no weekend. came to work. last one hour work update: nil. reading this instead and indulging in nostalgia. somebody wrote about butter bun, they don't make those heavenly things anymore. i miss sheba prokashoni. and thakurmar jhuli. and i miss that old man who gave me huge amount of tamarinds for the 10p coin that i found on the road. and the 1 tk singara and samosa that we used to have during tiffin breaks. 1tk hideously green ice-cream but delicious nonetheless. tipsy (!) orange drink (didn't know the meaning of tipsy then :S, what a name for an orange drink!). i even miss my gaaner khata, so many notes noted down, favorite song was "phule phule dhole dhole", the easiest of the lot. miss that "tana veranda" up on the 4th floor, electricity gone out, in the full moon my father humming "purono shei diner kotha".. miss going to school, i miss having no friends, loneliness at that age is something else altogether. and my imaginary friends. oh, i forgot "tiktikir dim", :) i don't know if these exist anymore. those little round candies had a tiny black thing inside the sugar coating. they came in so many colors too! we used to play with them first, like marbles, and ate them afterwards (doesn't sound that hygienic, but i guess we didn't care back then!). compasses that i used to lose every month, pencils, bunking classes, the hujur that used to come every afternoon and snored while we droned on the unfathomable arabic language, which we could so easily read not understanding a word. world music, this one quite later, i still remember munia from monipuripara, that girl used to send 2/3 mails every week! i wonder where she is now. is world music in bangladesh betar still there? don't know. with all these fm radios with their sizzling djs all so hot and flashy and fake, the chance of survival for my good old world music is quite low i suppose. and movie of the week. knight rider, mcgyver, thunder cats, teenage mutant ninja turtles, perfect strangers, care bears, tom and jerry, alice in wonderland...the list goes on and on. ah 80's btv, how i loved you!

but what i mostly miss is the colorful books from beijing publications (they wrote "peiching") and raduga publications or some other publications from china and russia. they were my treat from my parents after i finished every exam. i don't remember how many i had. i have lost them all.

i'm so glad i grew up in the 80's. i am almost in tears :S. bura hoye gesi :(.