First let’s define what it is for our readers who are not familiar with it. Procrastination basically is putting everything off till the last minute. An example would be when a teacher gives you homework one week before it’s due, but you don’t do your homework till the night before the day it’s due.
Procrastination is a problem for everyone. I’m 100% sure everyone procrastinated one time or another in their life. And if you’re saying to yourself that you never procrastinated, then stop lying to yourself because I know you procrastinated. I graduated college not too long ago and I’m seen and experienced procrastination to the max. However, over the years I figured out how to not procrastinate and avoid the headache of doing everything at the last moment.
Every night, before going to bed, take a sheet of paper and write down all the things you need to do for the week and all the things you have completed. One of the factors of procrastination is forgetting to do the task because we try to remember all of the tasks in our heads. However, if we write down all the things we need to do then it’s easier to complete the task.
If you can you should get rid of the habit of procrastination. It’s not a life skill you want to keep otherwise you will be late for work, late on projects, and even late in paying bills; it can do many damages to you.
Another way to get rid of it is thinking about the consequences if you didn’t complete a task on time. If you think about the negative outcome then it’ll drive you to do finish the task.
Iftakar Chowdhury’s “The Search” apparently got a lot of Bengalis’ attention because it’s nicely filmed with high-definition equipment. I checked out the trailer and it’s not all that great; it looks as if they used basic Adobe After Effects techniques, something even I can do. However, the music video from the movie seems nice, check it out.
I suppose this is the brink of competition now in the Bangladeshi film industry. Even though they need a lot of improvement, I’m proud of Bangladesh for realizing that cameras from 1970s and fat chicks aren’t gonna make a movie good. On top of that in the music video above, they could’ve chose a guy in better shape. However, overall it’s good so far and it shows that they are learning and realizing that if they keep on making cheap movies for rickshaw drivers then Bollywood will destroy Bangladesh’s film industry completely.
The only thing that disappoints me is the dresses they chose for the actor and actress. Wearing western clothes doesn’t make a movie look better. On top of that, we are Muslim Bengalis so this type of clothes are not appropriate.
The following is the English translation of the song, “Gopone Dekhchi Tomai”, sang by Fahim Aziz and Sajid Sarker.
I stood by the door, seeing you cry.
I stood by the door, seeing you cry.
My mind was in misery, eyes watery,
But you still laughed regardless.
My mind was in misery, eyes watery,
But you still laughed regardless.
Now that you have left me,
I am sitting here all alone
And thinking about you,
Whether I will ever see you again
In this life of yours and mine
I see you, yet we are seas apart,
I see you, yet we are worlds apart
I am seeing you in private (secretly).
It’s those eyes that made me drift in the sea of solitude,
And my days pass away reflecting those thoughts.
Now that you have stole my soul,
I am just standing here thinking –
Whether I will ever see you again
In this life of yours and mine,
Even if you go farther and farther away from me,
I will always remain yours.
Even if you go farther and farther away from me,
I will always remain yours.
If you ever think about me someday,
Just unlock your eyes and you will see me looking at you,
I am looking you – in private (secretly).
People are afraid of something, especially when they were younger because they had limited knowledge about their surroundings, about the world. The less knowledge a person has the more scared he/she becomes in any situation. There is a trend, which is common all over the world, the more knowledgeable one is the more powerful that person becomes. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes:
“There is no knowledge that is not power”
Did you ever notice in every country the educated people do whatever they want because they have no fear. They have no fear because they know how to handle various situations that deals with their actions.
Let’s look at an example that most to all people are familiar with, a guy going up to a girl. When a guy likes a girl for the first time, he doesn’t know how to approach her and what to say because he has no past experience to gain skills from. So you will hear about situations where the guy is nervous and stutters because he is scared. He is also scared because he can’t tell by the mood of the girl if she will say yes or reject him on the spot.
Rookies who start out in their careers are usually scared to do their jobs. Another example would be, medical doctors who start out their careers have nervousness of not screwing up because they are fresh out of medical school. In order to avoid any problems they have to go through at least three years of residency training under the supervision of experienced licensed physicians.
Let’s take it further to Asian countries such as Bangladesh. In Bangladesh there are people in all different classes: the aristocratic, the upper-middle, the lower-middle, and the poor. The poor people are in poverty and they are controlled by people from the upper classes. The poor people are given jobs in houses as servants because they have nothing else; they know nothing. They be abused by others and they can’t do anything, because they are not educated enough to read their human rights or go to the authorities to complain.
Therefore, to stay ahead of the crowd, and to look out for yourself, educate yourself as much as possible. Because once you’re educated, you have power; and the more education you gain, the power you gain. You will destroy your fears of uncertainty as you gain more knowledge. Of course no one is certain of what will happen in the future; however, if you are knowledgeable enough you can throw out what will not happen. So, read, read, and read more in any subject because you never know when you need that knowledge.
After hours of aggravating video editing, sacrifice of weekend sleep, and few desi drama among the cast, the video Gopone Dekhchi Tomai is finally done. What can I say, it was a headache because I had to do the editing all by myself. The whole project took about $500 to make and hours of painstaking video shootings.
The video below is the intro animation for me because if I did so much work I may as well take credit for it. The video project is the reason why I haven’t updated my blog for a while. The mini dram that my friends and I made is about 17 minutes so there is no way to upload it on YouTube, because the limit for YouTube is 10 minutes. However, to get an idea of how much work it took check out the Innovations video below. If you can see the “HQ” button in the controls then I suggest you watch the video in High Quality.
Now that the video is complete I can finally rest after work and get some sleep in the weekends. I’m proud of creating this animation because it’s the first one of it’s kind and you can tell by looking at the Bangla letters while watching.
I know what you’re thinking, after 15 days of not blogging, I come back and write about this topic. But hey, it’s a topic we all are involved with or we will be involved in; either way it’s a topic we all are affected by. So, read on and think about what I wrote when it comes to real life situations.
Whenever I hear a couple talk about when they met, if they say it was love at first sight, I just laugh in the back of my head. In my opinion, two people cannot fall for each other just by looking at each other’s appearances.
When a guy likes a girl just by looking at her, he’s not in love; instead, one of three things are going on his mind:
Most guys look at the girl they like and think how it would feel when he bangs her in bed. It’s true, but this doesn’t apply to all guys, usually the ones who are players.
Some guys look at a pretty girl and think the girl is the most beautiful girl in the world. In this moment, the guy admires the girl’s beauty and he stares at her over and over again because he is mesmerized by her beauty.
The third type is the rarest type of all, and very rare guys will think this. When a guy looks at a girl he likes, he’ll think what it’ll be like to have a life with her, such as growing old and raising kids with her.
The three things above are called infatuation, which is temporary passion. A guy who is infatuated with a girl does not love the girl, but shows interest in her.
A guy and girl fall in love with each other after getting to know each other. It may take weeks to months, but eventually they will fall for each other. When a girl and a guy talk to each other often, they get to know about each other’s interests and goals. In a slow process, the fire of love evolves.
So, remember that there is no such thing as love at first sight, only infatuation at first sight. However, eventually the infatuation grows to be love.
The title is meaningful as it sounds; would you feel alright if you had your life recorded? The recording would not be by anyone else but by you on paper. The everyday life events such as who you meet, who was your crush was, what are your thoughts, your goals, etc. You should know by now what I’m leaning towards; a journal.
I thought and figured out that once you write something, a recording of your life, you can look back after a number of years and get ideas for future prospects. There are
You can keep a journal or popularly known as a diary by the following ways:
Book
You can find a journal with dates pre-entered at your local store. You have probably seen the famous “dear journal” or “dear diary” writings in movies. You don’t have to make it like that but this is the one of the most common ways to record your daily thoughts. The con on having a book diary is that it can be misplaced or worse, it can be stolen by someone in your house. If you have personal things in it, which are meant for your eyes only, then it won’t be private anymore.
Online Diary
Yes, you guessed it, a blog. WordPress.com and Blogger.com offers absolute private blogs so only you can see the personal things you have written, things which you don’t want any one to know. The con about this is that the administrators will be able to see it if they decide to find your blog out of the millions of blogs they host on their servers. They may read your personal things, such as your sex experiences or the most embarrassing moment in your life.
Either or works, but in the modern day, I think blogs are easier to write on because you can access the net virtually anywhere, if you are living in the West. So, you don’t have to carry around a book everywhere to write your thoughts; you’ll have a small laptop, an iPhone, or some kind of portable device that lets you access the web wherever you go.
I believe keeping some kind of entry about your daily life is significant. You can actually go back to these writings 5 years from now and teach your kids or 20 years from now and teach your grand children about your past; you’ll have something as a reference.
Since I love writing I do keep entries about my life. I write about my social circle, the people I meet, the people I work with, the people I love, and just everything in general. As you know it’s too personal so, it’s not going to be online.
About 38 years from today, peasants, intellectuals, military soldiers, political leaders, and others from East Pakistan of Bengali ethnicity stood up for their rights and freedom against the brutal Pakistani Army of General Yahya Khan, the dictator of the Pakistani Union.
For over 20 years the Bengalis suffered economic and political neglect from the elites of West Pakistan. These neglectful ways lasted until March of 1971 when a civil war broke out in East Pakistan due to the genocide of at least 300,000 Bengalis, mostly Hindus. Bengali women were raped and killed because they were of darker skin, even though most of them were Muslims. The Punjabis saw Bengalis as inferior Muslims and so they abused them against the law of Islam.
It’s unfortunate that Pakistan today still has this mentality while Bengalis of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) have grown out of this. Bengalis come in all different race, religion, skin color, and different origins from different parts of Asia; Bengalis are very heterogeneous in their origins and yet they are united in one ethnicity. Bangladesh today is very tolerant towards minorities overall. I admit there are handful of instances of racism, abuse, and discrimination in uneducated parts of the country towards the minorities, but things are changing for the better. We see Indians and Pakistanis residing in Bangladesh for education and for business, which shows that the country is tolerant toward non-Bengalis and she is thriving.
Corruption has declined significantly and with it progress comes in all direction. Today, even though I’m an American, I give salaam to the country of my birth; Bangladesh Zindabad!
There is about seven days left till you have to post mark your tax return or pay taxes if you are self-employed. I doubt that if you take your papers to an accountant now, the accountant would have it done before April 1st. Last year I paid this old lady $25 to have my taxes done. It took her till April 1st to finish it, and I gave her all my papers two weeks before. She said she could do it on time and on top of that she was keeping up with book keeping and doing taxes of her other clients.
I did my taxes just today because of the following reasons:
a) I don’t want to pay $25 or more to anyone to do a task which I can do myself.
b) Finding the right accountant near by my house who charges at a reasonable price is a million to one.
c) The accountant cannot finish on time.
I had to find some way to get things done ASAP. I know many tax services offer filing federal taxes online for free but they do not mention anything regarding state taxes. I found out that they charge further for state taxes. Fortunately I found TaxAct.com which offered me to skip through the IRS’s complicated forms and they offer a low price. TaxAct.com asks simple questions regarding how much I earned, miscellaneous expenses, medical expenses, etc. and once I’m done it automatically computes the required the forms for filing my taxes.
I filed both federal and state taxes electronically and had them sent. For federal tax filing it was free and for filing state taxes I paid $14. On top of that, I entered my direct deposit information so, whenever I get my tax return, I’ll receive it securely without worrying about lost checks in the mail.
So, if you haven’t filed your tax returns yet, I suggest you do it online at TaxAct.com so, you don’t have to pay for any penalty.
The following is a virginity rate chart classified by majors from Wellesley College. I find this halarious and yet it shows the truth, that the people with more time get laid more than people who study the most.
Studio Art majors don’t need to spend hours and hours sitting in front of books figuring out math equations or understanding scientific facts. It also supports the stereotype that geeks get laid the least; check out the Math and Science majors on the right side of the chart.
I would’ve guessed the opposite, because higher difficulty majors would need to have sex more to relieve all the stress of studying. But then again they wouldn’t have the time to find someone to sleep with.
What do you guys think? Also, pass this on please.
