Somewhere over the rainbow

I wanna share this song with everybody. It seems so nice to me with less instrument. Check this out :)

To know about the artist you can visit here




Lyric

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby ii ii iii
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh ooooh
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me ee ee eeh
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops thats where you'll find me oh
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to,why, oh why can't I? i iiii

Well I see trees of green and
Red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark and I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, I...I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more
Than we'll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world (w)oohoorld

Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I hiii ?






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International mother language day

Today is 21 February, the international mother language day. Just few years back it was a special day for Bangladeshi people only but now its a significant day all over the world as it is considered to be the international mother language day. We are the only nation who perform an agitation for their language. I feel proud of it as a Bangladeshi.


Here are 2 pictures of the tirbute for the guys who was killed on the 21 February of 1952 during the agitaion.





After decorating the Shaheed Minar on 20 February night.





In the morning


Here goes the song for this particular day. I don't know why this song makes me excited every time I hear it.

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Marriage anniversary of Ehtesham vi

Its a delayed post. I even forgot the date by this time (sorry Ehtesham vi :P ). It was his marriage anniversary. He brought 2 very nice chocolate cakes in the afternoon to celebrate the anniversary. We did celebrate it in our canteen.

Ehtesham vi is ready with the knife in his hand. Our General Manager shows him the way to cut the cake.

The happy guy is cutting the cake. We were calpping to him and wishing him more enjoyable married life in upcoming days.

Nazifa apa is cutting the cake to distribute amongst everybody.

Happy marriage anniversary Ehtesham vi ( I wished on that day too :P )

You(Ehtesham vi & his wife) are one of the very happy couples I have ever seen.

Wishing you a very happy life with your family.

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Bording Vista picnic

Yesterday was our yearly picnic from Bording Vista. We went to a nice resort in Tangail called Elenga resort. We enjoyed the day very much as everybody participated various kinds of activities. It was really a fun.





We were waiting in front of the bus in the morning. Everybody was so eager to start the journey.





Our CEO, Jan, and his wife( I forgot her name :P )
They are coming towards the bus.
Good that they don't have guitar box in their hands. They will look like desperadoes with that ;)





After getting into the bus. The guy in beige jacket is our general manager





Having some fun in the bus. Shouting and laughing.





Its snacks time. Where we are :-? I only see the server team :-S





Entrance of Elenga resort.





This is the first look after entering through the gate.





People are entering inside.





Breakfast after entering.





Some guys started playing badminton as long as they finished their breakfast.





Photographer Shahid :D Doesn't he look like a professional :P ( I know I am not :D )





Ankan vi is in action in the cricket match.





Jan is fielding out there. He seems very attentive fielder.





Jan's wife is batting and Jan is doing the attack job as they were in opponent teams.





Now its Jan's turn to bat. He was making various funny gestures.





A lamb is being grilled for the lunch.





Among all these things some guys managed to talk with their special persons :P Those who couldn't manage to call used the opportunity of sms :)





A small garden inside the resort. Looks nice.





A very close shot of a flower of that garden





Tanvir vi is in action in the football match. He was so serious about it :D





Ehtesham vi is in action. Nadia dared to tackle him :-O !!!!





Jan was also enjoying the football match.





Here is the wining team of the football match. Jan looks so happy.





They were having more fun. Reminiscing their childhood :D





Time to lunch. Everybody was so hungry after all those hard work :D





Desert items of lunch





All other dishes of lunch - mmm... mouth watering :D :P





We went to a boat trip as well. Jan and his wife didn't go to that tripd.
That is the boat that we took.
Some people didn't like the boat. They were expecting the speed boat.
I liked the boat so much. To me its much better to have a trip in the river by boat than to have it in a speed boat.





While we were in the river they were waving to us.
I was slow enough to miss their waving :(





A nice couple was enjoying boat trip in a very big boat for only 2 persons. Obviously they were enjoying it.





The Jamuna Bridge - the longest bridge of Bangladesh.





A bus on the bridge





We stopped at the middle of the river as there was land. Winter is just over. So the Jamuna is not full of water. She is waiting for the rain to get to her fullest.





Another view of the Jamuna bridge





In the middle of the river, The whole group except Jan and his wife.





After the boat trip. It was almost evening. The sun is gonna kiss the river within few minutes.




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A song made my eyes teary

This morning I heard a song titled "Crying in the rain" by A-ha and it made my eyes teary. I am not a broken hearted guy but it made me so sad. I might be got hurt but not broken hearted yet.


I liked the song very much.
Thank you Fahim for the link in esnips.


I suggest you to go to the esnips link and hear the song first.
Then watch the video if you want. The video is not so nice.


Here is the esnips Link






I'll never let you see
The way my broken heart is hurting me
I've got my pride and I know how to hide
All the sorrow and pain
I'll do my crying in the rain

If I wait for stormy skies
You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes
You'll never know that I still love you
So though the heartaches remain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from heaven
Could never take away my misery
But since we're not together
I'll wait for stormy weather
To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

Someday when my crying's done
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
I may be a fool
But till then, darling, you'll never see me complain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Since we're not together
I'll wait for stormy weather
To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

Someday when my crying's done
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
I may be a fool
But till then, darling, you'll never see me complain
I'll do my crying in the rain
I'll do my crying in the rain
I'll do my crying in the rain




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My table lamp

Do you remember I was talking about the lamps we had on our desks few days back? I think you do. Here goes the picture of my table lamp :D

I forgot to take the picture as the light is put on :P





I robot lamp :P




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Warm welcome to Spring

Today is the first day of Spring in Bangladesh. There are six seasons in our country and it is said that Spring is the king of all the seasons. To celebrate the arrival of Spring Bording Vista staffs decided to come to office on this day in traditional attire of Bangladesh. Consequently all the Bangladeshi guys came in Panjabi and sandals and the females in saris.


Our CEO, Jan, came in jeans and shirt tucked in. But he might be feeling a bit uneasy. More over we were telling him again and again to buy a panjabi for this special day and finally he went to nearby Aarong shop, bought a nice panjabi and came back wearing that. We were yelling to see him in the panjabi. He looks so happy to be in the same row of us.


Today the whole office was in a nice mode. So many pictures have been taken by mushfiq vi. I also brought my camera with me but I didn't take pictures as I saw that i am getting some very tiny rain spots in my pictures. I became a bit sad seeing that. Otherwise I would show you people the pictures of our office today.


Hope everybody will enjoy this Spring.
A warm welcome to the Spring, the king of all seasons :)




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We have got omni lights on our office desks

Proper light intensity is very much important for any kind of worker. We are worker as well - IT worker :D So we also need enough light on our desk and around us. Researches have found that human efficiency decreases with the degradation of intensity of light. As Bording Vista is very much conscious about making money it doesn't want to make its employees inefficient. Consequently, this afternoon, everyone of us were supplied a table lamp with omni light.


Now there is a table lamp on every desk at the left corner. Its looks a bit funny that we are working in the office under the table lamp but it is helping us as we found the light is not sufficient in our office after the installation of new furniture. The lamp doesn't look bad. In fact those are smart looking table lamps :D Sunny vi addressed those as "I robot lamp" :P I wish I could show you the pictures of my desk now but I don't have my camera with me. Right now I am writing this post under the light of "I robot lamp" :D I hope one of these days I will be able to show you some pictures of my office how it looks after the decoration has been completed. The sad thing is it became a bit congested than before :(




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Training with Henrik is over

I have been going under a training program for last two weeks. Henrik was our instructor. He is a Danish guy and visited Dhaka for 15 days only to conduct that training. The training was on Windows Sharepoint which is a product of Microsoft for web application developing.


The training was a good one. We have learned many things about sharepoint. Its difficult to remember all those. It needs much practice to keep those in mind. But the thing is that all of us enjoyed the training. Henrik, our instructor was a good guy. I don't know how much he enjoyed to train us (I hope he did enjoyed the time with us :P ).


At the end of the training we gave Henrik some gifts as a token of his visit in Bangladesh. We tried to give him something that reflects Bangladeshi trend. Henrik seemed very happy go get the gifts. I hope he really liked those.


Here are some snapshots of that day.





Shafayet vi is giving the gifts to Henrik.





Henrik is checking out the kolapuri sandals. Is he confused :-?





The dark blue fotua... That looks so nice on him.





He is checking the rickshaw out. Its a miniature of Rickshaw made of silver colored metal... A nice souvenir I think.





All of us with Henrik. He looks a bit blushing :P





I am checking if the size of the fotua is ok for him and I found that its a bit small for him. Later Sunny vi and Nabila apu went to the Aarong shop again and got one size bigger which fitted so nice on him.





Making fun with the sandals he got. Shafayet vi is not unhappy at all to be spanked by that sandals when it is Henrik :D


Henrik left Dhaka on last Friday. I think he had a nice journey on the way of his home and also had a nice time in Bangladesh.


Thank you Henrik.
Hope to see you again amongst us :)




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Hepatitis B vaccin

I have started the course of hepatitis B vaccin today. I have been thinking to take this vaccin for a long time but out of laziness I couldn't start. This time Jashim and me decided to start the course and finally we did. Today we have taken the first dose of the vaccination. We have to take 3 more doses. 2 more wil be with a month interval each and the last one will be a year later. I hope we will be able to finish the course :)


For your information, we are taking the vaccination course from the Islami Bank hospital. At first I didn't want to go there as I am very much annoyed by the service of Islami bank. My brother has an account in one of the branches of Islami bank. I went there few times but they don't help their customers much. So I was really afraid to go to their hospital but I saw a great discrimination between the bank and the hospital. Everybody in the hospital is very helpful. You will get necessary information and services from every personnel there. I am quite impressed :)


Each and every dose costs 530 BDT. More over you need to test your blood before starting the course to be sure if you have hepatitis B already. If you have then you can't go through the course. The name of the test is HBsAg and it costs 400 BDT. I suggest you to complete the course asap if you haven't already :)




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Extinguishing training

Yesterday morning I saw some boxes had been arrived in our offie. Later I came to know those were fire extinguishers.

Around 5 pm our CEO, Jan, called everybody and told us to participate in the training HOW TO EXTINGUISH FIRE. The man who came with those boxes showed us how to use those. We suggested to make a fire and then we will extinguish it but Jan didn't agree. He just told us to go one by one to use the extinguisher only once. Everybody was laughing by seeing Jan's funny acting and movements. The extinguisher makes high level of noise.

It will be fun if you have a fire extinguishing training in your office :D




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My trip has been canceled

I was informed by the office authority that my trip to Sweden has been canceled. Previously I told that it has been postponed but now they told us that trip has been canceled for they decided to bring those professional guys to Dhaka from Boras, Sweden.


All of those 6 guys(including me) who were supposed to go to Sweden prepared well for the trip - materially and mentally. So the news was really a disappointing one for us.




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Rat in the cash box :P

I already told that I went to the national museum today. We had entered into a fast food shop before went to the museum. As we entered the shop and sit there a couple just finished their snacks and the guy went to the cash counter to pay the bill. As the cash keeper opened the drawer he just shouted that there was a rat in the drawer. We peeped over the show cases and we also saw that there was a small rat sitting inside the cash box :D


The shop keeper wanted to kill it but we told him to grasp the rat and throw it to the street. So he just got the rat in his hand and threw it outside.


Is it amazing to find a rat in a food shop?? May be. What are you thinking? Did we leave the shop after seeing that? NO... we didn't though there were other fast food shops around :P rather we ordered beef burger, hot dog and soft drink, ate those while laughing because of the rat in the cash box and then left the shop burping. Typical Bangladeshi people huh ;)




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A tour to national museum

Today I, along with Jashim, went to our national museum. Its been long time that we don't go there. Its not so far from our home yet the last time I visit there was 4 years back. Today we went Shahabag for another reason and suddenly we decided to visit it.


It was an instant decision but we were impressed after we finished. We did it hurriedly yet it took us almost 3 hours to finish. Before when I was a kid I went there several times and I was not that much impressed. But now as I see things from different perspectives I found interest in those things and I am really impressed about the things of our museum.


There are so many sculptures and artworks that drew my attention and I was really enjoying those. Though I am not an artist I found that those really good ones. There are also different types of miniature which reflect the culture of Bangladesh.


Out of an instant decision we had great times of 3 hours. Actually 3 hours is too short. I hope I can go there again having enough time in my hand. I don't know if its allowed to take pictures of the things shown in the gallery. If its allowed, next time I will go there taking my camera with me :)




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The biggest gathering of Muslims next to Hajj

Hajj is the biggest gathering of Muslim people from all over the world. It has a great significance in Islam. Aside from Hajj many other gatherings of Muslim people are held in different places. Among those(I said aside from Hajj) the biggest one is held in Bangladesh every year around January. It is called Bishwa Ijtema means World Congregation.


Every year around this time the Muslims engaged in dawah(invitation of Islam) came to Bangladesh to attend the congregation. I don't know the very details of it. I can tell that its a 3 days' long event. The last thing of the last day is the prayer(duwa) in which around 3 million people take part.


This year it will be on 25, 26 & 27 of current month. 27 is Sunday and we are hoping to get a holiday on that day as our office is near the place of Ijtema and all the nearby roads will be blocked totally for thousands of people. We will know about it tomorrow.




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Culture, beliefs and some thoughts

People of different geographical areas have different cultures. Except from geographical areas other things also influence the culture but the very common thing we see is people have different culture if they live in different region of the world. This culture has adverse effect on the beliefs and thoughts of people.

People believe in different things and they think in different ways as well. Their culture and beliefs control their practices. Human being is not prone to changes of their practices. If someone is habituated with anything for several years its more difficult to give up that practice and absorb another one no matter how good is the new one. I found that its possible but difficult. Its possible if you do it to please somebody but its difficult to get by heart and execute it properly with all your heart. May be the change is good but still people have difficulties to absorb it by heart :(





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My trip has been postponed

Awhile ago I was informed that the whole process of our training is postponed for 3 weeks. Our CEO, Jan, came and told us that we can unpack our suitcases and put the warm cloths in the closet for 3 weeks :P


I am not so sure about the reason why the whole process is postponed. May be Bording Vista will talk with the Swedish embassy about this issue. But I heard from the senior guys that the embassy told our company that they will process it at the end of January. I am not so sure about it. I don't know how Bording Vista will manage the clients. So many things and plans will be changed for this decision of the Swedish embassy. We 6 guys don't have any work for the next 1 month. May be we will pass some lazy days in the office as it will take some time to assign new tasks to us.


I think within 2 weeks we will be informed again what is going to be happened. I hope next time there will be no problem getting the visa :)




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I have been rejected for visa by Swedish embassy

My application for visa has been rejected by the Swedish embassy :(


Today shafayat vi, one of those 6 guys, went to Swedish embassy as he was told by them to go this afternoon around 2 pm. He got his rejection letter and informed that all those 6 applications from our office have been rejected. They told shafayat vi to tell the other 5 guys to go to the embassy on Sunday and bring our passports back.


When shafayat vi returned I met him in front of the lift and he seemed so aloof. I asked him about the visa and he told me what happened. The Swedish embassy has pointed out some very funny reasons for rejecting us. I have gone through the paper that shafayat vi has got in his hand. They said that we are not likely to go there for a short visit rather we may refuse to leave swedish territory after finishing our training. They also said that its not like we are going for the reason we have mentioned in our application. They are doubtful about our visit to Sweden. I don't know how did they find those kinda things within us. Do we look like we wont come back to Bangladesh after our training :-?


The Danish embassy has been informed about it by the Swedish embassy before shafayat vi arrived in the office. As shafayat vi arrived our CEO, Jan, called the Danish embassy and the ambassador told him that he is already informed about it and he is gonna solve the problem. After talking to him Jan smiled and told us not to be worried. He assured us it will be solved within tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Let's see :)




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I have faced Swedish embassy

Yesterday morning I have faced Swedish embassy for visa. I didn't tell you people about it yet. ok I am gonna tell it now :)


My company, Bording Vista, decided to send 6 guys to Sweden to be trained up. I am lucky enough that I was selected as one of those 6 guys. There are 2 senior guys and 4 junior guys in this team. I belong to the junior group. This training will be on different technologies that will be needed for our next project. The training program is under DANIDA B2B Program. The overall objective of the Danida B2B Program in Bangladesh is to contribute to the economic and social development of Bangladesh by attracting Danish technology and investment to the country's private sector. So all the expenses will be born by DANIDA. My training will be 2 weeks long unlike the senior guys, they will have training for 6 weeks. So far I know We will be in the city Boras for those weeks. It's a southern city of Sweden.


Our flight is reserved on January 11 and its January 8 today and I haven't got my visa yet haha. I had an interview yesterday morning in Swedish embassy for that. They just asked me some very formal questions like what my name is... how long have I been working for this company... what my position is... what my previous job was... what the purpose of going to Sweden is... how long I will stay there... who will financed my expenses etc. etc. I was in front of the lady for 10 minutes may be and finally she told me that they will call us withing 2/3 days to take our passport back from the embassy.


Right now I am looking forward to get the call from the Swedish embassy. If everything will be ok I will leave Dhaka on January 11 by Allah's will and many first ever things will happen in my life :)





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I have bought jeans :P

Last night finally I have bought jeans :P Does it sound funny?? May be but the thing is that I was planning to buy jeans for last 1 year and I was not able for so long time. Sometimes I even went to shopping mall just to buy jeans but at the end I couldn't. I don't know why most of the time it was a failure when I went to buy jeans for me :-S


This time it was a success :D I went to the the shopping mall with my immediate elder brother and bought not only one but 2 pairs of jeans. It took only an hour to buy those two jeans.


I heard some people telling me that I barely wear jeans. I think from now on people will see me in jeans more than before :)




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