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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!

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Posted in Bangladeshi Village, For me, Friends, History, Inspiration, Mobile

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

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Posted in For me, Inspiration, Mobile, Society

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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Posted in For me, Friends, History

Tags: Death The Death Clock

Recall: 2009

December 25th, 2009

Couple days ago I was reading my last blog in 2008 and became a little bit nostalgic. One year is not a long time, but lot’s of things can happen in one year. Saying it again, never had such expectation out of time but I must say 2009 was the BEST year of my life so far! Because, I got married in 2009! I got married to love of my life in July, 22nd

Spoke at tech seminar arranged by PhpExperts group, and that was a great day for me to be in front of lots of talents from Bangladesh. It helped me to understand this local community I know and I love from my heart. I met lot’s of people I know from twitter/friendfeed/facebook but never saw them before. Though I couldn’t meet all the guys I know…and well, it helped me to get closer with some talent speakers , whoa!

Working at Trippertlabs is always fun, what a year it has been for this company! Working on some exciting iPhone projects and after a couple days you see them in the top list at iPhone app store, how does it feel? I can remember the weekend we worked on some iPhone quiz applications and one of them went to #1 position in the free app category. This excitement continued through out the year dude but out of all these biggest news from my company was acquisitions by Playdom!

“Amra Positive” idea came from some frustrations and interest to learn python. This is a personal project I developed for local community to share all good news within 150 chars. I was glad to receive some positive response from all kinds of users. I hope to upgrade this app soon on spare time but I will love to get more feedback and advices from you guys

What else? There are lots of things to recall from 2009. What an eventful year! But let’s not be more geek on this…let me remind my promise that I wanted to have Eid-ul-adha with my village people. This is one of the place I truly love to be. This year wasn’t any exception. As usual I had my Eid with my village people with some different moments….

What’s gonna happen in 2010? There’s gonna be lots of changes in my life, Uhm, but no guess…as I always say, wake up every morning and do what you enjoy the most…i will be keep following this theory by keeping very less expectations….

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Posted in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Village, For me, History, Romance, Seminar

Tags: Recall 2009 Junal

What Are You Doing?

September 11th, 2009

Sometimes, I wonder how many developers are working behind this question. How many dollars being invested to get this answer. Not only developers but some psychiatrists as well, probably? I don’t know who started this status system first, was it Facebook? Or someone else? anyways, Facebook was really modest about this status updates from the beginning. They didn’t give much concentration on it at the beginning and so far I can recall people used to update their status when there was something “really” important and something that makes sense. Something educational, something that helps others?

And then we moved. New tools came, Twitter became extremely popular with some simple ideas. There were lot’s of new tools launched following Twitter’s success. FriendFeed was one of them, though their concept was a little bit different than twitter. We people got too many options to answer “what’s on our mind” or “what we are doing”.

Not only, we have options to choose where we want to say what we are doing but also we have so many third party softwares whos making our life even easier. We can say something on LinkedIn and it can come to Twitter, Friendfeed and then Facebook. We can use such tool like SocialToo that allows to update status to multiple places. Same goes for Desktop client TweetDeck, Seesmic or web client Brizzly. And then, Junal becomes really busy when one of them updates their software and adds new feature.

What we usually answer to these status taker? A lot of things! And almost 90% of them are about ourselves. What we like and what we don’t like. What we have and what we don’t have…and then a big sigh! We are still not satisfied…..

But are we not being social? Wait, let me correct….we are being “technically” social. And I guess we are doing 110% on this part. I have been keeping myself busy with this so called “Technically Social” world for last 2/3 years. No, I don’t have regret for what I have been doing or what I have done. But I regretted few days ago, after my marriage, when I realized that I was actually in a different world. When I had to visit to my relatives house with my wife, I felt there was something calling me back. I don’t blame myself for being too much addicted with this technical world but I do blame myself for not being in keep in touch with the actual society. I can remember, when I arrived in my village, how people received us. How our present gave them fun. My grandmother is about 105 years old. Every years she waits for me to see. But Junal never can manage time for her – sigh! I regret.

This year when I went to my village with my wife Tamanna, My grandmother was really happy. I saw a smile that I will never forget. She has nothing to do except sitting idle and counting the day she has in this beautiful world. I wonder how many people ask her what she is doing? She doesn’t have much options there, unfortunately.

One the way to my village

It makes me feel how selfish I’m. I don’t have much time for my relatives to visit them. Lots of my village people are coming in my mind right now. People who never get a chance to answer to someone about their life, their problems, their needs or anything…. but these people never complain! Still they smile, smile with 100% happiness when we people got 100+ complains about our life even after getting lots of facilities.

My grandmother, 105 years old!

I know, I wouldn’t meet these much relatives if I didn’t get married recently. I have this realization that we are totally in a different world. A world that makes us more selfish, more self centric and we are getting out of actual society day by day.