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My new office room.

In the new campus of AUST I’ve gotten my new office room. As a faculty member of Dept. of EEE it was assumed that unlike the previous campus, we’ll got our rooms. As due to lack of facilities, previous campus was unable to provide most of us a room (even a chair and table). We were glad that those terrible experiences are not returned in this new campus. Actually I didn’t get a whole room rather an one third of a room. I’ve to share my room with two other faculty members (Shariful Islam and Biplob Kumar Das), but whatever it is, I’ve gotten my own table and chair! 😛

I know it is childish, but can’t wait to share the fresh pics of my new office room with my readers. The room is literally neat and clean, as we have not decorated it yet! So here goes the couple of first day first show snapshots 😀

Taare Zameen Par: A movie of life time

I am neither a big fan nor a regular watcher of Hindi movies. Don’t think I am underestimating the Hindi movies. Actual reason is I don’t understand Hindi well (except some words those are similar to Bangla). So without subtitles, I don’t used to watch Hindi movies. That’s the reason why I am an occasional viewer of Hindi movies. Recently I watched the movie Taare Zameen Par directed by Aamir Khan two days ago. If I want to define the movie in one single line I’ve to say “it is one of the very touching movies I’ve ever seen”.

Taare Zameen Par

The story of this movie is about a dyslexic boy named Ishaan. Who hates school. Because of dyslexia, every subject is seemed to be difficult for him which leads him to fail in every subjects. His teachers and classmates subject him to constant acts of public humiliation rather than help him. It became worse when his parents send him to boarding school for being “excelled”. But life in boarding school did not make any change in his life as nobody there understood him. This changes however when a new temporary art teacher (Aamir Khan) joins Ishan’s boarding school. Then a wonderful story between a teacher and a student is portrayed in the movie. It is awesome to watch how a teacher can change a students life!

At the beginning of this post I used the word “touching” to demonstrate the genre of this movie. After watching the movie you can’t just hold your tear. You’ll feel a new of you in side yourself. Thanks to Aamir Khan for filming such a mervellous movie.

Bangla Jokes

এই কৌতুক দুটো বাংলায লেখা। একবার ভেবেছিলাম এগুলো ইংলিশে ট্রান্সলেট করে দিই, কিন্তু পরমুহর্তেই মনে হল এইগুলো বাংলাতেই পরতে সবচেয়ে ভালো লাগছে, ইংলিশে ট্রান্সলেট করলে আবেদন নষ্ট হয়ে যাবে। তাই এই পোস্টটা বাংলাতেই করলাম।

চুট্‌কি # ১

প্রশ্ন: চাঁদে একজন রাজাকার। এর মানে কী?

উত্তর: সমস্যা।

প্রশ্ন: চাঁদে দু’জন রাজাকার। এর মানে কী?

উত্তর: মহা সমস্যা।

প্রশ্ন: গোটা রাজাকার সমাজ চাঁদে। এর মানে কী?

উত্তর: পৃথিবীতে সমস্যার সমাধান!

চুট্‌কি #২

প্রশ্ন: রাজাকার আর এক বালতি গোবরের মধ্যে পার্থক্য কোথায়?

উত্তর: ঐ বালতিটা।

Bangla Unicode Fonts in Firefox 2.0

Update!

Just a several months back like many people, I used to browse the Bangla sites (specially the Bangla news papers) with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Because Firefox (FF) couldn’t handle the Bangla fonts. Bangla fonts appeared in the Firefox was scattered and broken. Though as a browser FF is always my first choice, for the Bangla sites I stucked on IE7. Recent days I am able to handle the Bangla sites with FF smoothly. But I am hearing many complains from various persons regard the problem I’ve faced earlier. For this purpose, I decided to write an article which will guide anyone to fix this problem. This article is going to guide you for setting up FF for viewing Bangla unicode fonts. For writing this article, I took help from Bokaader Poddyo.

Continue reading Bangla Unicode Fonts in Firefox 2.0

Joke: Mind your accent

Root of problem is the chinese names: Annie Wan, Sam Wan, Noel Wan, Avery Wan, Saw Lee.

Phone operator

Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan? (anyone)

Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!

Operator: You are talking to someone! Who is this?

Caller: I’m Sam Wan (someone) And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It’s urgent.

Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what’s this urgent matter about ?

Caller: Well… just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noel Wan (no one) was involved in an accident. Noel Wan got injured and now Noel Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan (everyone) is on his way to the hospital.

Operator: Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn’t an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don’t have time for this!

Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator: I’m Saw Lee. (sorry)

Caller: Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name!!

First Day First Show

Now, AUST has moved to its’ permanent new campus. Today was the opening of that campus. Students were all in a festive mode as they became a part of a history. It was just awesome! But there is some scarcity of facilities. In EEE department, faculty room has not been decorated at all! As I said earlier, laboratories are still incompleted. And we are lack of one lab, that is Simulation Lab. It surprised me when I found out that faculty spaces for all other departments has allready been decorated except EEE department. Ever since I joined in AUST, I found that EEE department is always been suppressed by the authority, though it is the largest department of the university with the large number of Faculties as well as students. But the authority does not take care of this department at all though a majority fund is come from EEE departemnt.

However, it is all our desire that this movement to a permanent campus will help AUST to increase its’ reputation in Bangladesh and aboard.

Following is a picture, where VC is giving speech today at 10:30 am as a part of the opening ceremony of the new campus. Sorry for the poor quality [as I took this one by my mobile phone].

AUST new campus

End of Fall Semester in AUST and others…

Tomorrow is the last day of FALL 2007 semester of AUST in its’ temporary campus. From the April 19, it will begin its’ journey in its permanent campus with starting of SPRING 2008 semester. The temporary campus is nothing in comparison with the highly enthusiastic permanent campus. The new one is lucrative as well as vast. But for the last one and half year all my memories were wrapped with the old one. Its’ very difficult to slash the relationship with oldie. May be after some span of time the oldie will be forgotten. But it surely needs time.

Now the obvious question is how much the new campus is ready for starting a new semester on the coming Saturday? Well to be frankly, it is not ready yet. All the laboratory has not been yet completed. The wiring system is a vital issue for all the Electrical related Labs. And our labs are lack of that. Also the class rooms are not well equipped. We’ve a simulation lab in papers not physically. How the students of simulation lab will pursue their lab experiments? To make it worse, all the cleaners are gone on strike! I don’t know how the authority thinks they can make it possible to start on April 19. Another problem that all the faculties, staffs and students will face is the transportation problem. Who have their own transport they can manage to attend the varsity but they are few in numbers. Majority of them who use the public transport system, will be in utmost trouble. Because there is still no public transportation route which will lead to the new campus safe and sound. More over as the campus is in some industrial area no taxi is available there. Authority must take these issue into their account and solve it immediately.

Class Routine

For the last two months I was working on the class routine for the upcoming semester. Alhamdulillah, I’ve finished it with help of Minhaz Bhaia and Kaiser. Making a routine for EEE department in AUST is always a cumbersome task. This time a massive amount of students, scarcity of class rooms, highest number of faculties and a totally new campus made the job more perplexed. But some how it has been done! Previously the routine was published in the notice board of the department. But this time due to a campus-shifting situation it has been decided to publish it in the new campus, but where in the new campus… that is undecided. This situation makes me to publish the class routine in my official site. Any one can download the routine from there. For AUST students who’ve collected it, please inform others to collect it.

To view the class routine of Spring 2008 semester please click HERE.

To download the full version of the class routine please visit my OFFICIAL SITE.

শুভ নববর্ষ ১৪১৫

নিশি অবসান প্রায় ঐ পুরাতন বর্ষ হয় গত

আমি আজি ধূলিতলে জীর্ণ জীবন করিলাম নত ।।

বন্ধু হও শত্রু হও যেখানে যে রও

ক্ষমা কর আজিকার মত

পুরাতন বরষের সাথে পুরাতন অপরাধ যত।।

-রবি ঠাকুর

সবাইকে নববর্ষের শুভেচ্ছা… শুভ পহেলা বৈশাখ ১৪১৫।।