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It’s Time To Go Mobile

July 19th, 2010
It’s been 3 weeks since i arrived here in Canada and this is the first blog from Canada. So “Hi” from Canada!

And what have i been up to?

I started working again from home for my Company in America after 2 week vacation and i gotta tell you that, that 2 weeks were most relaxing weeks in my life. I really enjoyed the break with my wife and visited lots of cool places here in Canada.

Anyway, workaholic days started here again. Hope to get regular on social networks and blogging. Sorry, i’m not being regular on blogging. It’s because i was really busy with work and personal life for last couple of months. But now i have got at such position where i can start a regular life on things i love the most. So you can expect me to see here and on social networks more than before hopefully.

I have got some cool stuff *finally* to play with. So what are they?

  • A MacBook Pro
  • An Andoid Mobile (HTC Legend)
  • An iPod touch
  • and a Blackberry (for my wife)

An android phone to use for myself. But hey, i don’t want to miss what apple got in their app store. Why some geeks go crazy over Apple. Well yea, i’m also an Apple fan but i love Open Source and i believe in Google more than Apple. But when Scoble dude go crazy and funny with Apple and Android then you must have both device to check what’s going on actually and find your actual interest in them. At the same time i don’t want to miss why most north Americans use Blackberry. So i got my wife a blackberry :)

Now what? My maximum spare time are going behind these toys. And you will see more reflects here on my twitter profile as im updating my thoughts more on twitter than any other places.

oh well, what’s the next thing i want to play with? That must be an iPhone 4! Will be writing about it once i get a chance to play with.

Stay tune, as im getting more mobile now. you can expect me to write my next blog from my mobile :)

Relax?

April 24th, 2010

Like other university students, I used to get 15-20 days break between semesters. Then what would I do? I used to go to my hometown Sylhet to spend some relax time with my family and school friends. But this relax plan never lasted more than 5 days. I always came back to Dhaka city just after couple days. [please don't think I like Dhaka city]. It was someone inside who always pushed myself to have a room, it was guilty inside for wasting 5 days in Sylhet. I always had plan in my mind to do something in spare time and this is what I always wanted to do in the break/spare time. I’m not sure how much I was able to work on my plan at that time but I know they never went to a drain…

I got into job before I finished my university life. It’s been 3+ years I have been professionally involved with official work but truly never had any relax in my life so far. Longest break I had in last 7+ years were 3 weeks during my wedding…but that was the most hectic time in my life. It doesn’t mean that I didn’t get time all the time to relax. It means that I never wanted to relax. Weird but true that I feel like it but whenever I try to relax someone inside becomes angry! I give up, I come in front of computer, I sit and start doing what I love to do….It must be work, it must be twittering, facebooking, friendfeeding, chatting with friends, replying emails etc…

So my very last try was quiting my most favorite job. You know what I mean? Yes, I quit trippertlabs on 15th April, 2010. And the reasons were mainly to relax before I leave Bangladesh for Canada. I might have 2 months in Bangladesh and I always wanted to spend sometimes with my family and fiends in Sylhet, but result? I got involved with freelancing jobs which are even more hectic and busier than any other time before. Loving this new change so far…lets see how far it takes me. I will do it as long as I enjoy. But I really don’t want to miss my wonderful trippertians and I will keep in touch with them while im in Dhaka, and well I will write full blog on this great memory later….

So let’s come back to relax? Where is it actually?

No, I don’t have any regret to follow my heart. This is something I truly feel inside that “run”. Because I have promises to keep and I have miles to go before I sleep….

A *Failed* Journey Without Mobile And Money

January 30th, 2010

As I planned to spend 7 days without mobile and money, literally failed to maintain it. I was truly determined and well I still think it’s very much possible. Something went wrong and emergencies come first right. So I gave up…coming to how I gave up but let me tell you how I started. As I said in my previous blog that I would write down everyday how I spent the day eh…following was my first day and I couldn’t manage time to write on 2nd day and well failed on 3rd day…

Jan 26 01:13 AM : Today was my first day of “without mobile and money” life. I walked to my office and came back home same way. Had a feelings that I could do it everyday without taking any rickshaw and walking in the morning was nice but again after getting home I realized my laptop had much weight that I didn’t notice before. That’s it, I didn’t face any problem on first day…

That was my first day writing. On second day I started feeling pressure for cellphone. I was receiving emails from my friend, ex-colleagues to open the cell or why my cell was off. I kept replaying that im always online so please email me for any kind of need. Some of them came online and talked to me…so it worked somehow…

BUT, main problem occurred on 3rd day evening when I received an email from my younger brother like “grandmother is in comma, they have been calling you….” I wasn’t prepared for that at all. My mobile was locked at home and I didn’t even have any body’s number memorized. Most stupid thing happened when I asked my wife Tamanna (online) for my mom’s number so that at least I could call. I know im a moron…i can’t even memorize my mom’s number!

So ran to my home here in Uttara and turned ON my cell and talked to my mom first to know about the situation. Plan was to leave dhaka right away for Sunamganj if she was still in comma. Then I talked to my cousins and them in my dada bari to know everything in details. Thank god she was better than the night before….

And, when I turned ON my cell I found lots of miss called alerts and few of them were called more than 15 times. I realized how people suffered for this and how that was important as they had to call more than 15 times! Whoa…realized that im more dependent on cell phone than money…i didn’t have any problem for that at all. I loved walking to office and hopefully from now on I will walk to my office everyday.

But one thing I asked myself, how urban people lived away from their families when there weren’t any cellphones, laptop, email etc and their grandmother was in comma?

Hmm…we must be thankful to these electronics devices, certainly it’s making our life easier (and complex too).

Anyways, am I gonna try to experiment it again? Yes i’m! I cannot fail and I know its very much possible. By the way, I have also noticed how my friends think I can’t live without INTERNET! So that will be my second challenge for sure….

Thank you!

Is It Possible To Spend 7 Days Without Money And Mobile?

January 23rd, 2010

I can remember I did similar thing in 3rd year of my university. Kept myself in my house for 10 days without going out. It was possible because that time I had semester break and instead of going to my hometown Sylhet I stayed in Dhaka. I used to write every night how I spent my day. Unfortunately, I lost those notes as I didn’t blog that time. Feeling like to do similar weird thing again for 7 days and this time I want to stay away from Moble and Money!

I’m going to write every night how I spent the day without money and mobile and what difficulties I faced. And then finally I will post all those notes in my blog here after finishing 7 days. Starting this weird journey from 25th January, Monday. So keep your eyes on this blog, you can expect all those notes here on 1st February :)

So what difficulties I might face?
My family in Sylhet whos around 450kms away from me, my wife whos around 11,000kms (flight distance) away from me. I have already got my wife’s support yay! And im gonna talk to my mom, hopefully she won’t get freaked out he he, and without money? Hopefully it won’t be a big deal as I can walk to my office from my home…

Why I want to do it?
Getting off from all these dependencies of life! Recalling all our old people who lived their life without all these and preparing myself for bigger adventure in near future.

By the way, if I can do it successfully, my next target will be to spend 7 days without laptop! This gonna be most difficult for sure…

So let’s start it from next Monday :)

The Death Clock

January 16th, 2010

Caution : I’m *not* going to write anything positive or anything that could make you smile, rather, i’m going to write something that will make your mood upset all the way…now, you decide if you want to read this article…

It’s all about death, an universe truth. right, there’s no shame on death, we all have to die one day. But this truth is always pathetic, and no one’s out there willing to accept it for their beloved. I’m going to talk about 2 death experience with my eyes and I will talk about haiti’s devastating situation. To be honest, I don’t know what i’m trying to say with all these…there is no solution for death. No one can stop it, then why i’m writing to make you upset? Not really, im trying to find a way to get out of this emotion that i’m feeling about death right now, maybe my blog will help me to do that…

First story…

Abul was my school friend at primary school, we were in grade 4 at that time and I was in our village. One day morning I got up and heard that Abul’s mom was dead. I was staring at my mom when she told me that. Mom are you sure? I asked…Mom told me to go to their house. I’m not enough brave guy to see a dead body or go to airport to see off people! But, I ran and found that Abul was crying…and his mom was just sleeping [sleep forever], he stared at me and started crying even louder. Probably, I wouldn’t understand the emptiness he was feeling at that time…i was so speechless and scared that I didn’t know what to do or what to say to Abul! You know what, I didn’t even go near to the dead body, mentally I was that much broken but mostly I was feeling bad for my childhood friend Abul, cuz he was only 9/10 yrs old boy, and I kept thinking that he would spend rest of his life without calling someone “mom”? Probably, I didn’t worry that much about someone who left this world but Abul who was there for rest of his life. So, Abul kept going near to his mom and kept looking at her, I was watching that from a distance and all I was thinking like “ishh, what is he feeling inside”. But most, pathetic thing I saw at the end, and I will NEVER forget this moment for rest of my life… at the end Abul’s father was like, “Abul come here baba, see your mom for the last time”. Abul went, and he started crying holding his mom…i couldnt hold my tears anymore! Wait..let me give a break, I will write more later…

Ok , i’m back…

Second story…

Few days ago, one of my friends mom died for cancer. So we went to see her [specially his family]. Was glad to see that our friend was really strong, like he was walking, arranging everything and talking to visitors normally. He kept telling us, how she had good death instead of having trouble for another few more months [as doctor said she would live another 6 months]. But, we saw the most pathetic thing in the corner of the room, friend’s father was sitting there on a chair, and he was trying to talk but couldn’t. We went there and stood in front of him, suddenly he started crying! Personally, I didn’t know what to do..then he started talking holding his son [our friend] and his daughter! All he was saying was like “I tried my best to save her, I couldn’t! You don’t know how much I loved your mom!”. Whoa, emotional junal would start crying, but somehow he kept himself in control, but it got me all the way when I got back home, I never saw such a true love like this before! Was kept asking myself, why people have to die?

Third story…

I can remember the last devastating situation in Tsunami, and now we all are watching another moron at the beginning of the year called Haiti! Honestly, like big loser im trying to avoid all news related to Haiti, why? Because, im such a loser who can’t do anything about it except reading/sharing and talking about it. So what’s the point? But, seems like I just can’t avoid this news or pictures from Haiti. These people are very poor, why almighty was so unkind to them? What they did so he had to take away everything from their life? I don’t know who can answer me that….

Anyways, let’s pray to God to save rest of these lives…and show this loser some ways to do something for this people instead of just praying to you!

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