Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A WONDERFUL MEETING PLACE, TORONTO

This is where three Loreto Shillong friends met. Naila Kabeer, Zarina (Dupley, year of 1959) and Audrey (David year of 1959)

This year Naila was giving a lecture at the University of York, Toronto. Zarina was there and was rightly impressed with Naila's style of delivering and humour. Here they are in front of the poster of the lecture.
 A lunch followed at Zarina's home where they were joined by Audrey.

                                              Here they are about to enjoy sweet papaya

"Beauty comes from the expression and character in your face and not just it's symmetry"
                                                 Robert Jones


Zarina and Audrey are "burries" and love to bake together.

What will they choose this time?...................
                                                                                           



Looks like they agreed on something!

A BEAUTIFUL POEM BY ZARINA TO CELEBRATE THEIR RENEWED FRIENDSHIP

The Baking Burries

Two young girls beknown to each other
Wound up together with other girls
To live, eat, breath and play
For many a month and close to a year
To share their lives from nine to sixteen
Tennis and tenniquoite was their speed
Together they competed to quell another
Together they competed, pitched one against the other
Winning or losing
Laughing or crying, still friends
But studying was a chore and
Playing around was never a bore!
Life then took its natural turn
Where the two young girls
One with straight hair
And the other with curls
Went their separate ways
To find their path, to grow and learn
To love and cherish
One to travel and one to stay back.
Each developing their own destiny
One foot in front of the other
Creating their own footprints,their own track
Which took them across the pond
And back
Where
Alas and unbeknown to either
A mutual friend from the past
Brought the two young girls
Now women
To share their lives
Again
To share and rekindle
Admire and trust
The one with the straight hair
And the other with curls
Now their speed
Their children
Devoted and unflinching
In their love beyond and above
The one grey and two weeks younger
The other still slender and two weeks older!
Bonded together by history and a sign
With love and acceptance, no matter what!
The two young girls continue their path
Their quest to understand the meaning of life
Why strife?
The one with straight hair
And the other with curls
                                          
                                                 **************************

On a beautiful Spring Day in May 2012 Zarina and her son Khaled enjoy a joke on his wedding day.












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Friday, September 21, 2012

KRISHNA BARUA'S LONDON VISIT.LUNCH AT SOFRA RESTAURANT ON 8TH SEPTEMBER 2012

A wonderful time was had by all at Sofra restaurant, Covent Gardens.
The exquisite setting in the roof garden and the delicious food could only be outdone by the company of old and new friends.
Here we have Glenda and her daughter next to Qamar, Krishna in red, Marjorie, our oldest "family" member and Joya at the back with Valerie and Sohaila.
 
Here you will find Shannon carrying Lorna's baby Eamonn and Lorna herself in pink.
 
Qamar and Marjorie getting to know each other with her husband Bill..... allowing us to get on with it!
 
Shannon and Eva
with Eva's husband Christopher and Joseph
 
Also attending were,Glenda, Krishna's husband Bhashkar,and Valerie's husband John.
 
Look at the happy family..Lorna, husband Paud and baby Eamonn




 
Lots more pictures for all to enjoy.
We thank Krishna for visiting us and giving us the opportunity of meeting up with old friends and making new ones. Our little London Loreto family is growing and we are always looking forward to our friends from all over the world coming over and giving us yet another excuse to enjoy good food and excellent company....... do we need an excuse?
 
 
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Friday, June 8, 2012

QAMAR'S VISIT TO EMMANUEL COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, UK ON 15TH MAY 2012



Being welcomed by Lady Wilson, the Master's wife.


An event not to be forgotten. This visit to Emmanuel College, Cambridge was an enlightening one. Many famous people have been students of this college.

The name of John Harvard is more widely known than that of almost any other Emmanuel graduate; yet of the man himself we know little. Neither is there any contemporary portrait of him. The stained glass window put up in the Chapel in 1884 is but an 'ikon', for which the artist was instructed to follow the portrait of John Milton and make the hair a little longer. His father, Robert, was a butcher in Southwark; his mother Katharine Rogers came from Stratford-on-Avon, where her parents' house is now a Harvard memorial. John lost his father and four brothers and sisters by the plague, in 1625, and it was only at the comparatively late age of twenty that he was admitted to Emmanuel, on 19 December 1627. He took his B.A. and M.A. in 1632 and 1635, married in 1636, and in June or July 1637 emigrated to New England, where he ministered in the church at Charlestown, though it is not known whether he was ever episcopally ordained.
Harvard was only one of a number of Cambridge graduates (well over a third of them were from Emmanuel) who sailed to the new colony on Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s, seeking there a new society and a freer climate for their Puritan views. With the advancement of the high church William Laud to the bishopric of London in 1628, and still more after he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633, Puritan clergy had found themselves more and more hampered and persecuted. The colony itself dated only from 1630; but from the first it was organised by dedicated men, with an eye to the future in this world as well as the next. The two aims coincided in the decision, as early as 1636, to found a college there. In the following year the site was fixed at Newtown, where an Emmanuel graduate, Thomas Shepard, was the first minister of the church. He became an overseer of the college until his death in 1649, and it was in deference to him that Newtown was renamed Cambridge.
Harvard was not, then, the founder of the college, as he is called on the memorial statue there. But on his early death in 1638 he bequeathed to it his library of some four hundred volumes, and half of his estate, which was valued in gross at about £1700. It sounds little against modern values, but it set the infant college on its feet, and the grateful community decreed that it should forever bear his name. Thomas Shepard summed up what it matters to know of him: 'The man was a Scholler in his life and enlarged toward the country and the good of it in life and death.'




Another famous student was:



Chaudhary Rahmat Ali
The man who conceived the idea of Pakistan

The beautiful gardens are a home to a very famous tree.


A Remarkable Tree.
The Oriental Plane in the Fellows' Garden is a wonderful tree.
It is fascinating to look at in every season. In winter we can see through the vast canopy that spreads over twenty metres in each direction from the main trunk. In summer you feel like you are inside a huge 'living' room as you walk beneath the leafy branches.
Not a single branch grows in a straight line. Instead they turn in every direction, sometimes back on themselves, creating a complex pattern that makes it almost impossible for the eye to trace a branch from one end to the other.
Where the branches touch one another, they fuse together and grow around each other forming a permanent bond. And the branches that reach low enough to touch the ground take root, and then start growing upwards again.
This tree was brought over from Turkey many many years ago as a small plant!!

Other beautiful scenes of the college.




The seal of the Master of Emmanuel College.
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A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM AMEENAH AHMED (HAQ) DHAKA, BANGLADESH.

 Girls I have to share this with you. I cannot contain it any longer.

Little Ameerah Haq (1956-62) the youngest of the Haq sisters has been posted to NY UN office as Under-Secratary-General in the Department of Field Support Operations. This was announced on April 20th and she will start work from 11th June Inshallah.

She has been UN under Secretary General in East Timor for last two years. After holding their elections she was looking forward to her retirement in December and enjoy life in another way. But Ban-Ki_Moon had other plans and she has been roped in for this new posting.

She arrived home (Dhaka) from East Timor on 27th Night. But it was all in the front page of papers, and TV news in different channels and also went as scrolls.She being absent from the scene we siblings and her nephews enjoyed receiving a lot of Congratulatory telephone Calls. Well when she arrived we did have a noisy tea party with people in the helm of affairs in Bangladesh.

Well I hope you will all share this joy with us and with people who knew her in school. Pray for her good health and long life. Her son Sheehan is working in
Boston and her Daughter Nadina is back to school in Duke to get her MBA.

We remember the sweet Irish Nuns and teachers of Loreto and founder Sister Mary and Therasa-Ball. May God Bless the souls of those who have left the planet and may God give good health to those who are still here. We are eve grateful to them for their contribution to our growth.

Love, Peace and joy,

Ameenah (Haq) Ahmed (proud elder sister)


Ameerah sitting in the middle with her proud sisters on either side and her extended family around her.
CONGRATULATIONS AMEERAH.



A SECOND MESSAGE FROM AMEENAH.

If any of you come accross Newsweek May 14th, 2012 The article " A tea grows in Bangladesh" by Alice Feiring refers to our family tea garden started by my husband and now my sons are looking after. You are most welcome to visit us.

The first organic tea garden pioneered by the family----my brother-in-law and his sons ( my nephews!)
Taheerah
Image removed by sender.
Teatulia
Source: thedailybeast.com
How organic tea transformed a Bangladesh community.
pubhouse@bol-online.com sent this.




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A LUNCH AT BUNDUNKHAN, EAST LONDON. 13TH MAY 2012

It had been a good eight months since we last met.
The venue was great and so was the company. Afterall even though we are usually a small group, we do have a lot of fun.


Here are from left to right, Rita Payne, Glenda Wagner, Qamar Nizam, Naila Kabeer, Pritha Ray, and Valerie Ingram.
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SATURDAY LUNCH ON 3RD SEPTEMBER 2011

An enjoyable lunch at BEHISHTE BAREEN on Edgeware Road.


 Valerie and Glenda
 Ritu and Rita
 Glenda and Joya
We were only six, but look at the food, the sharing and the keeping in touch along with keeping up to date that went on that afternoon. Over all it was great and we missed those of you who couldn't come.
Those who did come were Joya Das, Glenda Wagner, Ritu Kataky, Valerie Ingram(Corbett), Rita Payne and Qamar Nizam(Shabbir)
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