Celebration of National Victory Day

16 of December is our National Victory Day. People try to celebrate this day. We(me along with my friends) celebrated it in a different way this year.


On 15 December we were gossiping and wasting our valuable time(as we do everyday) sitting in a dirty and unhygienic restaurant of our area named JINJIRA HOTEL. Suddenly Khalid proposed to celebrate the victory day at night in the rooftop of jashim's home. His proposal was to decorate the whole roof with small flags made of paper and a special fireworks (you will see after awhile) at 12 midnight. We agreed and at once went to buy flags. We bought 500 small flags and again came back to Jinjira Hotel to make a final plan. As I am a bit epicurean I proposed to arrange some foods for our dinner :P We fixed our menu - naan ruti(a special bread made of flour), bot vaji(beef... I better say fried stomach of cow), grilled chicken, salad and soft drinks. Among all those items we decided to prepare the grill of our own. So the night would be a barbecue night :)


We started from the evening. It took a long time to prepare all the thing. Finally we took our dinner around 1040 pm. Then after few minutes rest khalid started to write 16 (in Bangla) using sand on the floor and we flamed it at 12 midnight. I think you will get a better idea if you see some of the pictures :)





Razib is preparing the torch with sand and kerosene.





The torch is burning :) Another one is ready beside the flaming one





Jashim is pasting flags on the highest position of his roof. Please keep your eyes open while seeing other pictures. You will see flags all around the roof :)





Khalid and me are preparing the fire for the barbecue





Aha... the fire is ready to be used






Shahid baburchi is grilling the chicken :D





Khalid also was a great hand to prepare the grilled chicken





Jashim is preparing the salad. He likes salad so much; specially tomato :)





Khalid was having hard times with the smoke. Me too :'(





They are ready to attack the chicken. Look at razib's teeth - those are good enough to destroy that grilled chicken huh :P





Just a snap of 3 of us while Khalid is shooting the picture like a professional photographer lying on the floor :D I wish I could show you his action at that time





Khalid seems so sad for killing that chicken





After the dinner - gossiping and drinking coke.





I am so tired after the tiring work since evening





Khalid is writing 16 using sand





It was about 12 midnight and we are flaming the number 16. This is the special fire work that Khalid proposed earlier :)





The number is burning. We couldn't flame the number fully as we were running out of kerosene :( Otherwise it would be so nice.


After doing all those things everyone agreed that none of us did celebrate The National Victory Day in such a way before. This time we did it spontaneously and it was really a great fun for all of us.




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A very old song I wanna share

This is a very old song by Carpenters titled "Yesterday once more". I used to hear this song while I was a student of primary school. As our cassette player went out of order I didn't hear this song for a looooooooooong time. I didn't hear this song in any of my friend's computer. I searched the song for many years but I didn't know the title of the song and also didn't know the artist's name. So I didn't get the song for a long time.

Few months back Liz gave me a link in youtube to hear a song. The artist of that song is Carpenters. The title of that song is "You". When I heard that song I found some more songs of the same artist there. Among those songs I saw the title "Yesterday once more" and it seems a bit familiar to me. So I heard that song too and yesssssssss I got the song after sooooooooooo long time. I really like this song so much. I wanna share this nice song to all of you. Tell me how you people find this.

Thank U so much Liz to help me getting this song after that long time >:D< :-*

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A long overdue treat

Last night we, some guys, had a nice dinner treat from one of our friends Tasnim. It was the treat for his job. Don't think that he has got a new job recently. He got his job in the month of April of this year, that means 8 months ago.


He was telling us for many days that he would give us a treat soon and we didn't know that soon would be 8 monhts' later :P Anyway, finally we got it and it was really a nice treat for the 6 people (Tasnim, Razib, Jashim, Khalid, Tanim and me). We choose golden chimney for our restaurant to dine out and this is the first time I went there. I am impressed. The food was very dilicious.


Thank you Tasnim for a nice dinner :)


I did nt take my camera this time. Otherwise I will share some moments with you people. I amazingly found that nobody asked me about it.. why didn't I take the camera tonight. Even nobody noticed it :) :) :)






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IELTS results

Today I have got my IELTS result that I have appeared on 17 November. My overall band score is 6. That's a damn low score :( I was expecting at least 6.5 after my exam but I couldn't make it.


I have got 6.5 in both reading and listening, 6 in speaking and 5.5 in writing. I told earlier that I did really bad in writing part but yet I didn't expect less than 6. I have got only 5.5 and that made my overall band score just 6. If I got 6 in writing then my overall band score would be 6.5. Anyway... I don't mind it much :D


moral 1: Do not attend this type of exam without having proper idea about it (I did appear :D I didn't even bring pencil in the exam hall while it is a must to answer reading and listening part with pencil)

moral 2: Try to practice some example test in home, if possible give some mock test. It will help a lot.





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An unexpected farewell

One month back I have changed my job. Right now I am working in Bording Vista Ltd and before this one I have been working for Documenta TM Ltd for 9 months. On 31st October I left Documenta silently I mean without giving any kind of headache to anybody in Documenta. Frankly speaking I was very sad when I saw that I am leaving and nobody bothers about it.


Just after one month, another employee named Sadia left documenta. She was my co-worker for all those 9 months. One day, before her leaving, I was happened to talk with Polin vi(another employee of Documeta and was also my co-worker) over the internet and at that time I told him to arrange a farewell for Sadia apu for if you happen to leave and see that nobody bothers at the time of your departure it will be a great agony for you. you will be sad obviously.Finally Polin vi arranged a farewell for Sadia apu and called me on 28 October to attend the farewell in the evening after the office hour. I agreed to go there and there lies the surprise for me.


After my arrival in Documenta everyone went to the conference room and sit there. For my amazement they announce my name and gave me a bunch of flower and a gift box. I really became a bit red at that time. It was really unexpected to me. I went there to attend Sadia apu's farewell and I didn't even think in my dream that they would arrange something for me too. I also told them that I am really surprised as I didn't have any goddamn idea about it. After me they gave Sadia apu a bunch of flower and a gift box too. Her box was much bigger than mine was :-S mmm... may be they like Sadia apu more than me. She was the only female employee of Documenta hahahaha.


I really became very happy and at the same time very glad. The sad feeling while leaving Documenta was gone totally. Thank you Polin vi... Thaks Documenta :)





The bunch of flower and the gift box




This was inside the gift box. A dragon made of crystal. I liked it :)




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My blog is on the first page of google search :P

I think you people became amazed to see the title of this post. But it's true if you enter "IELTS registration" in google search engine :) This afternoon I tried it and my blog came on the first page, at 5th position, of google search result :)


Here is the background. Few days back I received a comment on that particular post from an unknown person. I was thinking how did he/she get my blog address. This afternoon I googled about it. I was entering different things related to IELTS. When I entered IELTS registration I got my page on the first page. Then I looked at my blog and found that the title of that post is exactly "IELTS registration" :D So what? I am still happy to see my blog on the first page of google search result :P




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ahhh... The IELTS exam is over :D

Today I have appeared in my speaking test of IELTS exam that I missed earlier. This test was also moderate I think.


Before going to the center I was a bit nervous but as I entered the room, where my test was taken, I saw a middle aged lady sitting there and I thought "Ohhh... she is not here to kill me; I have to talk to her and nothing else". So I just talked to her almost for 20 minutes. I don't know how she will evaluate me (I am not worried about that :P ) but the thing is I did better than my expectation :)


At the end of my test she thanked me and switched the voice recorder off. I asked her if I could ask one question. She allowed me and I asked how my test was :P She laughed hearing my question and told me "I can't tell that now. You can ask me anything except that question". Right at that moment another question came into my mind but I didn't ask that as it wouldn't be gentle at all :P So thanking her I just left the test center :)


So... my IELTS exam is totally over now. Its a bad feeling to have an exam like that ahead of you. I am feeling good as it's over :) ohh... don't forget to wish me one more time - this time for getting a good score :D




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I have appeared in IELTS exam

Yesterday I have appeared in the pen and paper part of IELTS exam. The exam was a moderate one I think-not so good or not so bad. But the amazing thing is I missed to attend my scheduled speaking test. yea, it's true, I really missed it. The British Council was supposed to inform me through sms before the speaking test but I didn't get any from them and I missed it when it was scheduled on 16 November.

Yesterday(17 November) morning I went to the office of British Council to know my exam schedule. The front desk girl was amazed to hear that I didn't know it yet. She was looking at me with a strange look and giving me the schedule for that day. When I asked about my speaking test she checked it out and informed me that it was on the previous day. I said "Good... what can I do now?". May be she was a bit astonished seeing my reaction(I was smiling while asking that :P). But she gave me her assistance. With another strange look she called to the higher authority and gave me the phone to talk to that guy. I talked to the guy and told him what happened actually. His voice was a bit annoyed. May be he was thinking "ohhh... this damn pastoral guys... always creat some kinda problems" but finally he gave me another schedule for my speaking test and that is 19 of this month :D


So among the 4 parts fo IELTS exam I still have to appear in 1 that I had missed firstly :P and as my english speaking capabilty is not so good wish me luck more this time :)




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Chicken in the bus :D

There were some chickens inside the bus while I was coming to office this morning. Uhu... don't think that today I took a typical local bus of Dhaka for my ride. It was a bus having counter and ticket(though its not very good but much better than the typical local bus). The thing is that there was a guy who had near about 20 chickens(legs are tied together) in his hand and he got in the bus taking those along with him. The conductor also did nt prohibit him doing that.


When he got in the bus people became so annoyed and some got very angry. Everyone disallowed that guy to stand beside his seat. Ohh, at that time there was no seat available in the bus. The man was coming to the back side of the bus as he was disallowed by everybody and for my grief I was at the corner of the last seat of the bus :( :( :( He put his chickens within my two feet range and stood on the aisle. Within few minutes I found myself smelling something very stinking. Good that I don't have vomiting tendency with stinking thing otherwise it would be a very bad day for me.


People were so annoyed by that person. They were even shouting to him. I did nt do anything without feeling something weird. I was just sitting in my seat and counting down to get my office and finally the weird journey ended after being in that weird situation for 40 minutes.




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Another gathering of CIT people

Last saturday we, CIT guys, had another gathering. This time the get together was arranged by the people who are in software industry and some other sectors but not in telecommunication or education. I am one from software industry. So I became one of the sponsors here.


The venue was again a restaurant as people are not interested in any kinda gathering without food. It was Xenial in Dhanmondi. We met around 6 pm in Mukto Mancho of Dhanmondi and went to the restaurant around 8 pm.


The food of our menu was really good except one item and that is sizzling beef. I did nt like that item here though it's one of my favorite items while taking dinner in restaurant. I strongly recomended not to take that item if anyone of you go to Xenial.


This time I could nt manage to take many pictures as I was a bit busy to look after the arrangement :P yet I am giving here two pictures just to get the view :)





Boys are gossiping(actually waiting for the food :P)





The restaurant from outside. This look was very impressive to me but I was a bit didappointed to see the inside of the restaurant. The inside is not so good compared to the outside look.




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A sudden tour to my village

On 20th of October I along with my immediate elder brother went to my village in Sirajganj. I have nt been there for a year. So we went there to visit our relatives. There was another reason but you people need not to know that I think :)


We took the 03:30 pm bus from Mohakhali bus station. There are only few airconditioned bus in our route and I got one of those :) It was a nice comfortable bus but a bit slow I don know why. It took 4 hours to reach Sirajganj town. We reached our village around 9 pm because there was another bus and a van(3 wheeler) ride to our village from the town.


The tour was for 1 day only. We returned home just on the next day. At the time of return it took less time because the bus was fast and it was not an airconditioned one. I think U will get a better view of my trip if you see some of the pictures during the trip :)





On the way of Sirajganj while the bus was running through Ashulia. Dosen't the tree look nice on the water?





Me with my brother Shumon in the bus





The beautiful sunset that I captured from the running bus. You are not getting even the 10% of the original beauty because I was at the right side window seat and the sun was on the left side at that time. So i took it while being in my seat and I had to zoom to kick out the seat of the person on the left side of the bus from my picture.





Our bus at the filling station called Machranga after the half way to Sirajganj. It was a short break for refreshing.






The next day morning... My aunt in laws are busy to prepare the Jhaler_pitha (home made spicy cake) for us.





And here goes the jhaler_pitha. mmmm... looks mouth watering huh :D





This is the view you will see from my uncle's house. I just placed myself in the view :P





Eamon the farmer hahaha... This is the street in front of my uncle's house and those are my uncle's cows :)






Hey... how does it look here?? I like bamboo bush so much I don't know why actually





On the way of coming back to home. Our bus was on the longest bridge of Bangladesh called Jamuna Bridge at that time.





This is the railing of Jamuna Bridge taken with flash.




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My first day in BordingVista

Today on 1st November, 2007 I have joined my new job in the company named BordingVista. My first day was good here :)


The office hour starts at 9 am and I came at 09:05 am today, not too much late I think :) There were 10 new persons to join today. We were knowing each other and moving around because we were informed that the official welcome will be at 11 am. At 11 am our MD(Mr. jan) and GM(Mr. Nurul) took us to the canteen. They welcomed us and explained the rules and the practices that should be maintained in the office. Then Jan showed us the office premises. They emphasize on cleanliness so much. Everything is neat and clean though the decoration is not finished yet. They said hopefully it will be finished before the end of this month. After visiting the office we got our own pcs and own desks. I took the desk at one corner :) I fixed the pc and it ran well. The configuration of the pc is pretty good I think. Pentium D processor 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive and flat 17 inch desktop LCD monitor. After fixing the pc I went to lunch along with my friend Maroof and another new comer named Mijan.


After the lunch I was online for an hour may be. I was installing necessary softwares. Around 4 pm we had a social session in the canteen. The wife of Jan came and joined us over there. There was arrangement of cookies, coke, sprite and coffee. Most of the time Jan and Mr. nurul was talking. Some of the senior guys also contributed. They were just gossiping actually about informal things and tried to make fun as well but as a matter of fact those were not so funny :P We new comers were the listeners mostly :D It ended around 5 pm and I came here and now writing the post :) Do you people know what thing of thiks office impressed me much? The toilet :D :P I am not joking, yes its the toilet that impressed me much. Its so neat and clean, lots of tissue boxes are there, lots of small clean white rolled towels in the basket for one time use only. I really liked it :)


They said from sunday next we have to start our work here. I am waiting to see how it will be :)




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Story like "Notebook" in real life

I think many of you have watched the movie "Notebook". Those who did nt try to watch it. Its a nice romantic movie with a nice story.


Few days back one of my very close friends told me about an event of her life. I found a great similarity between that story and the story of the movie Notebook. In the story of the movie the boy was poor and the family of the girl is very rich but in case of my friend's life it was just reversed. My friend's family was not a rich one and at the same time her family background was not good. There was a family lived near their house who were very rich. She(my friend) was a student of grade 4 at that time means 10 years old may be. There was a girl in that rich family same as her age. She used to paly with that girl. That girl had an elder brother who was older than my friend by 4 years. He also used to play with the girls. They were good friends to each other.


My friend did nt have any special feeling for that boy. She was too young to realize special feelings at that time. She thought of that boy just a good friend of her. At that time the rich family send their son to USA to study there and complete his graduation afterwards and then come back again. On the day of going to US the boy came to my friend and told "Take good care of yourself cause you have no other to take care of you, but i will be back and get my cinderella out of her misery". The cinderella was my friend but she did nt get it because she was too young then. My friend did nt know that the boy used to send her mails every week. His mom was taking those and not giving her. Then after 3 years he went back for vacation and my friend was first year high school then and he was in college. He went to her house and told her why she was not replying any of his mails. Until then they did nt knew that his mom was getting the mails and did nt give her. His mom told him right into my friend's face "She is no good how can you be with a girl with that kind of family even if she looks pretty and she grew up respectful. You can never deny her family background. How can you be proud of such a girl?". Then the boy went back to US but after few months he went back to his own country again but he was dead already. They said he got sick and his mom was blaming his death to my friend :(


I mentioned it earlier that my friend did nt have any special feeling for that boy. She did nt even know that the boy liked her that much but still now she sheds tears when she remember that event and she cant just help her tears while she is watching the movie "Notebook". Its one of her favorite movies.






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Last day in my present office

Today was the last day in my present office. I thought it would nt be sad at all but I found a bit amazingly that I am really sad to leave the office.

I told it several times that the environment of this office is really nice. Its very flexible as well. More over I was under a very good project manager here. So my task became easier than it was anticipated.

I will always remember few of my colleagues from here. At first I wanna name my project manager and team leader Shahadat vi. Its a fortune to get a PM like him. He does nt pressurize on his subordinates but makes them do the work in timely manner. I cant remember a time when he got angry to me or showed his annoyance upon me.

After my project manager the person I wanna mention about is Sadia apu. She was my coworker throughout these 10 months. I think no one in this office had bugged his coworker that much as I did Sadia apu :D She helped me always in any kinda problem not only work purpose but also helped me in some of the aspects of my personal life. Sometimes she was annoyed by me but finally she did help :D I am really grateful to her.

I wanna mention another name here that is Polin vi. He was also my team mate since 3 months or more now. He is a very jolly person and I like his company. I have been working with him not for that long time as I have been with Shahadat vi and Sadia apu yet we became intimate to each other.

These are the persons I was working here with and that's why I became intimate with them. Other than these persons I have good relation with everybody of this office as well. May be I am not that much intimate with everybody but i can say it boldly that I dont have bad personal relation with anybody of this organization. I hope they all will wish me good luck in my forth coming life and I also want everyone's prosperity and happy life who were my colleagues here :)




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I have resigned my current job

Few days back I told in one of my posts that I have signed my new job contract on 30 September. I have to join that office on 1st November. So I had to inform in my present office.

On 18 of October I informed my Project manager first then the one who is in charge of the office right now. It was a shock for them because I made it a bit sudden thing for them. I did nt tell them earlier or did nt show any kinda sign of leaving the office.

They asked me if I had finalized it by that time. I said yes. So they requested me to extend the time a bit for I have many things (they were saying so specially the in charge) to hand over to other person and set few persons dedicated for particular task but as it was not possible to extend the time for me I said sorry as well as I assured them that i will hand over all my responsibilities properly. They said ok and did nt allow me to take leave in the rest of the days. I wanted to take leve for 3-4 days at the end of October and join the new office after taking a rest of few days but it did nt happen in that way :( Tomorrow is 29 October and I still have to go to office and the following days of this month as well :( :( :( May be its my fault... may be I should inform them a bit earlier but I did nt :( :( :(




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IELTS registration

I have registered for IELTS. I have done the courageous task on 6 October. My exam will be on 17 November. I have nt started to prepare myself yet, not by reviewing nor even mentally :( I think I need to get some idea first. I should start soon.

Very few people knows about it. I just don't like telling it to many people but I am telling here for I need luck. Hey people... wish me goodluck :P :P :P




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Open air Iftar Party :)

Like every year we went to have our open air iftar this ramadan. We have been doing it for 7 years now. It started in the year 2000. At that time we were 3 in number(Razib, Jashim & me). In 2001 again we 3 arranged it. In 2002 Khalid was included so we became 4 in number and upto 2003 we 4 used to arrange that party. In 2004 Tasnim was included and we became 5 in number and we became 6 in number in the year 2006 when Shujon was included.


We took the necessary things from home like lemonade, water, onion, chilly, salt, newspapers, a bed sheet and so on. Its like a picnic iftar :D The place we go is at the edge of the city near a village and there is a weekly village market held on every wednesday. That's why we use to arrange the party on any of the wednesday in ramadan every year. We buy the necessary foods like jhal boot, ghoomny, peyaju, alur chop, beguni, muri, dates, jilapi, salad etc. from that village market. We have a boat ride to cross the lake full of very dirty stinking water. We have our iftar the other side of the lake where there is no people and the place is an open one.


I think the pictures will give you some idea about it :)





Here is the beguni, alur chop and jhal boot





This is the place where those are fried... the burning oil on the cooker made of mud.





Have a look of the village market.





We are crossing the lake by boat. Jashim is holding salad item :)





The other side of the lake. The gang is heading to the destination.





Preparing everything for the iftar.





Jashim is praying magrib salah.






Gossiping and having fun after the iftar.





Burning the newspapers and every other wastes





The flame is rising





Guys went crazy like tribal people :P





Khalid is lighting the cigarette from that flame :D Its very risky because the heat is extreme around the ashes.




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Iftar party in the office

Last monday there was an iftar party in our office. It was arranged by the office management. I had my cam with me but I couldn't take many pictures during iftar because high official personnels were present in the iftar party :( At least I could take the pictures of the iftar plate :D




Two plates were on my desk. I wanted to take both :D but I couldn't :(




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Though I couldn't take many pictures during iftar I took some in the morning with my colleagues, team mates actually. Meet my team mates here :)





Polin vi, the very jolly person with smiling face





Our team leader and project manager, Shahadat vi, rarely found without work, a very hard working and dedicated person.





Me with Sadia apu, the very helpful girl. She is always disgusted with me for I bug her always for various purposes :D





Polin vi and Sadia apu. Look at the smile on Polin vi's face :)





Me in front of my desk.

Our full team. The team leader is sitting at the front. The 3 other team mates are behind him :)