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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!

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!

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….

My Father and 1971

October 4th, 2009

My father has this habit, whenever he sees a prescription from a doctor he will make a comment. “why this medicine, why not other one” blah blah…and it pisses me off sometimes! Come on, you are not a doctor!


So, this time when I was in typhoid for 15+ days and I was in clinic for a day [for the first time in my life] …my mom was there with me and I was asking her why he always have a comment on doctor’s prescription? My mom laughed and she said something that made me really shocked and literally very much proud! She said this is my father’s habit and he’s been doing it since 1971! I got up from the bed and sat “what do you mean by 1971”? Mom was like “well, your dad used to give primary treatment to injured freedom fighters in 1971, he used to carry food and arms for them, though he never fought against the enemies face to face” I was like what !?!?!?! why I had to hear this after 28 yrs later of my life and why didn’t even he tell us before?!?! Mom reacted so easily that it was actually nothing to mention. For too much anti-biotic my nerve was too weak, I don’t know if that was the reason tears came so easily in my eyes.


But, after years I have heard something that made me really proud! Made me emotional and shocked…..I’m really proud of my father and I think thats the best gift I have ever got from him. I know it would have made me even more proud if he had arms in his hand and he fought, but still I’m proud that he was a part of our freedom war, doesn’t matter how small it is. Long live Bangladesh!

First Person Singular Number, at The End of The Year, 2008

December 21st, 2008

Lately, I have been a little bit slow, slow at work, slow at thinking and slow at doing something new! But, I believe this is not how the year 2008 been for me. I never had such expectations or desires from a time. Out of office work, I mainly spend my time on my own way, and most of them are unplanned.

So, what I have been up to in 2008? Let me remember, although I can guarantee that I won’t be able to remember all of them, just because I got a goldfish memory :)

  • Me and my friend Jewel have developed this personal Facebook application called “Fallywood“.
  • From my office – we have developed Facebook applications, NCAA 09 , Madden 09, Tigerwoods, Godfather-I/II, Deadspace and many more, and of course my first individual Facebook application Kissability was also developed at the beginning of this year 2008.
  • I joined FriendFeed and Twitter and been trying to be active there.
  • I moved my personal blog to my own domain and hosting.
  • On an average I wrote at least one blog per week.
  • Reviewed 4 more tech books for Packt Publishing.
  • Moved to Linux from Windows
  • Learned about Wordpress/Drupal/Elgg.
  • Gained some good experience about CSS by work.
  • Started Bangla blogging.
  • Attended some tech seminars.
  • At the end of the year, I had a great Vacation with my family, friends and my village people!
  • Outing more than last year.
  • Have been sleeping well since I moved to a single room.

It’s been great so far. As I have said earlier that I have less desire/expectations (maybe, thats the best way to be happy?), So I don’t have any desire or expectations for 2009. I don’t even have a plan for tomorrow! All I know, I will move with the flow. I will try to follow my heart in every aspect of my life. All I know I will keep searching for a place that has already been found!

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