In Pursuit of Wisdom

The recent TubeMogul Chess Club vs DropBox Chess Club ended up being a big margin victory for DropBox with a 3.5 - 0.5 score. The tournament was held at San Francisco Mechanics Chess Institute at December 3rd. In the first board I drew my game while at other 3 boards we lost. Mechanics Director IM John Donaldson analyzed this game and was published in next TNM newsletter - http://chessclub.org/news.php?n=730 

I have read, watched and listened enough in my life to wonder how come I haven't compiled a list of my favorite quotes or excerpts from those? This is an attempt to remedy that missing piece. I hope this will help me get back to my favorites as and when I need to revisit them. (1) Fuler Bone Jar Pashe Jay, Tarei Lagey Bhalo - by Rabindranath Tagore This is one of the many such romnatic dialogues from Rabindranath Tagore who needs no introduction. I just picked one from his rich wealth to show my tribute to him. Below are the lyrics of the song and the full youtube video song sung by Rezwana Choudhury Bannya চাঁদের হাসির বাঁধ ভেঙেছে, উছলে পড়ে আলো।  ও রজনীগন্ধা, তোমার গন্ধসুধা ঢালো ॥  পাগল হাওয়া বুঝতে নারে ডাক পড়েছে কোথায় তারে--  ফুলের বনে যার পাশে যায় তারেই লাগে ভালো ॥  নীল গগনের ললাটখানি চন্দনে আজ মাখা,  বাণীবনের হংসমিথুন মেলেছে আজ পাখা।  পারিজাতের কেশর নিয়ে ধরায়, শশী, ছড়াও কী এ।   ইন্দ্রপুরীর কোন্ রমণী বাসরপ্রদীপ জ্বালো ॥ (2)...

Today I finished listening to one of the most significant lecture series in my life - Dr. Yasir Qadhi 's Series of Lectures on Seerah of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) . Initially I was listening to it from YouTube after knowing about it from Wali Bhai. Later Amin told me that he found an iPhone App named Yasir Qadhi where all these lectures are available in audio format and I could download it and listen to the audios offline. So this saved my data plan as in my first month I already crossed my 40GB plan just by listening to it while driving to office and coming back. It's a 104 part lecture series containing approximately 175 hours of lectures by Pakistani descent but American muslim scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi who stayed in Madina for 10 years for his islamic studies. Any muslim or non-muslim will be moved listening to this series. You will learn to be humble, polite, wise and humane to others. Dr. Yasir focused mainly on 2 things - rigorous academic analysis of Prophet's...

In 2015, BABA had successfully conducted the following events for the bay area bangladeshi community: BABA reception for Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder of BRAC. BABA Shadhinota Dibosh Celebration featuring Partha Barua. BABA reception for Ambassador Bernicat and Congressman Honda. Bay Area Bangladeshi Soccer Tournament, 2015. Fund/Special Items donation to the BN Ashar Alo (A school for special needs children) with the help of BNS Samudra Avijan management.  BABA Eid Reunion Celebration 2015 featuring Tapan Chowdhury and Chandan Zaman Ali.

It’s been 6 weeks since I joined TubeMogul leaving Salesforce. The decision to leave Salesforce was not an easy one, as Salesforce is one of the leading and most innovative software companies in the world with approximately 17 thousand employees. When I joined there 8 years back, they had a little more than 3 thousand employees. So I saw Salesforce rising at a pace, that is only believable if you live in Silicon Valley’s startup atmosphere. I was in a good book in my own department and had a good network of people working in different departments; as I have been working there for so long. There were further growth scope and no doubt Salesforce pays good enough to employees in Silicon Valley (I have to assume elsewhere too). So why move out of Salesforce at all? Here was my rationale. I have been working in IT Applications Development since my early years in Salesforce. The first half (4 years) I was working on a Java based module and the last half I have been working o...

Dear Community Members, As a chess player I would like to encourage you to watch the movie Pawn Sacrifice which is centered around the 1972 World Chess Championship Match (the most famous and dramatic match in chess history) between American Prodigy Bobby Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky . The movie got released all across USA this week and I am sponsoring 20 free tickets for this movie to our Bay Area Bangladeshi residents . You may check one of the reviews on this movie here. If you are interested to watch the movie together in a group show, please email to baba@baba1.com and ashikuzzaman@gmail.com with your name and phone number. If you want to bring your friend or another family member, please mention in the email. The movie showtime we selected is next Saturday 3rd October evening at Century 25 Union Landing , Fremont. Total number of 20 free tickets will be given on a first come first serve basis. From the same family, maximum 2 members will be given ...

Dui bondhu r kothopokothon... - Napoleon Bonaparte er jiboni porchi. Ei manushtar dictionary te impossible bole kono word chilo na. - Bolish ki? Nishchoi Neelkhet er puran dokan theke dictionary ta kinechilo! Ta nahole eto common ekta word....

Sillicon Valley er dui software engineer er kothopokothon - - Robindronath Thakur jotoi protibhaban hon na keno tini kokhonoi bhalo software engineer hote parten na. In fact, unar chakri i rakha daay hoto jodi ei pesha te ashten. - Keno? Tor ei rokom mone hobar karon ki? - Unar oi famous gaan ta shunish nai? "Jodi tor daak shune keu na ashey, tobe ekla cholo re....". Ei thekei bujha jay uni "team work" e bishshashi na. Arey kon software project keu ekla korte parbe, team work chara?

Ekjon election candidate er shakkhatkar nichchen ekjon journalist.... Jounralist: Shunlam apni MP election e darate chaan. To voter der ke apnar bepare kichu information janan. Candidate: Nishchoi nishchoi... Journalist: Apni ki shongskriti mona? Candidate: Are bolen ki? Ami gan shuni, kobita pori... Ami holam Robindro vokto. Journalist: Oh achcha. To apnar pochonder kobita konta. Candidate: Robindronath er "Shesher Kobita". Journalist: ... kintu ota to kobita na, uponnash... Candidate: Are apni Robindro nather cheye beshi janen naki? Uni ki na bujhe emon naam dibe. Ki shob interview nite ashen pora shuna na kore. Next question e jaan... Journalist: Ji ji. Gaan shunen bolchilen. To Fokir Alamgir er ekta gaan geye shunan dekhi. Candidate: Fokir ke bollen? Are bhai Gorib Fokir der jonno to ami emnitei jaan diye dei. Ta jokhon eto kore bolchen to ekta gai ei gorib dukhi der jonno... "Gorib Hoile Nijer Manush Chinna Chine Na.... Uchit Kotha Koile ...

2015 US National Junior Chess Congress was organized by Bay Area Chess during January 24th and 25th at Santa Clara Convention Center in the hearth of Sillicon Valley. The tournament had 8 different Age Level group - for Under 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Two groups for Age Level 6 and 8 were held in 25th January while the other 6 groups were a 2 days event. Ahyan Zaman, Bangladeshi American living in Fremont (California) won all the 5 games and clinched the National Junior Champion title in Age group 8 and Under. He is currently studying in 3rd grade of Parkmont School and is a regular member of the chess club NorCal House of Chess. 73 players participated in the Age 8 and Under group. Ahyan from Norcal House of Chess was 6th top seed by rating in this group. His final (5th) round game was the championship decider, where he faced top seed Adrian Kondakov of Berkeley Chess School which you can replay below - Above is the final result posted in...

Dear Bay Area Community Members, Thanks to current BABA EC and BOT committee, BABA 2015 election was held at Fremont on Dec 2, 2014 in presence of community members.  The election was held for 2015 BABA EC Panel of President, Vice President and General Secretary, as well as two vacant BABA BOT (Board of Trustees) positions.   We are pleased to announce the election of Muhammad Quamruzzaman of Santa Clara to BABA BOT for a term of three years from Jan 1, 2015.  We are also pleased to announce that the panel consists of  Ashik Uzzaman of Fremont as President, Helal Chaudhury of San Jose as Vice President, and Quazi Shahriar Rahman of Fremont as General Secretary was elected.  This panel has selected the following members as 2015 EC committee :   1. Ashik Uzzaman                    President & Social Affairs Secretary 2. Helal Ch...