It was Radia's birthday on 27th March. You know well we do not celebrate birthdays but my family is different. My fupu announced a week in advance that she was going to come with a cake and she came the night before at 11.30 to decorate my small house with balloons and ribbons. My neighbour too wanted to come as they take Radia to school everyday and I bring their son back with Radia. So, there was no other way but to arrange for some food. I cooked morog polao, achar gosht, khashir kolija, kofta korma, ilish and begun bhaji, chhuri shutki and shadabhat for dinner and two types of pakora and chicken fry for nasta, of course with some help from Mr. Hafiz. My fupu made shemai for dessert and she had to cut the cake too as we do not cut cakes! You must be wondering why I cooked so many dishes. It is not because I am an expert but so that there would be enough to serve in case some of the dishes turned out to be inedible. Surprisingly, Alhamdulillah, all but the shutki turned out very well! I cannot imagine how I cooked all that and vacuumed the whole house and rearranged all the furniture and redecorated all the rooms all in one day! The whole of the next day I was dozing like a sick chicken, what we call a 'jhimainna kura' in Chittagonian! Amma would never believe I could do all that and my family would certainly think my husband did all of it! I can hardly believe it myself. I guess, I will make a good housewife after all!
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