How long is the way towards the end?
by Ahmed Swapan Mahmud
It was a long long-day of sixteen hours with funs and drinks having friends and colleagues together. The whole last night and some parts the day around 13 hours spent on the air flying from Bangkok to Madrid. Such a long flight, one could become too tired to move further.
But the irresistible mindset and the spirit lead us to go far away form the Hotel Los Coronales.
The morning was exuberantly lovely-- fine, sunny and cloudless—one could really enjoy the full extent of the bright sunny and lovely day in Madrid. A clear and vivid blue sky, not much yet affected by climate change that was unlike Asia and some other parts of the world.
How long is the way towards the end? To reach a restaurant being too hungry in Madrid is so difficult? When hunger hits, who does think quite or work except the Poor. The food crisis in Asia and non-Asia countries leaves more people in permanent hunger. But we are to have food soon, and we are to work, we are to think! So, better ending the way, if it is now too short, better it is with and faster to sit on a table with food and drinks.
It took some time, rather a bit more, to be fresh and go out for a Buffet lunch after long drives— up and down from the metro time and again. From the hotel Los Coronales to Barajas to Metro 8 toward Metro 10 and another metro turn with a few minutes walking really make some one tired enough to enjoy food. But it all of loves and joys with colleagues from the Forum, for the common cause we are here and enjoyed the late buffet lunch with much enthusiastic and full of joy.
The prawn fry, pork and beef, grill chicken with various salad full of colours and fruits and more known and unknown items, make the lunch long and heavily enjoyable. It’s always great to eat together, to share and learn, to have wines and funs and dances. We left dancing, it was not appropriate except we were in fromt of the musical bands while Titi’s legs move around unknowingly, but didn’t leave the chance of beers, full of taste with nuts.
On the zero point of the Great city Madrid, the center Sol is fully crowded unlike many places of Europe. The boys and girls, teens and aged, having smiles and joys in the faces running after passing through buildings and palaces, cathedrals and parks, shops and of course people behind.
The musical rhythms in the park make us feeling dances, and Titi was nursing her legs, while Raingsey was too tired who even kept away having drinks. My feet were unfit also to walk more, but Red and Hemantha were full of energy. Gani has the historical bent of mind who was eager to look around to know more about, was willing to visit the Muslim heritage and did with all, Romil and Khai and Ronald whom we lost for some time, were in laughs having good shots with pictures. And all of us passed such a good day with friendly funs and humours.
Time makes differences, differences between day and night, of colours and shadows, of minds and inanimate, thoughts and practices and knowledge.Also places make Time advantageous and make the difference! So, the lands and people in Asia or Africa are not the same, so poor lives in Asia and Africa, and the riches of Europe or America or…really get differences. Who could do much to bring up the North and the South to the same rhetoric and practices? Are the South properly recognized by the North?
Our travel towards the restaurant ended, but still we have to go far to end the poverty. The North also suffers from many undesired odds and evils, and poverty also does exist in Europe, in America, in every parts of the world. And the Madrid also couldn’t free from the existence of the poor, as one can observe passing through the ways in the city that the street artists, mock girls, the mock-gents, street musicians, painters, singers etc, are on the street for money attracting people, and many passers-by extended hands of cents to the street-bounders and of course beggars though you find but not too many. Interestingly, the painters in the streets, the musicians could earn your respect through their eloquent and artistic deliberation, except some mocks and extravagancies.
What a world we look for? It doesn’t always meet up the expectations a world of human vibrant, having justice and equity while democracy would be the source of human rights standard. But reality doesn’t go always towards aspirations, because the powers, authorities, dominance, the arms and wars and invasions and killings and profit over people all around, unfortunate!
The May day gathered people in the city that reminds how people unite and sacrificed for justice, and people around the park, cathedral, streets, fields, the nature, greens, the sculpture and symbols of the buildings, reflections of the historical coexistence of different sects and religion and cultures, and the boys and girls, men and women and all loves not pains come over together to the race to win against unjust and undemocratic giants.
So meeting of ADB-AGM soon to be started from 3rd of May shaping it policies and strategies for the developing countries. But it reminds how it dominates the poor countries imposing conditionalities and interfering the political process even. The growing resistance from the mass around world is increasingly hold a power of building alternatives to make a just and democratic poverty free world while agency like ADB utterly fails to maintain as it says in rhetorically, far away from practicing.
We came to the hotel back, the journey took an end. But still ‘miles to go before I sleep’ and the journey must take an end for a fairer world.Human struggle for existence continues. Better days will surely shine like the cloudless bright blue sky of Madrid and spread around the worlds.
by Ahmed Swapan Mahmud
It was a long long-day of sixteen hours with funs and drinks having friends and colleagues together. The whole last night and some parts the day around 13 hours spent on the air flying from Bangkok to Madrid. Such a long flight, one could become too tired to move further.But the irresistible mindset and the spirit lead us to go far away form the Hotel Los Coronales.
The morning was exuberantly lovely-- fine, sunny and cloudless—one could really enjoy the full extent of the bright sunny and lovely day in Madrid. A clear and vivid blue sky, not much yet affected by climate change that was unlike Asia and some other parts of the world.
How long is the way towards the end? To reach a restaurant being too hungry in Madrid is so difficult? When hunger hits, who does think quite or work except the Poor. The food crisis in Asia and non-Asia countries leaves more people in permanent hunger. But we are to have food soon, and we are to work, we are to think! So, better ending the way, if it is now too short, better it is with and faster to sit on a table with food and drinks.
It took some time, rather a bit more, to be fresh and go out for a Buffet lunch after long drives— up and down from the metro time and again. From the hotel Los Coronales to Barajas to Metro 8 toward Metro 10 and another metro turn with a few minutes walking really make some one tired enough to enjoy food. But it all of loves and joys with colleagues from the Forum, for the common cause we are here and enjoyed the late buffet lunch with much enthusiastic and full of joy.
The prawn fry, pork and beef, grill chicken with various salad full of colours and fruits and more known and unknown items, make the lunch long and heavily enjoyable. It’s always great to eat together, to share and learn, to have wines and funs and dances. We left dancing, it was not appropriate except we were in fromt of the musical bands while Titi’s legs move around unknowingly, but didn’t leave the chance of beers, full of taste with nuts.
On the zero point of the Great city Madrid, the center Sol is fully crowded unlike many places of Europe. The boys and girls, teens and aged, having smiles and joys in the faces running after passing through buildings and palaces, cathedrals and parks, shops and of course people behind.
The musical rhythms in the park make us feeling dances, and Titi was nursing her legs, while Raingsey was too tired who even kept away having drinks. My feet were unfit also to walk more, but Red and Hemantha were full of energy. Gani has the historical bent of mind who was eager to look around to know more about, was willing to visit the Muslim heritage and did with all, Romil and Khai and Ronald whom we lost for some time, were in laughs having good shots with pictures. And all of us passed such a good day with friendly funs and humours.
Time makes differences, differences between day and night, of colours and shadows, of minds and inanimate, thoughts and practices and knowledge.Also places make Time advantageous and make the difference! So, the lands and people in Asia or Africa are not the same, so poor lives in Asia and Africa, and the riches of Europe or America or…really get differences. Who could do much to bring up the North and the South to the same rhetoric and practices? Are the South properly recognized by the North?
Our travel towards the restaurant ended, but still we have to go far to end the poverty. The North also suffers from many undesired odds and evils, and poverty also does exist in Europe, in America, in every parts of the world. And the Madrid also couldn’t free from the existence of the poor, as one can observe passing through the ways in the city that the street artists, mock girls, the mock-gents, street musicians, painters, singers etc, are on the street for money attracting people, and many passers-by extended hands of cents to the street-bounders and of course beggars though you find but not too many. Interestingly, the painters in the streets, the musicians could earn your respect through their eloquent and artistic deliberation, except some mocks and extravagancies.
What a world we look for? It doesn’t always meet up the expectations a world of human vibrant, having justice and equity while democracy would be the source of human rights standard. But reality doesn’t go always towards aspirations, because the powers, authorities, dominance, the arms and wars and invasions and killings and profit over people all around, unfortunate!
The May day gathered people in the city that reminds how people unite and sacrificed for justice, and people around the park, cathedral, streets, fields, the nature, greens, the sculpture and symbols of the buildings, reflections of the historical coexistence of different sects and religion and cultures, and the boys and girls, men and women and all loves not pains come over together to the race to win against unjust and undemocratic giants.
So meeting of ADB-AGM soon to be started from 3rd of May shaping it policies and strategies for the developing countries. But it reminds how it dominates the poor countries imposing conditionalities and interfering the political process even. The growing resistance from the mass around world is increasingly hold a power of building alternatives to make a just and democratic poverty free world while agency like ADB utterly fails to maintain as it says in rhetorically, far away from practicing.
We came to the hotel back, the journey took an end. But still ‘miles to go before I sleep’ and the journey must take an end for a fairer world.Human struggle for existence continues. Better days will surely shine like the cloudless bright blue sky of Madrid and spread around the worlds.
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