The beauty is not too far | A day with the river, a lot of green, and the sky. Beauty is everywhere, we just need the correct eye to see it. While visiting this place which is only a few minutes away from my home, this was in my head. It's better to look around for refreshments rather than waiting for the opportunity to go far and explore popular sights, no? *Aftabnagar* is the place where I find urbanization is still going slow. I know it wouldn't take another few years to…
A Perfume from Miniso! It was my first time perfume purchase from Miniso. I'm already using this for a week and I can say that I quite like it! I was not thinking of buying it but after trying out the taster I thought let's give it a shot. The price is quite reasonable. Can you guess? It was just $5. Yeah, you heard it correctly. What else could I ask for a sweet and subtle smell with a $5? Let me share my shopping experience there. Shopping at Miniso is quite fun. The shop…
Deep cleaning my mom's refrigerator! Recently I had the chance to visit my mom after a few months. We usually meet each other two or three times a year. Sometimes she visits me and at two major festivals, we visit her. 300 km may not sound very far but this keeps us apart along with all my family responsibility. Yeah, my mom lives alone. We had a few tenants in the same premises but we three shilling lives in different cities for our work and family. She got someone who…
A quick and easy step-by-step Vermicelli dessert recipe. Velmicchi is one of our local popular desserts. It's a must during different occasions and festivals. There are various ways of preparing it too and that's why the dish never gets boring. Also, if you got a surprised guest at home this dish can save you. A few days ago, I prepared it for my sudden guests. It's quick, easy, and delicious. They loved it. Let me share my recipe. **What do we need?** 250 gm of Vermicelli…
Good morning from Dhaka. ☁☀🌳 This morning, the city of 'concrete jungle'- Dhaka brings some happiness with the beautiful cloud. Otherwise, the scale is always low on the side when it comes to providing enough motivating elements to the dwellers. The comparison comes easily, you know if we think about our living conditions. But it's all about our perception, at least that's what I found. There's good and bad in every city, in every place you could think of. I used to get…
My favorite one-pot Tofu Noodle soup recipe 🍜🍜 Noddle comes next to rice if I say about my comfort food. Especially noodle soup is a must when I feel down. A hot and spicy noodle is enough to boost my mood! The best thing is, that I can always come up with something new. There are so many things we can add with noodle soup, probably there's no limit, no? This one recipe that I'm going to share is what makes it more enjoyable because of tofu. If you are in a hurry or feeling…
Heading outside the city. The thought of having a family hang out outside the city, in a relaxing place is refreshing itself. A few weeks ago, we got the chance to do so after many days. We were eight members in total, including my mom and cousins. It was a bit chaotic but we loved it. lol. We were twitting like birds the whole time. There are some resorts, amusement parks, and river houses just outside the city. We took this road to reach there, it's one of my favorite.…
Shopping at a $1 store. I found a $1 store much more extensive than my next-door store. They got a massive collection of groceries, home decor products, toys, and whatnot! I love it. It was a random visit, I was passing the road and saw the store. Later, bought a few things; I mean why not, no? We usually call such stores **1-99 shops**. All the products are under 99 taka. But you can call it a dollar store too because guess what. Because of the recent inflation and…
A Garden is more than plants, it feeds a soul. I read it somewhere, "a garden is the place where we lose ourselves to find our true self again." What a lovely insight, isn't it? A garden is a blessing to the house, and the community. It adds so much more until I started my gardening journey. I'm saying this is a journey because it's not like we plant a seed and get the fruit/flower. It's more like seeing the plant grow, bloom beautiful flowers, and give us fruits,…
Food, Outing, Family hangout & Fun! Enjoying a day out in this existing summer was not what I thought would be possible. So when my cousins approach for a family hangout at the water park, I was not sure if we should go. But the visit was sure worth it. The place is named *Chiklee Water Garden* which is located in Rangpur. This is kind of a first-time water park in this city so we all were hyped to take a visit to what's going on there. To be honest it was a bit existing to…
Season's favorite Hog Plum pickle. | Our very own Family recipe. Pickle is something that tastes different in every single house. Some make it sour, some prefer sweet, too spicy, or dry as per their taste. During summer we prepare pickles almost with all the sour fruit and hog plum is one of them. We have our very own family recipe. A few days ago, I prepared this at home. Without talking further, let me share my recipe. **What do we need?** 1 kg hog plum Half kg sugar 1/4…
This city is not for us! The feeling is bittersweet here in this city. No matter how much we say optimistic about it, the house reality will slap us hard in our faces at the same time. I'm talking about Dhaka, the place where I've been living for over 15 years now. We who left our home started to search for a living here in this capital city shares kind of mixed feelings about it. But the common ground is, that we never call it home. I sometimes wonder, why so? Why can't we…
Homemade White Bread | Super soft and delicious. 🍞🍞 Homemade Bread is one of my favorite foods of all time. It's easy to prepare and gives a warm home feeling, and it tastes good. I find it quite handy to serve it with soup or in breakfast and mostly with a cup of tea. Even if you never have made dread before you can easily prepare for this, that's how easy this is. Let me share my recipe. **What ingredients did I take?** All-purpose flour Warm water Dry/instant yeast Sugar…
Right where I left my heart! My heart was itching to say goodbye I knew there would be no comeback in probably many years. I said goodbye a thousand times but still, it felt less. Leaving away so much green, the happy faces, the noise, and the crowd-free place made me feel like I was losing something. *I'm talking about my last visit to my aunt's place, the countryside. Living in a city years after years and having the chance to visit such a place felt such a blessing. My…
They said, treat yourself; I said, YES! I was feeling down for a few days. This time I know the reason. lol. It's nothing but boredom or more precisely doing monotonous stuff for too long. Food can be a perfect refreshment, right? I went to a nearby restaurant for some light snacks but end up having a heavy meal. The place is called *Off Beat*. It's a small cafe with a friendly environment and some popular fast food. I really liked the vibe and sitting at a huge table all…
Garden update: Some new addition to my balcony garden with hope! The title would be about 'winter preparation' but I have no guilt approving that I was being lazy taking care of the garden for the last couple of weeks. There were guests in my house, my son was sick, and so on. When I finally got some time to take a look at my balcony garden, it upsets me. *I know I can turn this and plant something new but what is gone will always be remembered.* Moving on... I was hoping to…
If we don't find acceptance in our own Family... Podcasts became so popular, maybe a listener like me is one of the reasons! Jokes apart... I'm talking about podcasts because it seems like a topic to talk about. I was listening to an abuse survivor on a podcast. So while she was saying about how she searched for love, acceptance, and approval here and there, finally found it and she went away with her boyfriend. That's a long story of her life, full of sorrow but now she is…
Wasting time and value of Life: Food for thought. There can be a debate on how we define *wasting time*. Keeping aside our different understanding of this, I believe there's no argument that we can't recycle wasted time. And I guess we all have been there where we feel useless even doing daily things, or sometimes do nothing but waste the time. Feeling guilty about it at the end of the day is also pretty common. I was thinking the other day while taking a look at a friend's…
Marble Cake by a total beginner - A delicious mistake! I'm not good at baking and I don't fancy taking risks on this either. I usually try simplified recipes and it comes out well by far. This time I had some leftover melted chocolate and thought to add it to the tea cake at the very last moment in a hope that it will look like marble cake. Well, it was not perfect, it came out a little dry and the marble was not ideal. But guess what, it was delicious! Let me share what I…
Discovering 'Shy Plant' and more! Mimosa plant or commonly known as a shy plant or 'touch me not' plant; we had so many childhood memories related to it. There used to be huge bushes in our school of shy plants as well as near our household. It was like a game to touch them and see them close, then countdown to see when they get up again. If you are not familiar with this plant, then I believe you already can guess what it is. Yeah, it's like a magic plant that closes down…
A 50 years old Bay laurel/Bay leaf tree! Bay leaf is one of the major ingredients in our cuisine, they are used in a large number of recipes. Back in our childhood, there used to be bay leaf plants in almost every household. Or if they didn't have any, they used to borrow from their neighbors. I never saw people buy it from the market in my childhood. But things are different now. fortunately, it's almost the same in the rural areas in Bangladesh. There we get to see many…
A walk to one of the green parks in Bangladesh. We were planning for a long time to visit *Zinda Park* and finally made it happen. I have heard so many things about this place, it felt like every single one was right. The day tour was so worthy. We were eight of our family members there including my mom and favorite cousins. You can guess how amazing the tour was. Zinda park has nothing much to offer like sports activities or anything we call fun. They don't have any…
The right place to do some trendy outfit shopping. One of my favorite local brands announced a flat 50% sale on their store and I didn't miss that. *Le Reve* is one of the popular fashion brands in Bangladesh. Every year we usually do some shopping there. They do announce a year-end sale or before any festival. We usually buy some outfits for the next festival. I don't know if anyone does the same. But I think, it saves a lot of money because on every occasion the price goes…
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