She was an Employee

Reality of life or real life sometimes seems a bit cruel.
Cruel in the sense that in real life we are compelled to do something we do not like or very hard to do. It creates such a situation under which we should sacrifice, face difficulties or we should be hated by those we love. But real life is real life, it does not carry any other meaning.
Let me mention one of many examples from my own life.
In village we five were very close friends. We studied from class one to ten together in the same primary and high school. During this long span of time of five years we never thought that our bond would ever break and we would go away being separated from each other.
But now I realize that our real life started long back after being passed in SSC exam.
There was no college for higher education in our village and that area. This is why we had to move for different places and wait for 4-5 months to meet or see each other.
That was the most desirable occasion we waited for and the moments we met were full of enjoyment.
But later reality became more harsh.
When we entered into the last part of our student life we became busy with study for a good result and anxious about finding a suitable job.
There were the same occasions but we were not available, we felt and an urge grew to meet each other but we had no enough time to spare.
Buy one thing that we did regularly was keeping communication.
Certainly I will find a number of letters we wrote each other if I search books, notebooks or diaries.
Recently our means of communication is mobile phone. But the real life is something like cruel and because of cruelty of real life our communication now-a-days is not as frequent as those previous days.

It is like we forgot but we remember and feel each other.

Out of feelings I called Mufassir the other day.

I inquired of him, his job, his family etc.

While I was asking so many questions about his personal affairs a lovely face came to my mind.

She is Molina, Maksuma Khatun Molina, beautiful to look and brilliant as student.

Not only that she also was pleasing with all in term of way of speaking and behaving.

Probably for all these qualities two big things happened in her life before becoming an honors graduate.

>She got married

>She managed a lucrative job in government education office.

Her life was heading in a smoother way up to the time of her becoming mother to a daughter.

After that her life became really heavy and hard.

Her husband, a lecturer at a government college, died of heart attack without giving her a little time to take care and doctors to give him treatment.

Still she was going through the hard way of life. But another problem she was facing was really difficult for her to overcome. She was receiving proposal for illicit love and proposal for giving her hand in marriage again.

But ...

I asked my friend to know something more about her.

What he told as information can be summarized as this that she denied all those proposals and resigned her job for sake of her daughter. Then she started a tailoring shop. Till to date she has been doing good. Her shop is well established in a bigger expansion. 

Now she is a proud and successful mother as her only daughter is studying in a medical college.

She is now a job provider to 10-12 needy women who are maintaining their families decent way.

What else a woman can achieve in life? 

It may be many things.

Molina also can achieve more and many things in future. 

But the important thing is she has proved that there are some other ways or means to survive or to achieve the best from life. A woman can do what even a man cannot.

Acquiring Knowledge

Writer

No need else if someone is having knowledge.
Knowledge is an inseparable part of human life. Nothing can be done without knowledge. No one can achieve development in his/her respective area without it.
Knowledge may be classified in different classes based on different subjects and matters.
Knowledge of each category helps a particular group of people becoming successful in a particular area.
Take engineering knowledge for an example. How does it help or work?
It helps a student who studies in an engineering college or university to be an engineer.
The same thing is applied to other subject based knowledge.


As character knowledge of this kinds must be obtained by studying the related subjects.
But apart from this there are some common knowledge which can be attained without studying any related subjects but by some common ways. Some other day in long past I met a farmer in my native village and asked whether he has any related training or not.
He replied without any delay informing that he had nothing that can be called training. He only observed his father and elder brothers doing farming related works and gathered experience. Based on that experience he can do all farming related works with easiness and without making any mistakes.
Here we see observing and gathering experience is a way of acquiring knowledge.
Only two days ago a young man from my native place met me and sought some information about a particular place of Mohasthangargh.

I made him glad with details and exact information.
I have a clear idea or knowledge about the place as I traveled there twice or thrice.

Here I like to highlight Travel. Travel is also a source of acquiring knowledge.
Shamim Ahmed, a small businessman, sells mobile accessories and mobile recharge cards from a small shop.
As I stay nearby his shop I see everyday a lot of people throng around his shop most of the time. A good understanding has grown between him and me as result of frequent visit to recharge my mobile balance.
I was astonished having seen his shop closed for consecutive three days.

On fourth day when I met and asked about reason he informed that he went some places to meet friends and relatives. He told that he faced an incursion of loss but his knowledge of interaction with people has increased manifold.
Here we find traveling is also a way of gathering some common knowledge 

Alternative

Think like many of you I too have an idea about Alternative. 

Alternative is the other way to achieve the same goal. 

To answer to a common question 'Has alternative any importance?' I can mention one from many incidents. 

A few day ago I was on an office tour to attend a program some 25 kilometers away. 

I was traveling by office vehicle along with two foreign guests and our country manager. 

I know well the location and the way of that place as I had been there a number of times. 

Our driver also was well aware of the way. But he took turn and started driving by other way. 

Sometime later he informed that the way people normally take to tread or drive is under construction and this is the alternative way which will take us to our destination. 

The way was zigzag and full of holes and cracks to create a lot of jerks. The journey took more time than the time normally takes. But we were glad for our safe arrival to the destination. 

This is something to make a think clear that alternative has importance. 

The other day I met and talked to a student.  

His name is faizur Rahman from somewhere in Jessore District presently lives at Tongi in Gazipur District. 

As I live in the same area I saw him almost everyday going to garment factory along with other garment workers. Normally I thought he is merely a garment worker. 

I could never thought he is a student and studying in computer science in a private university. 

However, he told me that he supposed to complete his graduation four year ago. But he could not do as he failed to get admission into BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Science). 

Not only he but few of his friends also failed. But they took admission into some other affiliated universities and now they are doing good job with handsome salary. That was an alternative way and they followed. But he did not do that and thus fell behind. 

The importance of alternative has been depicted again through his word and at the same time it has also been clear that alternative should be followed in time. 

Situation

Situation is something where or with which people live or have to live. 
It is changeable. Situation is created by some wanted or unwanted incidents and most of the times it goes in disfavor of people.
But people, being in such a condition, are bound to accept the situation though it is disfavourable and difficult.
A few months ago dear James Tokon Das uploaded some pictures in his Facebook timeline.
What the pictures were of some flood affected men and women struggling for survival.
They were wading in neck deep water with some light belongings over head which was enough to show clearly their dilapidated situation and that situation was crested by heavy flood.

I believe the situation was too hard for them to accept but they were bound to go through. 
Only a few days ago someone, very closed to me, phoned to share his painful experience of a dire situation he has been going through for past few months.
For decency's sake it would not be fair for me to mention what the situation he is in right now. What only I can say is the situation he is in right now is so indecent, shameful, disgraceful, intolerable and painful that goes beyond many peoples' imagination. But in true judgment of what he did he is not or he cannot be considered responsible for the situation.
The same thing happened to me. But I do not like to elaborate my experience of the situation I am going through presently. Let me tell only this that not only me but my whole family is in great trouble.
Without being limit ourselves within us if we look around we will see a hundreds and thousands of people are becoming victims of such dire situations most of the times due to envy, anger, hatred, conspiracy and etc., etc.
This is really painful and dark side of human life but the other side which is brighter and hopeful as the situation is changeable. Whatever the situation it changes. 
The dire painful situation will disappear and a hopeful better situation will appear.
This is also true and happening every hour in every human life.

Why should you convert into Christianity?

It is a common presumption held by many from other religions than Christianity that a man or woman receives a big amount of money, wealth or properties if converts into Christianity.
But is it true?  Still to many people the question remains unanswered though with the space of time it is almost proved that no, no one receives any amount of money, wealth or properties.  If someone faces problem in accepting what I told that nothing is there to be received by the person converts I will agree with him and tell that yes, there are persecution, hatred, abandonment and many other things of same sort as rewards.

But the fact is in Bangladesh alone a hundreds and thousands of men and women from Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have already converted and the trend of conversion is going on in full swing all over the country.
The reason behind huge conversion that took place and high trend of it may not be known to most of the people.
To know I talked to a young man converted into Christianity from Islam who spoke few words in an interview.

A small Tea Stall can make a good profit

Alamgir Alom 

Owner of small tea stall at Tongi Bazar,Gazipur. 

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Bangladesh is a small country in area and over populated with about 160 million of people.  

Even in this ultra modern age of science and technology most of the people of the country are dependent on agriculture. 

Like all other sectors Bangladesh has achieved tremendous development in education sector. 

At present literacy percentage in the country is more than 80%. Most of the young generations are having an intention of receiving higher education. 

Those who have already completed their studies are in search of suitable jobs. But to get a job is very hard for most of the job seekers as there is very less job opportunities in the country. 

Therefore, most of the youths are disappointed and without finding any alternative many of them are bound to resort to illegal means to earn money.  

Alamgir Alom was one of them. But unlike others he was spirited and convicted to do something in legal way to earn money.  

Accordingly he rented a small space and set up a tea stall and started selling tea. 

In only one and half years time he expanded his tea stall to a considerable extent with addition of some more items of commodities. 

He is now earning enough to build a brighter future. 

According to him anyone can start a small business like and earn money enough to maintain himself/herself along with a small family. But to do so what necessary is to give attention to the fullest satisfaction of customers. 

Curd and Flattened Rice

Any living object of the world needs food for survival.

All the living things are not in the same group. The number groups would go beyond countable level if the objects are divided into groups.

Things of different groups eat foods which are different from other groups.

The world is also full of objects which are eaten as food items by different living things of the world.

Look at the nature which is the habitat of hundreds and thousands of animals. All the animals do not eat the same thing but different one. There are some animals that eat only a single object as food item.

There are a few living things in the world of which human being is one that eat almost all available on earth.

Whatever we eat the main purpose of eating is to attain energy necessary for survival.

As for human beings there are a huge number of food items in the market. But all food items are not good or suitable for our sound health. 

Sound health is prerequisite for happy survival.

A concept held by many people that good food means tasty food. But that is not always good for our health.

In fact good food must be tasty and at the time rich with nutrients.

Here is a video clip on Recipe to be watched: 

In the shadow of nature

Bangladesh is identified as a poor country by the other countries of the world.

This was true and still true though the country has achieved a lot of development in a number of sectors. 

But one thing which was true in the long past and true to date. That true is rich nature.

Bangladesh is very rich in its nature. 

If someone wants to enjoy the rich nature should do a little thing that is to leave behind the amenities of city life and go to countryside or rural areas.

I know a number of foreign people who had good luck to visit some of rural areas. I got to know later when I talked to them that they were charmed with the richness and beauty of nature. 

This Bangla Bazar, a naturally  very rich area in Gazipur district. This is not far away from the capital city Dhaka and town of Gazipur district. But still it can be considered as countryside or rural area. 

Here is a big center where more than thousands of people can gather for different purposes like meeting, discussion, seminar, symposium or training.

 

Considering location it can be said that the center is in shadow of nature.

Right now more than five hundred people from different places of the country gathered here for a special program. 

The host organization brought some heavy weighted teachers and scholars to teach all these men, women, boys and girls.

Rima Sangma is one of them. She is from Mymensingh town where she lives permanently with her parents and studies in a h college. h

She told to reply to a query that all like food, teachings, teachers, stay are alright. But the better thing is its nature. 

By saying she in fact proved once again that Bangladesh is at least rich in nature.

Strength of Songs

AUDIENCE

Now-a-days we can hear a variety of songs from different medias.

The artists present songs with their utmost emotion, gestures and heart.

Songs have a kind of power which is produced when a song is presented right way.

If I tell something from my own experience I would say that a type of feeling generates in mind that changes direction of my thinking from pessimism to optimism, discouragement to encouragement.

In many live concerts I saw the audience becoming so powerful that they started dancing, singing or shouting forgetting age, situation and association.

Presence of large number of audience in any concert is itself a proof of songs having attraction.

Being attracted many young boys, sometimes even girls are seen carrying violin, guitar or other type of musical instruments.

However, I was not skeptical about power of Christian songs as I have a lot of experiences of having heard of many  Christian songs but it was beyond my imagination before having seen or heard the song in video that so many people can be so revived and put their faith in Jesus only being powered by a song

A Pastor aspiring to be involved in politics

Politics is a means to serve the people. This is the beauty of politics. 

Those who do politics are called politicians.

  

What all these politicians exhibit through their actions and activities is not the beauty of politics but covetousness for own interest. 

In practical perspective politicians all over the world go to power by resorting unfair means and after going to power they started misusing state power vested by general people to gain own interest. 

Probably there is not even a single thing that a politician can not do for his/her gain. 

On the other hand a Pastor is a pious man who follows footsteps of Jesus in every step of his own. Jesus is his/her goal, His teaching is his/her knowledge, His words the Holy Bible is the complete code of his/her life. Reflecting Jesus' qualities throughout life is his/her ultimate moto. What he/she can do is to love all even enemies sacrificing life.  

Doing politics is not the job suitable for any honest person let alone pastors. 

But still some pastors hope to involve themselves with politics. 

Why? 

Answer has come out through some words spoken by a certain pastor. 

(For security concern details information have been kept hidden) 

When beauty is ugly

In every description the world must considered as something beautiful. 
As human beings we need many things for comfort and survival. 
To achieve what we need we do whatever necessary, we go wherever we should go. Many people go to the other part of the country leaving behind his/her family, friends, relatives and near and dear ones. Even people go out of country for demand of life or to achieve what the need. They sacrifice a lot. But still all are not always lucky to achieve all that they need. 
In this judgment the world is not so generous, its hand of generosity is short. 
But in a special and particular case the world is always generous and that case is its beauty.
The world is always generous to show its impeccable beauty for everybody everywhere.
Al of its land, sky, rivers, forests, hills, mountains, sea, ocean are of matchless beauty.
No one is barred from enjoying its beauty. 
As lover of beauty people travel hundreds and thousands of miles only to come to the warm hugs of beauty.
But sometimes we see with great pain that something happens when the beauty becomes ugly. 
For an example take Cox's Bazar, the beautiful sea beach in Bangladesh which is the longest one in the world.

A large number of people from home and abroad throng there everyday.
Be alert keep eyes open you will hear, you will see at least few of them wash away or drown to death.
Are they themselves not responsible for such kinds of unwanted incidents?
They are in a sense.
In enjoying the beauty sometimes they forget to be careful about warning issued instantly based on situation of weather and tide.

Experience On the Way

Writer

What I do or should do everyday is to walk for 30-60 minutes.
To do so I walk all the way to my office which 45-50 minutes. Today is weekend. No office, no walk over there.
But for my health sake I must go out and have a walk for at least 30 minutes. I went out and walked up to Station Road right to the east of Tongi Biswa Ijtema Ground.
It was a hot summer day. I got perspired and was feeling uneasiness. I thought to stop walking and have a rest. 
I stood under a roof of tea stall near the footwear over bridge there. I looked at the intersection, the turning point of south, north, north-west and north-east.
A hundreds of vehicles were running away from every side. The same number of people were standing, waiting, moving here and there.
I stayed or about 10 minutes and all this time I did not take back my eyes.
I was looking and looking.
Probably my constant look turned into observation sometime later though I could not say when.
In my observation or my observation helped me to bring out some of truths related to life.
 AIM: No one without aim. 
Aim is most important in anyone's life. Aim is a kind of design. No one can build up his/her life without design. This is why everyone should set an aim. 
One more important thing is making effort to reach the aim. Aim can be considered as destination. We should remember that the distance of destination may be short sometimes but long and very long most of the time. Whatever it is short or long we ourselves should go there and going means coming out of home, leaving behind family company and comfort.
In another sense it can be said this way that we should carry out our responsibility, we should do our works. 
All those people were doing the same which was really fantastic to see.
 PREFERENCE
What we give preference to is important. There are a lot of things related to life. But  all do not carry the same importance. So we should give preference to the thing which is more important. But in this case we many do mistake.
We all know life is the most valuable thing. But if we take the matter from practical perspective we see most of us like to give preference to achieve aim forgetting or ignoring value and importance of life. In doing so people do anything without considering whether it is legal or illegal, logical or illogical, ethical or unethical.
Let me remember and remind you all that every action has its reaction.
What are the results people receive by doing all these illegal, illogical or unethical things?
May be not directly but indirectly people destroy their own lives by not allowing it to bear its fruits.

Opportunity is like a Bird

In the surface of earth which is too vast to even imagine and in the unfathomable depth of sea or ocean hundreds and thousands of happenings are taking place every moment. Unfortunately a very few number of all these happenings we can know, we can see or we can hear.

About a year ago a news surfaced in different social medias especially Facebook and the gist of the news was a young girl came to Bangladesh as tourist probably either from Germany or Netherlands and fell in love with a young Bangladeshi poor rickshaw puller. Being in love for sometimes they got married. Through the marriage life of that poor rickshaw puller completely changed and probably he has already left the country and now is leading a luxurious life in his wife's country.

Again we may hear now and then of someone becoming billionaire merely by doing farming or gardening or a small business. Even in practice we see many people going out of imagination have become first class gazetted government officers. This is also not the story generated from imagination that many became celebrities coming from villages or remote areas.

If we think for sometime going a bit deeper into all these things it will appear before our eyes that opportunity as if came down over them like birds. Still their effort to stick to achieving goal can not be ignored.

Birds fly in the sky but come down over trees, not over all trees of the forest but over some trees. 

Opportunity is like birds and the fact is it will not come down over all. But I wish and want let the opportunity come down especially over street children of the world.

WONDERFUL IMITATING A NICE SONG BY THE STRET CHILDREN OF BOGRA

Father of Monkey Daughters

'Father of Monkey Daughters' is something bizarre to hear. But the fact is people are different from each other in many areas. One of these areas is passion. Everyone has his/her own passion or love for something different from some others. 

We see people do job, business or some other type of works as profession for their survival and maintaining families. But in addition many people will be found having passion for gardening, writing, traveling etc. Of course passion turns in to profession for some people sometime. 

While in Bandarban, one of Hill District towns in Bangladesh, a few weeks ago I met a middle aged woman in a restaurant under the Hilton Hotel. She was a lecturer of general history in a nongovernment degree college. But her passion is traveling to different places to enjoy the beauty of nature, see the people of different tribes, culture and language. She likes traveling so much that she left her teaching profession several years ago. Now she is a successful blogger. She does blogging for earning wherever she travels. This is really interesting and I was lucky enough to meet and have a little chat with that highly educated fair lady.

Passion is a kind of power that drives everyone irrespective of education, profession or religions the proof of it we find even in the street.

The other day on my way to bank I found a man with two monkeys. As the time was noon and hot in scorching sun he let those monkey have a rest under shadow of little wayside tree. 

The onlookers were so excited that one of them told the man, ' let your monkeys play whatever they know and we would pay.'  But the man replied saying, ' No, I would not let them play anymore today. They hungry and tired. I would take them to home, feed and rest'.

The man also told in reply to another query from someone, ' They are my daughters' and started heading forwards.

Monkeys are innocent and beautiful animals. Like many other countries of the world this animal is also available in our country, Bangladesh. But their availability is only in few particular places. This is why when we come across this animal we make fun and enjoy merriment they make. 

But do we have passion or love for them?

I can say in true sense most of us should say no.

But this man ...

Without thinking anymore I started heading towards the bank.