Bhor-belar Post.

January 25, 2008

Amar moto manusher jonno bhor 5 tay ghum venge jawa ta khub ekta shubidhar bepar na. Nizer kachei nizeke choto choto lage, lojja korte thake. Ar kodin dhore ghum vengei shobar prothom amar mathay jei chinta ta ashche, sheta holo “az ki rod uthbe/utheche?”. Hotath kore birat prokriti-premik hoye gechi. Rod bhalo lagche, bon bhalo lagche.. dui din por dekha jabe tia pakhi, misti kumra eishob o bhalo lagte shuru koreche. Bhor bela ghum theke uthe tia pakhi dekhte ichha korbe, jokhon tokhon shobuz ghashe pa choriye misti kumra, kochi lau eshob koley niye boshe thakte ichha korbe.

LOL ghum theke uthe prothom 15 min ami ekta ghoor er moddhe thaki. Ekhono mone hoy shei ghoor laga porbo cholche. Ki shob ulta palta likhchi!

Bhalo ek kaz jogar korechi; youtube e khuje khuje bangla natok dekha. Bolte gele ek nishashei ‘Kobi’ dekhe shesh kore fellam. 25 porber natok. Kono porboi 15 minutes er beshi na, tai 25 porbo dui din’e dekhe shesh kore fellam shune je rokom voyaboho mone hochhe, bepar ashole toto voyaboho na.

Kobi natoker golpo holo 3 kobi bondhu ke niye: Atahar, Sajjad ar Mozid. Tin jon e pagol dhoroner kobi, jotro totro kobita likhe beray. ‘Kobi’ boi ta porechilam onekdin age. Golper shathe natoker kototukun mil ache bolte parbo na.. karon golpo ta amar ar mone nei. Natoker ekta kobita shune shudhu mone holo, ei kobita ta age kothaw porechi. Atahar er bon Milir biye hoye geche nana rokom jhamelar por; baba mara gechen, ma coma te ocheton, agey ekbar biyer kotha hoye venge geche Milir. Ekhon Mili train e kore shoshur bari jachhe tar niriho nadush nudush bhalo-manush dhoroner shami ke niye, tokhon Atahar tar choto bhai ke diye boner kache kobita ta pathay. Kobita ta shune ami pray mugdho :p

“Shon Mili, Dukkho tar bish-makha tir’e toke bidhe barong bar
Tobu o nishchit jani, ekdin hobe tor shonar shongar
Uthon e porbe eshe, ek fali rod; tar pashe shishu guti koy
Tahader dhulo makha hat e, dhora debe prithibir shokol bisshoy!”

Ami ekdom e kobita tobita type na. Kobita tobita bhalo laga to dure thak, shojjoi hoy na. Neka neka lage. Kobita buzhi o na khub ekta. Amar kache ekhono bhalo kobita mane, “bash baganer mathar upor chad utheche oi, ma go amar sholok bola kajla didi koi?”. Amar onek bondhu bandhob achen, jara kobitar vetorer lukiye thaka shondorjo kolpona kore nite paren, ber kore ante paren. Ami pari na. Amar hashi ashe kobitar vab mara kotha shunle. Tarporo ei Milir kobita ta bhalo lege gelo.

Shishu boyoshe (ashole toto shishu na. class 9/10 e thakar shomoyer kotha) erokom ek kobita bhalo legechilo. Kobi Al-Mahmud’er. Shei kobitar matha mundu o buzhtam na. Tobu o bhalo legechilo keno jani na. Ami shei kobita mukhosto o korechilam.. “Ridoyer ek dik e gol hoye ache bedona.. oshudher shaddho nei, prokriti pare na dite ar ..aharer ruchi, ghum, shopner mazhe hete jawa”. LOL Khub e vaber kobita. Ki buzhe mukhosto korechilam ke jane. Shei boyoshe amar aharer ruchi motew kharap chilo na. 2 plate tehari ekai shabar kore felte partam.

Jai hok, beshir vag shomoyi manusher bhalo laga, kharap lagar kono karon lage na. Onek jinish emni emni bhalo lege jay, onek bhalo lagar moto jinish karon charai oshojjo lage. Tobe ei kobita bhalo lagar ekta karon vebe ber korechi, train station e bidayer drissho. Ami choto theke boro hoyechi train er zhukur zhukur shobdo shune shune ar porichito manush der ke station e biday diye diye. Pray e Dhaka theke Sylhet jawa hoto. Jawar shomoy ek kosto, ashar shomoy ar ek kosto. Dhaka theke rowana hobar shomoy, Abbu ke station e eka fele jawar kosto. Onno dike ferot ashar shomoy Mama Chacha der ke station e fele ashar kosto. Abar keu Dhakay berate ashle, take train e tule debar shomoyo mone hoto “shobai chole jay keno, puro nana bari ta Dhakay chole ashlei to pare”. Onekdin por natoker shubade shei chelebelar sriti ta mone pore gelo, onekdin por train er zhukkur zhukkur shobdo taw shunlam. Prithibir ar kono desher train erokom momota-makhano shobdo korte pare bole mone hoy na, shudhu bangladesher lokkor zhokkor gorib train gulai pare. Tobey, jara choto belay train-e chepe ghure beran ni, tara ei momotar bepar ta buzhte parben na. Ar amra jara parchi, tara nishhondehe vaggoban :)

Dhonnobad youtube!


Happy Old Year 2007

December 31, 2007

Gudum gadum kore aro ek bochor chole gelo. Choto thaktei mone hoy bhalo chilo. Shomoy khub dhire dhire jeto. Amar ekhono mone ache, koto agroho niye ami 18 hobar opekkha kortam. Mone hoto 18 hoye gelei buzhi boro hoye jabo, shadhin hobo, eka eka jekhane khushi jete parbo, jokhon ichha bashay firte parbo. 18 holam. Shudhu ekta shongkha paltalo. Boro bhab ta ar ashlo na. Hal charlam na. Vablam 21 hole oboshhoi boro hoye jabo. Dhire dhire 21 o holo, lubh holo na. Tarpor odhir agroho niye 25 er opekkha korte thaklam, na eibar ar boro hobar jonno na. 25+ hole auto insurance rate kombe, ei jonno opekkha. Ha, ei asha ta puron hoyeche.

Notun bochor purano bochor eishob amar kache eki rokom lage. Just shomoyer ekta hishab. Eta niye oto adikh’kheta amar ashe na. Oneke abar ‘new year’s resolution’ namok bishesh ek jinish niye zhapiye poren. Tobe beshir vag shomoy-e dekhi ei utshaho 3/4 din er beshi thake na. Idea ta jodio mondo na. Notun bochor upolokkhe nizeke poriborton korar broto neya, nizer jonno bhalo kichu ekta kora. Tobe amar kache bepar ta kichu ta hasshokor mone hoy. Ahammoker moto keno bochorer prothom din porjonto boshe thakte hobe! Keu jodi shotti bishash kore tar jonno ekta bishesh kono kichu bhalo, tahole tar sheta shei muhurto thekei shuru kora uchit, shudhu shudhu bochor shesh howa porjonto opekkha na kore.

Amar borong 2007 er jonno khanik ta mayai lagche. Etodin pashe pashe chilo bechara. Ar ekhon shobai kina shompurno oporichito 2008 niye lafa lafi korche. Jani etai niom. Shob kichui ek shomoy puraton hoye jay.

Jai hok, notun bochor e shobai bhalo thakuk, shustho thakuk ebong onnoder ke bhalo rakhuk. :)

Oh nicher ei chobi ta prothom-alo te dekhlam azke. Khushi hobo, shosti pabo naki bethito hobo buzhte parchi na.

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Mission ‘Tenualosa Ilisha’ Accomplished

December 28, 2007

heh! obosheshe.
Baburchi: Hasan Bhai
Kopal bhalo je bangali hoye jonmechilam! Na hole eishob halka patla shukher bepar gulo foshke jeto. :p
ilish
Artist: Anjan Dutta, Usha Uthup
Album: Bong Connection (Movie Soundtrack) [Download]


Ilish, Fuchka ebong Dhumketur Golpo

December 27, 2007

Amar mone hoy oti druto boyosh bere jachhe. Edaning udvot udvot shob shopno dekhchi. Ebong shob cheye obak kora bepar hochhe, tader pray shob guloi khawa dawa shomporkito. Manush buriye jabar shathe shathe naki khawa dawar proti agroho bere jay. Amar Boro Mama (nanar chacha, unake ‘boro mama’ daktam naki ‘buro mama’ daktam ekhon ar mone pore na.. amar joto dur mone pore ‘buro mama’i daktam. uni mara jabar onek din por ki ek proshonge unake ‘buro mama’ bole deke Ammur zhari kheyechilam, tokhon buzhte parlam unake ashole ‘boro mama’ dakar kotha chilo.) beche chilen onek boyosh porjonto. Shesh boyoshe tar ar kono kichu te kono agroho chilo na, shudhu khawa dawar bepar e oshim utshaho; eta khabo, ota khabo, sheta khabo. Amaro mone hoy shetai hochhe. Gotokal rat e shopno dekhlam, ami dhakay Mohsin Hall er mather shamne dariye fuchka khachhi. Fuchkar dokan taw dekhte udvot dhoroner. Ager moto kather nokkor zhokkor thela gari type dokan na. Ekdom star-wars er kono episode theke uthe asha hi-tech dokan. Jodio fuchkawalar lungi pora jirno chehara ager motoi. Dokaner shob e hi-tech tobe fuchka khola batashe rekhe diyeche. Hoyto shopne Dhaka shohorer batash o hi-tech bishuddho jibanu-mukto hoye giyechilo, tai ar fuchka dheke rakhar proyojon pore ni. Shopner shei fuchkar dam o mone ache, 16 taka. :p

Ei gelo fuchkar ghotona. Ei dike ilish mach khawa niye ar ek kando badhiye boshe achi. Virginia te bondhur bashay berate eshe amar ilish mach khawar jonno poran shukiye jachhe. Azke ar ek friend ashche NY theke. Amar jontronay osthir hoye take “vabi ilish mach khete cheyeche” jatio chapa mere ilish mach ananor bebostha koreche ar ek bondhu. Ami odhir agroho niye opekkha korchi, kokhon ilish mach ashbe ebong shei jinisher vaji khabo. lol Amar bondhur dharona khida hochhe 3 rokom; chokher khida, moner khida ar peter khida. Ami er pasha pashi notun khida abishkar korechi, gondho khida. Ilish macher shad mukhe pete amar joto na ichcha korche, zhazhalo gondho ta pete tar cheye beshi ichcha korche.

Dhumketu naki ekta nirdrishto shomoy por por firey ashe. Amaro ei ilish macher prem ekta nirdrishto shomoy por por ghure firey ashche. Choto thaktew ekbar emon utola hoyechilam ilish macher jonno. Ami tokhon 9/10 bochorer, nana bari gechi berate, amar prochondo jor holo. Jorer mukhe kono kichui khete bhalo lage na. Sharadin bichanay shuye shuye ‘ko’ ‘ko’ jatio shobdo kori. Nani eta sheta khabar ene shada-shadhi koren, amar khete ichha kore na. Tokhon dupure khabar jonno ilish mach vaji kore table e neya hochhe. Amar hotath shei gondho ta eto darun laglo. Ami nani ke ‘ko’ ‘ko’ shobde janalam ami ilish mach khabo. Shomoshha holo bhat to khete pari na. Jor mukhe bhat namte chay na gola diye. Nani upay ekta ber korlen, amake ilish mach khawalen boshe boshe, pauruti diye. Amar ekhono mone ache holud-lal rong meshano mach ar pauruti ki je omriter moto lagchilo. Pore jibone onekbar cheshta korechi pauruti morano ilish khabar, toto ta bhalo ar kokhonoi lage ni.

Amar jiboner shei ilish macher dhumketu abar firey esheche eto bochor por amar akashe. Hishab kore dekhte hobe cycle ta koto bochorer. Tahole next ilish-attack er jonno age theke ready thaka jabe. Kothaw gele, shathe kore frozen ilish macher choto packet niye jete hobe ekta, ranna taw shikhe felte hobe. Mon aku paku korlei zhot pot ranna kore ilish kheye fela.

Virginia jayga ta otirikto boring. Ar na hoy ami otirikto home sick. Hoyto home sick shikar korte lojja pai, ei jonno Virginia ke boring bole dosh chapiye debar chestha korchi. Agew dekhechi, ami jekhanei jai 4 din por shei jayga oshojjo lagte shuru kore. Ei prothom er betikrom ghotlo; 4 din opekkha korte hoy ni, prothom thekei biroktikor lagche.

Jai hok, NY firey jachhi agamikal. Nizer bichanay abar ghumabo, bhorbela (dupurbela bola uchit) uthe nizer bathroom e nizer sink’er shamne dariye nizer chehara dekhe dekhe dat brush korbo :p Ei shob kotha vebe vebe abege apluto hoye jachhi lol

Oh, Virginiar weather mondo na. Gotokal sharadin jodio bristi hoyeche, azke zhor zhora weather ekdom. Ekbar rod e giye darale ar ghor e ashte ichha kore na.


in Virginia

December 26, 2007

Visiting Virginia with Hasan Bhai and Zakir Bhai. On our way we picked Rahman Bhai from BWI.
It’s been only 10 hours and I already have started missing NY. Will be back to NY on 28th [Friday].

Elvis Presley: Always on my mind

Maybe I didn’t treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn’t love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Maybe I didn’t hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I’m so happy that you’re mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, I’m sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind


Eid Mubarak

December 19, 2007

Some people are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha today. In North America people are actually celebrating Eid in three different days; today, tomorrow or day after tomorrow. Usually every year people get to choose between two different days. I don’t know how they came up with three different days this time. I guess people are getting smarter and more flexible. :p

Unfortunately/fortunately I am not celebrating today :p Anyway, whoever is celebrating, I wish you a happy Eid.

Stay alive till next Eid. :)


Name A ‘Star’

December 16, 2007

Today I heard this commercial on the radio about registering a star after any name. Anyone who calls some toll free number and pays a small fee will get a star named after him/her or any name he wishes. They will even register it with some copyright organization in U.S. and will send you a certificate of ownership. LOL. No! I am not joking. I googled it and found that there are in fact few companies who are doing this. The cheapest price I could come across is 19.95$. :p

I guess we are done with skirmishing and selling almost everything around and in us. Now we are left with stars, galaxies and black holes to sell and fight for. Just in case if you are interested, you can go to any of the following sites and name a star after you or anyone you like: YourStar.com, StarNamer.net, StarRegistry.com.

Or you can sponsor a poor child (worldvision.org) or donate some money for the recent cyclone victims in Bangladesh (http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/News/pr07/7407.asp) and other disaster effected people all around the world (donate.ifrc.org).

Or you can just sit there, do nothing and take your time. I won’t blame you. I understand you have other important things to take care of first.

Adios!

“There is enough in the world for eveybodys need, but not everybodys greed – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”

Song: Shokal Belar Khidey
Artist: Anjan Dutta
Album: Kolkata 16
[Download]


What have I become, my sweetest friend!

November 19, 2007

Sometimes I feel like I never write anything positive in my blog. So far all my posts are about disappointments, accidents, disasters and what not. So last time when I posted about ‘Sidr’, I was thinking my next post would be about something good and positive. Unfortunate me, another bad thing has happened today. Bangla band group Dolchut’s Shanjib Chowdhury has passed away due to a brain haemorrhage. (link: DailyNews). I have always loved Dolchut’s music and preferred Shanjib’s compositions over Bappa’s (another lead of Dolchut).

So, what’s up with me!! Have I stopped paying attention towards the good side of life or good things have stopped happening around me?

Anyway, here is a song by country music legend Johnny Cash. He covers Nine Inch Nail’s ‘Hurt’. I believe this was his last official music release.

Lyrics:
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain the only thing that’s real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting. Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything.
What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end. And you could have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down, I will make you hurt.
I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar’s chair. Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair. Beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear. You are someone else I am still right here.
If I could start again, A million miles away
I would keep myself, I would find a way.

[Source: AzLyrics.com]


Dim Shongeet

November 15, 2007

These are two songs [i don’t know why the heck i am calling them songs] I composed almost a year ago. I don’t wanna call them parody songs, cause I wrote them while I was thinking about the love of my life: ‘dim’, to express my great affection towards it :p Yes! both of these songs [or, should I say skits!] are about eggs. Since childhood I have liked and adored eating eggs. :p I still remember me and my brother watching cartoons on tv and eating boiled eggs when we were kids. Though I don’t eat as much eggs as I used to, [too much cholesterol in egg yolks. I want to live 101 years :p] I still feel that great love deep down in my heart. :p

I didn’t sit down to write and sing them purposely. One time I downloaded a software that could remove the vocal from an audio track. So just to see how did it work, i recorded the first dim song removing the original vocal. The second one is just g1bBeRi$h. I was playing my guitar and was singing ‘ja ichha tai’. [i am not that good with guitar either].

Enough of the story. I know you will be thanking God for having a pause/stop button. :p

_ishti

Song 1: Download

Song 2: Download


Back on the Road Again

November 6, 2007

Whew! Got my car back.

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Death of an American Hero??!!

November 6, 2007

Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, the pilot who dropped “Little Boy” (the first atomic bomb ever used in a war) at Hiroshima Japan on 6th August 1945 and killed 140,000 civilians, has died last Thursday (1st November 2007) at the age of 92. In a recent interview he said he had no regrets over the people were killed or injured on that day and made a point of saying he slept easily at night.

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(‘Enola Gay’ was the plane that carried ‘Little Boy’. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of Paul Tibbets)

I have done some research on him today and found out that most of the Americans consider him as a hero and are actually proud of him. One patriot even declares in a forum thread that a single American life is worth more than the entire population of Japan and by murdering thousands of innocent children and their mothers in Hiroshima, this guy saved many US soldiers’ lives and took the revenge on Japan for killing 3,000 American soldiers in Pearl Harbor.

I don’t know what to say, ‘General’. I know you were just doing your duty and you didn’t make the call, many others were involved. But I still feel disgraceful for what you did. I wish I could salute you and praise you for murdering 140,000 of my kind.

“I made one great mistake in my life — when I signed a letter to President [Franklin D. Roosevelt] recommending that an atomic bomb be made” – Albert Einstein. [Rabindranath Tagore also signed that letter]

Song: ‘Bhabcho Tumi’
Artist: Lopa Mudra
Album: Mushkil Ahsan
Download


Here I Go Again

November 3, 2007

It’s been a long time since I wrote something here. I think my last post was in June’07. Nothing has changed so far, except that I had an accident 2 weeks ago [Oct 17th]. I was driving Ammu back from her doctor’s place and on our way back when I was making a wide left turn, a grey Chevy Trailblazer flew on me from out of nowhere. I bet the driver was going way above the speed limit. Still it was my fault, because I had the stop sign and according to my common sense and accident report, I should have paid more attention. John, driver of the other vehicle was a jerk and he was acting like I did it intentionally to kill him or to ruin his heavenly perfect life or something. I told him few times that I am sorry. An accident is an accident. Still he was acting all freaked out. Anyway, since I pay only for the liability, my insurance is not going to pay a single penny to fix my car. I gotta fix it from my own pocket :(. I already have bought the right fender, right marker light, right turn light and right headlight. The car is still at the bodyshop. Hopefully I will get it back on this Monday. For past 2 weeks I’ve been driving Abbu’s car and I feel like I’ve lost my faith in my driving skills. Sitting behind the wheel is no fun for me anymore. I didn’t have any accident for almost 5 years and now I have two accidents back to back in one year [totaled a minivan this February:(]. I just can’t risk another accident right now and thought of having one is scaring the heaven out of me. I don’t know if I am just getting older or having my post-accident-trauma!! :p

Yesterday I had a phone interview with ‘Authentec’ for a System Test Engineer position. The company is in Florida and they design fingerprint authentication sensors. The guy who took my interview was a weirdo. I felt like I was talking to a robot. At one point, he asked me “how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Describe every step”. LOL. I was like, “are you serious?”. Then he told me that, he was just checking how detail oriented I am :p. Actually they were looking for someone who knew Java (recruiter didn’t tell me that). So I told him before the interview, even though I have programming background but I am not a hardcore developer and I don’t know Java. He said it wouldn’t be a problem. Still he asked me 4 Java related questions [at least that’s how few of them sounded to me :p] and I had to repeat “I don’t know.. I don’t know.. ” 4 times within 30 seconds. LOL. So the interview didn’t go that great. But I am glad that I am not leaving NY for FL. :p

Rahman Bhai also had an interview with Infosys in BridgeWater, NJ. I went with him, cause he didn’t want to drive the whole way all by himself. We got stuck near Holland Tunnel (outbound) for almost an hour and reached there one hour late. He was lucky though, they still took his interview and it went great. Hopefully he is going to get a second interview with them.

At last the winter is here in NY. A sore throat along with my stuffy, runny nose is telling me that it’s winter time.

Oh I watched American Gangster last week. Nice movie.

‘The way I am’, a sweet song by Ingrid Michaelson from album ‘Girls and Boys’. If anyone needs the mp3, let me know :p

Lyrics:
If you were falling, then I would catch you. You need a light, I’d find a match. Cause I love the way you say good morning. And you take me the way I am.
If you are chilly, here take my sweater. Your head is aching, I’ll make it better. Cause I love the way you call me baby. And you take me the way I am.
I’d buy you Rogaine if you start losing all your hair. Sew on patches to all you tear. Cause I love you more than I could ever promise. And you take me the way I am. You take me the way I am.
[Source: ingridmichaelson.com/lyrics.html]


Hajir Biryani Shomachar

June 1, 2007

[7:30 pm] Friend of mine called and invited me to his place
[7:37 pm] He called Sagor Restaurant [Queens NY] to reserve four orders of Hajir Biryani :p Not sure about the exact time though
[8:45 pm] Met with the guys in front of my friend’s house
[8:52 pm] Mission Hajir Biryani started officially.
[9:20 pm] Reached Sagor Restaurant. Got parking right in front of the Restaurant (lucky us!!)
[9:23 pm] Entered Sagor Restaurant. After waiting 2/3 minutes on line we approached the counter.
[9:27 pm] We ordered bissho bikkhato Hajir Biryani.
[9:47 pm] Four violently pissed guys came out of Sagor Restaurant. One of them expressed his anger by saying “Gu khawa o bhalo chilo er theke. Ei paader biryanir jonno eto kosto korlam!!!”
[4:43 am] I am writing this on my blog
[4:45 am (approx)] I am going to publish this.
[Present Time (Unknown)] Some moron is laughing at me.


Welcome!

May 30, 2007

Now-a-days everyone has a blog. I never planned to have one. Few days back I opened an account at blogger.com and posted few video links from youtube.com. That’s it.
Now here I am again to start another blog :p I dont think I will go much further with this blog thingy. Most of the times I start something with great utshaho and eventually within 2/3 days I lose interest. :p (Oh! I am going write here in both Bangla and English. So if you dont understand Bangla, don’t blame me)
I guess that’s enough for the introduction. Let’s just hope this won’t be my first and last post. :p

Staind :: Outside
I will never ever get tired of this song. Awesome song. Awesome lyric. Awesome video!! (I don’t understand one part though. Why didn’t the guy just make a hole in the wall with that shovel instead of gathering all those rocks!!)

“i am on the outside ..i’m looking in
i can see through you.. see your true colors
inside you’re ugly.. ugly like me
i can see through you ..see the real you!!”