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How Much Sillicon Valley Engineers Work In Office?

A Group of Robbers Forcibly Took My Laptop in BART near Hayward

Yesterday I got robbed in broad daylight in BART on the way back from San Francisco to Fremont. I was returning with my son after playing a chess tournament at Mechanics Chess Institute at San Francisco. On the way back to Fremont, the robbery happened just before the train stopped at Hayward station. My son was in the window seat listening to iPad and I was charging my iPhone with a cable attached to my Macbook Pro laptop. Inside the BART compartment there were less than 20 people all together, 5 of them were robbers - all african americans. Those were young guys about 18 to 22 years old I guess. Just when the train started to slow down to stop at Hayward Bart station, which is 4 stops before my home station Fremont, the robbers advanced and stood just beside me. Their leader, I guess because he was the tallest and fattest, first hit in my 2 hands from up-to-down like hammers to loosen my grip on my laptop. There was no pain or surprise. I instantly understood its a robbery case and...

Amitabh's Reception at Eric's Home for Rickshaw Girl

I recently attended a nice get together at Producer  Eric ’s house in San Francisco Bay Area for the upcoming movie Rickshaw Girl which will be directed by  Amitabh . This will be his second movie direction after Aynabaji. I became a small investor for this film that is focused on women empowerment, paintings for rickshaw in Bangladesh. I read the book couple of weeks back when I decided to invest in it and was pleased to meet the author of the book Mitali Parkins. Amitabh and I studied Masters in Economics at Dhaka University together. As always he was so jolly and cracked lots of jokes before Eric called everyone in the party for some speeches.