End of a Year...

The year is ending... It is quite surprising to see another year go by so quickly! What made this year significant to me?

I have finally decided on a solid Masters program. I changed my major from IT to Communication Studies this fall. I have started to enjoy the program. The grades came in very good after the finals which reinforced my liking for the program even more.

This program also gave me the opportunity to meet some wonderful people. One of them have become a blessing for me. May be one day, I will tell her how much she really means to me, if she already does not know that. I feel she has made all my greivances for losing academic years go away... if I had not lost those semesters because of transferring from a different school and programs here, then I probably wouldn't have met her! She has been a blessing. I wish my family could meet her sometime.

For the first time ever in the US, I have been to a Church service for my friend's (J.Butler) mom and her funeral. I have also attended a Thanksgiving dinner with an Amerian friend (B.Kettermen). I have also attended my first ever American wedding (Chandu got married to F).

Starting from 2002, we have seen an illiterate and ignorant president lead America to a war that almost the entire world was against to begin with. President Bush has shown us how monsters like Adolf Hitler were like as human beings. Tens of thousands have died so far and more will die in the future. For what? How much power does he need?

Looking back home, the Nizami-Khaleda government has almost finished their task of converting Bangladesh into a fundamentalist country. Secularism seems to be a distant dream and empty ideology only now. It has become hard to believe what the founding fathers had achieved and what we have lost. The public schools and especially the universities are being systematically corrupted and ruined. They are on the verge of shut down now. Jamaat and BNP has taken us 50 years behind in their four-year 'rule.'

Well, I would like to dream on still. We have our pride of 1971 -our War of Independence. We should all look at that and remind ourselves that we have kicked some Pakistani a$$ before and we can do it again if we have to.

Just a Buzzzzz

It's a sad and rainy day outside. Everything is looking gloomy. I am not feeling like going outside. At the same time I am also not feeling like staying home.

I started cleaning the house. So many things to do. Apparently I have poor planning and cleaning skills. Everytime I am trying to clean something, I am messing up something else. Darn! Inshallah I will get through it. Looking back to my life in Cyprus, I can see a lot of clean dishes ;)

Early yesterday I was writing about this special friend of mine who made me thankful this year. She emailed me later in the evening and told me that she is especially thankful for me this year! I did not tell her that I wrote the same thing about her only a few hours ago :) It would be fun if she ever comes across this blog and realizes I am talking about her! I am not going to tell her about this.

My friend is getting married in Boston and I cannot go. I have decided it would not be feasible for me to go. Beside the huge money issue, I have also tonnes of HW to do. But this has made me very sad. He is a friend I really like. We have been friends for about a decade now. Wow! I am getting old.

Buzzzz ends here.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving break started from today, November 23 2004 Tuesday. We will resume class on Monday November 29 2004.

So many things to do, so many things to finish... Mind 'blogging!'

I am supposed to go to a friends wedding in Boston, MA. But I don't have the money to do that. He really wants me to go and I really want to go. But money has become the biggest factor now. I lost a job recently in Poshchim and I am running low on cash. Well cash is the only money that I have nowadays.

I am really thankful this Thanksgiving because I have made some fantastic friends this year. One of them is from the work I has lost (B.K) and one is from school (I hope she knows who she is!). Also I have met some wonderful people both from work and from school. I wish I could become better friends with them. May be by next Thanksgiving they will be!

Got to go. My chicken is burning I think...

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