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An Excellent Day and A Guilty…

April 15th, 2009

Today was bangla new year (1416), and at least for this day I don’t stay at home. Last year I was in my hometown sylhet. I wrote a blog on last year’s experience though it was mostly about my bald head fun This year I stayed here in dhaka and went out with friends. Place was banani, where a new year fair was organized by AIUB. My friend had “Rgb Unmad” stall so we all were chilling there. Intension? Well, of course all beautiful girls with sharees

Anyways, this is one of our best cultures that brings all Bangladeshis together. Probably, this is why I like “pohela boishakh” or Bangla new year so much. I was glad to see a successful event organized by AIUB. Whole day was fun…..let’s look at some pictures. Though these pictures don’t show the actual joys but still….

Biscope, still here!

Bauls on the stage

Habib on the stage

Concert was great!

but guilty? Well, look at the pictures bellow, I took the left one in the morning. A live flower right?

A flower

Chondona

And right picture was taken when event was over and we were gossiping. Difference between them? Right one you see, her name is “chondona” , she collects empty bottles and sale them for food. I asked how much she actually earn from these empty bottles. 6-7 tk, she said. Only 6/7 tk? Didn’t say anything to her, I looked at my cigarette that was in my hand. That was cost 5 taka. I was leaving them in the air with lots of peace in my mind eh? On the other hand chondona, collects these bottles and then she walks a mile to sale them…and then she gets 6-7 taka – sigh!

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Posted in Bangla, Bangladesh, For me, Friends, Humanity

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

Completing Windows Needs on Ubuntu.

January 7th, 2009

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Other day, I was having this argument with one of my friends that Linux (Ubuntu) is no more a complex OS which can be used by only some skilled people. He kept going on and on but I just wanted to prove him wrong that a normal user can use Linux if he/she doesn’t play games or doesn’t work on Flash/3D stuff. Except 2/3 issues why wouldn’t you use Linux? When you have better performance, no virus tension and more importantly, you are not using a pirated windows!

Personally, I have been using Linux for last couple of months. Few alternative softwares were just missing to full fill all needs of windows and finally I got them all in my Ubuntu stomach.

My acer laptop has a built-in camera but I didn’t have any software for it to view . Rayhan posted a needy article on additional Linux software here. From them I got this command for my web cam and its working brilliant now.

To install this web cam software open the command prompt and paste the following line

apt-get install webcam cheese

Viewing my web cam with cheese

another problem was, my Nokia N72 mobile! I didn’t have any software like Pc Suite, all I needed was, transferring file and getting files from and to my mobile. But yes, it has also a nice solution. If you have Nokia phone and looking for a software that would do the same stuff that Pc Suite would do then have a look here.

Trasfer file from Nokia phone on your Linux

And finally, I was looking for a better screen shot capture software for Ubuntu. Something like Snag it on Windows. Unfortunately, there is NOT any Firefox add-ons that would do this job (if you know anyone, let me know please). But this software called Ksnapshot almost doing the same job. Try the following command to install this software or just search for it with “ksnapshot” from the Synaptic package manager.

sudo apt-get install ksnapshot