tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606934674794170142024-03-12T23:02:47.497-04:00pieces of me...Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-19538935564361539222016-11-08T19:59:00.001-05:002016-11-08T19:59:17.894-05:00Women's rights are human rights: Hillary
" ... human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, once and for all ... "
Once upon a time someone said this in a speech and a sixth grader from Bangladesh read this in the newspaper (yeah, no internet back in those days) and thought why is this person just a first lady (and what the hell is a 'first lady', why is being someone's spouse is a position?)!
My dad showed Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-11988397912643482362014-04-11T11:25:00.004-04:002014-04-14T11:09:31.426-04:00On Communication
Don't be friends with only other Bangladeshis in your school, and have fun learning about the people and culture where you are, go hiking, go kayaking, celebrate Halloween, and ask them to celebrate Pohela Baishakh with you. People sometimes ask me if English is the first language of Bangladesh since our English is much better than other Asian countries (we need to practice the Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-15735779053045565702012-10-23T21:54:00.002-04:002014-04-14T11:08:36.015-04:00Autumn Wedding in NC
finally I attended a real American wedding ! another thing checked from my bucket list, and yes, it was very much like the ones in movies :)
the same day I checked another thing off : I tried shooting, yeah, never good at aiming, but I wasn't keeping count, none of the empty cans got any bullet from my pistol, and even though I got "a little bit" scared of the sound, it was fun, that rush ofShopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-33513126370879957502012-07-28T22:57:00.002-04:002012-07-28T23:00:16.285-04:00Mount Kisco days
for a small town ( officially the village of mt kisco ) like this , the place has more variety than I expected. Two mexican, two indian restaurants, one etheopian restaurant, and some asian fusin places.. not bad. The small movie theatre, public library, post office all in one complex, you can basically walk the whole town in one day, and then can still enjoy another walk the next day. Life is Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-68356241840298149422012-06-17T22:06:00.000-04:002012-06-17T22:17:37.772-04:00Starting my summer in New York with tasty delights
It's been three weeks since I started my summer internship in New York, not the city, but a remote corner in NY state from where it takes an hour and a half to get to Manhattan, but I can still enjoy NYC each weekend. And by enjoying the city, I mean enjoying the food there, New York probably has the best food in USA. Today we went to Chelsea to have brunch, the egg benedict was nice, but the Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-70927821061138189422012-05-21T19:49:00.003-04:002013-05-20T20:08:17.530-04:00International Cuisine Tasting
As a part of our lab's "international cuisine tasting tradition" [ created and followed by some other fellow scientists in HCIL including myself ] , our last visit was to an Argentine restaurant, and mind was blown. From appetizers to the deserts including the main dishes.
Before that I went to a Szechuan hot pot restaurant where you are served raw meat and boiling broth, and looking at Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-71625095059957848142012-01-12T19:42:00.001-05:002012-01-12T19:46:06.090-05:00Portlandia
this time GHC was held in Portland ( Nov 10-13, 2011) , Oregon, in Oregon Convention Center, nice place, and a major event that I always look forward to. Meeting with researcher, job hunting and above all, meeting friends. I also had a poster presentation this time, so I can claim that it was a productive tour. I volunteered at the conference, participated in student research poster Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-32340648151324405312012-01-12T19:30:00.000-05:002012-01-12T19:30:38.698-05:00tea, coffee, coke !!!
I read this post and those who visit my blog may find it interesting, so I am quoting some of the interesting parts..
http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_30_a_java.htm
The original Coca-Cola was a late-nineteenth-century concoction known
as Pemberton's French Wine Coca, a mixture of alcohol, the caffeine-rich
kola nut, and coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine. In the face of social pressure,Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-79494446534487013512011-12-01T15:11:00.001-05:002011-12-03T19:33:28.025-05:00কলোরাডো ভ্রমনপর্ব
এই তো এই গ্রীষ্মের কথা , মানে মার্কিন হিসাবে জুন থেকে অগাস্ট, স্কুল তিন মাসের ছুটি , আমি মেরিল্যান্ড থেকে কালিফোর্নিয়াতে | google map এ সারা পৃথিবী চষে বেড়াই, এই তো মাউস এ একটা ক্লিক আর আমি প্রশান্ত মহাসাগর এ , আর একটু এগোই তো মেক্সিকো | এভাবে কি আর কাজ করা যায় ? এমন হাতের নাগালে পাহাড় আর সমুদ্র এমন লোভ দেখাচ্ছে তো আমি কী কোরে আর ডেস্কএ বসে কেবল মাউস আর কিবোর্ড নিয়ে থাকি ! ছুটির দিন Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-80452428898315383782011-11-07T21:40:00.000-05:002012-01-09T21:41:19.691-05:00Another Eid day in USA
and this time it's loads full of fun time ! yeah, I am in NC, Greensboro, in my school friend Tasmin's house, and she is awesome , so is her kachchi biriyani, chotpoti, alur vorta, lau-chingri, kabab...Nov 6 2011 and I will cherish this day ever. her backyard and the photo session, and watching 'bohubrihee' together. and like usual eid day, getting ready with make up and accessories ! Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0Greensboro, NC, USA36.0726354 -79.791975435.867292400000004 -80.107832399999992 36.2779784 -79.4761184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-3070095566089439302011-09-23T21:51:00.001-04:002011-09-23T22:51:48.951-04:00Random ...
and what if the things I thought are the most meaningful suddenly appears to be meaningless? and should I even look for meaning at all ? Why can't people be just ok with this meaningless existence and be happy and not think about what have I done with my life and all the bs ? I was actually trying to motivate myself for something, anything, and realized I cannot find anything to be inspired or Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-75741439273587566432011-05-20T01:00:00.012-04:002011-08-17T16:57:40.284-04:00Food , food and more food
I am not a foodie in that sense, usually I don't pay attention to food and make eating part of some multitasking act where I watch TV and eat without experiencing the 'food'. But after starting to try cooking by myself I realized how difficult it is to create something good or at least palatable . There must be some magic behind this ! and so far I figured out only one of thoseShopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-17573663389759671392011-04-14T22:36:00.003-04:002013-12-24T22:12:43.635-05:00একটি রাসায়নিক পরীক্ষাগার ভ্রমন
মানুষের কত রকমের শখ থাকে - কেউ রাঁধতে ভালবাসে, কেউ বা ছবি তুলতে , আমার তো ছুটির দিনগুলো কাটে গান শুনে আর টিভি দেখে, অর্থাৎ যাকে বলে কিনা সম্পূর্ণ 'অসৃজনশীল' | তার পরও শখ বলে কথা | তো আমাদের ক্লাসের একজনের শখ , শখ না বলে বলা উচিত 'প্যাশন' নিজ বাড়িতে বিয়ার বানানো ! ভিরমি খেয়ে পড়ার আগে বলে রাখি আমি আমেরিকায় বসে লিখছি , কাজেই উক্ত পানীয় প্রস্তুতি এবং গলধঃকরণ উভয়ই বৈধ এবং আইনত Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-20227887022199921552011-03-04T09:14:00.004-05:002011-05-20T01:40:33.384-04:00Stop Genocide : A Documentary on the genocide by Pakistani Army in the Bangladeshdirector: Zahir Raihan Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hauRsDJDm4Q
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33TT0M6BcY
Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-39479386481976021122011-02-23T22:46:00.005-05:002011-05-20T01:42:07.435-04:00Beautiful BangladeshThis video made by Bangladesh tourism board represents a lot about Bangladeshi culture, heritage and beauty. This was first aired on the inauguration ceremony held in Dhaka for the ICC World Cup cricket hosted by Bangladesh.Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-17682696814127972352011-01-22T15:27:00.003-05:002011-05-20T01:33:25.693-04:00a day in Disney Epcot Theme Park29.12.2010 11:30 pm Kissimmee . The taxi ride from Orlando air port to the hotel was just a teaser about how funny things are going to be for the next couple of days. And even though we were speaking in Bangla , the Puerto Rican taxi driver joined our conversation (!) and started to share his opinion, damn !
It was too late , but we still need to satisfy our hungry stomachs, Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-3437105831001833802011-01-07T00:06:00.014-05:002011-01-07T15:58:18.730-05:00Unforgettable Florida TourMay be I am making this my habit, whenever snow attacks in long lonely winter, escape to Florida.
No wonder people talk about weather that much, it's not that they do not have anything else to talk about, it deserves to be a topic. Now I do realize weather can affect people's psychology to what extent, the barren trees and snow covered ground just make me more depressed, and a Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-91875062989912090832011-01-06T22:37:00.001-05:002011-01-06T22:47:39.802-05:00Happy New YearI am indeed getting older as the earth keeps turning ; no grey hair yet ( surprising enough for a PhD student though ) , but looking at the undergraduates certainly makes me jealous , and sigh over memories I never had, things I never done, moments I never experienced, nostalgia over nothing !
But good friends can always rejuvenite one another, right ? We cannot always choose the Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-60637179022032965812010-11-23T12:20:00.000-05:002010-11-23T12:20:25.072-05:00another Fall in USThis is my second fall semester, it was the last fall when I arrived here at college park, MD and at first sight I loved my campus, then it was a matter of time to get used to the new people. Now more than one year has passed and even though it's not my home, I kind of feel comfortable in this nomadic life, may be I can stay anywhere ( given I have a high speed internet connection ) !Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-80405646644266808252010-11-19T01:14:00.008-05:002010-11-23T12:08:44.744-05:00Poems of Sukanta Bhattacharya onlineCan someone tell me when it is the time to write reports or work on homeworks-assignments , why do I just hide from all those and start digging the web ( because I left my real books back home) for poems? Tonight I suddenly remembered Sukanta, and searched if I could read his work online and I did not totally fail :) here I found some of the works of Sukanta , the Bengali poet Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-32442743486395271572010-11-19T00:30:00.004-05:002010-11-22T07:51:00.821-05:00a funny poem by Sukumar Rayso I found this website containing some poems of Sukumar Ray , ( another one in this online collection and also here with some poems )he is part of the childhood of all Bengali children, and if not, then I really feel sorry for those children who spent their childhood without reading works of Sukumar Ray. This one is about the 'helplessness' of a voracious eater around food and how heShopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-82607129136579844072010-10-03T01:54:00.002-04:002014-04-30T12:43:52.971-04:00me at GHC
IMG_8248, originally uploaded by geeklinda.
Four awesome days at Atlanta for the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing. Had a great time, now berried with homeworks and projects and undone laundries.
No need to mention how I enjoyed with my friends, but I also enjoyed my Hopper assignments and blogging and tweeting about the selected sessions as a community blogger . I could not Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-68982061135487632042010-08-25T11:08:00.007-04:002012-01-12T19:29:41.526-05:00Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
Summarizing my summer 2010:
Awesome NYC tour, met Kashpia and Rima.
Met Tanima, Enamul , Shafi and Shoshi after a long time , had a great dinner with them .
Celebrated 4th of July with Sheetal, Nawrin, Reza and Zaman. Great view of fireworks at Penn's landing. Totally exploited our Freedom of Speech :D
Student volunteer at KDD. Met Tozammel, Nayeem vai , Hassan Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-67388742992709680922010-07-18T13:31:00.000-04:002010-07-18T13:31:32.865-04:00Rose and Lavenderyesterday while waiting for the bus way home I happened to meet a girl with a bunch of dried lavender plants in her backpack and she was giving away to the people around .. there were too many, I also took some , it smelled wonderful .. soft and warm ..
she asked where I am from and after knowing that she surprised me with the question " amar naam golap , tomar naam kee ? ( My name is rose, Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060693467479417014.post-13555549167592585692010-07-16T14:16:00.023-04:002010-07-21T00:21:18.862-04:00New York Nostalgia"If you are in USA and you have not seen NYC, you have seen nothing", I was told so many good things and equal amount of bad things about NYC - so it became a must-do on my todo list .. there were hundreds of reasons not to go ( "it is way dirty, not worth your time .. bla bla ") and thousands to go ( "so full of life, places to see and shop ...") - then someday someone told me it was 'Shopanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03423977552833726847noreply@blogger.com0