Happy New Year 2008!

Wishing all my readers a Happy New Year! This bright New Year is given to us to exist each day with zest, to day by day development and try to be the highest and the best with the extension of faith and the best wishes! As the new year blossoms, may the journey of your life be fragrant with new opportunities, your days be bright with new hopes and your heart be happy with newer dreams come true! Happy New Year!

A Father-n'-Son Eid

Today we celebrated Eid in Bangladesh. Unlike the other year’s Eid, this Eid is special to me. It has been years since my father celebrated Eid with us. The reason of his unavailability was his job for which he has to be stay aboard. And he used to not getting his vacation during Eid. This year all four members of our family enjoyed the Eid. Thanks to Almighty Allah for this great oppertunity.

To day me and my father went to Dhanmondi Eidgah at morning to participate in Eid-ul-Adha saalat. After that whole day we were busy to process the sacrificed animals and distributed the meat among the relatives and the poor people. Our home was packed with our relatives after the noon. And who were not able to come, conveyed their greetings by phone. Two of my cousins were with us from just after the Eid Saalat. But above all, it was a special father n’ son Eid to me. I can’t express the feelings of having my father among us in this Eid. It’s just GREAT!! Thanks to the Almighty again.

Though after half a day work I am tired now, I have managed some gap to write a post in my blog. Hope all Muslims will enjoy this Eid pleasantly. Eid Mubarak!!

Father and Son

Some "Men-Women" facts

SUCCESS:
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HANDWRITING:
To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just write.
Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot their “i’s” with circles and hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in their “p’s” and “g’s.” It is a royal pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she’s dumping you, she’ll put a smiley face at the end of the note.

BATHROOMS:
A man has at most six items in his bathroom – a toothbrush,toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.
The average number of items in a typical woman’s bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items. Continue reading Some "Men-Women" facts

Annoying SMSs from Mobile Operators

Let’s start with a story of an alien. The alien was very much excited about his new findings on a trip to Earth. “The people on Earth no longer talk to each other using their mouths,” it reports; “They now communicate with their fingers by typing into a tiny toy.” Like the other countries, SMS (Short Message Service) became more popular than the voice call in Bangladesh when the mobile operators first lunched the SMS concept.

Sometimes SMS from a friend will make you laugh or SMS from family can give you a warm comfort. SMS can lighten your moments or can give you a sudden relief. SMS from a dear one is always welcome. But what about SMS from the mobile operators themselves? Several months ago, mobile operators used the SMS service for promoting their new services. Number of SMSs sent by the operators at that time were about 5-or-6 sms/month. This number has been tremendously increased within last few months. In our home, we are using mobile services from two operators: GrameenPhone and AKTEL. In my GrameenPhone contact number, I receive almost 4 sms/day whereas AKTEL sends about 2-3 sms/day on an average. So if I receive say 7 sms/day, about 50% of that is sent by the operators themselves!

These things (to receiving operator’s SMSs) were boring before, now it becomes disturbing. And the operators are not bother this disturbances. Every time my cell gives me a SMS alert and after opening the SMS, I find that it is another promotion or advertisement of one of their new services. Now it seems torture to me. You like it or not, you have to read their SMS, at least you’ve to open it! Can’t they stop this type of rubbish activity? If they want to advertise their services they can use the media. I am pretty sure about their solvency of doing that. Why are they tormenting us? By the way I am not sure, whether only I am suffering from this disturbance or everybody like me is also suffering?

Ten blogging tips from the Ultimate Blogger.

Do you know Jorn Barger? The answer will be negative for most of you except the geeks. Well he is often called as the Father of Blogs. Barger coined the term weblog on December 17, 1997; ten years ago this week for the first time to describe the process of logging the web as he surfed. And in 2007, Blogging is now probably the most important matter for the netizens. No one can actually count how many blogs are there in blogsphere. According to the CyberJournalist, the blogosphere is doubling about once every 6 and a half months. Not only the blogs also the blog lingo like Klogs, Plogs, Vogging etc. has been grown in a large extend. So tips from the Father will obviously be helpful for all the bloggers. Just go through the tips and enhance your blogging. By the way , Happy Birthday Blogs! Original link of these tips can be found here.

  1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
  2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
  3. If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
  4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
  5. You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
  6. Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
  7. Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
  8. Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.
  9. Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
  10. Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.

16th December: The Victory Day

Celebrate the 37th anniversary of Bangladesh’s glorious Victory Day. On this occusion, please uphold the spirit of liberation, secularism and democracy as opposed to autocracy, theocracy and/or any closed system that hinder peoples progress.

Surrender of Pakistani Military 1971

Pakistan’s Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi signs the instrument of surrender on December 16, surrendering his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora representing the Mitro Bahini.

As a Bangladeshi I sincerely believe that dream of the three million martyrs and the two hundred thousand women victims shall not be perished and Bangladesh will find her place as a dignified, democratic and secular country in the history. We are waiting for a brighter future.

Victory Day greetings to all my readers and friends.