I have a haircut in an air conditioned salon :D

For the first time in my life I had a haircut in an air conditioned salon on last Saturday. I used to have my haircut in a roadside barber shop. Those are named like "Shubol hair dresser", "Haji salon", "New style hair dresser" and so on. Those are cheap and dirty as well. You will see many calendars and posters in those kinda barber shop. Most of the posters have picture of guys with funny hairstyles. Sometimes there are pictures of hindu guru with long hair and a trident in his hand I don't know why. Sometimes you even find pictures of kids where they are reading The Holy Quran though it's a bit rare these days. I never got why those kinda pictures should be hung in a barber shop :-S


Anyway, the last last time I had my monthly haircut I went one of those kinda roadside barber shop. While I was going under the dressing process I smelt something very stinking. It seemed someone was farting there and he might not defecate for 2 days. From that day I decided not to go any roadside barber shop anymore to have my haircut. I have my haircut only once in a month and I can spend 100 taka for it while the roadside barber shop takes 20 taka only :D So this month I did as I thought. I went to a nice and clean air conditioned salon and I liked it.


The salon is near my house. So it wont take much time to go there. I thought they would take at least 70-80 taka for a haircut but for my amazement they took only 35. Yea I am not joking; that's their rate for a haircut. I was really astound about it as their service is really good. I forgot the name of the salon. I think from now on I will have my haircut in this salon :)




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Be warned while you have clogged nose for several days

How many of us treat colds as a serious illness? I think very few but trust me you should take it seriously while you have colds and and totally clogged nose for more than 3 days. It can be disastrous. If you have runny nose then its not a serious matter to think about. Be warned if your nose is totally clogged for several days.


I was having colds for 5 days and my nose was totally blocked. I couldn't breath through my nose; I used to perform my respiration through my mouth. last last Sunday morning I woke up with extreme pain in my left ear. It seemed that my ear would burst. I couldn't sleep anymore after 3 am. Around 9 am my left ear started to bleed. Being so worried about it I went to see a doctor, an ENT specialist. After examining me properly the doctor said that my ear drum has been burst. I was not sure if I heard him wrong. I asked him again and he said it again and bad for me that I heard it correctly first time. I became much worried but he assure me that it would be fine again under proper treatment. He informed me having clogged nose for 5 days caused the damage to me. It creates pressure on the ear drum and finally it burst. So take it seriously when you have colds with blocked nose. Do something to unclogged your nose. Better see a doctor soon.


I was googling about it and found it true. You can even break your ear drum with a cotton bar. So if you have habit of using cotton bar be careful while using it. Its better if you don't use that at all. Look at the pictures you will get how wax blocks your ear and how possibly you will break your ear drum if you are not very much careful while using it.





This is how wax can block your ear.
No need to clean that at all(recommended by specialist)






This is how your ear drum can be broken.
So be careful always






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A very bad "Pohela Boishakh" for me :(

Today is the "Pohela Boishakh", the first day of Bangla calendar. Every year, this is a very joyfull day for me even if I don't have special activities. Without any reason I am happy the whole day. I may not go to the fair but I go out to see my friends and gossip with them.


This year its totally different. I stayed home the whole day. Its a public holiday in our country yet I didn't go out. The reason behind it is I am very much sick for days now :( Yesterday morning I woke up with an extreme pain in my left ear and since yesterday afternoon it started to bleed. I saw a doctor in the evening and he, without bringing any expression in his voice and face, just said that my ear drum has been burst. I was stunned to hear that but the doctor told me not to worry about it. It will be ok under proper medication. I am under treatment now. The bad thing is the bleeding hasn't stopped yet. That is why I was in home the whole day even if its "Pohela Boishakh". I was sitting and lying all the day and I am so bored. So its not a good "Pohela Boishakh" at all for me :(




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Orange Vs Clementine

Do you people know both orange and clementine? I didn't. Those are of same type but not identical. What we see in Bangladesh we call it "Komola" in Bangla and from my childhood I knew the english of "Komola" is "Orange".


Few days back when we were given fruits around 11 am in our office as there was Jonas, the swedish trainer, he told that its not orange. We were surprised. We knew for a long time that its orange and he is saying its same as orange but something else. Then he went to wikipedia and showed us the difference. We saw that there is another fruit named "Clementine" which is exactly what we call "komola" here. Orange is something different from clementine. For so long time we were eating clementine and thought we were eating orange which is not true actually. Its amazing.


Both of those came from same Genus but their Species is different. Their common Genus is Citrus. Species of orange is Sinensis and Species of clementine is Reticulata. So their scientific names are correspondingly C. sinensis and C. reticulata.


I think most Bangladeshi people don't know about it. If you wanna know more about it check the links Orange and Clementine. If you look at the pictures carefully after enlarging you will find the difference.




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Life is beautiful

The title of my post is same as a famous hollywood movie. That is one of my favorite movies of all times. In that movie it is shown how beautiful life can be even in a disastrous situation. recently I also felt how beautiful life can be.


I have been suffering from fever and colds since yesterday afternoon. I had clogged nose and terrible headache. I came home in the afternoon as it was not possible for me to continue my work in that situation. At night it worsen. I thought I would take paracetamols after taking dinner but unfortunately no paracetamol was available. My parents are in Bogra for some family stuffs. So nobody is in home to take care of me. I called my mom and showed my grief for there was no medicine. She asked me what happened and I replied "Just a bit fever". She asked me if I went to office and I told her that I went but came back in the afternoon. From this she came to know that my fever is bad now. Otherwise I wouldn't leave office early. I cut the call.


I was not feeling well. I went online just to talk with Liz for awhile. I was having hard time to sit on my bed. I talked with her for few minutes. I just saw her crying. Seeing me that much sick she just cried as she cant do anything about it. I was proud to see that. I signed out early as the fever was getting worse with time. I went to bed and our door bell rang. I opened the door and it was our building caretaker (for your information we live in a rental house. Its not our own house). He was standing with few packets. He gave me those and said that my father called him and told him to buy me those. I saw there was apple, clementine and paracetamol tablets. All my sadness went away and I felt lot more better after getting those. It gave me feeling that life is so much beautiful.


I don't know what happens to other people but in case of me I want much more care while I am sick. I want someone dear to me will sit beside me and gossip with me though I will talk less. He/she will ask me how I am feeling and will touch my forehead to get my temperature. I crave for someone's company while I am in that situation. Last night I was so sad as I found myself alone and nobody is beside me even to talk with me. When I saw Liz crying and then got those things I just realized that there are people to think about me, to care about me. Ahhhh.... life is really beautiful.





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Getting older

I was going to office this morning. I usually take a bus from a nearby place of my home. There are so many bus services like - anabil, salsabil, tasico, kopotaxo, blue bird and so on in that route. This morning I was a bit early in the bus stand. Standing in front of the bus counter I was looking at the end of the road from where every bus shows up. Several buses came but I didn't take any of those for those were so much crowded. Then a salsabil bus came and it seemed a bit free. So I bought the ticket and queue up for the bus. When the bus came to the counter I saw another salsabil bus at the end of the road coming towards the counter. By that time I already grasp the handle of the bus but as you know when two buses of same route come back to back usually the latter is less crowded. So I decided to leave the first one. The amazing thing is I was still holding the handle. The man behind me was shouting at me and told why don't I get in. I said sorry and left the door and let him get in the bus.


I was thinking about this event after getting in the latter bus. Why I was holding the handle of the bus even after I had decided to take the other one?? Am I getting older to act fast?? Ohh... of course I am getting older but the thing is I should leave the handle as soon as I decided to take the other one. Why didn't I do that? Am I not aware of my surroundings?? My reflex was good enough from my childhood. Looks like its getting slower unlike before.


People grow older with time. Nobody can resist it anyway but its not so nice to see the effect of getting older within you :)




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LCD television in our office

An LCD television has been arrived in our office. Its a 32 inch flat samsung LCD screen. Jan, our CEO, told that it is brought for video conferencing with the customers.


This morning the LCD screen is placed in the small conference room. A computer is connected to it. Its a bit amazing to see Windows XP starting up in a television :D Just imagine that your computer monitor is 32 inches.


Our General Manager told that sometimes the television can be used to watch the cricket match of Bangladesh team but Bangladesh has to do very well in that match. Otherwise he will shut it off. We hope that our cricket team will do good from now on; at least for Bording Vista employees :D




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Another long over due treat

Abrar Saad, one of my room mates in university for 4 years, has given some of us a treat for his very high paying job. Its very late now still we are happy :D


He joined British American Tobacco(BAT) almost 10 months back. He was saying that he would give us a nice treat for his job. Finally last Saturday he managed.


We went to Sea Shell in Uttara, a very nice restaurant to reminisce our old days. While we were in our under graduate school we used to go there in every semester. We were 8 persons in that group. Everyone had to pay according to his GPA in previous semester. The higher GPA holders had to pay much :D That is really a nice thing to reminisce.


This time we went there but didn't pay for the food. Saad was the only donor. Thanks Saad for giving us such a nice treat.

From left Shahan, Shahriar(standing), Saad and Sabbir with a strange gesture.
Sabbir is the only impurity on that day. He was not a member of that 8 persons' group( no offence Sabbir :D )

Starting with the appetizer

Everyone is enjoying the food. I was shooting the picture

The nice light at the ceiling of that room

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Got century of posts

I didn't notice that I have done over 100 posts already. This is my 102nd post about 100th post :D My 100th post was "Bording Combination training is over" and I wrote it 3 days back.


When I started blogging I didn't think much of it but i found interest and I kept on going. As a result, the number of posts in my blog is over 100 now.


I am having fun doing it. Let's see how will it go :)




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I still belong to Bording Combination team

This afternoon I talked with our General Manager about my team - which team I will work with finally. He told me I will be working in Bording Combination team for the time being.


Earlier our GM informed me that I have to work in Bording Net team. I told you in one of my previous posts that I like the combination team much. So I underwent the project training and after that I approached our management to let me work in my previous team i.e. Bording Combination team. Our team leader Ankan vi also requested our CEO to keep me in this team. So the management finally changed their decision and kept me in my old team. I am happy to hear that.


So... for the time being I will be working in DMP 6 management console project. I think I will be able to contribute in this project with all my abilities :)




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Bording Combination training is over

The training with Martin and Jonas is over. From next Sunday the project will start officially. Jonas will stay two more weeks in Bangladesh but Martin is going to leave by Saturday.


We had a nice time with both of them for the last two weeks. We wanted to give them some souvenir as a token of the nice time all together. We hope both of them like those :)





Martin and Jonas are opening the souvenir bag.
Those were bought from Aarong





They are looking at the miniature of rickshaw





Aha, Martin is trying to play the "Do_tara", a traditional musical instrument of Bangladesh





The whole group that went under the training stuffs...
Jonas gave Martin two horns :D





Two more colleagues came into the shot.
Martin's hand is on my shoulder...
Damn... its too heavy... (no offense Martin)


While I am writing this post I am hearing Martin playing the "Do_tara" :D




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Watch having painted dial

I guess you people must hear about watch having painted dial. I heard about and saw those. Those are for kids only. Did you ever heard that a grown up guy bought that kinda watch considering it as a real watch? I guess you didn't but I just heard something like that.


The training I am undergoing right now is conducted by two trainers - Martin and Jonas. They had a visit in Dhaka city in last weekend. Both of them bought watches from the shopping mall Bashundhara city. Whenever they came to office the next day we were talking about their watches. At that time Martin told us a story about his brother. His brother went to Greece and bought a very nice watch. After returning to Sweden he was showing his new watch to Martin and saying "Look I have bought a very nice watch". Then Martin saw that its all painted; there was no real dial on the watch. He said "Yea a very nice painted watch :) ". I wish I could see the expression of Martin's brother at that time :D




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I am not blessed with the transportation service :(

From next Sunday Bording Vista is going to provide transportation for its employees. Good news huh?? Yea it is but not for me. I am not gonna get the service :(


Our company hired only one micro bus for the time being. So its not possible to cover the whole Dhaka city by that one vehicle. Consequently the office gave priority to those places where more people live around. Unfortunately very few people of our office live in the nearby areas of my house. So the bus wont pass any place which is suitable for me to get in.


Our CEO informed that another car may be hired within 6 months (!!!) and told us to keep patience until then. So those not getting the transportation service from Sunday next are keeping their patience now.




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Nice composition by using only windows sounds

Gagan sent me this link of youtube video. I found it very interesting and wanted to share with you. The composition is made by using only the sounds of windows xp and windows 98. Check it out :)








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Jan's birthday

Today is Jan's birthday. He is 44 now and starting the journey to be 45. I didn't know about it earlier. During our afternoon snacks time I found some preparation is going on down to our canteen. All of us went there and called our CEO to come over the canteen. He came and looked happy to see the arrangement. It was a small celebration arranged by Bording Vista employees.





The cakes have been brought





Jan is preparing to cut the cake with the cap on :D





He is taking the small gift for his 45th birthday. Looks so happy ;)





Ehtesham vi got caught at the right moment. Having a big bite on his piece of cake :D




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Another training

Few weeks back I underwent the sharepoint 2007 training. That training was not supposed for us ( Bording Combination team ). As we were having visa problem to go to Sweden we enrolled ourselves into that training. Now 2 Swedish guys came to Dhaka to conduct the training that was supposed to be held in Sweden. By this time I have been shifted to Bording NET team from Bording Combination. So I am not supposed to be enrolled into this training but I have talked to our CEO and told him that I wanted to undergo this training and he gave me his consent. So again I am doing the training :D


This training will be on the project requirements and also on the technologies that we need to use while doing the project. They will emphasize on nHibernate, TDD and IOC. These are new to me except from their names :P I hope I will be able to use these efficiently after the training is over :)




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Warning for bloggers

Few days back I told that some Bording Vista guys are getting interested in blogging. They started to blog but in our last company general meeting our CEO told he found some of the guys are doing their personal stuffs while in the office. He even saw some persons maintaining their home page. He was not happy seeing that as time is money in Bording Vista ( he mentioned ). Clearly this is a warning for us who sometimes write blogs while in office.


I think it shouldn't be a problem if someone do that after doing his task properly in due time. In fact I am writing this blog while I am in the office but of course after the training is over for today :D but as our CEO warned us about it I will keep in my mind that I shouldn't do it unless I finished my work in due time :)




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I have been assigned to another project team

Yesterday morning our GM informed me that from now on I have been included into Bording NET project team. I asked him why and he said its the decision of management. Later I heard that one of the members of Bording NET team is leaving Bording Vista in next month. He is going to Singapore for he has got another better job. As Bording NET project is a running one so it needs manpower immediately and the management selected me to work in that project. The project is based on Windows Sharepoint 2007. I have undergone Sharepoint training when Henrik came here in Dhaka.


Previously I was in Bording Combination team. The 2 weeks training for its project will start on sunday next. 2 Swedish guys will come to Dhaka on Friday means today. I am not a member of combination team anymore but I requested our CEO, Jan, if I can enroll myself into that training and he gave me his consent. So I will also undergo that training.


I don't have any problem to work in any group of Bording Vista but I am already much intimate with the members of Bording Combination team. I was mentally prepared to work with them. We even planned how will we proceed. So I will be happier if I can be in the team Bording Combination.





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Nice advertising idea

I have got an website address with nice advertising ideas. I found some of the ideas so nice. Thanks to Razib for the link.


Its not that you will get the themes at a glance. Spend few seconds for each advertisement to get its theme. I hope you will enjoy it :)


Here goes the Link.




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Blog fever

I have been writing blog for almost a year now. I used to write things about me. Daily happenings and other things; mostly my personal stuffs.


In my previous office Documenta I also used to write blog but not much as the internet connection was slow there and I didn't want people to know about my blog. So I tried to hide my blog while I was writing in the office. After joining Bording Vista I started to write my most of the posts while I am in the office for the internet connection is much faster compared to my home connection. At first I tried to hide it from other persons but still some guys saw it. They used to appreciate me about it. They used to see me writing a new post on an average of every 3 days. One day I found that Sunny vi opened his blog that he created more than a year back and started to edit the template. He posted few new posts as well. Few days later Mizan vi asked me how to create a blog and which one is the good place to open a blog. I gave him necessary information and 2 days later I found that Mizan vi is adding his own picture in his blog. He created his own blog. He published a post as well. He started to write about technical things. His first post was about .NET Threading. We appreciated him much as we know that its difficult to continue a technical blog - it needs more dedication.


So, some Bording Vista guys are blogging now :D I even heard Tanvir vi saying "ohh... I should write blog as well" ( he calls me dedicated blogger :D ).


Blogging is fun. I hope they will have fun :)




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