In Pursuit of Wisdom

We had to skip the 14th March Lake Tahoe trip due to Ahyan getting fever one day before the travel. Although we prepared a lot, purchsed skii gears, at the lasdt moment we decided to stay safe considering Ahayn's situation and hence Prakash also skipped the trip. Shahriar, Sochi, Safwan, Hasinur, Sigma and Nitol went to the trip Saturday morning and came back Sunday night. I saw their skiing pictures Tuesday night at Shahriar's house where we all gathered to discuss how their trip went - and I saw those were amazing. Sachin Tendulkar's brilliant 160 in first test against New Zealand in Hamilton took india to a 10 wicket victory. He was adjudged Man of the Match. Dravid's 70 runs out and 105 runs partnership with Gambhir extended his lead of century partnerships in Tests. He has the record for most century stands (74) in Tests. Ricky Ponting has the next best tally with 72 century stands, followed by Sachin Tendulkar (71) when he added 115 run partnership in this test ...

While I don't agree with the ranking system completely, I enjoyed the Ranking of Indian Cricketers in this site. They have analyzed cricketers based on only their Test Cricket Performance although a short section on ODI ranking is also given separately. You can download the book in PDF format from here . I wish someone would compile a similar list for Bangladeshi Cricketers! I have enjoyed Tendulkar and Sehwag's batting in the ODI series against New Zealand. I am surprised that there is no declaration for player of the series for ODI. May be they will do a player of the series only in Test series. But if there would be a declaration it must have been either Tendulkar or Sehwag. Considering the chart , Tendulkar's average is quite better than anyone else and he only played in 3 games and would sure score a lot more runs if would play the other 2 games. So I would declare Sachin as my player of the series for ODI. South Asia's largest shopping mall Bashundhora city in Dh...

I went to Father's Night in Montessori Children's Care in Fremont 2 days back. I came back from office early that day at 5:30 PM. It was interesting to see him trying to show me what he can do. He tried moving some small balls with spoon from one pot to another, tried putting some very small balls in a pot in specific places, tried moving plastic maccaroni's from one plate to another. But when it was turn for singing, he was standing beside me and not joining the other kids. Miss betsy (Ahyan's Teacher of Redwood class) told he normally sings everyday. I guess due to his ear pain, Ahyan is a little bit uncomfortable today. My first father's night with Ahyan!

Here are 10 best cricket related websites. I use Cricinfo.com so much that I forgot that there might be some other sites that also may have some good info. In my iPhone I have installed plusmo mobicast so I always check live scores of current games and read latest cricket related news. However, at night when I am at home, browing in the internet using my favorite Firefox browser is easier. Cricinfo.com BBC Sports Telegraph Cricket Sky Sports Yahoo Cricket Cricket365 Rediff Cricket Sify Sports Hindustan Times Cricket TimesofIndia Cricket

Just when I was thinking we (Bangladeshis) are moving forward with the newly elected Govt bringing hopes for a better democracy, I was shocked with this week's BDR Mutinee and massacre killings of Bangladesh Army's high officials in Pilkhana right in the enter of the capital city Dhaka. This is so sad that it can't be described in written words. We 6 families in Fremont were watching a movie Delhi 6 and at the end of the movie, Shahriar one of my friends told me that he just heard during the intermission of the movie that there is a mutinee happended in Dhaka little earlier against the Army officers. And it's widely suspected that DG of BDR Major General Shakil are of the many high officials who got killed as part of it. We rushed to home to call back to Bangladesh to make sure our family and relatives there are safe. Yes, by almighty, they were. But this is not the same case for many of the others. It's just hopelesss, sad, shocking and distrous in lack of words s...

Well, I started the new year 2009 with the friends in bay area all gathering in Sayeem's new bought house in San Jose. The year is going so busy that I didn't get time to write those down here for a long long time. So I am compiling some events in a one liner, each of which deserves a separate blog entry itself. * Shahriar and Nitol visited back from Bangladesh. Abbu Ammu sent pitha, cakes with them. * Ahyan started going to Montessori pre-school from 2nd February. Shusmita now drops me in the BART and then drops Ahyan at school by 8:45 AM. She picks her at noon, half an hour earlier than scheduled time. * Finished Silva Method course in Sacramento at the weekend of January 24 and 25. Nitol also took the course with me. Our trainer was Steven Protopappas and the 2 day course is named Silva Life Systems (SLS). I am practicing a little bit irregularly but Nitol looks like has lost the inspiration to continue. Nitol's 2 CDs are being helpful for me. * Mashrafee mortaza was so...

Within a few hours, Bangladesh Election 2008 will start. I think Awami League is a favorite this time considering the huge damage happened to BNP during last 2 years of emergency rules. But I am relieved that whatever it took, we are again going towards and elected Govt. From Blogs I watched Amir Khan's Ghajini last evening and admire it. He accted so well and the move reminded me what as a human being we are capable of. Along with all these, I have been preparing to take the Silva Mind Control/Medication Training in a month or two. I think I need to re-organize my inner disciplines, specially time management and food habit, and this course should help me with that a lot.