Another new year...another new wishlist

2010 was a terrific year except a few things that slipped out of hand badly.

Instead of losing, I gained a few, in fact I went over hundred for the first time. I missed Shagor and Shakila getting married (Bappi and I were longing for this for quite a long time, but none of us was there to celebrate). But except those, things went out pretty good. I ended up in a good school, got a job that I always dreamed about. At last, I learned how to cook and the learning curve is really steep. I got myself a new camera and found my mentor for sorod.

Now its 31st December and again its time to make some wishes for the coming year. And this time I want to keep things really simple. Just a few things that I really want to happen.

First of all, lose some kilo. I know I am saying this to me for a couple of years, but this time I am damn serious and want to give this a shot. UC has a great place for working out and they really charge me hundred bucks a quarter whether I use it or not. So, this time I am not letting my money drain in vain.

I want to visit home either in summer or winter break.

May be a coast to coast road-trip or Euro-trip!

It will be really nice if I can line-up a job by fall. I am still skeptical about spending few more years in school but I want to figure this out by middle of this year.

And Project MANG is sill on! Looking forward!

World AIDS Day 2010

My first encounter with the word "AIDS" was pretty long ago. I was then a 8 years old kid probably. I was watching a commercial on TV about AIDS. It was a song sung by a lot of celebrities from all sectors of Bangladesh. The song was really horrifying. The abstract was : If you have AIDS, then you are surely gone. For a kid like me, I didn't understand what AIDS was, but I could imagine what "surely gone" means; and to be honest, that image was for sure scary. But I was such a helpless kid that I could only feel pity for the guy with AIDS, imaging that he had to leave the beautiful world pretty soon.

Now, I am grown-up, but does the situation changed a lot? I am still that much helpless just to feel pity for the AIDS guy, nothing more. We are doing so many things around the world; from cutting edge computers to new series of WMDs, but yet nothing on the list for the AIDS patients. Still for a lot of people, HIV positive means "surely gone".

But I think we have what we need to change the situation. We may not have the treatment of HIV patients, but we have love. Lets give our love to them; stop staring at them with despise and stop saying that its their sins caused their suffering. Lets try to make some space for them in our mundane life or at least make their rest of the days a happy journey.

Let the love rule.