One of these places, is Bangladesh. It is where I was born, and until I came here, like the kids from the post office who are 16 and 17, it was my world. It was all I knew. Coming here gave me a whole new perspective - 'EVERYTHING' from the streets, the cars, to the food, the chairs, etc. was different. I do miss my home, and going back there once in a while is very relaxing. I get to view my country as a tourist, and get to see everything with different eyes, something I couldn't do unless I came here and got a new viewpoint. I urge everyone to do the same.

This is a river boat (nouka - bengali for boat), off the docks of River Saree in Sylhet - it is used to collect sand from the bottom of the river, which is not very deep. The boat gets piled up high with sand, adn is brought back to shore, where it gets sold and is used for construction. The sand in this river comes from the waterfalls in the mountains, because going upstream in this river eventually leads to the Himalayas. Before that, of course is the Indian border, and a little bit of no man's land, which is as far as we could go. This place is very peaceful, as villages in Bangladesh have very little noise pollution, due to the lack of much machinery and mechanical equipment. It's very serene.

It's been a while. I made myself a promise at the beginning of last year that I would have a new design for this blog every year - so far, so good - except that last year, I totally dropped the ball on actually posting photograhps. Sometime around June, I posted my last post of the year. Since then, a back problem, amongst many other things were available for me to use as an excuse. Without getting much into any of that, I'm hoping I am able to keep up the posts. If you've been coming here regularly regardless of my posts, thank you for your patience. I'm happy with this new design, and I'm not going to promise a design change next year - I think this is pretty versatile for a few other things I am looking to do, so stay tuned!