Saturday, December 18, 2004

Feverish!

Yeah, literally, I am feverish. A few minutes back, I saw this smudged wallpaper on Nafid bhai's monitor and I thought it was a couple kissing with the girl arched back in the guy's arms.
Actually it was only a guy with two of his hands rubbing on a flame. I know it was stupid to think like that. But think about it! Why would a guy be rubbing flames, when there are much better and nicer things to RUB!!!
My friend Tanim, sitting right beside me, described his feverish state. He hasn't been shitting for the last eight hours now. And he probably had something, that no longer wants to be inside the bowels of his existence and is trying to come out.
Therefore, Tanim was asking whether it would be nice if he took a dump in the bathroom on this floor of the Daily Star. The idiot was about to go to the one upstairs, which is even worse. Frustrated journalists and on you know..!!
My buddy Kamran is probably pissed at me. He wanted me to be at the Tunesbd movie blast this afternoon. But I couldn't show up at the very last minute and RSVPed him through an sms.
I haven't heard from him ever since.
Now this fever is getting the best of me. My girl is already on my case, since she had constantly asked me the last three days to wear a jacket or something inside during the winter.
I never listened!
Anyhow, I got to run now. I have an assignment to cover.

Friday, December 17, 2004

Old friend

Salaams
Hey y'all,
Am going to make this short and I dont really know sweet: I would be meeting a very old and close friend,Naveed in sometime now. Probably will catch up on old times. He may be in a bad mood still as uncle passed away only ten days back. Hopefully I would be able to cheer him up, Insha'ALLAH.
I went to Durre, another good buddy's sister's walima this afternoon. Food was okay, even though, I did not have a whole some meal.
It was Durre's fault. She was moving in CST (Chittagong Stretchable time).
But it was good, and I enjoyed the time with Durre, Fariya apu and buddies.
What really scared me was the way Durre went on and on about how scary some CTG families can get to people marrying into their families.
Point to be noted, my girl is from Chittagong. So I am aptly a little nervous about the whole thing. And why wouldn't I be !
My girl has three elder brothers before her.
And they are all Defense personnel. Yeah, Now that would be something out of Independence Day. Them being Will Smith and Jeff Goldbloom and me being the Alien.
And thirdly, her father is an ex-army doctor.
Voila! Now you know why I am nervous.
But something that still makes me go on with hope is the fact, that I have my ALLAH with me.I always somehow or the other through HIS help made it through in all the messy situations in life.
Tomorrow, Kamrangi has asked me to show up at the Cineplex around 1:30 tomorrow with Tk. 150 in my hands.
Let's see how that goes.
Watching Kamran in action is quite entertaining. I should get a video camera!

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Victory Day

Yeah a fine morning began with me waking up to find out that my meticulous student had arrived at 10 AM when his arrival was actually scheduled around 10:30 AM. I did not get up from the bed till the next half an hour. Was trying to get as much 'Shut-eye' as possible all this time and also, verbally trashed my student's past fourteen generations in my mind.
So it was a pretty relaxing with me constantly trying to figure out how to pass my time. I played 'GTA 3'till 3 last night. Couldnt wake up in time for Fazr therefore.
Saw something really shocking today. I was watching TV and one of my students informed me, of Kareena and Shahid Kapoor's pictures and video.
But anyhow, it wasnt a SEX tape first and foremost, after I got to see it on the news. It was just a clip of the two making out.
What I felt really appalling was why would some people even go to such lengths as to record a couple making out?
I mean, these people have their personal lives right? I cannot even imagine the idea, of someone taping me making out with some girl like that.
But I guess, its just a side effect of being popular. When you are popular, even you spitting on the street would be a great scoop or something!
Anyhow, I am getting bored again with almost nothing to do.
Star City's story bank has gone bankrupt and today Mizan bhai asked all of us for more stories.
Yeah, if only things were THAT easy!
I will be signing off now.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Relaxation or boredom?

--- A question that I constantly ask myself on days like today.I got done with my finals only yesterday and already, I am planning about what ways, I can spend most of these free hours that I have in my hands.
With the University closed till the next one month almost, I will be bashing my head around, trying to find ways through which I will be occupied.
My girl is supposed to be in Dhaka around the 20th of this month. But knowing her conservative family, she wouldn't be able to spend too much time with me. So I would probably have around a day or two to spend there.Valuable times are classified through their limited duration!
I am also, Insha'ALLAH, going to attend a friend's sister's wedding on the 14th of January which would be in Chittagong. Woo hoo! For those of you who dont know why I am woo hooing well, my girl resides in chittagong, so there!
But that still doesn't tell me about the times in between. Yes, I still have my students around. But they are never good enough to pass time.
Let's just hope something or the other comes up. Durre, my buddy is in town. Hopefully, she would be able to spend some of her precious time.
Oh well, I have had a pretty good day. But its still kind of boring with nothing much to do.
Tomorrow's the 16th of December. Good thing it ai'nt a holiday and I would still have to come to the office.
Take care till then. Bye for now.

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Miracle!

Salaams,
Am back. I cant believe I was under so much mental stress last night and early this morning and how AlHamdulillah, I am so relaxed now.
Why was I under so much stress? Well simple.
After the whole incident yesterday, and the way, I saw one of my closest buddies cry, I could not shake away the morose streak I was going through.
Moreover, I had two finals today. And really serious ones at that too!
There was ECO173 and also ACT202. And if it was anything like I had a break of around an hour or two in between, things would have been a lot easier. But there was only this half an hour break.
And so, I did not prepare myself for ECO at all. I did get to study Accounting very little yesterday, when I met with Shafat, a classmate from ACT202. AlHamdulillah, we sat down for that, or else, I wouldn't have been able to answer any question whatsoever from ACT today.
Anyhow, so we got to do some of the problems together from ACT. But still there were all those theories and definitions to learn.
Even last night, the whole seriousness of the matter, did not sink into my very existence.
I was still running around, doing this and that, playing GTA III and so on.
I finally finished two out of five chapters. I did go through this other one the day before that.
So I was still left with two which I hadn't studied at ALL. And these were like the major ones.
Anyhow, so I did not give up. Around 2:00, I got extremely sleepy and thought that at least three hours of sleep would do me some good.
I was supposed to wake up at 5:00, right? Yeah, if only things were that easy!
I woke up around 8:00AM!
I still went on with Accounting and ended that around 10:30.
Went to my buddy Ifti's place then and ALHAMDULILLAH, he is an awesome student. He explained all the problems of ECO173 to me quite easily. ALHamdulillah, there weren't too many theories either.
So, I went to the Uni and studied till 12:54 PM.
Alhamdulillah, somehow I did good in the exam. Had around 7 marks worth of confusion and some other things as well.
But then, I hope , I will get some marks out of that 7 as well.
Well after that was done, i was scared about ACT then. Why? because there was a lot to cover and so little time to do it in!I did not do much. Revised most of the problems and that was it!
Went to the examination then and even though at first, things looked really tough, somehow, AlHamdulillah, I was able to answer the entire 100 marks of the entire exam.
I know there would be some mistakes, but hopefully things will not be too bad.
I am extremely tired at the moment. I would be heading home in sometime.
See you all, later. ALLAH Hafez.

Saturday, December 11, 2004

People on power trips!

Salaams,
Hello,
Its one of those days again.Why? Well, a very close person to me, one of my elders just expired a few days back. He was extremely nice to me and even though, he was a friend's father, I really really respected the guy.
I remember,how Uncle and auntie had showed up at the airport when I was leaving for the US;I never saw too many people who were that nice. He got a pair of army boots for my friend, Ratul and me, just like he did for his own son, Naveed.
He was always there for me when I needed his help, AlHamdulillah.
But now that he's gone, now that I think of it, I still cant believe that he's gone.Neither can his son, Naveed!
I finally got to go to the Milad today. And since I have a office to come to, I had to abide by the protocols of the office, and called to inform them that I will be a little late.
I told my in-charge that a friend's dad just expired. Guess what he says to me: "Ei dhoroner jinish toh badd dileo paro. Sangbadik holey to unsocial hoye jetey hoi..."
So what do I say to him? Almost nothing. Know why? Because somewhere sometime down the line, in my life, my parents had taught me :"Respect your elders."
And now, I am bound by that very chain which they had taught me.
What am I supposed to do if elders cannot be themselves?!!!!!!!????!!!?
Hmm,my girl tells me that i shouldn't do anything against such people. God will sort them out!
I know that is true.. but such people are never good for anything and always are on a power-trip as soon as they get something that makes them feel important.
ANyhow, I got to go now.
I don't know what I am going to do but this whole thing is going to gnaw under my skin.
I have to find out for myself what journalism is all about first.
bye.
ALLAH Hafez

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Who am I?

Assalamu Alaikum to all my muslim brethern and so on,
And Hey yo to everyone else, :)
This is my blog. I have come up with it simply because of two reasons
1.) Two friends of mine got such blogs and therefore I figured why not!
2.)I want to share some of my thoughts with the rest of the world. I know they are at times weird but who knows, some of these may open up some windows for some people,Insha'ALLAH.
So to all of my friends who are reading this and to my unknown buddies as well, thanks a lot for reading this!
Hopefully from tomorrow I will start updating this page.
See you all, Insha'ALLAH. ALLAH Hafez.