The Review That Has Been Accepted!

Yeayyy! I feel so ecstatic and joyful! My review has been accepted. Looks like it wasn't submitted at all, at the beginning...thanks to the crappy internet connection I am using at office. Here's a link:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R82419.html

If you care and have time, I hope you will read it...whoever you may be! I also achieved legend status in Gamefaqs, which is like a silly dream come true. I could've written these things in my other blog, but hey, this is nothing but personal blabbering. Guess what? Someone mailed me, commenting on a specific liner I have written here.

My life is changing every day. Sometimes I fail to plan, which means I plan to fail. lol...this line is revolving around my mind for quite some time. I heard this from General Alexander (no she is not a guy...she's a woman!) in Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour.

Today was a great day for BD cricket. Ashraful hit another century against India!

I wrote the above lines a long time ago! I guess I should post this here now, before it gets too backdated. A few days after this, BD won their 100th oneday against India.

The Review That Has Been Submitted!

Hmm....i just found out that the review I have submitted to gamefaqs got missing :
Now this is really strange. But I'm glad that I managed to submit it again (yeah I wrote it using MS Word). My first 4 reviews were written online, using the gamefaqs editor, which has no online spellchecker, and or text editing tools. I was planning to post the review here, but let's see whether it gets published or not. If it gets published, I will just put up a link here.

My boss came to office today, decorated by a luscious dressup! I wonder why.....anyways, I should be having better things to do.

I stopped writing my other blog, putting up an excuse that I don't have much time. But I have already started missing writing there....it was a different type of blogging. Oh well...all good things must end after some time.

Today is my day of relaxing away. I'm sure my recent activities have created some misconceptions, and some people will misjudge me for what I have done, and will do. But does it really matter? After all, it's not my personal life that will get affected. Hmm....can I say that strongly? I don't know...let's see what the future has in store for me.

My lunch was too heavy, and I had it a bit early today. It was beef khichuri, brought from home. Lol...this reminds me of my childhood diary, where most of my entries got flooded with the descriptions of what I ate that day.

Food, toys, games, arcades, chatting, browsing, forums....these things were always part of my life, and they still are. I still check out toys, whenever I go shopping :$

Damn....my whole life is getting disorganized. My PC has gone nuts, the home one! The monitor goes blank and the PC stops responding.

Damned life!

Lessons Learnt Today

1. No matter how friendly you try to behave, some people will always offload their anger and frustration over you.
2. There will always be successful people, who will brag a lot.
3. People who offload their frustration over you, might not necessarily be bad people, and you may not be able to hate them, which is an irony!

Thinking :

A New Week

Last Friday, I wrote a draft entry which I just erased and started writing again. Today is Sunday, the first day of the week. It is quite natural that an individual will feel demotivated to go to office, after the weekends. However, I had mixed emotions when I arrived at office today. My home net connection is giving me a lot of trouble, for the last one week or so. I haven't felt it's absence that much, as I have internet access from my workplace. Moreover, I got my new graphics card in order to hook myself up. But yesterday was different. I was at home, all day long, and after a point of time, I was really bored. I have a number of good games installed, but for some reason, I was not feeling like playing any of'em. I played Call of Duty, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, C&C Generals: Zero Hour, Fifa 2005, etc. I did enjoy playing those games, but I'd like to see more games. I am eagerly waiting for "LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth", which will be released tomorrow. This will be an RTS game, using the C&C Generals engine. From the reviews I have read, the game will be an RTS fan's heaven. Even if the campaign sux, hopefully I will be able to derive pleasure from the skirmish game. There is, infact an RTS game based on the LOTR trilogy; but that game is soooooo bad that I uninstalled it just after playing a skirmish game for 10-15 minutes. The graphics is ancient, and the gameplay is archaic. By the way, ancient and archaic are synonymous :p

Just came back from visiting www.wwe.com. WWE used to be one of my passions. I remember, when WWE was WWF, there was only one show per week. Nowadays we have Raw and Smackdown in Monday and Tuesday, and both shows have different rosters. But in WWF, Raw and Smacdown was actually the same show, with the same roster, and these shows were aired on alternate weeks. Every 4 weeks, there would be a PPV (Pay Per View) event, where all the titles were put on the line, through several gimmick matches. Anyways, I became a WWF fan just because of Undertaker. My IRC nickname, Dead_Man_Rollin is dedicated to the dead man himself. Back in the 90s, 3 of my cousins were really crazy about wrestling. They would not miss a single match. I liked watching wrestling, but I never regretted missing a show; nor did I check the TV schedule for WWF shows. But one day I saw undertaker single handedly demolishing a 3 man tag team. Both the partners of Taker were exhausted and beaten up mercilessly, Throughout the match, undertaker was standing silently. Atlast, when he was tagged in, he beat up all three guys, and pinned all of them using his signature pin (the darkness pin)--crossing two hands of the opponent on the lap and pressing his own hands on the opponent. After that, I became a taker fan, and started following WWF more enthusiastically.

My relationship with wrestling roots back even farther. My dad used to watch wrestling when Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Jake The Snake Roberts, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, etc. individuals were at the peak of their careers. Now my dad denies that he used to enjoy wrestling, and was a fan, stating that "I didn't have anything else to do". This logic has some truth in it. This was the time when we lived in KSA. The male group of the small Bangali community of Dammam was pretty much hooked into wrestling. My dad claims that the group was responsible for making him watch the shows. Now in what context did this come up from? Well, when I first started seeing WWF regularly, my dad was indifferent.

Getting back to a previous link, when WWF was aired once a week, there would be a delayed transmission on Thursday. The show started at 8:30 PM, and went upto 9:30 PM. Ironically, at around 9 PM, a show called "Amanaat" was shown on Zee TV. Now my mom (later on, my dad, too) really liked this show, and there was no way for me to make her miss any episode. So what happened is, that I ended up missing the main event, and most interesting matches which would take place between that valuable 30 minute. And all this time, my dad would be absent from the scenario, because he stayed in his home office in the evenings. I used to listen to songs and study in the evenings. This wouldn't have happened if my dad stayed home in the evening. Looking back at those times, I now realize that I was quite afraid of my dad at that time. Maybe I'm still afraid of him, and maybe the level of fear has intensified, too. But why? Things changed a lot when my dad experienced his 2nd stroke. When was that? In 2002, as far as I remember. No, no..don't look at me like that! I had nothing to do with his stroke(s).

This Friday sucked badly...had to come to office twice, and though I enjoyed the pizza @ office (brought from Pizza Hut), it was actually detrimental for my health and obese body. The only good thing about the day was having a chat session with my abroad living chat friend T. It's been a while since I talked to her. Our friendship is funny and peculiar, and it's always fun talking to her. And whatta coincidence, she just logged in to msn. Later on, she called me in the evening and we talked for a while on random topics. And she got signed out just after 2 messages (one from me, and one from her).

Yesterday I received a phone call from Stormy bhai. He is in town now, and I am really looking forward to meeting him. He took a lot of phone numbers from me, and he sought an advice from me regarding the purchase of a mobile phone. In order to give him the best of judgment, I had to play a treachorous role and I suggested an Aktel connections :$

The fact is, our organization doesn't give the users a low cost solution towards TNT connectivity; not untill now. This is sad and unfortunate, but this is the reality.

After Ten Sports arrived, we got the opportunity of viewing WWE again. There was a year long interruption, as Star Sports decided to stop showing WWF. They started showing WCW instead, but it also stopped when WWF acquired the rights to WCW.

This time around, my dad stopped going downstairs, and he spent his evenings watching TV instead. So I had to fight for a piece of the whole TV watching Pie, where there were a number of strong competitors. Dad wants to watch sports (excluding WWE), mom and sis wants to watch hindi programs, etc.

I got 18 people online, in my MSN, but I don't seem to have anything to say to anyone. Isn't it weird? Not really.

Oh, one point to note. I don't really like people who have too many mood swings. To be more precise, even if I like someone, I don't like it when he or she has a lot of mood swings. An otherwise respectable/adorable person may turn ugly, when her or she has less control over his or her mood. And too much subtlety isn't good for anything.

So when I started watching WWE from 5:30 to 7:30 PM on Mondays and Tuesdays, I had to face a lot of problem. Moreover, the PPV events would go up to 8:30, which annoyed my other family members a lot. The automatic solution to this arrived, when I started going to HSBC for my internship. I'd arrive at around 6:30 due to immense traffic jam, and most of the time I was too tired and exhausted to gain the share of the pie. And not surprisingly, no one ever offered me a free show; that is, I would always have to ask for it. Okay, that's a lesson. No one will give you things unless you ask for them or gain them yourself.

Since I joined GP, things got even more difficult for me. Now I arrive at 8 PM....at times. Anyways to cut a long story short, I don't feel like watching WWE that much, nowadays. Once again, the point has been proven. Out of sight, out of mind.

But does this theory remains applicable, for people who never came within sight? Hehe....I won't elaborate. I don't wish to. Maybe some other time.

I miss AG a lot. I miss my AG, blog, too. It was quite different from the one I am writing here. Let's hope AG will be back again.

Signing off, till the next time.

Bye N Tc.

Looking Back: Part 2

I worked my ass off yesterday, and that's why I am workless today :-

I wonder why this place doesn't have smileys and or emoticons. Instead of writing "with happiness and a smile in my face, I say, today has been a great day", we can write:

Today has been a great day :-) :-D

I think smileys will become an integral part of our writing, in the near feature. Describing a simple emotion, like anger becomes a challenging task, when I am writing. But usage of a simple :@ can make things way easier.

Another year passes by, or to be more precise, will pass by after 29 days. This year, I was intensely involved with two online forums, www.amadergaan.com/forum and www.gamefaqs.com

I had about 6,500 plus posts in AG and I have 342 Karma in gamefaqs. Gamefaqs gives out 1 karma for each "active day". That is, if I publish at least one post in a given day, I will be awarded a karma point. As Karma points get accumulated, people get more privileges, like no posting restrictions, different staus, like "legend", "veteran", etc. The place is not that much interactive, but I love posting there, and I found a lot of cool links and information from there. I also wrote six reviews for gamefaqs, of which 1 got denied and 1 is still in pending status. My lates review is on Fifa 2005, and I am quite hopeful about it. I might as well submit this review for the "Review of The Month Contest".

I miss my writer days, and that's why I try to revive it every now and then by writing in forums. Look at my huge blog entries....I know nobody's reading, but yet I am writing volume just because I love writing.

The first guy who reviewed a writing of mine was really enthusiastic about my writing capabilities. Later on, he went as far as stating that I can become a writer like "Anisul Haque", and I can write goddo cartoons. That was an article written in Bangla.

Thanks Faheem bhai :-D

I will keep on writing!

Looking Back At Year 2004: Part 1

One of the good things about my job is that I get two holidays a week, Friday and Saturday. I don't really consider Friday as a holiday, because there are almost always some engagementin Fridays...either someone is getting married, or I need to meet some friends, or have to go to some family program, etc. Saturday is truly a holiday, when I have full freedom to sleep upto 12 PM, as well as to hang out with friends all day long. On Fridays, my dad stays at home, and he creates a fuss in order to wake me up before 9 AM. Every Friday morning begins with a quarrel. Whereas I see no point in rising early, every other member of the family considers it a honored duty to rise early! Strangely enough, in the rest 5 days of the week, I am the one who wakes up earliest, and I'm the one who leaves home long before my dad gets up from bed.

Are you an orkut user? I am one, and I am not very happy with the service quality. Google is a trusted brand name, and I expect better service from anything Google. Till now, I have used the google search engine, gmail service and orkut. I have been a long time google fan. Thanks to my ICT aware uncle, I got to know about google quite early. In those times, people would use yahoo, excite, altavista, lycos, etc. several search engines, and none of them were fast and accurate. Then came google, bringing a welcome change in our lives. It was a blessing for people like us, who were using slow dialup connections, back in year 2000. While yahoo search 2 minutes to display the results, google took only 15-20 seconds, and results were as accurate as any other search engine's.

But orkut is disappointing. It has some nice features, maybe too many of them, but the implementation is poor. One can create thousands of communities, using the same name. If we consider communities as Chat rooms/Message board, some critical options are missing. There's no way of adding moderators, and there's no way to edit posts--you can only delete them.

"Bad, bad server...no donut for you"

That's the message that is displayed, whenever orkut can't show something which you wanted to see. This is frustrating, and such occurences are more than regular. I used to hang out a lot in Amadergaan.com. But now that the site is not available, I think I will visit orkut more frequently. But I do hope AG gets back soon. Infact, I am playing a small part in a humble effort to bring back AG. Let's pray for the best for everyone concerned.

The last month of the year has started and it is making me a bit excited. Every year, I have some special things to look back at. Let's make a short list:

1998: Passed outta NDC and got admitted in IBA (almost at the end of the year)
1999: Got my PC and started chatting in Mirc
2000: My grandmother died
2001: Became Dead_Man_Rollin for the first time, I met an IRC pal in real life, got in to NSU
2002: Year of extreme ghura ghuri and addabaji, plus a lot of study
2003: Year of recovery--got my arse back in to studies. Scored a 3.75 and ended my uni life in Summer 2003. Did my internship from HSBC, applied for a job in GP, and got it.

November 6, 2003- now

My non-student life goes on. This year, I spent a lot of money in eating, treating and buying stuff. I haven't saved much. I upgraded my PC, with a lot of new gadgets.

I started my internship in HSBC in June 2003. Although most people managed to get internships as soon as they finished their courses, I relied on our career services department, and decided not to take any initiative on my own. That was a mistake, and I quickly discovered myself to be "one of the few guys and gals who haven't started thier internships yet". It was a very frustrating time, perhaps one of the worst times of my life. I was confused, my parents were angry and confused. I was always confident that my cgpa was adequate enough to earn me a respectable internship, but the job description I received from One Bank was really disappointing. I decided not to take up that job. I gave an interview in Scholastica Group, mainly a merchandising entity. They are the guys who hold the rights to importing Matell products, as well as Harry Potter books and a number of other expensive items. They operate the shop ETC., situated besides Pizza hut in gulshan. The place was good, I mean, the people looked smart and friendly, and the boss was quite impressive, inspite of being an Indian. The idea of having an Indian boss pissed me off, to a great extent. But I had to accept the reality. Indians are good, and they are better businessmen than most of us.

I had to sit for a number of tests. I was the first person to pursue the organization for an internship. They were treating me as a potential employee, which was nice. I had to give a typing speed test, an English grammar test, two interviews and one final interview! One woman took an interview, where she asked one question in English, and another in Bangla, and I had to switch between the two languages which was fun.

The distribution manager (the Indian guy) said "I will now have a meeting with my people. You can wait and watch it, and afterwards I'll interview you." The meeting was amusing, and funny. His speech was very close to being a pre-game pep-talk. We will have to sell this amount, if a person wants needles, we can import them too--the product is not important, the quantity is.

That's when I found out that these guys were trying to establish a supply chain for imported stationary items in different offices. They also talked about books, toys, etc. I really wanted to get in to Matell distribution. Hot Wheels is a name which always makes me emotional. I had many hot wheels cars in my childhood. I used to play a lot using those cars. I spent my childhood in an aloof manner. There wasn't too many boys of my age around, and I spent most of my time at home, playing with toys. Oh, I'm going off topic, I'll shed more light on this later on.

After the meeting, the Indian guy asked me whether I am ready to join here, or not. It was actually a job offer, whereby I'd spend 3 months here as an intern, and then get in full time. I just said I'll recheck with my faculty advisor and let ya know.

Surprisingly, the very next day I received a call from HSBC bank that I had been selected for internship there. I will have to sit for an interview, and if I like the job, I will be taken. Sigh....rest is history. A bitter history, to be more precise. I opted for HSBC and my 3 months stay in there was damn painful.

I'll write more later.

Coffee and Caffeine

For unknown reasons, I'm feeling cheerful and happy from the morning. It's a Wednesday, and still one more day left for the week to end. I received a bad news in the morning...my beloved site amadergaan.com has been shut down for indefinite period. Here's what I see:

the end

After serving about a million of visitors from all over the world for the last two and half years, we are forced to shut down (indefinitely) due to lack of finances. We were struggling to meet the server bills for quite some time and donations were few & far between. So we decided to close the server until we are able to find a permanent financial source and have a steady flow of donations to run the server. We don't see this as setback and we don't want all our visitors to think that this is the end of AG. We hope to return soon, sooner than anyone expects and your support would go a long way. If you have information/ideas about possible financial source(s), please do contact us. You can donate to AG via Paypal as well (use the link below). Donations would help us to restart the server and site soon. We would really appreciate your support.If you do not have a Paypal account and would still like to contribute contact us for more payment option.We will be back. Count On us.

I don't want to spend my blogging time talking on AG, and ruining the good mood I am in, so rather not talk about it.

I slept late yesterday (to be more precise, today). When the contact between my head and the pillow finally got established, it was 1:40 AM. The evening was different, to some extent. I came home at around 7:15 PM. Usually I take some snacks and sit in front of the PC and do the usual bit, i.e. listening to songs, playing games, browsing, posting in forums, blogging and chatting on msn. But yesterday I was so tired and exhausted, that I had my snacks and went to bed. I was listening to "Toss The Feathers" by Corrs, a wonderful instrumental. Then came my dad, and destroyed my mood by sitting in front of the PC. I was running Windows XP, and AutoCAD is installed in my other OS, Win ME. He restarted the PC and started working. This has been happening for quite some time...."The Battle for PC". My dad's weapon here being "I am working...you only play and spend useless time in internet". This is one argument which I cannot counter, cause it's true. But you know what? After spending 8-10 busy and dynamic hours at Office, listening to some good music, and all the other stuff I have mentioned earlier is probably the best thing I can do.

All this crap, coming from a 24 year old chap might sound pathetic. There are people, who always say that my parents don't want to acknowledge the fact that I have grown up. They still try to control the individual, who now has more than 1 years full time job experience in the toughest department of one of the toughest organizations of Bangladesh. He is responsible for approximately 1 million subscribers (me and Nafiz bhai runs the prepaid product development team, which is responsible for the 2 million plus prepaid subs of GP) and he is yet to fail an assignment.

Just came across a funny condom AD....it says:

"To all those who use our comeptitor's products: Happy Father's Day"

Kinda raw, yet funny.

Back to morning...it's only 9:30 AM, and the day has just began. Yeah, you can see that I don't have much to do this morning. The last 3 days were really hectic, and I had to accomplish some mammoth tasks. The problem with my boss is, she will expect the best output without giving adequate time. And sometimes, she'd ask for analyses, for which we need data. Without good data, how is it possible for us to provide concrete analytical findings?

Enough grudging about my job. I am not actially disappointed with my job. Something is better than nothing, and I get paid quite well. I entered this organization without any full time working experience. I did, however, have some part-time work experience. However, I never imagined that those experiences would help me in any way, when I applied here using their online job application system (www.bdjobs.com/gp). Strangely enough, I was asked many questions regarding my journalist(!) life during my interview. I had a lot of fun writing for Computer Times and Shaptahik 2000.

When I was a kid, I used to maintain a personal diary. But I quit writing when I found out that the I can't actually write the things that I wanted to write. As an example, one day I wanted to write about that flirting session me and my cousin had with the girl next house. Her's and our's home is divided by a wall, which belongs to them. Me and my cousin was playing badminton (as far as I remember), and she was watching us play. After so many years (that was in year 1990 O guess), I don't remember the whole incident, but we had some discussions, and we kind of become good friends. She'd always watch us play, and we'd occasionaly stop playing and chat with her. Times changed...she got restricted inside, we grew up, found the arcades and deserted the playgrounds....the cruelty of the world. She was always around, but I didn't have much conversations with her. My cousin was always interested in her, and he ended up getting her number and doing a lot more. I was quite surprised to discover her in NSU, again in year 2001. I talked to her after at least 7-8 years.

I got two bosses, and both are outta station today. My colleague tries to act bossy at times, cause he's the senior. But in paper, he has the same rank as mine. But I, too, like to make him feel special by always acting as the harmless junior. He is a hard working guy, and he gets less than he deserves, and vice versa. Didn't understand? Well he gets less money and more flak. The same goes for me as well....:s

I can keep on writing forever, but I don't wish to. I had 99 posts in my amadergaan blog (in almost 3 months) so you can see that I'm a talkative guy.

Let's finish this entry here. If I don't have much to do today, I might take up the keyboard again. In yesteryears, writers use to take up the pen...nowadays we take up the keyboard...lol...cool evolution, right?

Joe Satriani, Marty Friedman.....listening to'em right now.

bye n tc..

A year passes by

Today GrameenPhone's MD, Mr. Ola Ree spent his last day at office; in Bangladesh. I never got the chance to work with him, but he seemed a good guy to me. Moreover, he was, indeed an inspirational leader. He worked for 4 full years here. I just felt like noting this down, cause maybe in the future I will need this info...hehe.

Things aren't going that well in my life. Getting confused everyday.....seeing a lot of "de-ja-vu"s abd experiencing some strange feelings. That's the summary of the story.

I think I've already said that I bought a new graphics card. Now one more thing to go, and I can say that I have achieved a dream, that I had been dreaming while I was a university student. That'd be a 17 inch monitor. It's funny how most my plans and dreams revolved around games. From my early childhood, I've been playing games. Should I go to retirement? I dunno....maybe yes. But another intriguing aspect needs to be imposed/imported into my life, in order to bring me outta game addiction. Chatting did the job for quite some time, and also forum participation. These things still work. But in order to eliminate it, something bigger is required. Sigh....who am I kidding? The hint is obvious :p

I wrote a number of personal mails today....to be precise, three. It's been a while, since I wrote the last mail. There was a time, when I'd spend a lot of time writing long mails to my dear ones...both friends and family. But nowadays, I feel bitter, whenever I try to write anything resembling a meaningful, and long mail.

6th November 2003 to 30th November 2004--is this a very long time? I guess not. But the changes are big, and easily noticeable. There has been a number of evolutions, and changes in my life. A lot of transitions, a lot of crazy spending, a number of crazy activities, and a number of "returning" old friends, and golden new friends.

Some core features never changes......

They won't change, and I'm happy with it! Will write more, later.

Thanks for reading.

Welcome Back!

It's been a while since I last updated this blog'o mine. The reason being a long holiday, which is finally over. A lot of things happened within this period, of which I am feeling too bored to write about.

Last week I did a crazy thing. I just went ahead and bought an expensive ATI Radeon 9800 SE graphics card (20th November, 2004). It was expensive, but I forgot all the pain after looking at the graphics of Fifa 2005 and NFS UG2. It's just too good, compared to what I had beforehand (a Radeon 7000).

Eid was good, and so was the days before and after.....untill now.

Not feeling like writing anything more at this moment. Feeling too tired to do anything. Maybe I'll write more later.

Ciao

A Good Day At Office Ended Badly

I was suspecting something like this, when I woke up late in the morning. Actually I did wake up on time, as I had alarm set on my cell phone. But my response time was lagged...I managed to drag my body outta bed at 8:05. I had only 15 minutes to get ready, and get down for catching the bus. Tragedy--when I buckled my shoe laces and, and got outta my home, it was 8:22 and the bus had already left. I called my school friend Rahad, who lives nearby, from my cell. That pesky guy erased my name from his cell phone contacts list. Hence I heard "Assalamu Alaikum...ke bolchen?", from him. I decided not to get into that bit, and asked him straightaway, did ya managed to avail the office bus? He said "No, I am standing in front of my home now." So two long time pals, and sleep-addict colleagues decided to get together and avail a CNG vehicle to reach office. After a lot of chit chat, and a tedious journey, we paid the 44 taka fare (about 0.75 cents, if you count it in dollar terms), and went our separate ways. I work in the Sales and Marketing division, while he works in Customer Relations Division.

I just managed to get hold of the new Bryan Adams album, "Room Service". The album is really nice. I specifically liked the following tracks:

1. East Side Story
2. She's a Little Too Good For Me
3. Room Service

Isn't it strange to have another album with a similar theme? It's "Hotel Paper" by Michelle Branch. That's a nice album, too. And I really like Michelle's voice. I read her bio, where she said that she's been a lifelong fan of The Beatles. During her childhood, she used to listen to the song "Eight Days A Week", repeatedly. However, she was really disappointed when she got to know that it's "ticket", not "chicken". She always thought that the song was like this "She's gotta chicken to ride", and that's the way she sang it. No wonder her parents would always laugh out loud, whenver she started singing "she's gotta chicken to ride...oh she's gotta chicken to ride..and she don't care"

Lol, this reminds me of a review of that album I read about in Amazon. Here was this user, who said " I don't know why she named this album as Hotel Paper. It's one of the worst albums I have ever heard. It should've been named Toilet Paper instead". A very gross joke, indeed. But I laughed my heart out reading that :-D

Oh yeah...I spend the whole day in office, working really hard. I did spend some time idle chatting with my colleagues, browsing some forums and checking mails, but most part of it was work. Before I left office, I mailed a draft presentation for a proposed promotional feature for one of our cell phone products. This promotion has no chance of getting launched within the next month or two, and nobody's taking it seriously, as it's implementation and outcome depends on a lot of "what ifs". To make it short, the whole project is a damned crazy idea, involving a lot of resources, and the end result won't be nothing significant, which even the dumbest member of the cross-functional product team managed to realize. But this brilliant boss of mine, is just too adamant to realize this crude reality. Her own pride and arrogance overshadowed the better interest of the company, and the people who are doing the job under her. She had the nerve to call me back to office, when it was 4:15, and I was miles away from office, sitting idly in the bus. I explained my current state, and also told her that I'll be reaching home within 5 minutes. But she said "Either you come, or send your co-worker". Yeah, me and a guy (who's a one year university senior to me) works in the prepaid product team. I called him, and found out that he's also nearby, availing a different mode of transportation, and heading towards home. He asked me to call that woman and explain the issue again. I decided to be a rebel and remained silent. Sigh....tomorrow I'll face the consequences, which won't be that pleasurable. Nobody survived in the corporate world, enraging one's own boss. But I wasn't born for bowing down to undue pressure. Let's hope for the best.

Luckily enough, my colleague called the boss and calmed her, in some way...so she agreed to see "get explained" tomorrow. So I'm a failure...I failed to con my boss. But I ain't regrettin' this time.

Another thing to note: today was my cute lil' cousin Anif's birthday. It's his 3rd birthday, and he had a blast with all the gifts and affections, and we had a blast with the well decorated, nice tasting black forest cake.

View Count: 1993

So it's 33. Cool!

I wish this thing had a view count, too.

Anyways, finishing this now.

Good Morning!

View Count: 1988

So...I got 28 readers! Wow! I am really surprised. I wonder whether I'd get a figure that'd even come close 28 for these entries. No wonder I don't want to leave that place.

It's 9:40 AM in the morning...still a calm, quiet and serene environment is prevailing in office. I can log in to MSN, but not feeling like doing so. I haven't been bothered by any of my colleagues or the boss yet. Just Mr. S asked for a Nokia charger, and that's all. Strangely, the charger for Nokia 3315 did not work for his new Nokia set (dunno the model, probably belonging to the new 5xxx series).

Hehe...just received a forward mail. Maybe I should share this here:

Lawyers should NEVER ask a witness a question, if they aren't prepared for the answer.
In a trial, a Southern small town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grand motherly, elderly woman to the stand.
Approaching her he asked: "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"

She responded:
"Why, yes I do know u, Mr. Williams. I know u since you were a young boy, &
frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me.
Y lie, u cheat on u'r wife, u manipulate people & talk about them
behind their backs. Y think u're a big shot when u haven't the
brains to realize u never will amount to anything more than a two-bit
paper pusher. Yes, I know u."

The Lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the
room & asked:

"Mrs. Jones, do u know the defense attorney?"

She again replied, "Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a
youngster too. He's lazy, bigoted, & he has a drinking problem. He can't
build a normal relationship with anyone & his law practice is one of the
worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with
three different women.

One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him." The defense attorney almost died!

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench, and in a very quiet voice, said:
"If either of u bastards asks her if she knows me, I'll throw your sorry asses in jail for contempt."

Lol...now that was funny indeed.

Damn...got an official mail from the guy sitting a few cubicles ahead. They are outta ruin my peace. I hate these people. Like 3 days before the Eid holiday, why don't these guys just pass the days peacefully? Why ponder over a certain promotional plan, which doesn't even have the remotest possibility of getting introduced this year? Wastage of brain resources...I must say.

Anyways, I guess I'll have to go and do something about that mail.

Beimaan Duniya :(

72 Hours of Holiday: Unutilized or Utilized?

Entry 2

Yeah...it's almost a miracle, that I managed to enjoy 72 hours of holiday! No work, no deadlines, no pressure from the boss--absolutely no tension at all. Oh well, I should rephrase this. There was tension, and it came very unexpectedly. No, one source of tension was not totally unexpected, but the way it came in was quite unexpected. Someone pissed me off, and I pissed him off, too...and then he pissed me off again! End result, I'm trying to delete the incidents from my mind. But the other issue got solved in a nice manner. The person who got pissed off at a comment of mine got an explanation from me, which sounded logical to her...and then she agreed that she overreacted. All well and good.

Today Bangladesh lost yet another match to New Zealand. However, this time the score crossed 150, and the defeat margin was a bit respectable. Still, a defeat is a defeat, and that's all we get from the team whom we really adore. Like, Cricket is the only sport were we get to play in the world cup. Shouldn't we try and get better in this sport? The shots I saw Manzarul Rana playing on the 49th over of the match was simply idiotic. He was practicing "forward defense" and also some other defensive shots. I know, at that point of time, there was nothing more to achieve from the game, and giving away one's wicket through playing extravagant shots is indeed a dumb idea, but again, it looked really bad. Especially when the stadium audience was booing him for his effort(!). People want to see some big hits during the final overs of a match. It has always been like that. Now if some smart ass guy wants to defy the rules and play test cricket in a one day match, I can just ask him to "Go ta hell".

My mom and sister ain't home tonight. They wen't to grandma's home in Mohammadpur. The house is really empty. I thought I won't be missing them (cause it's just a one night matter) , but I am really missing them :(

My dad just came here and told me that he'd get to sleep once I go to sleep. So this is a psychological pressure. Dad is a heart patient, he had one minor and one severe stroke. So I always have to remain intimidated and careful, in case he gets angry at me. I have taken this for granted, just like I have taken up many other things, too. Compromising is good, but is too much compromising good for me?

I revealed some information to Ziko today. I don't like to discuss these issues, but I really like the kid, and he's been asking me about this issue for quite some time. I always avoided answering him straightaway. But today I decided to open myself, and bingo.....he blurted out an "Ahare" for me. Thanks :-)

Anyways, gotta go to bed now. A big day is ahead.

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1960 (for my AG blog, just after I've posted my 96th entry over there!)
like wow....now it's 1966, and only about 15 minutes have passed. Damn my blog must be popular :D

First and The Furious

Day 1: Entry 1
6th November
BDT 19:49 (GMT 13:49)

One of my favorite hobby is to customize song and movie titles, to make'em a bit funnier, or to make'em more suited for being set as my MSN messenger nick. Hehe...so the other day, when I was listening to "Still Loving You" by The Scorpions, I just set my MSN nick as "Still Hating You", which generated two responses from two of my msn contacts.

One is an old and very close friend of mine, who asked "What's the meaning of this nick?". I told her..that's a tricky nick...I want everyone to have this impression that he or she is the hated one. She replied that I got smarter. Then I said, it is you who have taught me this technique, cause she was the one who had "I love you :) " as her nick on the valentine's day this year.

The other response I got was from another close and new friend of mine. She was a she, just like the first person. She said, "Why do you hate me so much???". lol...that was a funny comment to hear, at 1:15 Am in the morning. I retaliated by saying that you are also asking me to die. Cause she had this nick 'mor mor mor mor mor shala"...which means "die die die you brother of my wife".. ahem I know it doesn't ring a bell to you, if you're not from Bangladesh like me, but the word (despite of having an innocent meaning) isn't a very pleasant word to hear. Infact it's kind of a slang.

I am very close with an online community, namely Amadergaan

The incidents that happen there often affects me in my real life, which is not a very good thing.

Today I did my shopping for Eid. Eid is one of the largest festivals of our lives. Bought a pair of trousers, matched with the pair of shirts that I received as birthday gifts last month. The shopping was a mixed experience. I always enjoy shopping with my mom and sister, which highly contradicts with the liking of guys who have the same age as mine.

I also bought a DVD compilation of all the LOTR games released till date (on PC). I installed "Return of The King", and played it for half an hour. As I really enjoyed the last part of the trilogy, I liked the game, too. After playing the game, I read a few reviews on gamefaqs, where people said that the game is really crappy. Infact out of 10 people, only 2 gave less than 5 scores (in a 10 scale) to the game. I checked out gamespot review before buying the game. They gave it 8.5 or something like that, which is a pretty good score.

While I'm writing this, I am hearing my mom weeping beside me, on the phone. My uncle, and my mom's younger brother, died off a terrible accident, 2 years ago. She recalls the sad incedent every now and then, and sheds tears. Right now she is sharing her tears with my aunt (her elder sister). Everytime my mother cries, I feel terribly helpless, cause death is such a loss which cannot be condoled. It gets even more difficult when it's a premature death. My uncle was only 33 when he died.

Anyways, that was my first entry here. Hope at least someone out there found it interesting.

Bye and take care all
Ishtiaque