Thought: Five Hundred Fifty-Four
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25 April 2011
I saw her from a distance… She was
so “NICE FROM FAR”… Love at first sight! Oh! How thrilled I was!…
I went near to her and found, she was so “FAR FROM NICE”…..
27 April 2011
When a girl stares at you so
romantically, don’t always think she has fallen in love with you. Maybe, she is
trying to learn how romantically she should stare at a boy to make him think
so… Yes, it’s true!
….. My experiment with TRUTH
reveals this…
Don’t try to play smart before a
girl, maybe she is just learning how to play smarter before a boy… I’m sorry
to make you unhappy. But friends, believe me, it’s exactly what happens!!
……. Friend,
what else can I do, tell me—
there’s no way to experience,
so I’m compelled to experiment!……
………Friend,
I’m in a car now,
heading to Chittagong. A song is playing in the car, ‘Agar tum mil jao, zamana chhod deynge hum’ and the driver is driving at insane speed—I don’t know who he’s found that makes him want to abandon the world!
No matter how many times I tell him, he won’t understand that I have absolutely no desire to leave this world just yet,
I need more time!………Pray for me, friend!
…….. Friend,
thought is just thought—we make it constructive, and we make it destructive too. Anyway,
hearing about your hair falling out has me quite worried too. I think
you should stop making excuses about share markets and all that nonsense and see a good doctor. After all,
you’ll have to get married eventually,
right?
Where are we going to find a rich girl for you now,
tell me that!
And with all these high-minded thoughts you think,
not just your hair but your scalp shouldn’t remain either! So, think simple, be happy.
………Friend,
you’re asking me to remember too many things these days. We know
you had a desire to become a university teacher
(though you could have managed it with a little lobbying.)……. One of the most interesting things in the world is remembering girls’ names, and I can’t even do that—so how am I supposed to remember all these difficult things you say?……..And human curiosity has been pregnant ever since people develop the capacity to understand! The birth of interest, friend, depends on desire,
urgency, and necessity. I’ve temporarily constrained these dependent eyes when it comes to girls!!
……….Hahahahaha
experimenting and practicing you
mean.
…. Sir, it’s not what I mean but
rather it’s what others mean and like to mean.
29 April 2011
Will my wife be as happy as Kate
Middleton is now? Are all the brides so happy?…… (Facebook told me to share
what’s on my mind and I just couldn’t help sharing it! Sorry!!)
become a prince/king first.
…. Yes, I’ll be a king for my
queen
…. May all the brides be happy
forever.
…. Let me guess her happy now. At
least, it makes me happy.
And, if my princess is happier, I
must be happiest. That would be a grand marriage! God bless you with more power
of good foretelling!!
I’m really impressed at the gorgeous
yet simple blend of this royal marriage!! It’s good enough to persuade you to
marry!!
….. Masima, why the brides become
wives if such transformation makes them unhappy? Better for them to stay brides
forever, and be happy.
….. There lies an extraordinary
couple in every ordinary couple. And, just being simple can make you gorgeous.
You needn’t be gorgeous to be really gorgeous. That’s the law of marriage, I
think… Anyway, let us wish them Good Luck!!
…. Well, your idea is nice. And,
the nicer matter is, I’ll never marry the girl who is happy only with things
like those. Let her marry those things, not me.
How long they stay? No buddy, it’s
not a nice thing to think about. I don’t know whether things will be really
nice for them, but I sincerely wish them to be so. Such marriages often become
just BIG shows on earth. Past tells us so. Hope, this time future will make the
scenario worth it.
…. Then, I’ll be the happiest
person!!
…. Thank you, brother, for reading
my posts and updates. I just added an apology for those who might take my sense
otherwise.
…. You’re too good and cho chweet,
dost. Hope, you’ll have a fatafati wife.
….. It’ll be really so heavenly to
be a prince to her.
….. I’m not supposed? Well. Then,
I think, I must!!
5 May 2011
To forget by letting remain — that is not forgetting at all… yet people wish to forget, perhaps through the very ruse of remembering! Who knows!
… Just keeping aside of the mind,
it’s not that forgetting… Yet, people try to forget, maybe only for stirring
the memories! Who knows!
Who knows….
realities made memories… or wanting memories created reality…. Who knows
Hmm… You’ve developed ‘who knows!’
symptom very well. That’s good! If it’s really a reality, who knows, perhaps
you’re going to have some memories to recall!
yes…. I made memories so I can
remember the yeah Who knows ))))
5 May 2011
Not all questions can be answered.
Not all answers should be questioned…. Follow this, be happy.
… I don’t know much about Nirvana.
Is it the core thing of Nirvana? I don’t know. From my own experience, I’ve
found that it’s a better rule to follow to be happy and so I’ve shared it with
my friends.
…. Thank you for your sharing. You
thought it was my wall. It’s ok as it’s really my wall, just it’s what they
call comment thread. Still it remains a wall. So, you’ve done the right thing
in a different way. Anyway, one of my friends informed me of the date over
phone just today. My mid-term exams are going on and so I can’t concentrate
much on BCS preliminary exam. Hope you’re doing well. Wish you a Good Luck!!
…. No side is safe. What we’ve to
do, is to make our side safe.
…. Congrats on your joining a new
job. Wish you professional excellence. But what arena are you stepping
forward?… We’re on the same big boat in different cabins. You’re in a more
privileged one as I’m still wandering jobless. Hope your journey will be much
better than ever. And, you can bet in my favour? How? I myself even can’t! Your
words are so soothing, brother
…. Let me be provided at first,
brother!! It sounds just sarcastic till then!!
Reflection: Five Hundred Fifty-Five
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11 May 2011
I’m planning to learn a foreign
language. Can anyone please suggest me a language (like French, Spanish,
German, Chinese or something else) that might add some extra value to my
career? Thanks.
First get married. Then whatever the
wife says, that’s it…….
……….. Brother,
did I tell you I’m going to marry a foreigner?
………………. Brother, that Nicaraguan girlfriend you have—doesn’t she have a little sister or something?
You don’t even know English, learn that first
What does ‘English’ mean?
French and Spanish.
I am advising you to learn French or Spanish because as a member of Apex UN committee on Tax matters, I know that there will be some very potential chances for Bangladeshi Revenue officers and these two languages will add value to it. These are added qualifications in entry exam.
Dear Sushanta,
Delighted to hear from you. Thank you so much. Since I teach, can suggest that you should learn Mandarin over French. The world is fast changing and China is driving that change, so learning Mandarin is a great idea. Shauli is joking of course. Women are very good at languages and had she wanted to, she would have picked up Mandarin as well as she has picked up Spanish…
14 May 2011
How can I pardon myself if I’m the only person responsible for my present unhappiness?
23 June 2012
Only I, alone, know who I’m. To others, I’m only a perhaps.
6 July 2012
Dhaka University is often called the Oxford of the East. I have yet to discover the reason for this comparison. If Dhaka University is compared to Oxford simply for physical structures—rooms, buildings, halls, towers—then I have nothing to say. Ahmad Chhofa, “Although He Is My Teacher.” I am myself a student of this university. The matter has already stirred in me a kind of inexperienced pride. Yet, on the whole, this hyperbole about the university strikes me as the manifestation of a pedantic mentality.
Please, speak with a little restraint. Your comment contains some exaggeration.
……. The power of wealth diminishes when the rich turn pauper.
…… In trying to harmonize, you’ve become terribly discordant.
……. Catch the tone of my words, not the words themselves. If someone makes ‘fun’ of my mother, my very existence becomes laughable. How can I accept that?
…….. And self-glorification.
…… Sir, in this case the university becomes quite apostate to its true nature.
……. But there’s a caveat here. Almost all of those distinguished personalities were products of different universities. And it seems they could not create worthy inheritors of their knowledge. The unworthy son of the worthy dims the glory of the worthy.
……. I completely agree, though Oxford’s learning heritage is what first comes to mind. Looking in that direction, one is seized by a kind of helplessness.
……. When echo abandons sound,
and surpasses it, what remains but helpless swimming in the silent ocean of cascading silence!
7 July 2012
One of most interesting things that
doctors can, others can’t, is, they can read their own handwriting. Not
necessarily it means you’ve to think I’m a doctor.
Never judge the beauty of a lady
doctor by her handwriting.
My personal experience says, the
more you serve, the more you’ll be talked about. People hardly appreciate as
blaming is easier than appreciating. Doctors, lawyers, police & customs
officers are always vulnerable to such public condemnation. Just imagine of our
country keeping them aside. Can people really survive even an hour? No one
throws stones to a tree that bears no fruits. Cheers bondhu! We’re born to work
and live with tasty public resentment. The golden rule is, listen to all public
remarks, consider only few. If you want to consider everything you listen, you
better stop listening. And, last but not the least, my status contains no such
an issue to incite any kind of negative impression about doctors. It’s all
about innocent handwriting, man!
When I speak of seeing two extra patients,
if one of those two happens to be my mother,
then I have no objections at all. Where would I go, tell me!
Eating taro makes the throat itch,
that’s true. But the thing is, one must eat taro,
and one must scratch the throat. Hahahaha…..
Friend, I myself don’t expect such
loaded comments on such a harmless status. But if someone does make such a comment, it’s difficult to dissuade them too. We often forget that while others’ work is important to them, when we need it, that work becomes far more important to us than it is to them. One thing I’ve learned from my life:
when you eat chocolate,
you can never eat chocolate with your mouth open. Damn it,
when you’re eating chocolate, just eat it quietly,
don’t open your mouth.
My thought is,
brother, when you become a Government official,
you’ll understand how stereotypical comments feel!
If no one says a word about your good work, the very desire to do good work fades away. Brother,
everyone wants a little recognition. We’re none of us complete angels.
7 July 2012
When someone judges you by what your
grandfather was rather than what you are, be sure that he is still living in
the age your grandfather lived. Now, it’s your choice whether you want to leave
him to live in the time alive or to stay with him to live in the time dead.
Must you die to judge how death is?
16 July 2012 ·
O God! Either make me comfortable
with remembering people’s names or make them comfortable with my forgetting
their names. Why am I gifted with an unpleasantly wonderful memory for
forgetting things?
That’s why I feel comfortable to
chat with friends on Facebook. It radically improves my memory of remembering
names.
20 July 2012 ·
It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody
anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. Salinger, ‘The Catcher in the
Rye’
21 July 2012
I can pass this whole life just
enjoying only a sunset because such a sunset comes only once in our life.
Because when the sun awakes, I still
sleep.
Hardly there is crowd when the time
of departure comes. If there is, by chance, solitude still reigns. Loneliness
amidst crowd spreads, touches, and destroys itself. Moonrise just bears the
sweet memory and legacy of sunset. The greater submits itself to the great.
21 July 2012
Age is advancing—let it advance!
But why is despair growing alongside it? Can anyone tell me?
Accompanying me are sorrows—of every hue, every manner. Sorrows in all shades. The sorrows are doing quite well!
What a collection!
Still, welcome, O sorrow!
It won’t diminish,
just change hands.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire!! Ha
ha ha…….
Nothing stays in memory,
my patience for reading has strangely diminished, thought itself is constantly ebbing—am I growing up? Or simply growing old?
Thought: Five hundred and fifty-six
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26 July 2012
Keep smiling because you look good
when you smile.
26 July 2012
I dare not ask a kiss,
I dare not beg a smile,
Lest having that, or this,
I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air
That lately kissed thee.
~Robert Herrick
27 July 2012
I’ve shared it as I measure my life
with the things worth keeping with. Leave or live. Not always GAINING is NOT
LOSING.
28 July 2012
Isn’t life stranger than fiction?
Just feel it!!
3 August 2012
Could you kindly suggest a good restaurant in Chittagong for organizing an iftar party for 100 people? Budget: 250 taka per person. Thank you.
3 August 2012
You smiled, you spoke, and I
believed,
By every word and smile deceived.
Another man would hope no more;
Nor hope I what I hoped before:
But let not this last wish be vain;
Deceive, deceive me once again!
Walter Savage Landor
3 August 2012 ·
The ladies with brain & beauty
are of 3 types:
~Some are married.
~Some are engaged.
~The others are single but you
cannot discover their beauty.
So, you end up marrying someone
else’s girlfriend or ex-girlfriend.
……… Not all beautiful ladies
are dumb, some are married too.
……….Such thoughts will only help you
remain unmarried…………
………… I think, therefore I am single.
……….. Never! Some men are
married to beautiful ladies too.
………. They are married to their
husbands.
5 August 2012
Dream like a dreamer,
Forget all old sorrows.
If on the journey someone reaches out to hold your hand,
Love them in your own way.
Happy Friendship Day — to those who have stayed beside me even while enduring my sweet and bitter mistakes. To those who have moved away, or are moving away. Today I remember so vividly one of my beloved people, Ritu didi, who was always there during my difficult days; who taught me that being alive itself is joy. Didi, may you recover in our love. May everyone be well, very well.
…….
Dream like a — dreamer,
Rue old griefs — never!
If a friend promises to be with you
— closer,
Let the candle of love burn now and
— forever!
I wish a Happy Friendship Day — to
you who have stayed beside me tolerating my sweet and sour mistakes. And also,
to you who have left or staying away keeping me aside. Today I remember very
dearly Ritu didi, one of my most favourite persons, who always stayed beside me
during my old days of trials & tribulations; who taught me, I’m
alive—it’s the greatest joy I can be blessed with! Didi, stay well with the
touch of my unconditional love.
Keep fine, superfine.
…… Even in the darkest night
there burns a candle to show you the path. I’d never believed a candle really
burns till I met you on Facebook. Yes, I truly mean it. You can’t imagine to
how many people I’ve told your name. If anyone asks me to tell only 5 names who
contribued the most in my life to be what I’m now (I hope you’ve not forgotten
that I stood 1st in Bangladesh Civil Service exam), your name comes in the 4th
place following the names of my parents and younger brother. Had there been a
word ‘BESTEST’, it would have used ONLY FOR YOU. God be with you and bless you
always.
Oh sush I’m so honored and so
humbled yes the universe works in the strangest way… I’m really glad to have
known you too little brother
Ritu didi….. At least one secret
of this strange universe I did learn from you….. Like attracts like.
Remember? Rhonda Byrne. Hats off!…. And, by this way, you changed the whole
way of my thought. There are too many other lessons you taught me. Can you
start sharing your life philosophy again? I miss those good old days. I really
don’t know how to express my gratitude. Since I read your last message, I
always pray and request others to pray for you. God bless.
Yes, we attract what we are and our
thoughts make us what we are… I have life most of recent life in this ”
secret” this has helped me through my stage 3 cancer… Yes, the doctors do
call me a medical miracle… And I think it’s not miracle it’s just thought
process… I see the big picture… And as they say ” if it is not
happy… It’s not the end yet “
Yes, I believe in happy endings darn
romanticist
7 August 2012
These days, as the number of acquaintances keeps growing, the number of friends keeps shrinking. I can’t quite figure out whether this is due to busyness, self-interest, or plain selfishness. Along with this has grown the torment of feigned sincerity—I inflict it, I endure it. Days pass through strange interactions. Friends become mere acquaintances, acquaintances don’t become friends. Being lonely in a crowd is both a joy and a sorrow.
……. And,
friends have started calling me ‘boss’,
but the bosses
don’t call me ‘friend’…..
……. When love grows intense, hurt becomes even more intense. A harsh truth!
Most Honorable Khan Saheb……. Have you sent any text to my number in the past five years? Do you remember, Saheb?
No, you haven’t. You’ve only replied. Ah,
what torment!
10 August 2012 ·
It takes courage to answer a call,
It takes courage to give your all.
It takes courage to risk your name,
It takes courage to be true.
It takes courage to dare what no
other would share,
To be standing alone, one whom no
one will own,
To be ready to stake, to be loyal
not fake,
It takes courage to be true.
It takes courage to say what you
know will not pay,
To give each one a share though
there’ll be less to spare,
To be seeking no more than the
neighbour next door,
It takes courage to be true.
It takes courage to leave what good
fortune can give,
And to go to a land where the poor
need a hand
To be spending one’s days in less
leisurely ways,
It takes courage to be true.
(Collected)
Thought: Five hundred fifty-seven
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11 August 2012
A person is good to you just as long
as you don’t know his/her bad sides.
Hide & Win.
11 August 2012
I live with an extremely poor memory. I even bought several books on various methods of remembering and their practical applications. Later I forgot to read those too. It’s an awful kind of problem.
….. partners part so often these
days.
….. I won’t forget anything?
Then let it be. I want to forget the pain.
…… I forget. Everyone reminds me.
25 August 2012
To love is to suffer. To avoid
suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to
love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be
happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one
unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer
from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down. – Woody Allen, Love
and Death
” Delhi ka Laddu Jo khaya Wo
pasthya, Jo nehi khaya Wo bhi pasthaya “…… So, better, khaya &
pasthaya…..
Not always love is lost after it’s
found. Rather, often it remains undiscovered.
7 September 2012
Far better it is to dare mighty
things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank
with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in
the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
8 September 2012
Happiness in intelligent people is
the rarest thing I know. ~ Ernest Hemingway
8 September 2012 ·
My first official tour as a Customs
Officer starts tomorrow. We will visit most of the Commissionerates and Custom
Houses. We’ll spend our first day at Custom House, Chittagong. I’m the group
coordinator of 27 Assistant Commissioners…… feeling excited. We’ll have
joy, we’ll have fun.
9 September 2012
……. enjoying a river cruise in
the Western Cruise arranged by Chittagong Custom House…….. magic show,
music concert, party….. and what not!! The mysterious evening, mystic river,
rhythmic waves dance with us! Yes, literally!! It’s gorgeous!!….. Life is so
beautiful!
……. Where comes Bangladesh
Customs, there come any facilities we want. More or less, it’s just as we want.
Just what we want, matters. Yes, it’s what we’re.
Thank you for your kind &
cordial approach.
……. The service provided by your
group is excellent! We’re so satisfied. You really belong to a prestigious
group. Thank you so much.
19 September 2012
I’m in Khulna, tomorrow there’s a program at the Commissionerate……. roaming around with colleagues in rickshaws, bustling conversations at the market, with jhalmuri, fuchka, tea at the stalls…..what more is there in life?
20 September 2012
……. now on a journey
through—the soul of night, the soft melody of instrumentals, rhythmic kissing
of wheels, the scent of soft breeze, the sweet sleep of Nature, the sound of
silence, the joy of being close to madness, the essence of the world I
create……. And, I slowly go insane. Hello Life!!
21 September 2012
I’m spending this weekend evening with Rabindranath, at Chhayanaut’s auditorium. Today’s autumn evening is purely an evening of songs…… Splendid performance, thanks to Sadi Mohammad and his Rabirag.
21 September 2012
The number of basic needs of the
Bengali people is 6, not 5 — Food, Clothing, Shelter, Education, Health
care…… &…… Rabindranath……. My sweetheart must have another
secret lover — Rabindranath.
…… passed a wonderful
evening……. now at non-stop aadda @ IBA hostel. It’s fun time!!
Mean not what you mean. Mean what it
means. Words having parallel meaning deserve parallel flow of thought out of
the indoctrinated way of thinking you feel comfortable. I mean not what you
understand. I mean just what it means. Thank you.
26 September 2012
Never think that the world you’re
living in is the only world you’ll live in forever. Life is a joke, yes, the
greatest one.
Please see the things as they’re,
not as you’re. Mean not what you mean, rather mean what it means.
28 September 2012
Watching ‘Pushpak’. Kamal Haasan’s. Wonderful!
29 September 2012
Moonbathed, moonstruck. Ah!
1 October 2012
Rather than love, than money, than
faith, than fame, than fairness give me truth. -quoted from Into The Wild
6 October 2012
Life is Elsewhere……. But……
Where?
7 October 2012
Sometimes I’m even afraid to dream without the boss’s permission. Alas! There’s no pure employment in this world.
Strange thoughts! Government jobs are jobs too. Whatever suits someone. I’m here because I like it, that’s all. And I’ll stay. That’s what jobs are like anyway.
19 October 2012
Nothing in life is as important as
you think it is when you are thinking about it.(the essence of the focusing
illusion)
19 October 2012
Boys, while acting out love, don’t even realize when they truly fall in love themselves…
Women never know when they begin to perform in the midst of truly loving.— Samaresh Majumdar.
…… just omit “তারা তা নিজেরাও জানেনা”
—- this part as only this part relates to your ‘beyond control’
interpretation.
20 October 2012
The value of a great many things in
my life so far is not what they’ve paid me, rather what I’ve paid for doing
them….. what they’ve cost me.
25 October 2012
Dear Facebook ladies,
Please stop adding ‘Angel’, ‘Fairy’,
‘Divine’ etc before or after your Facebook names. Our ideas about those words
is getting changed in a wrong way.
Thanks & Regards
………Really HOPELESS!
….. They’re honest enough!
A new Fool’s Dictionary needs to be
written.
Beautiful girls are found only on
Facebook.
It’s a beautiful world. And, it’s
virtual.
Not only for time-pass. Time passes,
somehow. Virtual worlds are always beautiful. I’ve some of my own. Facebook is
just one of them.
27 October 2012
“Tell me, young man, you were in Britain and didn’t fall in love—who would believe such a thing?”
“You know what the truth is? When you fall in love, your face looks terribly foolish—I’ve seen it in films. I was too afraid to venture forth.” (Hats off, Traveler!)
What are you saying! You’re thirty years old and couldn’t manage even one love affair? Your life has no fulfillment whatsoever.
Does not loving add two years to one’s age?
29 October 2012
A quietly sulking city.
Faded with memories of bull’s blood!
Brother, you’ve really struck a blow to sentiment!
30 October 2012
More persistent than the temple priests of Kashi, marriage brokers, and insurance agents is one creature on earth. His name is reporter.— Traveler
Traveler escaped the anguish of Destiny-soldiers’ benevolent mission. That’s why this perpetually proper ‘pathetic genteel class’ didn’t enter his writings.
If I had a girlfriend, would she send this many messages? GP’s love is so excessive!
Just imagine some enchanting beauty from customer care has sent you that caring message. That’s all it takes!
Thought: Five hundred fifty-eight
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30 October 2012
Friends, is anyone in Bandarban? If so, and if you have some time, we could have a little chat and half a cup of coffee. I’m coming there for a visit tomorrow. Thinking of staying for 3-4 days.
1 December 2012
“Please remember that success
is never deserved. Success is always earned.”
A blend of all those factors in a
proportionate way.
It’s rather smart work.
If intelligence……. then why
Dhirubhai Ambani and many more piled up huge empire……and hiring IIT/ IIM
guys.
It’s rather intuition.
So both hardwork and brainwork may
not succeed in achieving success. So stay relaxed….. avoid stress &
fatigue…. chase away high BP & hypertension. Success may come without
knocking……. to any undeserving. Hence proved…. the post.
1 December 2012 ·
Looking for a bride for marriage? Or looking for someone else’s girlfriend/ex-girlfriend for your own marriage? Is finding a needle in a haystack any harder than this?
……. Friend, what’s the way out of this ‘second-hand crisis’?
……. What are you saying! You were my boyfriend! Have you forgotten so completely already!! How cruel!!
……. Brother, if one has to marry someone else’s lover anyway, wouldn’t it be better to have at least two marriages? Nobody gets cheated. What say you?;)
……. Experienced? Then why marriage? There are other arrangements too. ….. lol …..
……. If only you got the ex-boyfriend’s curse, it wouldn’t be such a major problem, I mean, there’s also the possibility of getting ‘something more’ along with it.;)
……. Oh, what times these are! One Eve gives advice and teases the other! If I get caught, I’ll give your reference, you know!
……. I’ve never looked for a girl for marriage before in my life. No experience.
….. It seems to me this applies even to those who aren’t without girlfriends. Those bastards fall in love, and we get married.
…… Soumya, there’s a ‘technical’ problem with fixing marriages before birth. You’re a younger brother, how do I explain… I mean…….
…… Those fools don’t always win either……. Still, it’s good, very good……… But that dialogue is supreme! Hats off, Satyajit!
……. At IBA, the Finance sir explains marketing through my handsome (!) appearance, Mohiuddin sir explains irrelevant cost consideration……. Where do I go?………
Oh Earth! Split open. I’ll climb a tree!!
…… Brother, let me tell you the truth. Seeing you and the film ‘Bibaho’ has built a certain faith in me regarding arranged marriages. (I’ve told many people about you.)
3 December 2012
What really knocks me out is a book
that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a
terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you
felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
– Holden Caulfield, ‘The Catcher in
the Rye’ by J.D Salinger
How lucky we’re to meet the friends
whose statuses we like after reading them!
3 December 2012
When you leave, I feel you had come,
When you leave, I feel you exist in all the worlds.
-Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah
4 December 2012
“One of the very worst uses of
time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.”
10 December 2012
Life is not a “I came, I saw, I
conquered” game. It never goes as exactly as we like it to go. Just face,
learn & improve.
13 December 2012
People supposedly write poetry when they fall in love. But I used to write to fall in love. That’s perhaps why I never quite became a poet.
The death of the poet?
Or of the lover?
In your case, it should be love for poetry, not poetry for love!!!!!
…….. Both are terrible weapons of destruction!!
…….. Deliberate foolishness isn’t foolishness at all!;)
……. Why did I come? I was better off not returning!
The yearning to be free even knowing there’s no freedom,
as meaningless as it is intense. Yet this very yearning had kept me alive! Ah!
Why did I come?
……. “it is true that
in student life, geniuses rarely experience love and romance….because they don’t have time to spoil….”
—— What does this mean?
Is there enmity between genius and love? Does loving mean wasting time?
What are you saying, brother!
….. The more love grows,
the less affection remains.
…… a meaningless transformation
leaving behind a body of bone & flesh only! Ah! The IRONY!!
……. Alas!
Death of the poet. Birth of love. Unnatural death of affection!
16 December 2012 ·
Boys remain wayward until marriage;
and girls remain virtuous until marriage. This very contrast draws them to each other. The thought just occurred to me suddenly. Is this true? Well,
what’s the story after marriage?
……. Please kindly give me Goddess Lakshmi’s mobile number……. The moment the waiting ends, the journey of disappointment begins —– isn’t that so?
Hmmmm…..
…….. Tell me, what does the heart want….
Whoever I see, I find appealing…..
That’s exactly where the problem lies!!
………. I’m an idle man,
whatever I do,
I post it all on Facebook. If I get married, you’ll surely know. But that’s a long, long way off.
The state of mind of the married: Let it be, mother,
I’ll cry and survive. The state of mind of the unmarried: Hold me, mother, I’ll laugh myself to death.
……. What would you do with Goddess Lakshmi’s number?
Better get hold of Kartik’s number. Even giving him missed calls sometimes brings joy!
Ah!
…….. Hey brother, finally, before drinking poison, let me do a guinea pig test first. What else!
…….. Oh, what sorrow! How will these wayward boys make homes with wayward wives?
…… Why,
trial marriage has become quite common these days.
………. Spending life holding hands and quarreling……. I liked that phrase,
brother.
…… Are you
a ‘helpless boy’?
God bless!
(If you hadn’t shown this honesty in a public forum, your future would have been even more brilliantly bright!)
……. Get married, if only to have stories to tell.
…… Brother,
this life is terribly difficult, my friend; there’s no
Ctrl+Z option!
………. I’m currently in a Lakshmi-less stage. So my eyes are the eyes of one abandoned by Lakshmi. They might see wrongly!
……. Some marry, some get married, and some get eaten by marriage. It’s all
fate, brother.
………. What bliss there is in death,
must one die to understand it?
………… Sir,
when regret is inevitable anyway, let me just say “Durga Durga” and jump in! Borrowed spice?
That’s nectar! Ha ha ha……
……….. Ah,
if only lions could write,
then we might have known some heroic tales from the lion’s perspective too!
……… This means: to live a happy conjugal life,
while the presence of gentlemen among couples is necessary, the presence of gentle ladies is not necessary.
………… When people are alive, they marry. When they marry, they die. When they die, they realize they were alive and were well. Living itself is joy. There’s joy in dying too. So which way shall I go? Truly a matter of great concern!
……….Everyone just keeps watching. No one becomes a companion.
Thought: Five hundred and sixty
……………………………………………………
17 December 2012
I love you. I was stunned just hearing it. What is this girl saying! I thought. I looked at her picture on Facebook. Then I thought again. No!
I could love her, but only as my own sister. Little sister. Such a sweet relationship. Nothing to be done!
But my new sister refuses to accept me as a brother. If necessary, she’ll murder me. What torment!
My crazy sister! I beg your forgiveness. And your prayers too.
O Earth!
Be torn asunder. I climb the tree!!
…… What I desire, I desire wrongly. What I receive, I do not want.
……. Had I become a BCS cadre, I would have done well,
I would have gotten all the married female colleagues. Then I would have understood how much grain makes how much puffed rice!
……. Big brother, it doesn’t feel enjoyable anymore, brother. Utterly worthless gentlemen keep proposing. I’m in great distress!
…… You’re absolutely right, Madam,
that wild girl looks like our villain Jumbo.
…… There’s no accounting in this love, brother,
this is unaccounted love!
Most painful indeed!
…… Big brother, you are an elder,
your command is to be obeyed! Tell me,
when will you arrange my marriage?
…. Brother, I feel honoured at
your interest in my writing. You can install Avro Keyboard on your device. Then
use Vrinda font to make the Unicode texts readable.
The current status is a sarcastic
one. This contains nothing thought-provoking. You can derive only a tickling
humour from it. Thank you once again for reading me.
….. You live in great comfort inside the bank, while I suffer so much in the civil sector.
….. Alas brother, having climbed the tree, you mock the people of the earth! Most pitiable indeed!
………. Madam,
one encounters the muse constantly; but not on boats, in the sun. Margarita, Shabnam
—- Alas! What enchantment,
what illusion,
what delusion!!
I feel like chewing up Sunil’s head,
Mujtaba’s! Alas!
…….. Urvashi?
Menaka? They can only be given shelter in the house,
not in the heart.
……. No loss, brother, rather there’s some immediate gain. Without understanding this calculation, I spent all these unaccounted years till now.
………. To forge bonds, one must first break free. That’s even harder!
Brother, speak softly, whisper in my ear. You too could be arrested on charges of inciting suicide. They’re lurking nearby!
The idea came from your own head, after all.
19 December 2012
Sometimes it seems really difficult
to understand whether developing confidence is essential for success or success
is essential for developing confidence. It’s something that makes or unmakes
the total scenario. And, we all must pass through this transition period. So,
don’t worry. What you’re is what we were. Best of luck!
22 December 2012
Unfortunately, most of the lovely
girls you have to like are the girls you don’t/can’t like to have. But why?
Because, ironically beauty stays where you think it shouldn’t. Any other
reason?
Beauty lies somewhere else.
Hardly beauty & merit match
together.
…… Irony of life!
…….. After all, I’m from the
fairy-tale, you know!
…… Never paint all the pictures
with the same brush.
It’s good to have that much
confidence.
Again, fairytale people can’t be
trusted, who knows when they would wish to return to fairyland!
………and it’s better to have a
friend like you who has every trust on my confidence.
Wow!! You sound to believe what I
claimed!! So sweet of you dear.
24 December 2012
…… anchoring the cultural
evening arranged on the occasion of Farewell & Reception Program of some of
our senior officials at Custom House Auditorium, Chittagong.
…… No brother, I wasn’t singing at the event—I was doing anchorage!
Footnote: Anchor (নোঙর) + -ing == anchorage > nonsense.
25 December 2012
A very touching prayer from a 5-year
little kid…..
Dear God, please send some clothes
this cold Christmas for all the ladies in my Dad’s laptop. Thank you……
Hello friends! Merry Christmas!!
Happy Holiday!! Cheers!!
moral of the story:
_naughty fathers should b more
careful…….
Such an innocent cute kid!! Children are dangerous, such dangerous creatures!
27 December 2012
Leaving for Sylhet tonight to spend my weekend break. I’ll stay tomorrow and the day after. Tomorrow is Fakrul brother’s freedom-surrender day. I’ll see through his eyes the joy of becoming enslaved. (Oh, what bliss fills the sky and air!) Along the way, I’ll lose myself in that natural splendor where silence and quietude’s centuries-old duet makes one forget, makes one wonder. Wanderlust is humanity’s most primal, most authentic intoxication. Truly it is!
Wanderlust—my eternal love!! As if the entire world were my homeland.
…… and every woman in the world is my beloved.
Brother…… my
mother,
aunt, little brother are coming with me. No matter. Shawls-wraps-sweaters —- all that is there already.
You devil!!
Don’t dream so big!! Love-life isn’t an unlimited internet connection from Bangladesh, man!!!
……. friend,
there’s an
erotic erotic fragrance in your name. That’s why I showed you the dream.;)
28 December 2012
……. just explored the beauty of
Lalakhal & Ratargul Swamp Forest at Sylhet cruising by boat through the
river Sari with some of my senior colleagues…… Ancient serenity talks the
loudest while close to the lap of Nature! Mystery unveils here!! Such a
heavenly feeling!!
2 January 2013 ·
Remember that sometimes not getting
what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. ~Dalai Lama
Que sera, sera—Whatever will be,
will be. Things are that they’re, things will be that they’ll be.
4 January 2013 ·
Not always you should think others
are wasting time if they enjoy their lives in a way unlike yours. Not
necessarily they’ve to be as you’re. There’s nothing called ‘everybody’s cup of
tea’. Maybe they also think you’re not living your life. Who knows? Who judges?
Who cares? Respect, be respected.
18 January 2013 ·
Death’s procession grows longer. Grows ever longer. Gradually. Who can stop death?
Love? Or hatred?
At whose ceaseless beckoning does it come?
Hatred’s? Or unlove’s? Only death is truth. Yet we forget it. Everything else is illusion. Still, we stay lost in them. Always. I am not in that procession. Why am I not there?
Or am I there, yet not there?
I kiss in deep embrace,
yet do not touch. Is this
it? I have not tasted touch, have only taken love or hatred,
neither of whom death gives a damn about. In the montage of dead thoughts, I the living survive on the mercy of the dead. In that procession? No!
Still hidden. What bliss!
Ah!
20 January 2013
This is what I did not to be what I
did not want to be after completing B Sc in CSE from CUET. Now the question is,
how am I? Well, I’ve little time to judge as I’m busy enjoying my life. It’s
really tough to live someone else’s life.
Thought: Five hundred sixty
……………………………………………………
4 February 2013 ·
……. I wish you could find it
out.
……. No sighs! Just explore
yourself and find it out!
……. I don’t hate females; I love
them all.
…….. Does it need expertise?
……. I’m dating with books,
movies, music.
……… My fantasies are quite happy indeed!
Why wouldn’t they be? They are far more real than reality itself!
……. Don’t just do mindless copy-paste without sources or addresses. Do whatever else you feel like doing.
…….. Writing this status doesn’t take any brains, you fool,
just having a broken heart is enough. Plus a pinch of bad-mood-type feeling.
…….. The gurus speak of unrighteousness too. The thing is, when we like it, we happily pass it off as righteousness.
……….. The exceptions are a bit too exceptional!
…….. Is there a shortage of research topics, friend, that you’re racking your brains over that brain-dead subject?
…….. And then Arindam thought silently………
……….. No brother, I sell life’s stories for a living. Stories have no end, that’s why I’m still searching for life’s meaning.
………… Not everyone is a mosquito (Masfi),
some poor souls are unfortunate (Bappi). The mosquitoes rule over the kingdom of the unfortunate.
……….. Not all beautiful young
ladies are dumb and stupid, some are married too…… Grrrrrrrr….
Stop it Sushanta! Peace! Or is it
time for us women to write this type of status about men!! Actually I am
wondering if handsome men have brains at all!
………… Please stop wondering,
masima! I never hide my profile picture!!
5 February 2013 ·
Despite all the “I’ll read it, I’ll read it” promises, so many books remain unread,
and among that pile lay
‘Gaddar’ by Krishen Chander. Giving the finger to my chronic procrastination, I poisoned this evening’s hours with ‘Gaddar’. While reading, it’s hard to keep one’s head straight—
love’s pathetic defeat at the hands of savagery burns all of existence’s arrogance to ashes. “The last name uttered from the lips of the dying was God’s. The killers too had His name on their lips. If there truly is some Creator above all these in the heavens,
then He is mocking this cruelty—of this I have no doubt.”
—– These words strike a piercing blow against time’s numb restlessness, their relevance rendering us equally helpless even today. Now I’ll begin
‘The Artist’s Tragedy.’ (Adwait Mallabarman’s translation of ‘Lust for Life,’ half-eaten like an apple, has been glaring at me with wide eyes for the past two days. Good intentions are abundant. Laziness is boundless! Let’s see!)
…………. Written by Mobashwer Ali.
Thanks for the suggestion.
16 February 2013 ·
‘People use flowers to tell far too many lies.’
They say, I love you, I’m here for you. And
many other such things. The establishment of falsehood is invariably alluring. How effortless it becomes when something or someone appears so innocent, so guileless, that lies are spoken through them or deeds are enacted in their name!
How disgracefully accustomed we have become to love’s shameless cosmopolitan face! How much does the flower’s fluent language of promise really seek out the warmth or coolness of the heart?
18 February 2013 ·
What any job demands (from my
observation):
Change to change, or Agree to agree.
What is, is the rule, not what should
be.
Friends, any other observations of
yours? Please share…….
……… Sir, it happens. In that
case, I consider it my failure if I fail to manage those conflicting bosses. I
think, it’s all about personal charisma, Sir. There are no hard and fast rules.
Situation makes and remakes the rules.
21 February 2013 ·
I’m going to Dhaka. Just for the book fair. Please recommend names of some books worth collecting, worth reading. I’ll buy them.
….. I have that in my collection. Thank you.
….. Alright, I’ll buy it. Thank you.
….. Translations of Kafka’s stories and letters were published by Kavitirtha. Translated by Samidul Haq. I have those in my collection.
I also have the English translations published by Vintage.
Are you talking about the price? Pathak Samabesh, you say. They’re bandits!
Thank you.
….. I’ve read Badshah Namdar. I’ll buy all the rest. Thank you.
…. My crazy sister!
…… I’ve read Putulnacher Itikatha. You could read his Janani. I haven’t read Saheb Bibi Golam yet. I will.
Brother, when I go to Dhaka I stay at IBA Hostel, right next to you. It’s very easy to meet. By the way,
I’m still on the same number. Give me a call when you have time.
…… Someone mentioned Bari O Banita the other day too. Let me see, I’ll buy it. Thank you.
….. I’ve read both Amar Swami Wali
and Kivabe Shim Ranna Korte Hoy. Good books. Thank you.
A good Muslim by tahmima anam
….. I have his collected works. I haven’t managed to read Chilekothar Sepai yet. I will. Thank you.
…… Hayat
Mamud’s book is good. I’ll buy Deyal. Thank you.
…… I have Mohana in my collection. I’ll read it. Thank you.
…… Yes,
I’ll go to the fair via Farmgate and Shahbag.
…… Tahnima’s style doesn’t really draw me in. But it’s not bad, it works.
I see Rumana Boishakhi is on your friends list. You might want to check out “Obomanob”…
….. Let me see, I’ll have a look.
….. Mohit Kamal (having to pay to buy) doesn’t appeal to me.
….. The less one reads, the more opportunity there is to think. Don’t feel bad about it.
…… I’ve read that. Good book. Though, The Economics of Altruism is better. Thanks.
….. Watered rice with clarified butter. Bravo. Bravo.
The consequence of eating watered rice with clarified butter.
From prison to prison
Trilogy of Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart, The Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease) You will be blown away, I bet.
Dhaka Comics…………
unfinisobel prize winner noble. thanks
24 February 2013 ·
Yesterday’s three-and-a-half-hour whirlwind expedition at Ekushey Book Fair netted 41 books. I buy books selectively, read them even more selectively. Enthusiasm abundant, laziness immeasurable. On the flimsy oath that I’ll read it all someday, I spend my days touching books, flipping through them a bit, inhaling their scent. (Thick books make me feel tired. I have this strong urge to tear out a hundred pages from the middle to lighten them up a little.)
(Three and a half hours is far too little time for carefully selecting books at the book fair.)
……… I never finish them! I just set them aside. And consider myself a scholar. Absolutely true!
…….. You’ve done well. Better not to buy books than not to read them.
……… I’ve been bankrupt for ages now!
…….. Boss, if I get the time, I’ll lend you books.
……….. Did I say I wouldn’t give them as gifts?
………. That’s about as far as I can manage!
……….. The scriptures say that when you lend your wife or your books to others, they don’t remain intact / safe.
……… Does it need 5 minutes to buy a book?
…….. Hmmmm….. I was only trying to provoke envy!