No Visa Required
All of a sudden my wife decided to visit her parents in Bangladesh. She would take our little one with her. This is his first visit to Bangladesh, so his passport needs Bangladeshi visa. Fortunately, Bangladesh government provides “No Visa Required” (NVR) stamp on the...
Power of Social Media
There is no doubt social media is very powerful - Turkish President was able to thwart a coup by posting his video message in twitter. Recently, I was able to use it for my benefit too. I fought with Whirlpool's supervisor (over the phone) to fix my microwave oven but...
Testicular Cancer
Recently, I took a agency mandated class on communication. It was a good class and the lessons learned there can be used for effective communication in work or in personal life. The instructor shared some experiences involving his client, parents, and siblings. He...
Displaying Formatted Text
Dynamically displaying formatted text is a pain. A label control can’t keep the format. People suggest to use multiline texbox but that doesn’t look good in a web page for announcement. Some suggests to use RichTextBox but that requires a great deal of coding. I...
Silly Talk
When he was learning to speak instead of saying I went there my eldest son, Mahir, used to say I goed there. Inspired by his innocent mistake I created two more words tolded and sawed. For example, I tolded you to go to bed but I sawed you playing instead later. Then...
The Whisperer
In college, I had a teacher, Douglas TheWhisperer (not giving the real last name intentionally), who would start talking in a normal voice or may be little louder and then his voice would gradually go down to whisper and around the end I wouldn't hear anything he was...