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And so, onto the next adventure - 09/Nov/2010 19:02 - 4919 days ago
I’ve been meaning to put up a round-up post on here, but somehow just can’t do it. I’m not sure if it’s ...
And so, onto the next adventure - 09/Nov/2010 19:02 - 4919 days ago
I’ve been meaning to put up a round-up post on here, but somehow just can’t do it. I’m not sure if it’s ...
It’s time for me to go. - 25/Aug/2010 14:54 - 4995 days ago
Oh, it’s time. It’s time all right. Get. Me. Out. Of. Here. Needless to say, I’m still here. Was hoping to act...
The Goodbye - 25/Jul/2010 01:35 - 5026 days ago
I left Rangamati on Friday. In tears. Which is so totally, unbelievably uncategorically Not Me. My good bye ‘speech’...
It’s time for me to go. - 25/Apr/2010 14:54 - 5117 days ago
Oh, it’s time. It’s time all right. Get. Me. Out. Of. Here. Needless to say, I’m still here. Was hoping to act...
It’s time for me to go. - 25/Apr/2010 14:54 - 5117 days ago
Oh, it’s time. It’s time all right. Get. Me. Out. Of. Here. Needless to say, I’m still here. Was hoping to act...
The Goodbye - 20/Apr/2010 01:35 - 5122 days ago
I left Rangamati on Friday. In tears. Which is so totally, unbelievably uncategorically Not Me.
My good bye ’speech’...
The Goodbye - 20/Apr/2010 01:35 - 5122 days ago
I left Rangamati on Friday. In tears. Which is so totally, unbelievably uncategorically Not Me. My good bye ‘speech’...
Daylight savings: Cancelled - 30/Mar/2010 01:40 - 5143 days ago
Found out yesterday, the government has decided to scrap daylight savings here in the Desh. Bangladesh DST, the time that never ...
Daylight savings: Cancelled - 30/Mar/2010 01:40 - 5143 days ago
Found out yesterday, the government has decided to scrap daylight savings here in the Desh. Bangladesh DST, the time that never ...
Water - 29/Mar/2010 12:30 - 5144 days ago
Water. From a tap. In my bathroom. At a speed more than a trickle. Because Memory got the plumber to clean my pipes.
Isn’t...
Water - 29/Mar/2010 12:30 - 5144 days ago
Water. From a tap. In my bathroom. At a speed more than a trickle. Because Memory got the plumber to clean my pipes. Isn’t...
Four jugs - 25/Mar/2010 02:01 - 5148 days ago
Is now the amount of water I can cut my shower down to, if required. I counted during last night’s shower . We’re in...
Four jugs - 25/Mar/2010 02:01 - 5148 days ago
Is now the amount of water I can cut my shower down to, if required. I counted during last night’s shower . We’re in...
I’ll miss - 21/Mar/2010 01:59 - 5152 days ago
I’ll miss the randomness of Bangladesh. The things you come across that just make you laugh. Like DVD reviews. Tony bought...
I will miss… - 21/Mar/2010 01:59 - 5152 days ago
I will miss the randomness of Bangladesh. The things you come across that just make you laugh. Like DVD reviews. Tony bought a D...
The quality of Bangladeshi journalism - 14/Mar/2010 04:39 - 5159 days ago
This news piece appeared in yesterday’s online and print versions of a daily national newspaper, the Daily Star.
It report...
The quality of Bangladeshi journalism - 14/Mar/2010 04:39 - 5159 days ago
This news piece appeared in yesterday’s online and print versions of a daily national newspaper, the Daily Star. It report...
Did I feel the earth move? - 13/Mar/2010 04:26 - 5160 days ago
At about 5:15am? I was kinda awake as the broadcast of the morning chanting session, the ringing of the wake-up bell and the stu...
Did I feel the earth move? - 13/Mar/2010 04:26 - 5160 days ago
At about 5:15am? I was kinda awake as the broadcast of the morning chanting session, the ringing of the wake-up bell and the stu...
The return of… - 11/Mar/2010 01:18 - 5162 days ago
- the umbrella, as means of sun protection. If the monks can do it with a straight face, so can I.
- the hand fan. Yes, a hand f...
The return of… - 11/Mar/2010 01:18 - 5162 days ago
- the umbrella, as means of sun protection. If the monks can do it with a straight face, so can I. - the hand fan. Yes, a hand f...
And I did it again - 10/Mar/2010 05:05 - 5163 days ago
I exercised. Here exercise does deserve a blog post, because I do it so infrequently. I’m super proud of myself every time...
Beauty - 09/Mar/2010 09:19 - 5164 days ago
Over my lunch time tea in the tea stall today, I discovered that the tea stall owner used to be a monk. He was a monk for 15 yea...
The season of sweat approaches - 07/Mar/2010 09:56 - 5166 days ago
I’ve just been given some tamarind pods by a colleague. I had no idea what tamarind looked like before today, and I assume...
Back‘home’ - 05/Mar/2010 05:16 - 5168 days ago
I’m back in Rangamati now. I travelled a few days ago and I’m loving being back. Dhaka is so NOT my kind of city.
Bu...
Is the irony of the situation really lost on Bangladesh? - 21/Feb/2010 06:05 - 5180 days ago
Today is International Mother Language Day. A day that is celebrated around the world, as recognition of martyrs of the Bangla L...
100,000 Global Voices for Peace in the CHT - 20/Feb/2010 12:58 - 5181 days ago
Jesus, it’s time for peace in the CHT. I write this a mixture of anger and sadness. But mostly its anger.
The CHT Peace Ac...
What’s with the chanting - 18/Feb/2010 02:07 - 5183 days ago
… at 4:30am these days? Not just chanting, but chanting broadcast through tinny, distorted loudspeakers. It’s happen...
The mosquitos are back - 16/Feb/2010 01:04 - 5185 days ago
I spent most of my night catching and killing the 4 mosquitos I trapped in my mosquito net last night when I pulled the net down...
The village madman? - 15/Feb/2010 08:55 - 5186 days ago
I’ve taken today, and the next few days, off work so that I can leisurely wonder around and take photos of my life here. I...
Things I must stop doing when I leave Bangladesh - 14/Feb/2010 09:41 - 5187 days ago
1. Eating like someone is about to take my food away from me. I keep trying to get myself to slow down, and like, you know, chew...
Amidst the dullness - 10/Feb/2010 08:39 - 5191 days ago
… of matching names to photos, I discovered two interesting things today:
1) The child featured on Day 30 of my 365 projec...
Loss of basic skills… - 10/Feb/2010 05:58 - 5191 days ago
I have volunteered to take photos of some of the students, for sponsorship purposes. Moanoghar is looking to get individual spon...
I love my life right now - 09/Feb/2010 05:51 - 5192 days ago
I had a moment yesterday, when taking a drive with a monk along some amazingly scenic views of the Kaptai dam, where I did actua...
…and I’m back… - 08/Feb/2010 08:01 - 5193 days ago
I’ve been a very erratic blogger lately. Sorry. Just been busy, and stuff (read: lazy). But I have now recovered from what...
Can someone have a word with USAID please - 02/Feb/2010 01:40 - 5199 days ago
For the last few days of Tony’s two weeks here, we’re going to try turn some very rough ideas for some USAID funding...
Fun, but tiring - 31/Jan/2010 02:32 - 5201 days ago
It’s all still frightfully busy this side. LOTS of work (accompanied by lots of moaning by me), lots of dinner invitations...
All out - 28/Jan/2010 01:47 - 5204 days ago
I’m all talked out. And listened out. And worked out (we worked a full 12 hour day yesterday. In Bangladesh. That’s ...
Practice for the real world - 27/Jan/2010 01:01 - 5205 days ago
I so not used to company anymore.
There is another volunteer here with me in Rangamati at the moment, doing a Short Term Interve...
You should still do it - 26/Jan/2010 01:33 - 5206 days ago
Despite all the issues with the VSO programme office here in Bangladesh, if anyone out there is thinking of doing VSO, still DO ...
VSO rage - 25/Jan/2010 15:22 - 5207 days ago
Christ. VSO Bangladesh has REALLY outdone themselves this time.
I don’t usually moan about VSO so publicly, but this is tr...
The world’s longest beach - 20/Jan/2010 00:50 - 5212 days ago
Here I am now, in Cox’s Bazar, allegedly the world’s longest beach. I think this is disputed and there are a few bea...
Chair reclassification - 19/Jan/2010 00:09 - 5213 days ago
Ok, I feel the need to re-classify the chair I’m getting made. It’s not a LAZY BOY lazy boy. But Bangladesh has robb...
Random musings - 18/Jan/2010 16:11 - 5214 days ago
Random thoughts from my day, while travelling around Dhaka, from Lalmati to Apollo hospital to Old Dhaka (agaaaain) and back.
- ...
Shopping decisions - 17/Jan/2010 10:56 - 5215 days ago
I feel like I’ve spent the last year in a CNG. Ok, it was only most of today, but it felt like a year. And since when did ...
Culture Vulture - 16/Jan/2010 02:47 - 5216 days ago
In an attempt to reduce my running-out-of-time angst, I’m trying to make the best of what little time I will have left to ...
There’s always one - 15/Jan/2010 01:13 - 5217 days ago
… person who vomits on every bus I’m on in Bangladesh. And on the Rangamati to Chittagong stretch, through the windy...
Education - 13/Jan/2010 00:26 - 5219 days ago
The school year is starting soon. Or it has already started. I’m not sure. Some classes are running, but only some student...
Feeling guilty - 12/Jan/2010 01:09 - 5220 days ago
About rubbish. Actual throw-in-the-bin rubbish.
Rubbish collection and removal and/or recycling*, as concept, doesn’t real...
Why - 11/Jan/2010 00:07 - 5221 days ago
Why does the power always cut out juuuust as it gets dark here. The power outages here are a lot of things, but scheduled they a...
the world i see - 10/Jan/2010 01:44 - 5222 days ago
After much frustration, and many (MANY) hours with wordpress.com and my frustratingly slow internet connection, I opted for a tu...
Running out of time - 09/Jan/2010 00:52 - 5223 days ago
That’s how I feel right now. Like I’m running out of time here in Bangladesh. After months of frustration, heat and ...
VSO Annual Review - 07/Jan/2010 02:03 - 5225 days ago
I had my annual review with VSO yesterday. Or Moanoghar had their annual review with VSO yesterday. I couldn’t quite tell ...
Police: Special Branch - 06/Jan/2010 01:37 - 5226 days ago
Had a delightful visit from three (3) members of the Bangladesh Police Special Branch yesterday. I was told that this type of vi...
Welcome little one - 05/Jan/2010 01:43 - 5227 days ago
Last night I went to visit one of my colleagues in hospital, who has just had her first baby.
We had previously discussed, over ...
Heffer - 03/Jan/2010 15:38 - 5229 days ago
I feel like a right baby hippopotamus right now. This is what happens when one swans around in loose fitting salwaar kamezees fo...
Happy New Year (times two) - 01/Jan/2010 12:52 - 5231 days ago
Had one of the most fun NYE’s I’ve had in a long time last night. Went to a BYOB roof top party in Gulshan, where &#...
4:20am - 31/Dec/2009 01:05 - 5232 days ago
Is the time I was woken up this morning, by the sound of something chewing in my room, here in the VSO flat. Was convinced it wa...
Damage control - 30/Dec/2009 11:51 - 5233 days ago
Have decided that ‘the shaggy’ looks like a mullet. Or like a bob from the front, and long hair from the back. Busin...
Not the Nine O’Clock News - 29/Dec/2009 00:34 - 5234 days ago
My little spiel about Raj Punyah made it onto the 9 o’clock news last night. I didn’t see it (thank god) as I don...
Chakma King’s festival thingy - 28/Dec/2009 03:13 - 5235 days ago
Yesterday was the start of a 3 day festival, called Chakma Raj Punyah, which I think translates to Chakma King’s Festival....
Daylight what? (Part two) - 26/Dec/2009 23:59 - 5237 days ago
Following on from the debacle of the implementation of daylight savings for the first time in Bangladesh (here and just how much...
Christmas: Chakma style - 26/Dec/2009 11:56 - 5237 days ago
Since my Christmas plans ended up in a heap in the corner after being beaten senseless by Bangladeshi bureaucracy, I have spent ...
The Haircut - 24/Dec/2009 13:21 - 5239 days ago
What WAS I thinking?
Lessons learnt:
- impromptu haircuts while out shopping after work are ill advised. This is especially true...
Christmas: Cancelled - 24/Dec/2009 02:33 - 5239 days ago
Christ (yes you) it’s been a nightmare over the last few days… holiday plan wise.
India is a no go as it takes 6 day...
Abort - 23/Dec/2009 01:23 - 5240 days ago
Repeat Abort stop
Holiday plans in disarray due to f&*$%^^ Bangladeshi visa people. Impossible to get tourist visa once INSI...
Planning a holiday in Bangladesh - 21/Dec/2009 03:48 - 5242 days ago
Is a LOT of work.
My festive plans are such:
1) Travel from Rangamati to Bandarban on the 24th, to spend the 25th (I keep forget...
I’m proud to have a British passport this Christmas… - 21/Dec/2009 00:15 - 5242 days ago
Rage Against the Machine has won the battle for the Christmas No 1 single, with Killing In The Name, a.k.a Fuck you I won’...
Yes, I do actually do some work sometimes too - 20/Dec/2009 23:49 - 5243 days ago
Yesterday I hosted a workshop on monitoring and evaluation here at work. Very, very simple monitoring and evaluation that I̵...
Meetings: Bangladeshi style (part two) - 20/Dec/2009 00:29 - 5243 days ago
To pick up where Meetings: Bangladeshi Style (part one) left off…A few other meeting observations I’ve made over my ...
Booze Cruise* - 19/Dec/2009 01:36 - 5244 days ago
Yesterday, along with a lot of other people in Rangamati, I went for a picnic. With my director, his family, a member of the exe...
Why I hadn’t won the lottery yet - 18/Dec/2009 00:45 - 5245 days ago
Simple answer: my internet speed*.
It keeps letting me down at the crucial moment. I’ve picked my numbers, using my mind-b...
Picnic Season - 17/Dec/2009 01:31 - 5246 days ago
So along with Puppy Season and Wedding Season, this is also Picnic Season.
It’s the thing to do here in winter. Picnicing ...
Victory Day - 16/Dec/2009 09:07 - 5247 days ago
Today is Bangladesh’s national holiday celebrating their independence from Pakistan, in 1971. Not to be confused with Inde...
The Hills* are alive… - 15/Dec/2009 04:17 - 5248 days ago
… with the sound of nothing. Sweet, sweet nothing. Just the odd frog, some crickets and the occasional chirping bird. Nice...
Crazy white bitch - 14/Dec/2009 08:43 - 5249 days ago
Crisis, I was a foul bitch yesterday. I very, very, very almost punched someone on the street.
This is something I have come exc...
One of those days - 13/Dec/2009 06:05 - 5250 days ago
I think my stomach thing is back. Finished the medication a few weeks ago, and now I’m again in the paranoid state of mind...
Sightseeing, shell suits and signing on - 12/Dec/2009 11:00 - 5251 days ago
Been in Dhaka for the last few days, and I am beginning to actually kinda almost quite like this city.
I’ve always been a ...
It’s official - 09/Dec/2009 01:44 - 5254 days ago
I need to buy some winter clothes. No warm clothes made it into my backpack when I left London, as I didn’t believe that B...
Islam - 08/Dec/2009 00:25 - 5255 days ago
.. has been my main reading interest over the last week or so. I’m reading Malcom X’s autobiography (published short...
Dirty Blonde - 07/Dec/2009 00:46 - 5256 days ago
I am slowly, day by day, discovering my real hair colour. And at this stage in the I-wouldn’t-trust-a-Bangladeshi-hairdres...
Another one - 06/Dec/2009 11:28 - 5257 days ago
Moanoghar is taking on another volunteer, a retired teacher from the UK, for 2 months from January. Despite this having absolute...
Home maker - 05/Dec/2009 02:09 - 5258 days ago
The good thing about exercising in the mornings is that I don’t have to boil water for a warm bucket shower. Hot and sweat...
Down and out in Dhaka - 04/Dec/2009 03:32 - 5259 days ago
There is a video that a few friends in Bangladesh have already blogged or Facebooked about. It’s about climate change, and...
Missing the Silly Season - 03/Dec/2009 01:17 - 5260 days ago
I love, love, love the run up to Christmas in London. It all just feels so right. The end of another long and hard work year. It...
Longing for anonymity - 02/Dec/2009 03:07 - 5261 days ago
I exercised this morning. Please notify the press.
The first spot of exercise I’ve done since I got back from Bali. In Aug...
Socks and sandals - 01/Dec/2009 02:40 - 5262 days ago
My new look at work. Tres sexy.
It’s not particularly cold during the day yet, but my office is a little nippy and my feet...
The knitting circle - 30/Nov/2009 03:08 - 5263 days ago
As winter is coming, some of the women around Moanoghar have started knitting little hats to sell to make some extra income. Lea...
Wedding season - 29/Nov/2009 03:06 - 5264 days ago
So the two bideshis of Rangamati eventually met last night. Lovely. And about time. And Tania has… wait for it…a was...
So Bangladesh does get cold - 28/Nov/2009 02:52 - 5265 days ago
While incessantly bitching about the heat for most of my time here, I made a little promise to myself that I would never moan ab...
Every man and his cow - 27/Nov/2009 06:36 - 5266 days ago
…was out on the roads yesterday. And it seemed, specifically, they were out on MY road yesterday. Dhaka to Chittagong. So ...
Do I have to answer it? - 25/Nov/2009 02:08 - 5268 days ago
I’ve never really been much of a mobile phone person. And here in Bangladesh I’m not surgically attached to my phone...
Travelling cows and other suprises - 24/Nov/2009 12:25 - 5269 days ago
Ok, so that wasn’t actually all that bad. The VSO SFG that is. Not perfect, but then if I’m expecting perfection her...
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