Jul 30, 2005

Friday, the only day off. And my sleep broke off at 9:30 am. Welll, isn't that just ironic, since i had to work so hard to get up at times like that even on workdays! Maybe its my recent attempt at disciplining myself that is responsible for this. I made me some cereal, and feeling tired still tried to go back to sleep.The rest of the day was just...

Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005

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Jul 28, 2005

Tho i kindly refused amit's offer to join him for lunch at this new place 'time-out' (or old place.. its new to me), i ended up going there for dinner. and what a bunch we were! ol people from my old university (MMU Melaka), and also tanim and rubaiyath (non MMU people). Time Out seems like a nice place... jus when i was thinking there are so few places where you can sit outside walls and eat and enjoy a chat... a few places pop up... like Time Out. Tho we couldn't sit outside.. coz tanim was feeling hot! we had beef chap (our deshi version of...

Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005

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in between bonani and mohakhali shorok is a tnt colony which is beside a bosti. there is a road through that bosti which can be used to go to mohakhali and thus gulshan 1 by rickshaw. during then you can see the garbage dumped by the waters, the small huts, you can get the stench of rot. across the water you can see the buildings on the other side,...

Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005

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Jul 26, 2005

Obtained through word of mouth:"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gate...

Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005

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Professions that are respectable in the eyes of middle-class and upper-class bangladesh Bangladesh:DoctorEngineerBankerBusinessHigh ranks in the militaryExecutive in a multinational(Did i miss any?)Those that are not:PoliceFiremanChauffeurNurseFactory WorkerHouse HelpTeacher (debatable in personal opinion.. but this is not about personal opinion. And probably will be excused if you are a woman)...All other professions.Would i be wrong to say this? If i am wrong, then through my own weird twisted logic i will be very pleased. If NOT, is this right...

Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005

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Jul 25, 2005

Also...Far And Away. This movie was first suggested to me by harry (harun). The passion with which he suggests a movie is what amazes me... "Maan its soooo goooood" is what he'll say with all his heart, eyes all shiny. Tho his influence on getting me to buy "Hum Tum" was not really appreciated, this one made up for it. Far and away is a tale of two people from two ends of their lives in Ireland countryside (one a farmer, the other a daughter of a rich landlord) leave their shores for the shores of America, the new land. Its based on those times...

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005

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On the way to work.. i stopped and took some photos. The stop was inevitable since my baby had a flat tire... sorry, i still have the old habbit... i meant my 'cng'. So while the spare was being fixed on, i took two pictures... it is a beautiful morni...

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005

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Jul 24, 2005

While i was priding on myself on not taking the cable again... refraining from watching tv like a 'zombie'.. flat mate duely pointed out that I was in fact zombying out... but just in front of my laptop by watching movies, or music performances!!! he's right... flat mate c'mon join the fun!!Well, lets see, in movies the past week there was:Fiddler on the roof: A Musical. The backdrop was a small russian jewish village which works like a clock with all playing their parts and in peace and harmony. The focus was on the family of a farmer with 5 (or...

Posted on Sunday, July 24, 2005

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- different people have different ideas of what they want from life.- one finds hard to trust or understand the other's life-ambitions (assuming they are different, like on a different polarity).- the grass is greener on the other side. But when faced with an oppurtunity to cross the fence, i start questioning whether it really is!- If i say X doesn't have his head screwed on right... and X says the same about me, who is rig...

Posted on Sunday, July 24, 2005

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Jul 21, 2005

The Stockholm Challenge Award 2006is open for entriesThe Stockholm Challenge now welcomes ICT based projects from all over the world to enter the award and compete for the Challenge trophies. The Prize giving ceremony will take place in the Stockholm City Hall in May 2006 and all finalists will be invited to participate in the event.The Stockholm Challenge is a very successful international networking program for ICT entrepreneurs since almost ten years. It continues to be a leader in demonstrating how information technology can improve living...

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005

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Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005

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Wow, looks like things are going upscale back in MMU!!!I remember our battling days.. when we won third place playing Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode! That was a talent competition tho... MAchaa Hafiz... apa hal!!??? And the winner is ... 11th Hour (Tho i wanted to call our band 'one night stand') l...

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005

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An appeal for fund for the treatment of popular actor, director, playwright, organizer, cultural activist & valliant freedom fighterMojibur Rahman Dilu.Webs...

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005

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Jul 20, 2005

...that i am a natural with chopsticks. I always imagined i'd fumble with them sticks... but no.. i mastered the art just be reading the instructions on the back of the pack holding them sticks. I didn't have the stab the food with them sticks like i thot i'd have to!!! haiiyyyyyeeeeeea! take that...

Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005

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Jul 18, 2005

I have been sick and away from a lot of things for a while. work and the internet mostly. after recovering i found that i was just listening to the heavy and hard music from my collection (from AC/DC to Symphony X and Nightwish). But since y'day i am on the easy listening side. listening to 'Riders on the Storm', Ntin Sawhney, Marty Friedman's slow colossal jap sounding pieces, and so on. Today was the same too, u2, van morrison and neil young for the larger part of the morning.also found this interesting website: SongFacts.com. People come here...

Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005

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when i have too much of a (cough) good thing, it loses its touch. then i take a break, and come back to it later. it is a good thing again!i read the newspaper today after a long long time. and it was pretty interesting that i actually READ some of it!Prof. Yunus of micro-credit fame is nominated for nobel prize. The law for the 'contempt of court' is finally being revised. my emphasis on 'finally' in writing will not be clear to anyone, so let me give you the figures. The original law was written in 1926. India and Pakistan revised theirs before...

Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005

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Jul 17, 2005

i am pretty sure there is an ant hill inside my laptop! ants have been coming out of it all day lo...

Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2005

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Jul 16, 2005

I recently heard a story. It was apparently in the news, so maybe people out there will correct me on my incorrect reprodction of it.A family of one mother and two of her daughters apparently suffered from schizophrenia (help: Spelling?) after the man of the house died. The mother became paranoid that the world outside is cruel and harsh, and will come soon to take away from them all that is theirs. She convinced her two daughters who used to live with her about the same. There was another sister but she was living with her husband somewhere else....

Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2005

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Jul 13, 2005

IT was a hot cake once. Everyone thought it was hot cake. The world was talking about it, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world. Programmers were thought to be vewwwy vewwwy well paid. All interviews on tv of brilliant deshi students who aced their board/naitonal exams wanted to be computer engineers or computer science fellows. I was one caught in the whirlwind.With the options before me at the time, I chose the Faculty of Creative Multimedia as my destination. But abba, amma and none in my extended family would support me in such a decision...

Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005

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Jul 12, 2005

there was a story recently of a ex-pat returning to do good. this is definitely not a first time. I have repeatedly seen my uncle come with bulbs over his head and return with a frown on his face. But this dude was different. there was an interesting story to how he went abroad in the first place! And for that, he was receiving a lot of media attention - was or is going to be featured in Ittadi; and is going to be the main feature of a documentary (in the making) titled 'Bridging Two Worlds' (co-produced and co-directed by Hanif Shongket). Anyway,...

Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2005

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Jul 11, 2005

I was happy with the way things went on inside the Sweden embassy. The woman who took my papers seemed easily irritable but I think I managed to stay calm. The mic hanging from a high position on the wall (or was it the ceiling?) did make me nervous though. All in all, things went well, and she promised to allow me to drop the photographs (that I had forgotten) in the day after with the guard at the gate. On the way out, I tried explaining to the guard how and why I will be showing up at 'his' gate tomorrow, and the assistance that I will be...

Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005

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- Even though I studied all my life in English-schools, the one year I spent in a Bangla-medium school for Class 1 had quite an impact on me (School name: Hatey Khori, Unofficial Slogan: Hatey Khori - Golay Dori, Location: Agrabad R/A, Chittagong). Thats because that was the year I learnt my times tables. I am more accustomed to 'dui duguna chaar' than 'two times two is four'. Even though I cracked numbers in English all through since class 2... i always did the maths in my head in Bangla! - I am more accustomed to the 24-Hour clock! I always respond...

Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005

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Jul 9, 2005

wow... tomoorrow ..i shall be going back to work after a weeeek! sNow the week past has been one of moving to a new house, recovering from an eye infection, of pool and movies and spending more time with friends...also admiring the large room that i have moved into. i M still planning what to do with the space! I have plans to reserve one side as a jamming place, with the guitar and amps always hooked on. That way i'll hopefully get more practice in. hmmmm. yea.. also cant wait to go back to work!...

Posted on Saturday, July 09, 2005

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