Shahosh
Shahosh
Hamaguri rapto korechi
dNarateo shikhe jabo kodin pore
hoito ba dauroteo chaibo !
aNkabNaka rastata hatat jeno soja mone hoi
duar prante eshe thomke dariyechilam bahujug
kora narar adhikar niye proshno jegechilo
ke-jane kon shahoshe aaj hank dei gola khule
Pechone fire takai, oi metho rastata baro mayabi mone hoi !
~ Biswarup.
English Language
So I was reading the fedsoup community forums and came across this hilarious comment about the English language. Not claiming any credits for this – just copy pasted to share with like-minded folks out there .. Read and enjoy !!
You think English is easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce ..
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
8 ) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’ ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is ‘UP.’
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost
1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP…
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so…….. it is time to shut UP!
Oh . .. . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
Soja Noi !!
Stuck !!
Chora lekha soja noi
khubi TOUGH JOB
PRACTICE ta korte hobe
chere-chure shab
Peek a Boo !!
itna likha aur kaha hain?
bolbe shabai heshe
chando jodi milte na chai
jayega kobi feNshe
Dadu-bhai guru bote
likhecho kato-shato
Ekhon I THINK, samoy maton
shikhe nilei hoto
Parowa nahin, likhe jabo
hazaro hok PROB
theke thekei shikhte hobe
chora lekhar JOB
Thinking
Biswarup ~
Sapnomoy
Sapnomoy
HatiBhai
sei-je shada Hatibhai
korte geche chan
lej dhore tar tene dio
debe cho-cha RUN
ashbe hati ettu pore
projapoti-tao ashbe ure
khelte jabe samne-dure
edhar odhar ghure ture
Bang-Babaji
fokla heshe bang-babaji
korbe takhan gan
sa-re-ga-ma-pa
sa-ni-dha-pa-ma-ga
tali diye bolte hobei
bah babaji khasha
na jodi ta bolo tobe
gayak moshai gosha
Projapoti
khele dhule TIRED hoye
ghare fire eshe
chattikhani pete diye
ghumao tumi sheshe
sapno-deshe hatibhai
abar fire ashe
katto khela, anondo
shabbai shudhu hashe.
Biswarup ~
Micks Pancake House – Virginia beach
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I love Virginia beach. I have probably been there for 5 times and I cannot get enough of it. The small beach town, with the mighty Atlantic ocean as a backdrop is just awesome !
And I love VA beach more because of Mick’s Pancake house 
The first time Futchu and me camped in the beach was with Greg, Tom and Simon. For breakfast we went to this place and it was love at first sight. Great food all freshly cooked and very very homely. Couple of years later Futchu and me camped here again and we ventured out to find Mick’s pancake house again. Futchu in her usual confident tone told me to drive down the bay loop and VOILA there was the small shack.
Here are a few pictures from our earlier collection. Dont miss the genuine I-am-very-happy-to-be-here smile on our faces.
Cheers !!
Bis.
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Chitrangada ~ Tagore’s Dance Drama
Last year we performed Chitrangada during Rabindra Jayanti in Maryland. Both Debarati and me participated in dance and vocal respectively. Click on the picture to view the complete video.
Chitrangada Dance Drama