Reflection on 2009

2009 is crawling to its end. It makes me one more year old, one more year close to my death. So what? Still it enriched my life with so many colorful things. I am little wiser and happier now in the end of 2009 than I was in the beginning of 2009. I could not keep you guys informed of my family and me mostly because I was lazy throughout the year. Let me try to take this opportunity to make up for my laziness.
Since 2006, I have a special reason to have a very good start of the year as my little daughter’s birth day is in January. I will always remember February 2009 as my first novel “Joler Deyal” was published in this month. I can never forget 6th of March because of the sudden death of my father. O Father! I will always carry you in my thoughts. I got reconnected two groups of my old friends- Comilla Zilla School and Comilla Cadet College, had lots of fun with them in this year. Almost completed a house in my village where I love to go to relax once in a while. I sang and play with them in the beach, swam with my elder daughter in the sea. I took the first picture of my daughter in the sea. Those were very happy days. Travelled to a number of new countries where I haven’t gone before. I enjoy my work in the World Bank.
Our little daughter, Ariana (Tupur) is doing great. She has become more active and can speak fluently now. We enjoy each and every moment with her. She has picked two favorite songs from our list- one from Krshnokoli Islam and another from Ridoy Khan. She wants us to play those songs only so that she can always karaoke with them. She fights with her elder sister a lot over the control of the desktop, which requires parental intervention for resolution. We had her first dental appointment a few weeks ago. The dentist was amazed by her level of patience and cooperation during the whole cleaning session.
Faria (Tapur), our elder daughter is keeping us happy by bringing home the ‘excellent’ marks from her school. She is our only ‘all A’ star at home (her school does not assign any A+). Like me, she has also developed a good habit of reading books. But little sadly for me, she prefers to read only English books, although recently she has read a few Bangla books on my request. She is also trying to learn music at home. She is yet to be proactive with that. Her mother is sincerely working with her on this. She had a very good time in Cox’s Bazar in July this year, and enjoyed a surprise mid-night snack with a Lobster brought to her bed in the hotel. She enjoyed each and every moment in the Bay of Bengal with me and became a mermaid at one stage. She has made some good friends in school.
I consider 2009 a very good year for Farha, my wife. She had done two musical programs in Bangladesh Television, something that she was really looking forward to. She got reconnected with her old university friends who made her very nostalgic during last 7/8 years that we spent in USA. In June she went to Bangkok with her friend Sigma for a week to relax. Within the country, while she brought music in the tea garden of Srimongol in March, Cox’s Bazar failed to impress her this time in July. But she had a splendid time in the river Jamuna in November. She is sincerely working on her music along with Faria. She is also enjoying reading. Most impressively, she is writing a book. The biggest news: she is going to join a job from the first day of 2010. Wish her luck for that. I wish all of you a very good new year.