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Let’s Find a Heaven in This Hell…

March 2nd, 2009

Yesterday, my mom invited our relatives at our place for dinner…..ok, wait, let me come to this story later!

I have been pretending a lot since this BDR (Bangladesh rifles) mutiny. Stopping myself from updating my status about it or saying something on it on twitter. Keeping myself in silent when all friends are firing about what BDR/Army did, even when my family members are talking at dinner table.

I’m just too much shocked! I have no language to express this feeling. What difference would I make by saying something about it on twitter? Will these kids get back their fathers in their family? Will all these women get back their husbands in their family even if I scream so loud looking at the sky with spreading my hands? -sigh!

Another thing make me a little bit hypocrite talking about this. I will never feel the pain and sorrow that a kid is feeling after losing his/her dad. A women after losing her husband. I will never feel the same until I lose my own brother or sister!

I know I can ask thousands questions about this incident. But to me a question or rule is worthless when someone is already gone. Life is very beautiful, you have taken that life! What else matters to that dead person? But still I have a question! “why this happened?” no, no you didn’t get my question – I’m not asking what actually happened between BDR and Army so that it happened. Look around – almighty is all around right? He knows what you are doing and how you are doing? Almighty knew that it was going to happen right. If he likes to see people in peace then why wouldn’t he stop it? Why did he allow all these army people for misleading BDRs? BDRs are our brothers too, he knew that eh? If he has all powers then why wouldn’t he do such thing so that we people never fight with each other, we never hate each other, we never kill each other! – ok, I know im talking rubbish!

This is a hell, this is not the world I imagine. So, john lennon’s “Imagine” doesn’t give any peace in my mind. I’m just tired of all these things!

Ok enough, let’s come to the story I started at the beginning. So, we had lots of guests here at my sylhet house. Among them there, were around 8-10 kids! As usual, when I see kids I take them to my room or a place where I can play with them. And for some reasons kids easily adapt with me…

anyways, they were playing on my bed and I was taking some pictures of them while there were playing. They would fight and then forget, cry and then hug the kid who slapped! Things were going on for around an hour. Most amazing thing happened when a kid went to wash room leaving her chocolate on the bed. Next one came and took it, she asked the other one like “whos chocolate is this?” “it’s not yours” other kid replied. She left the chocolate exactly where it was! I was staring at her! Wow, i’m in heaven in this hell! Look at these kids who don’t understand what is called BDR and what is called Army! They are not bothered. But, they know PEACE.

One of the kids

I have found heaven in children! Now, I will go back to my music list to include John lennon’s “Imagine” again ……….

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Posted in Bangladesh, For me, Humanity, Kids

ফেসবুকে বাংলা স্ট্যাটাস অ্যাপলিকেশান

February 21st, 2009

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ফেসবুকে স্ট্যাটাস এ.পি.আই রিলিজ হবার পর মাথায় এই অ্যাপলিকেশানের আইডিয়াটা আসল। আপনি একি যায়গা থেকে ফোনরটিকেলি বাংলা লিখতে ও ফেসবুকে স্ট্যাটাস আপডেট করতে পারবেন. ইচ্চে ছিল একুশে ‘র আগে রিলিজ দিব। যাইহোক, গতকাল অ্যাপলিকেশানটা রিলিজ দিয়ে দিলাম।

বাংলা স্ট্যাটাস অ্যাপলিকেশান

আপনি এই লিংকটি থেকে এপলিকেশনটা এড করে নিতে পারেন. বরাবরের মত আমার বন্ধু জুয়েল আমার সথে কাজ করেছে এই অ্যাপলিকেশনে। যাইহোক, আমরা আপনার মতামত জানতে চাই। এই লিংক এ ক্লিক করে আপনার মতামত জানালে খুশি হব। ধন্যবাদ।

অ্যাপলিকেশান লিংক : http://apps.facebook.com/banglastatustest/

মতামত : http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=51860929865

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Posted in Bangla, Bangladesh, Facebook

Nuruzzaman’s Smile!

February 1st, 2009

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Nuruzzaman was cook for our house. We 5 friends and him were at that time, and well he left us 2 years ago for a personal reason. I’m coming to his leaving reason, but before that I would like to go back at his history with us.

I figured out, he was totally a different guy. Different in a scenes that, he was around 15/16 years old with no academic education, but he was even smarter than some educated people. I liked the way he was spending his life. He used to smile all the time, doesn’t matter how hard we were at him, his smile was all that used to keep us calm at the end. He had no fear because he was honest. His spear time was all about chilling. He made some friends here in local resistance and most of them were his seniors.

He always used to sit besides of me while I’m working on computer. Somehow I liked it, I used to talk to him about his local life and how they have child marriage in his area (Noakhali).

Maybe, after 6-8 months we noticed that he found a girl who was also a cook of the next door. We didn’t care, indeed we pretended that we were not seeing anything. By the way, did I tell you he was really brave? Well, he was really brave (in a good way). He used to pretend that there wasn’t any girl who was talking to him through the windows! At a time, it turned into a serious relationship. But still we didn’t think it would go that further. One day, he came to us to say sorry that he was leaving. Though he gave us his replacement – Reason? That was his personal, and later we knew that he ran away with that girl and got married!

Anyways, so he got married at 18! and I guess she was 16. He had to go through a lot of troubles after his marriage. Managing his family and the girl’s family. He came back to Dhaka and in last 2 years he worked in cinema hall, groceries store, laundry store, office and finally in a garments.

Today, Nuruzzaman is here with me! He has come here to stay the night and next morning he’s going to join a prayers (estema) here in Tongi. I had this long conversation with him, how he spent his last 2 years. Oh by the way, he has a daughter now!

Nuruzzaman was telling me about his trouble life one by one and how he faced it! I was gazing at him just to see his upset face as he was telling me about his struggle life. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any regret or emotions on his face. He kept smiling and smiling. Seems like that’s life why should I complain?

Certainly, Nuruzzaman faced more reality than me in last 2 years! And after all these he has this amazing smile alive, he has no complain about this world, he’s happy person, and he has a plan for his daughter. Hes saving money just for his wife and daughter’s future.

Nuruzzaman's Amazing Smile

…. I have learned something from Nuruzzaman. Thank you Nuruzzaman!

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Posted in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Village, For me, Friends

Trip to Rangamati

January 27th, 2009

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A trip supposed to be fun when you are with some fun loving guys, and it adds extra joy when you are in such a place which is surrounded by 100% nature. Yesterday, I arrived in Dhaka after 3 days trip at Rangamati. We, a group of trippertians went to have some fresh air after releasing a big facebook application called “Godfather Crime Rings”.

Journey started with an adventure. I never saw that much fog in my life. Our bus started at 10:30pm and even, 2ft away things weren’t visible for heavy fog! Spent a sleepless night on the way as each moment was exciting and scary at the same time. We saw a car got twisted in front of our eyes! But thank God we arrived at the destination safely. That was my first visit at Rangamati. I heard a lot about rangamati before. When we arrived, it was around 7am in the morning, we didnt take any rest, neither we had the hotel room fixed! So we started roaming, and transportation was boat of course. First we went to the beautiful island “Peda Ting Ting” – means, eat a lot that was nice and beautiful island. Silence of the island attracted me.

Beautiful Rangamati

Anyway, we visited lots of places by 3 days journey. And i enjoyed every moment of it except sleepless time. And here are some comments that I would like to make about rangamati.

Rangamati’s people are cool minded, they are honest with their work.
People of rangamati respect visitors.
100% natural and secured, but if you are from out of Bangladesh, you have to let the local police know that you are visiting there, you have to take their permission.
Most of the houses are made by bamboos.
“Sofia” is knows as best hotel in Rangamati, but if you can manage the district council rest house then thats the best place for anyone – more importantly, its way cheaper than others.
If you are planning to spend the night in any Island, please book your cottage from Dhaka. There are only 3 cottages in Peda Ting Ting. “Tuk Tuk” is another small Island in Rangamati where you can spend your night as well.
Don’t forget to visit “Chang Pang” (if you want, you will get it) restaurant to eat all traditional foods. I can tell you, foods are really tasty.
You can visit “shuvolong” on the way to Chang Pang, Shuvolong got stone hills that will take your eyes away!
And afterall, you will always love the boat journey and the nature around the river.

Well, thats all for now. If you need any more guide or any kind of help that you think I can, please email me. I will try my best….

and well, we took thousands of pictures from the trip…not all of them are uploaded. You can have a look at some of them on my flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/junal/3230542961/

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Posted in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Village, Facebook, Friends, Trip

Tags: Trip

I’m Your Senior, Mind It!

January 3rd, 2009

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I was in grade 8 when I had this conversation with one of my uncles about political situation in Bangladesh. I asked him why all these people couldn’t just live peacefully, and he would be like “Junal, naturally, we people fight for power, we don’t want to follow anyone, instead we want to have a lots of followers!”. And then I went to high school/college and met some students who were senior than me,for that they didn’t allow me to smoke in front of them. Because, you got to respect seniors, but in my head I would be like why I cannot do such thing that you can do in front of me? So, I always had this idea that one day, I would be “senior” like them when I will ask my juniors not to smoke in front of me!

This situation had improved when I went to university, seniors didn’t mind for smoking with me, but the attitude of seniority was there. Seniors wouldn’t allow juniors to say anything, their decision was the final decision in every case.

And finally, after graduation I started my career as a PHP developer in a local software firm. And yes, situation was unchanged! Seniors like to order “learn this, learn that…i want you to finish this by next day!” blah blah …. but there is a difference between “request” and “advice” and these two words can make a huge difference.

I wrote another blog about senior developers on my old blog and yesterday, after reading this blog I felt like writing next one on similar topic. Does it mean I’m really frustrated about this barrier ? Answer is “NO”, not really, personally, I consider myself very lucky to to work with some nice guys. Specially, after joining at Tripperlabs. But I have this sympathy for junior developers from around the world . I know situation is not same everywhere. I want this to be changed. I hope a “Senior act” will remain there but it will not be transparent.

I really like this blog that I read yesterday, let me get some part of it here so that it makes clear how seniors/juniors should be everywhere!

With a senior developer, you have to be lucky that he’s learned from his previous mistakes (and every developer makes mistakes, no matter how good he is or how much experience he has), that he hasn’t picked up too many bad habits and that he is open minded. If you can get a senior developer like that, consider yourself very, very lucky because there really aren’t that many of them.

With a junior developer, you can easily mold them into the kind of developer you want them to be. They haven’t really had a lot of time to pick up bad habits, and they are eager to prove that they belong at your company so they will be very eager to learn and improve. All you need is a couple of people who are willing and capable of teaching these young developers.

Ok, I hope I will not write anymore blog on senior/junior stuff. Hope it gets better in upcoming days and hope juniors feel lucky to have RIGHT senior developer with them.