quite well :)

From our place people headed to Ahsan vai's home to have tea again. From there to Hasan's place to have snacks. Around 9 PM we headed to Shaikat vai's place for final dinner. Five cars headed to Muurala. We stayed there couple of hours and had our dinner there. Ninad was going everywhere along with us, except from Drishty vai's place, amazingly :-S We came back home around midnight while he was sleeping already.

This time the Eid day was full of house hopping with many people together which gave us a taste of Eid we used to have back in Bangladesh. Ninad is so young to understand the idea but he was also, at least, busy the whole day :) It was his first Eid and we enjoyed together as a family. I hope Ninad will get the social aspect of this kinda day when he will grow up.
 



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Lost my wedding ring :(

Yesterday evening turned to be a very sad one because I lost my wedding ring. Yes, you read it right. I really lost it :(

It was a perfect evening - the sun was shining, temperature was 25 degree Celsius and gentle breeze was blowing all over. I came back from work, had coffee with Sharmin and then wanted to go out. We agreed to go to Kirkkonummi lake to have a swim. As we decided we jumped into our car and headed to Kirkkonummi.

As we reached there we set our picnic mattress on the grass and I was the one who went to water first. Sharmin was looking after Ninad at that time. I was swimming for a while. Suddenly I felt something went off from my finger. I took my left hand out of water and yes, my ring finger has a whitish ring mark on it but no ring is there.

I stood there still and look for the ring with my feet first for few minutes. Then I tried with my hands for few times; every time as long as I can keep my breath under the water. But I couldn't find it :( After trying for so many times I came out of water and told Sharmin about it. She is better swimmer than I am. So she went to the water while I showed her the place. She also tried many times but no luck for her either. She came out of water too without any success :(

I could not believe it. I just lost something extremely valuable to me. Something which you cannot value by money. That was a precious symbol to me. Since I got married I never took it off for a single day. It was always with me. Since I have lost 3-4 kilos of weight it felt a bit loose on my finger but that doesn't mean it has to get off while I am in water :( That is not fair :((



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Summer vacation starts from today

My two weeks summer vacation is starting today, within an hour :) Feeling quite happy about it. I have already taken 1 week of my summer vacation but that was not really a holiday. We travelled to Sweden to apply for Ninad's passport. This time there is no work plan. It's just holiday and enjoying about it :)

Gagan, along with his family, is coming here tomorrow. Hoping to spend some nice time with them in our tiny house. It's gonna be interesting to see how it turns out with 2 very active kids in a small apartment with their lazy parents; fathers to be precise :P



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Bought a car

Since I have enrolled into driving school I have been looking for a car from time to time. But I started looking for one heavily from 2 weeks before my driving test. Somehow I was biased about German car. So I was looking for mostly Opel and Volkswagen because other German cars, such as Audi, BMW or Mercedes, are totally out of my capability. Just few days before my driving test I found one Volkswagen Golf MK4 2002 station wagon model which seems quite good. Also not very far from my home, around 30 km. We have talked to the owner of the car over the phone with the help of one of my colleagues, Mika. From the conversation it sounded suitable for us. So we decided to see the car in person.

When we went to the place and had a look at the car it also looked pretty OK. Mika had a test drive for 15 minutes and he said that it was fine. We checked the service manual and looks like they have been doing servicing of the car in a scheduled manner. There were few spots on the car which the owner already mentioned over the phone. Well, it's more than a decade old car, it can't be without any spot :) We agreed on the price and made the deal.

It was Wednesday, 11 June, when we went to pick up the car. It was just 2 days after I have got my driving license. Now I had to drive it back home because Mika will drive his own car on the way back. I was a bit nervous but finally jumped into the driving seat and started the car, my first ever car :)

I drove the car to my home. Called Sharmin to come down. She was amazed to see that I was driving it back home. She thought may be Mika would drive it here. I was smiling and said that at least I didn't have any accident :P We, three of us - Sharmin, me and Ninad, had a small ride for few kilometers and came back to the parking place. Then some of my friends came to see the car. Everybody did congratulate me for getting my first car. I was also quite happy :) Well sooooooooooo happy :D

Here goes one picture of our car :)

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Got the driving license

I never had a driving license in my life, neither in Bangladesh, nor in Finland. But exactly 2 weeks back on 9 June I got my first ever driving license here in Finland :)

I have started my driving lesson on 17 March this year. The theory lesson was finished in 3 weeks but the practical lessons took quite long. We had to take at least 18 hours of practical lessons. At the end of 18 lessons my instructor told me to take few extra lessons because I might not pass the test. So I took 3 extra lessons and then appeared in the test 2 weeks ago.

I was a bit nervous the previous day but on the day of test I was not tensed at all. I just took it normally and it went pretty well. I was talking with my examiner and looks like he was happy with my driving. So he approved me as a driver :) It did sound very sweet when he said that after my 30 minutes long test. Now I am legally allowed to drive here in Finland and also anywhere in the world, I guess :)



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An eventful year has passed. Goodbye 2013 :)

2013 was a year of lot of events for me and my family. Now we are standing at the last page of this year. I couldn't help writing a post right now, even if it's a tiny one :)

The biggest happening of this year for me is I became a father. We have got our first kid, a baby boy in November. I have told about it in my last post. This single event kept us busy for many months. During the nine months' journey and also after his birth. I think we got busier after he was born. Now a days we don't have enough time to mingle with our friends as before, but we don't mind. We are enjoying our parenthood.

Aside from that biggest event, I also graduated this year. I have finished my masters degree which was pending for several years. I just got the certificate on 20 December in a nice convocation ceremony in Tampere University of Technology. Two photos from that ceremony are given at the bottom.

Now the new year, 2014, is just knocking the door. For this year I am not going to make any wish-list. I would rather try to do things better each and everyday. Don't wanna put some resolutions in a time frame. Let's see how the new year goes :)

 The whole family in my convocation ceremony

 She couldn't help wearing my 'teekkari' cap :P

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The "waiting" is over :)

We have been waiting for so long time. Well, it may be debatable whether it's long or not but I think it's long; long 9 months and couple of weeks. We were waiting for that period of time expecting our first kid to be born. And now the waiting has been over and our first kid, Ninad, was born on Wednesday November 6, 2013. Yes we named him Ninad :)

The whole journey has lots of changes and several ups and downs. Sharmin was going through tough times. I tried to help her as much as I can, but that's actually nothing compared to what she went through. From the beginning I saw how difficult it was for her. Also at the end I watched her going through lots of pain. It was supposed to be a natural delivery but unfortunately at the very end Ninad was not doing very well and the doctor decided to do the operation. I wanted to be in the operation room but they were doing everything so fast that preparing me for the operation room would slow them down. So they didn't let me in. I was waiting in the labour room where the process started for Sharmin. After they took her I spent the longest 40 minutes of my life. Finally the midwife came and gave me the good news - it's a healthy boy and mom is doing fine as well :)

I went with the midwife to see the baby. Sharmin was still in wake up room, they kept her couple of hours there. My first feeling, when I first saw Ninad, was - he is so tiny :) I hold him in my hands and kept him for more than an hour. He was not crying or making any sound, just sleep and sleep. I was tickling his cheek from time to time to see if he is OK. At some point he was not responding to my tickle. I became so worried that I called the midwife right away. It's really strange - just an hour ago I didn't see him, I didn't know him at all; but now I became so worried about him. He spent his first hour of life on my hands and then we went to post natal ward where they brought Sharmin as well.

We had to stay in the hospital for 6 nights after Ninad was born - for his antibiotics and other check up. Then we finally came back home on 13 November. We were 2 when we left home, now came back with this new, unknown guy. I was pretty sure we would know this new guy more and more with time. He is now 26 days old and we already know quite a lot about him - how he smiles, how he cries, how he makes funny gestures and faces at times. I know we will get along nicely and raise a happy family together :) 



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Flying kites

I watched a video yesterday. It's an interview of one of my favorite celebrities in Bangladeshi showbiz, Humayun Faridi. He passed away one year back. In the video, he has been talking about many things. The good thing about the interview is it was done very casually. They were eating, walking in a park and finally at the end Humayun Faridi was flying kite which reminds me of my childhood.

I used to fly kites in my childhood. Every afternoon I used to go to our rooftop just to compete with other kite flyers in our area. My elder brother was an expert about kite stuff. I learned a lot from him. He also helped me in several occasions to prepare the string properly. The process is called manja(মাঞ্জা) which makes the string strong and sharp to cut others :) There are so many interesting terms related to kite flying. I will provide the list later someday at the bottom of this post. Some of those are really funny :P

While watching the video clip yesterday I was thinking will I be able to fly kites ever again? I really enjoy it but will there be chance again to do it by my own? It made me sad knowing that may be that time will never come again in my life when I will fly kite and shout with joy while cutting others' :(

Here goes the interview:





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I am hoping for our den

I was in a restaurant(Mamma Rosa) in Helsinki downtown, having dinner with my colleagues, when I saw the mail. It was a mail from Shaikat vi coming with a shocking news. He had a surgery in his belly 2 weeks back to get rid of the blockage in his bowel but just yesterday the hospital informed him that he is diagnosed with a blood cancer. The type of blood cancer is probably: lymphoma, though the details are not revealed yet. I couldn't believed the text while reading it; am I reading it right? I read couple of times more, still couldn't believe it. Then I got a text from Wali asking me to go to his home. Sharmin was already there. They didn't tell me about it because they didn't want me to disappoint at that point. They thought I haven't seen the news yet. But my smart phone really did its job and provided me this unexpected shocking news :(

I went to Wali's home after dinner. All of them were sad. From the eyes I knew that Sharmin and Muna already cried for some time. Wali was a bit silent than usual. What could they do? Their dearest Shaikat vi has got this disease ;-(

I usually don't show my emotion in front of other people. And at that moment I didn't want to make the situation worse, so I talked to them in a light mood. Even talked about other things also. May be after an hour we left and returned home. On the way back home I was feeling so bad. Couldn't talk to Sharmin. When I came home I just changed my cloths and went to bed. Sharmin put off the light and came to me. She sensed it quite well that I was fighting to hide my emotion. She did hold me tightly and right at that moment I couldn't hold it anymore. I cried out and my body was trembling. I don't know how long I cried. When I was stable again I found Sharmin is already sleeping.

I couldn't sleep. There were so many snapshots of memories coming to my mind. So many things about dear Shaikat vi. I remember the very first days when I came to Finland in August 2008. I met him on the very first day. I still remember his smiling face and friendliness on that day. I remember finalizing our(me and Rajit vi) study plan sitting in his room. He was suggesting us what course should we take. He told us to include some fozul(very easy) courses along with the good ones to make the path easier but efficient. I remember crossing frozen lake with him by walking in winter. Also exchanging smile seeing a half-naked girl in the street in summer. I remember playing with him - table tennis, football, cricket, badminton, volleyball and so on. Lots of memories with him personally being so close. Once I showed him how wrong he ties his shoe-lace and that's why it gets loose easily. Badal vi was also supporting me and showing Shaikat vi's fault. Shaikat vi didn't like it. He got a bit angry and said that it's his choice how he ties it. The next day he came to my room in the university and admitted that he checked again when he got back home and figured it out that he had been doing it wrong for years. That is Shaikat vi - doesn't have pride and has not problem to admit own mistake.

I remember the 9 months, I was working in my department in the university. Most of the days I used to take lunch with Shaikat vi and almost everyday used to have coffee with him in the afternoon. I remember countless times visiting his home in weekend morning to have breakfast with him. When he moved to Kirkkonummi near my home I was so happy. During his stay in Kirkkonummi we had really nice time. Even if I moved out from Kirkkonummi in January 2012, we were in constant contact with each other.

I remember, among all my senior brothers in Finland, I told him first my decision about getting married in Finland. He didn't like the idea, he was trying to convince me to go to Bangladesh and share the event with my family. Somehow I didn't have that option at that time and I was rigid about it. Even though he didn't want me to arrange the event in Finland he gave me all kinds of support when time comes, just like an elder brother. From the mosque, he was the one to call Sharmin's father to ask about his permission in this marriage.

In the middle of last year Shaikat vi moved to Tampere for his wife's masters. At that time we knew it was only for a year and he is coming back to Helsinki. Just couple of months back I was talking to him over the phone and he said they are trying to find a home in Espoo, preferably near our home. I became so happy again knowing that it would be great to have him near us. He said, with laughter, that he would like to make his home as our den, meaning we would have most of our occasions, gatherings, events in his place. It's like a headquarter. I laughed as well. All of these memories started coming to my mind yesterday.

Today I heard they found Shaikat vi's disease in a very early stage. The success rate of cure from this stage is very high in Finland. It's obviously a very good news for all of us. But regardless of this information I am eagerly looking forward to have our headquarter in Shaikat vi's home, somewhere in Espoo, from the middle of this year, just the way he was telling me. We will gather there for different cultural and traditional occasions - to celebrate, to enjoy. We will go there when we are bored during dark cold winter and have a chit-chat. We will go there just to have a cup of coffee in the middle of the night. Even if there is no reason we will still go there and spend hours by gossiping. That is our den and I am desperately hoping for it.



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New year, 2013

Another year just passed and we stepped on 2013. One year back I wrote about the new year resolution for 2012 here. I couldn't accomplish two of those wishes - I still couldn't wrap up my masters and I couldn't manage to do skating and skiing last year :( Now I have to add those two wishes for this year as well as add some new:

3. I will loose my body weight and will remain below 70 kg.

4. I will get my driving license.

5. I will buy our own car.

6. I will arrange a summer trip along with Sharmin.

These are all in my mind for the time being. Let's check it at the end of 2013 :)



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Horrible flu after a long time

I have been suffering from flu for last 3 days. I don't know what kinda flu this is but for sure it's not a good one. I had excessive pain in my body muscles and when the fever comes it's very high. The first two days were really horrible for me. Several times the temperature went over 39.5 degree celsius. I don't remember when was the last time I had such a high temperature fever. From today I am feeling better though my muscles are still aching.

The good thing about this flu is I have got extremely good care from my wife, Sharmin :) She has been with me always. From Sunday morning she was trying to comfort me all possible ways she can. She was preparing hot soup, giving me sponge bath from time to time, pouring water on my head several times at night when the temperature went so high. She didn't even go to school yesterday. In fact, she didn't leave me alone for a moment while I am sick :) May be I am spoiled enough and now I demand things like tea with ginger or hot soup or coffee whenever I want :P

Also my other friends from here and my parents and brother from Bangladesh were calling me from time to time to know about my status. Feeling good to have so much attention :D May be it's not so bad to be attacked by this kinda virus once a year at least to get other people's care, specially from close ones :)



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Nice birthday celebration

There was a nice birthday celebration on 30 September midnight. It was my birthday and I couldn't manage to give update about it earlier. Today I determined to write about it :)

It was 29 September afternoon when I sensed that there is some preparation going on for my birthday. Even if it was raining Sharmin went to super market to buy flowers for me. Mohsin came to our home in the morning. It was afternoon when Wali and Muna showed up. By this time already,  I have got special birthday gift from Gagan - Xbox 360 with Kinect :D We played some kinect games and got some sweat :P In the evening Sharmin started to prepare the cake. She came up with a nice heart shape black forest cake at the end :) In the evening I was asked to cook biriyani. It's a bit funny that I had to cook the main dish on my birthday eve, I didn't mind though. You know I love cooking :P

At midnight Sharmin got ready, she wore a nice green shari. I also wore a panjabi of green side to match with her shari :) At first I got the gift package from Sharmin. Before cutting the cake I had to open the gift box. I got a winter shoe, a box of chocolate, a board game, a nice birthday card with Sharmin's nice handwriting, a light having egg shell on top it with a nice picture on it drawn by Sharmin and finally the most nice gift - scrapbook. I liked the scrapbook most because it reflects the most important highlights of our lives for the last year. It was nicely made with nice drawing and texts :) My friends wanted to see the scrapbook. It is very personal but we showed them invoking some censorship :P After looking at all the gifts I had to blow up the candles and cut the cake. The cake was delicious. Then we played board games and gossiped for a long time.

It was my first birthday after I got married. The celebration was executed nicely. Thanks goes to Sharmin to make the day so special. She planned everything and made it happen. Thank you soooooooooooooooo much dear >:D< :-*

Here goes few snapshots of the moments:

Preparation of the cake :)

The cake is ready :)

 

Me and Sharmin together in dinner table, very casual :)

 At midnight, opening the gift box

 The art on egg shell

 Blowing the candles

 Time to eat the cake :D

 Me with Wali and Muna

Me with Wali and Mohsin

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A surprise evening

15 August, 2012 was an evening full of surprise. I got a nice gift, nicely wrapped with a rose from my wife. The cover of the gift was also made by herself with the carton of paper :P It was really well made and I liked it very much. She also made a nice cake which I had to cut by myself. The reason she made something special for me is it's a special day for us. One year back on this very day for the very first time I accepted her dinner invitation in her home :)

We were not married at that time. On this day she called me while I was still working. She asked me for a dinner in her place. I was thinking for a while and then I accepted the invitation. I came to her place straight from work. When I arrived she was cooking. When she finished with cooking she told me to wait in the kitchen and went in her room. Surprisingly she wore a sari. If my memory doesn't betray me it was a black one. She came out of her room and I must say that she looked very beautiful. There were Aurthohin music going on in her pc. The nice dinner together turned the evening solemn. After around half an hour I left to catch my bus back home. She came to the bus stop to see me off. We were not so happy since I am leaving her in her place after such a nice evening. I sooth myself with the thought "That day is not so far when we don't have to depart from each other after dinner".

This year Sharmin made this evening special again with surprise. We were listening the same songs and gossiping about the same evening one year back :) We were smiling. One year has been passed - time just flies but good memories do stay in your mind and when you reminisce about those you feel happy :)

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Best EID ever in Finland

Yesterday I have passed the best Eid ever in Finland. Since I have come to Finland this is my 5th Eidul Fitr. The last 4 Eids I have missed my home so much and on Eid day I felt really sad. Well, I still miss my home but in this year's Eid I was not sad. I was enjoying it to the fullest. I talked to my mom over the phone and she heard my happy voice. It all became possible because of my beloved wife with whom I was spending my whole Eid day :)

The first Eid activity started with the Eid prayer. We wake up very early in the morning, around 6:45 am. We freshen up, took bath, got ready and went to the Eid prayer hall together. We met many Bangladeshi folks there. I guess more than 500 Bangladeshi people were present. I was really amazed to see these many countrymen. Straight from the prayer we went to one neighbor's home to have breakfast. Around 20 people were taking breakfast together with shemai, payesh, polao, fish kabab and beef curry. It was a perfect breakfast for Eid day.

Lunch party in Otaniemi was the next activity of the day. It was arranged by the student community of Otaniemi. They ordered food from a restaurant, so nobody had to cook for 60 persons except from the dessert. Saber, one of my friends, prepared the shemai for dessert. We were there for 4 hours - ate a lot, had a great adda and played some card games. From Otaniemi we returned home around 6 pm.

We invited some friends to our home to have dinner. Some of them couldn't make it unfortunately due to their tight schedule. Finally 9 persons came in the evening. We served chotpoti and jorda shemai as starter. We were gossiping and watching funny videos from youtube. Around 10:30 we took our dinner. For the dinner we had polao, fish kabab, chicken korma, beef curry, prawn with onion, olive pickle followed by zorda and payesh(prepared by Shumanta da) as dessert. Don't be afraid, we prepared everything except from the polao the previous night :)

The guests left around half past 11. We were so tired after a day full of activities but we felt so happy. It felt like a perfect Eid. Both of us did the hard work together and made this happen - Eid with flavor from our home. We were also lucky that it was on weekend, otherwise it would be a bit difficult. For us, the day ended with a tired body but happy heart. This was absolutely the best Eid I have ever had in Finland. Thanks my dear Sharmin to make it special :)

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Hard to say 'goodbye' to my favorite novelist :(

My favorite novelist Humayun Ahmed had been suffering from cancer for last one year. He was taken to USA for better treatment. Few weeks back he had a critical surgery and we were waiting to hear his recovery since the surgery went well. At first it was said that he is getting well, but since last week there were many rumors about his condition. I was still so sure about his recovery. Or may be I didn't want to say 'goodbye' so soon. Last night I went to bed around midnight as usual. After half an hour I got a text from Gagan telling me the bad news. Humayun Ahmed has passed away. At first I didn't feel anything. It took me many minutes to reply that sms. I couldn't think of anything to write at first. After replying the first sms we had couple of more text between us. Suddenly I realized that my pillow felt a bit wet and it's due to my teardrop. I couldn't help my tears, didn't try though. I couldn't believe that nobody will observe different types of people so closely and bring them in front of others anymore :( I got up and went to internet to see the news. There it goes, no way to deny. It's all over in facebook, different blog sites and local media sites. He is not among us anymore :(

I started to feel we wont get any of his creation from now. He was so close to mass-people. He could easily bring up the most natural behavior and thinking of people. He knew so well how to make people laugh, how to make them emotional, how to entertain them. Every time when I wanted to spend some time with a novel his creation was there to give me company. Even his science fiction novels were written in such a way it seems so natural. I really couldn't believe we wont get any of those things from him. That's why it's so hard to say 'goodbye'. He has given me so much but I am so greedy that I want more. I want to say exactly what Gagan said - "বোতল ভুত !!! তুমি হুমায়ুনকে  ফিরিয়ে দাও :'("

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Roman holiday

The first time I watched this movie, 'Roman Holiday', almost two decades ago in BTV under a program called "Movie of the week". I didn't understand the movie much, obviously my English language skill was really poor at that time. I watched the same movie again around 2004 and this time I understood it quite well. But unfortunately this movie couldn't make Rome an allure to me unlike 'Gladiator' which made me fascinated about Colosseum. Ever since I watched 'Gladiator' I wanted to see Colosseum in my own eyes. It's not so far away from me now. Today we, me and my wife Sharmin, are going to Rome for a week holiday and we have agreed that we will start exploring Rome from Colosseum :)

I have taken one week of my summer vacation this week and we decided to visit Rome this time. In fact it's our first alone trip together outside Finland. We are taking Ryanair flight from Tampere today at 20:35. Yea, it's a bit late and if everything goes fine we will reach Rome Ciampino airport around 23:00. Our Hotel is near Rome central. We will just sleep in Rome tonight without seeing anything. From tomorrow we will start exploring. According to initial plan we roam around Rome tomorrow, on 30th we are going to Vatican and spend the whole day there, on 31 we will explore Rome more and in the afternoon of 1 June we will return to Finland via Ryanair again. I hope it will be a memorable trip :)



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Got Finnish residence permit for 4 years

Giving personal update again after a long time. I have got Finnish residence permit for 4 years. Along with me Sharmin, my wife, also got a residence permit of category 'A' for one year since it's her first time category change from 'B'.

After I have got permanent job contract in Ericsson I applied to the Finnish immigration office to extend my residence permit. This time I was hoping not to get only one year visa, but I was not sure. Yesterday I got a text from them that my residence permit is ready to be picked up. Along with Sharmin, I went to the immigration unit. I was stupid enough not to reserve an appointment and thus I had to wait an hour for my turn to come. Finally it came and when I got my new residence permit card I looked at it and here it goes :) It's not only for a year now, it's until May 2016 :D I was really happy and went to work with butterfly in my stomach :P Even if it was a very hectic day at work I didn't feel so bad. It's already giving me mental peace that I don't have to apply for residence permit every year from now :)



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