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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 :)

“Amra Positive” is Coming Soon…

November 3rd, 2009

Story behind this work was a little bit different. I wanted to learn python and thought best way to learn something new would be doing something practical with it. So decided to develop this application called “Amra Positive”. 

What is Amra Positive?
A small application that is being developed for Bangladesh community. 
And what it does? 
Amra positive is a home for people of Bangladesh who are hopeful about this country, about their life, about their friends/events…etc. Who is tired of all bad news and really in need of some positive and good news. I hope this name is enough self explanatory but still let me tell you as an user what you can do with it….
  • If you have any good news about the country, friends, family, events pay a visit in this app and sing in with gmail id and then let the world know. 
  • Share your hopes and dreams within 150 characters 
  • If you don’t even like to post anything, you still can vote on others’ post to get them on top list news 
  • And well, tired of hearing bad news about everything that is going around ? Visit here, because this is the home of all good and positive stuff about you! 
is there any moderators of your posts? 
No! not for now…nobody is going to moderate your post. Personally i will leave this judge on you. 
But what the hell, where is the link of this application? 
It’s ready and coming “soon”! Soon means soon….i promise it will come live pretty soon. Just keep your eyes on here in this blog and of course you will have more clear ideas once it goes live. 
Thanks for your patience….

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

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!

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.

I don't know what they made for us, but that was very sweet of them

I don't know what they made for us, but that was very sweet of them

Do we have time to give ourselves sometimes to realize if we are really getting out of our actual society?

Personally, I have decided to meet this actual society often to ask “What are you doing”.

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