i am a jack fruit

Darlyn Mae

2007-03-30T16:06:00.000+02:00

The all new GeForce 8800 series GPU

2006-11-26T08:38:00.000+01:00

Looking forward to buying this card. Its the next generation of graphics card from Nvidia featuring 768MB of GDDR3 video memory and 128-bit HDR with 16x anti aliasing and also features the 'NVIDIA's Quantum Physics Engine' . The new thing about it is that it consists of unified shader model first introduced by ATI tech. now part of AMD. And of course has full support for DX10.

emm.. i looked into some swedish online market.. its really expensive.. the GTX model is about 5500+ kroner while the gts model is slightly less. Maybe i should wait for a few more days until windows vista + intels quad core processors have arrived.

2006-10-22T01:08:00.000+02:00

making pizza at home

2006-10-20T01:23:00.000+02:00

farukh bhai

2006-10-20T01:01:00.000+02:00

janky

2006-10-20T00:53:00.000+02:00

biswas & me....

2006-10-20T00:38:00.000+02:00

The famous Johny Lever

linda

2006-06-12T02:05:00.000+02:00

dinner with tuna

2006-06-04T22:59:00.000+02:00

Happy Father's day

2006-05-30T15:02:00.000+02:00

A Dad is a person
who is loving and kind,
And often he knows
what you have on your mind.
He's someone who listens,
suggests, and defends.
A dad can be one
of your very best friends!
He's proud of your triumphs,
but when things go wrong,
A dad can be patient
and helpful and strong
In all that you do,
a dad's love plays a part.
There's always a place for him
deep in your heart.
And each year that passes,
you're even more glad,
More grateful and proud
just to call him your dad!
Thank you, Dad...
for listening and caring,
for giving and sharing,
but, especially, for just being you!
Happy Father's Day

Stope Sutff: 12 Cool Gadgets for Dads

dinner

2006-05-12T17:57:00.000+02:00

DirectX

2006-05-11T23:56:00.000+02:00

I am going to spend one whole day learning directX. I have been using OpenGL for such a long time now.. its about time i venture into this fascinating and powerful API.

DirectX - here I come to conquer u:)

change required..

2006-05-09T08:03:00.000+02:00

I dont like the design of my blog anymore. I am going to switch to a new design template, one that is simple and utilizes space more efficiently. I still need to find some way to make a photo library like my friends using msn space have... have too many pictures to share. And need to add some more cool stuff.. some flash stuff.. video stuff.

I wont have any time to do it now.. will do it in the summer.

poor rEd hEat

2006-05-04T12:04:00.000+02:00

After years of wearing it I have fallen in love with my check trousers. Old age has ripped it in many places.

Close look up ;)

The back side... on the other leg

Am I smart or what!! I will use it till the last thread..

bonfire in norrkoping

2006-05-03T00:00:00.000+02:00

football match

2006-04-24T19:04:00.000+02:00

last days of suana.. no more of it

2006-04-23T15:25:00.000+02:00

oh mother mine...

2006-04-23T11:22:00.000+02:00

A MOTHER'S LOVE

A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems . . .
It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendoured miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God's tender guiding hand.

~Helen Steiner Rice~

M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T is for the tears she shed to save me,
H is for her heart of purest gold;
E is for her eyes with love-light shining,
R means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell MOTHER

30 days..

2006-04-23T00:05:00.000+02:00

2006-04-22T21:44:00.000+02:00

smoking is bad for health.. it is a bad habit

VIRUS.. shit

2006-04-20T23:27:00.000+02:00

Ok.. this afternoon while i was looking for crack in the internet for Alcohol 120% I accidently installed a spyware or a virus. Since then my computer has been acting crazy. Most programs are not working correctly.. cant run developer studio.. cant run msn.. alt+ctrl+dell does not work.. i seem to have lost all my administrative previliges. Even my antivirus software trend micro internet pc-cillin is not working.. giving some strange errors.

So its time i install my system again. This sucks.. i have to install so many things now.. backup so many stuffs.. going to take my whole day tommorow.

Fish and fish and more fish

2006-04-19T12:23:00.000+02:00

Check out this guys blog.. tons of fish http://www.redheat.org/

Did a search on google with redheat and found that guys blog. Its amazing how many kinds of fish the guy has caught.. really large ones

cricket.. good performance by Bangladesh

2006-04-17T02:28:00.000+02:00

Even though Bangladesh lost the match against the current world up holders (for two times in a row) it was good fight. Our country is improving..:D
First innings score
Seconds innings score sheet

I stole the score sheets from my friends blog

sauna.. hehe

2006-04-16T01:59:00.000+02:00

Me and Poltu mama

New blog

2006-04-13T20:20:00.000+02:00

New blog created for the mobile game project..
http://game-project.blogspot.com/

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2006-04-11T01:55:00.000+02:00

teacher ask: where does dragon fly live?
student: where there are mosquito.
teacher: then where does mosquito live?
student: where there is less dragon fly.

void * realloc ( void * memblock, size_t size );

2006-04-09T14:28:00.000+02:00

Reallocate memory block.

The size of the block pointed to by memblock parameter is changed to the size in bytes specified, expanding or reducing the amount of memory accessible in that block.
The block could be moved to a new location in some cases, in this case the pointer returned by the function will point to the location. The content of the block will remain unchanged even if the block is moved and will be accessible from the new pointer.
In case that memblock is NULL the function behaves exactly as malloc assigning a new block of size bytes and returning a pointer to the beginning of it.
In case that size is 0 the memory previously allocated in memblock is deallocated and a NULL pointer is returned. Dynamic memory allocated with malloc, calloc and realloc should be freed using free once it is no longer needed.

another chora

2006-04-09T11:32:00.000+02:00

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.

Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering

Saquib Khan... dude you rock!!

2006-04-09T11:14:00.000+02:00

Kring Kring Telephone
Hello Hello Hello
Ke Bhai Kakay Chai
Bolo Bolo Bolo

Ami Meu Hulo Cat
Idur Kay Chai
Joruri Alap Achay
Tumi Kehay Bhai

Ami Idur
Kintu Kotha Holo Ei
Ami Gechi Market e
Bari Tei Nei

A short funny poem: Found on my friends blog.. saquib khan.. the kutta mara poet.
Kobi kobi bhab.. kintu kobitar obhab.
http://bangla.blogspot.com

Sauna in Evergarden and its benefits

2006-04-08T23:27:00.000+02:00

Steam saunas may help you lose weight. Spending some time in a steam bath for can burn as many as 300 calories. Combine this with a healthy diet and exercise and you’ll be thinner in no time. The steam sauna can also tighten your skin, in that dirty battle against cellulite.

A steam bath will relax your tense and aching muscles. If you have had a long day (or month) at work, toxins can build up in your muscle tissue, causing you pain and discomfort. A steam sauna can force your muscles to relax, almost instantly releasing these harmful toxins. It is also great after a workout. The extra blood flow will speed up the repair of your muscle tissue, thus allowing you to exercise again sooner. Don’t take my word for it. The Finnish Olympic team takes a portable steam sauna to all competitions.

The steam sauna also cleanses your skin. The sweat opens your pores, thus flushing out unhealthy toxins and grime.

Steam bathing provides a cardiovascular workout without stress or strain on your joints. You heart rate will speed up 50-75% in a 20-minute steam bath. This goes a long way to speeding up your metabolism, thus helping you burn fat. It is about the same as going for a long walk. Some people are under the conception that steam baths raise your blood pressure. While this is true, it also expands your blood vessels to compensate.

In many ways the steam bath acts as a giant fever machine. While this may sound like pretty much the worst thing ever. When you think about it, it actually makes sense. You are sick, it is the virus that makes you feel bad. The fever is your body’s way to kill that virus. So, even if you are not feeling sick, getting into a sauna is like a pre-emptive strike against any viruses in your body.

source: the web

Today like the past two saturdays we were taking saunas. Today Zaheer Bhai joined us.. he liked it very much. I have been trying to make Sajjad take it also.. but without any luck.. always busy with his study.. does not have any time for enjoyment.

We are going to take it every saturday.. its fun. :) :)

more on modelling

2006-04-08T18:15:00.000+02:00

dragon with normals..

dragon without normals.. smooth shading with one light source

The dragon has 871414 faces and 437645 vertices. There is just too many polygons for my nvidia 6600GT card to render. Check the fps.. only around 2.0

Animation and Modelling (tnm079): PLY file reader

2006-04-08T03:01:00.000+02:00

Porche with smooth shading enabled (using average normals)

Porche with smooth shading disabled

You're Beautiful

2006-04-08T00:11:00.000+02:00

...You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you....

James Blunt - You're Beautiful

Apple decides it will do windows!?!?

2006-04-06T22:44:00.000+02:00

To broaden its appeal in a Windows-dominated world, Apple unveiled software yesterday that allows owners of its new Intel-based Macs to run its own operating system and Microsoft's.

Apple's shares surged almost 10 percent as Wall Street bet the move would help Apple sell more computers by attracting more business and home users.

Amorphophallus titanum - largest flower

2006-04-04T00:06:00.000+02:00

Amorphophallus titanum is the largest flowering plant in the world. The common name is "Titan" because it grows so big. Another name is "Mr. Stinky" because when it blooms it emits an odor which exactly mimics those of rotting flesh. This putrid order attracts carrion beetles that pollinate the flower.

Titan Tips
· First discovered in 1878 in Sumatra, Indonesia.
· Considered to be the most spectacular bloom in the plant world.
· The Titan is the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world and can be taller than a man.
· A mature bloom could ultimately measure 7-12 feet in height.
· A mature leaf could measure 20 feet in height and 15 feet in diameter.
· Mature plant releases powerful waves of odor to attract pollinators.
· Amorphophallus means "shapeless phallus."
· The bloom will last only 2-3 days. After blooming the flower collapses.
· The "stinking" odor lasts only the first 8 hours the bloom is open.

More: http://www.fairchildgarden.org/blooms/amorphophallus01.html

nothing done..

2006-04-02T23:51:00.000+02:00

today i did nothing.. watch movie.. play cs.. eat and sleep.. complete waste of time.
sucks

Utah Teapot!!

2006-03-28T21:44:00.000+02:00

This object is historically one of the first complex 3D models to be rendered in computer graphics. It consisted of about 110 vertices, and was generated by Martin Newell in 1974 using hand-drawn Bezier curves, based on a real teapot that he and his wife had bought. This model served as a basis for comparing various 3D rendering methodologies for lighting, textures, bump-mapping, etc. By the standards of 2002, the model is trivial to render and thus is often not suited to demonstrate the complexity of modern research. Despite this, the tea pot still appears, now and then, in recent papers.The teapot was made by Melitta in 1974 and originally belonged to Martin Newell and his wife, Sandra - who purchased it from ZCMI, (a department store in Salt Lake City).

The teapot was eventually donated to the Boston Computer Museum but now resides in the Ephemera collection of the Computer History Museum.

It's catalogued as "Teapot used for Computer Graphics rendering" and bears the catalogue number X00398.1984

for more info http://www.sjbaker.org/teapot/

GDrive - google drive

2006-03-28T21:30:00.000+02:00

Googles GDrive is no longer a rumor. GDrive is on its way and soon me like many others will be uploading/backing up my whole hard drive in case of a HD crash.

But there are some points to ponder:

How does google wish to implement it.. do we need to install some google application.. will there be a web based interface.
Is GDrive is simply going to be a network share allowing most applications to take advantage of this service without modification?
Can I really really upload my whole harddrive (all 160 GB)?!?! How long is it going to take to do that?!?!
Do i have to pay anything in order to get the service??
Can i trust google with my files?
Do i need to create a new account for it or my existing gmail account will work?
Can i allow other people to access my GDrive.
I wonder how Google will monetize a service like this??

My Bengal of gold, I love you

2006-03-27T02:56:00.000+02:00

My Bengal of gold, I love you
Forever your skies, your air set my heart in tune
as if it were a flute,
In Spring, Oh mother mine, the fragrance from
your mango-groves makes me wild with joy-
Ah, what a thrill!
In Autumn, Oh mother mine,
in the full-blossomed paddy fields,
I have seen spread all over - sweet smiles!
Ah, what a beauty, what shades, what an affection
and what a tenderness!
What a quilt have you spread at the feet of
banyan trees and along the banks of rivers!
Oh mother mine, words from your lips are like
Nectar to my ears!
Ah, what a thrill!
If sadness, Oh mother mine, casts a gloom on your face,
my eyes are filled with tears!

National Anthem of Bangladesh

Original in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore

Translated by Professor Syed Ali Ahsan

hilsha party

2006-03-25T14:40:00.000+01:00

poltu mamu: james of sweden

Badminton...

2006-03-25T10:45:00.000+01:00

Yesterday 6 of us played badminton in the sports arena here in norrköping. We played for 2 long hours even though we booked the court for one hour. Mahboob and Wali bhai were the sponsers. It took 80 kroner after showing my student card.. the normal price is 160 kroner. Among the others were.. polash, aziz, wang and me. Faisal was also with us.. but he didn't play.. just enjoyed our match. There were others who couldn't make it.

There were other empty courts.. very few people.. so none of us were sitting. We continued playing (for one more hour) even when our allocated time of one hour was finished.. since most courts were empty. Wali was our couch.. a good one. He is a regular player and has won many prizes and trophys. It was good badminton... playing for two long hours without any break made me very tired.

I must say.. I think i play badminton very good. Lot lot better then basketball and tt. If i play on a regular basis.. then i can be a champion :) ;) ;)

After the match.. some of us went to polash room. There me, aziz, polash and rahul bhai took sauna for one hour. It was really fun.. and very hot.. but it took the pain (from badminton) from our body.

Then we had the most tasty fish in the whole world, hilsha. Walli bhai got this fish from stockholm.. its imported from bangladesh (expensive 55 kroner per kg). Polash is a good cook.. made the hilsha fish really good. We had it with rice. I along with others had lots of fun.. took pictures made jokes and talked for long hours. By the time me aziz and faisal bhai got home it was 2:00 in the night.... i checked my mails wrote a few lines in my blog and went to sleep ;)

testing.. time of post..

2006-03-25T10:40:00.000+01:00

the time now is saturday, march 25, 10:40

another big day

2006-03-22T20:30:00.000+01:00

today i had a wonderful day without any study... played badminton for two hours... took sauna for one hour.. had lots of fun with my friends in polash's room.. eat rice with hilsha fish.. and got a long long long long mail from someone.

i am now too tired to write anything more..

big bug in msn8 beta

2006-03-22T20:10:00.000+01:00

The picture is not very clear.. but due to a bug (a big one) i was talking to myself in messenger 8.0 beta version :) I am not kidding!! rEdhEat talking to rEdhEat in the same computer. It even told me that rEdhEat is not added in your list.. so i added rEdhEat!! After some time the window changed and now i was talking to zaheer.

V for Vendetta (2006)

2006-03-21T12:49:00.000+01:00

Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

I want to see this movie in the theater.. sometime during the easter holiday.

For more info: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808632423/info

2006-03-19T17:07:00.000+01:00

amar chokher dike takiye dekho kandchi ami oshohai...
tomai hariye jibon ta amar koshter gaane dube hai

a day in my life..

2006-03-17T04:14:00.000+01:00

What a day I have had today.. full of surprises.. and fun and hate and love and anger and sadness. All this feelings spiced together gave me a strange feeling ;-)

We all live in the same roof.. yet there is so much difference among us in so many ways. People always think in different ways and its always hard to find out who is right or wronge or whats the correct way to go. Sometime i feel like cultural difference is a plague.. why cant we all eat the same food and think the same way.. and follow the same path. But this is how we are made.. and one must learn to live with it. And maybe we should have this cultural difference among us.. otherwise the evolution of human society would stop... and man whose life line is so much tangled/interwined with society and culture would become extinct.

Today I met a life long friend (best-friend) on the net after a long time. It was so good talking to him. Made me feel like I was back in Bangladesh. I want to go back to Bangladesh and smell the warm air.. drink lots of tea (with lots of sugar and lemon) and have kabab with nun... and ofcourse have lots of late night 'addas' with friends.

In conclusion.. it was a great day for me.. experiance is what makes a man perfect.. which I intend to be one. Love for all - hate for none is the way for me.

...and also I gained a monkey friend!!

Table tennis..

2006-03-17T02:58:00.000+01:00

it is almost 3:00 in the night and i have had too many cups of tea and coffee.. dont feel like sleeping.

Today... or more preciously yesterday i played tt from 20:00 to 22:00 in the night. I like this game very much and it was fun playing. I played tt only a couple of times (3 or 4) before coming to sweden. We have tt in the basement in bollen and some other student apartments here in norrköping. I have played many times after coming here.. and i am improving. But i am still the worst among all the players... still can't return all the serves and dont know how to smash. So i am a novice. Its very difficult to control such a small and light tt ball. It is nearly impossible for me to return zahir bhai's serves. My return shots always goes either on the left or right of the table - outside :(

There was little bear, jason, aziz bhai, zahir bhai.. and me. Among them i thought zahir bhai, jason and aziz bhai plays really well. Little bear has her own style of playing.. monkey style ;-).. but is also realy good in it. While i play more like a sleeping guy just standing and moving my bat around... my long arms seems to help me with my style. We played doubles and since we were five.. one of us had to sit down in each round. I had my slipers on so it was a bit uncomfertable moving with them... though wearing keds would not have made much of an improvement.

I will be playing more of it.. but still have some back problems - sucks.

my life + internet connection

2006-03-16T10:41:00.000+01:00

My 2 week free internet connection for the new room has ended this morning. And i am now upstairs in Zaheers room checking my mails and writing something here. My life is now very much dependent on the internet. Everyday after getting up from bed.. i start my machine and check my mails.. look at the news.. start my msn messenger.. look at my blog.. go through new movies in movies.yahoo.com and so on. My life as a student is also oriented around the net. I get the lectures and research papers and the assignement and the code for my projects.. and tutorial... all from the internet. I buy electronic stuffs from the internet.. one of my favourite site is tomshardware.com.. i look into it every day. Its a great site for new products.. and the reviews are really good.

Its hard to notice that you are so much dependent on the net until you are really kept away from it.. like i am now. Dont know what to do.. its so boring doing nothing in the room. I need to start a new project.. but without the internet it seems impossible.

I must say..the internet connection that we have in our student apartments are no ordinary lines. We are connected using optical fibres with 100mbps download speed and 10mbps upload speed. And all this bandwidth we get for 180kroner only for each month. Now who would like to be kept away from such a high speed connection at such a low price... certainly not me.

But i will get my connection back soon.. and soon i will enjoy going through some new product reviews in tomshardware.com and ofcourse start my project. Until then i have to figure out what to do.. maybe clean my room... re-install matlab 7 agian.. maybe have some chinease tea without any sugar (tastes like hot water).

The World's Smallest Windows XP Computer

2006-03-14T09:15:00.000+01:00

The world's smallest portable Windows XP computer at 4.9" x .9" x 3.4" (12.5 cm x 2.3 cm x 8.4 cm)

OQO Model 01+ with its keyboard and mouse exposed

But.. is The World's Smallest Windows XP Computer worth buying? Check it out in Tomshardware guide http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/03/14/is_the_world/

kuttamara sweden...:P :P

2006-03-13T19:42:00.000+01:00

sweden'e aschi jan 24 2005'e... exact tarikh ta mone nai.. toi ami aschi thik eid'er ekdin age. Ar aj hoilo giya march'er 13 2006. Taile ami aikhane ek bochor er besi somoy dhoira asi.

March'er 1 tarikh'e amar puraton basa chaira diya bollen'e utlam. Bollen hoilo giya student apartment. Ar aita hoilo giya studentBo'r moddhe sob-chaite nongra jaiga.. kintu bangladesh'er shonge tulona korle ekdom fatafati jaiga. Room ager room'er theke choto ar kitchen'ta share korte hoi.. toilet room er shonge. Shower'tao common... kintu meyeder ar cheleder alada. Kitchen ase duta boro boro. Ami thaki corridor room'e. Er mane hoitase giya.. onekgula room ase corridorer du dhar diya.. are corridor'er majkhane du dike du ta kitchen ase. Ekta common room ase.. jaikhane ekta dining table ar ekta tv ase.

Sweden'e ebar bohot dhanda porse.. duekdin ageo borof porse. Aibar naki goto 10 bochor'er moddhe shob chaite besi dhanda porse.. shala amar luck ekkhan bote. Temp ekhono zero'r niche ase. Kintu kono somossha nai.. room sobsomoy goram thake heater'er karone..hehe.

Aikhane boisha boisha shuni bangladesher ki obosta.. mone hoi kono unnoti hoitase na. Dollar'er rate naki baira giya 70 hoise... jaikhane india ar onnanno desher currency improve korse.. shala bangladesher'ta kamne ai hal hoi bujtasi na!!?? Mone hoitase'je khaleda buwa'r dat gula bhainga panite phalai dai.. ar hasina'ar ki komu. Desher ai obosta hoile keo ferot jaibo na. Desher baire gele bujajai je desher ki obosta.

Jai hokh.. ami aikhane bhalo asi.. 1din pore porikhkha ase.. porte hoibo.

Khoda Hafez
Bangladeshe jara ase tara bhalo thakuk.. ai asa kori

Robbie Williams - Feel

2006-03-13T13:00:00.000+01:00

Come on hold my hand,
I wanna contact the living.
Not sure I understand,
This role I’ve been given.

I sit and talk to god
And he just laughs at my plans,
My head speaks a language, I don’t understand.

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in.
’cause I got too much life,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

I don’t wanna die,
But I ain’t keen on living either.
Before I fall in love,
I’m preparing to leave her.
I scare myself to death,
That’s why I keep on running.
Before I’ve arrived, I can see myself coming.

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in.
’cause I got too much life,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

And I need to feel, real love
And a life ever after.
I cannot get enough.

(instrumental)

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in,
I got too much love,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

I just wanna feel real love,
In a life ever after
There’s a hole in my soul,
You can see it in my face, it’s a real big place.

(instrumental)

Come and hold my hand,
I wanna contact the living,
Not sure I understand,
This role I’ve been given

Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.

top 10 reasons not to smoke

2006-03-11T16:50:00.000+01:00

It is estimated that every cigarette you smoke takes 12 minutes off of your life
Smoking causes more than eight of every 10 cases of lung cancer. There is no cure for lung cancer and the Victims usually die within five years.
Tobacco contains a poison called nicotine. An injection of one drop of nicotine in its purest form (70 mg) will kill an average-sized man. Cigarettes contain a very small amount of nicotine (between .1 and 2.2 mg). This amount will not kill you, but will make your heart beat faster and can make your hands shake.
Smoking increases your risk of getting many serious diseases including cancer, heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis
Fires started by cigarettes cause 25,000 deaths each year in the United States alone.
Smoking is dangerous for nonsmokers who breath the smoke from smokers' cigarettes. During the 12 minutes a cigarette burns, smoke from the cigarette fills the room with poisonous gases.
Smokeless tobacco increases the risks of mouth cancer and other diseases of the mouth like tooth decay and gum recession. Early signs of mouth cancer may occur after just a few years of use.
Smoking during pregnancy can harm the developing baby, it can cause conditions such as low birth weight and premature birth. As the child grows older it may develop problems such as the ability to process what they are hearing and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder).
Over 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related diseases. That's more than from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, fires, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.
A very strong relationship exists between smoking and academic performance. Of all high school seniors with an A average in their senior year, only 7% were currently daily smokers; of those with a D average, 46% were daily smokers.

There are more than 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes (250 are toxic poisons, 50 cause cancer) Some chemicals found in tobacco include: Ammonia (found in toilet bowl cleaner); Arsenic (ingredient in rat poison); Polonium 210 (nuclear waste); Carbon Monoxide (car exhaust); Acetone (used in finger nail polish remover). Nicotine remains in the body for 8 to 12 hours after a single use of tobacco.

mobiBLU: worlds smallest & sexiest mp3 player

2006-03-11T09:22:00.000+01:00

Tomshardware guide: click here for the review
link to mobiBLU homepage: http://www.mobibluamerica.com/

kichu shihoron, prothom shokal, irsha

2006-03-10T18:33:00.000+01:00

Tahsan - Irsha Lyrics

2006-03-10T18:25:00.000+01:00

dure tumi dariye
shagorer jole paa bhijiye
kachey jete pari na
bolte aaj pari na
tumi amar ekhono.

shamne tumi dariye
karo haat joriye
haat ta dhorte pari na
kachey tante pari na
tomar haate aaj onno kew.

shagor er pare haat dhore dekhcho
shurjo doba... ami nei
ekhono brishti pore tomar majhe
shei brishtir fota ami noi
janalar pashe dariye takiye akashe
shekhane chaand ta nei
ekhono brishti pore bristi te bheja
amar pashe tumi neeeeeeiy.

shei tumi aaj amar kachey
amar sriti phiriye dite
ami aaj kandbona
hoito du ek phota
tobu bolbona bhalobashi.

kono ek chotto mittha
muchey diyeche shob amar
amar deya ghori
shomoi gulo mocheni
tumi roktato ami oporadhi.

amar chokher dike takiye dekho kandchi ami oshohai
tomai hariye jibon ta amar koshter gaane dube hai
jani phiriye nebar to kono karon nei tomar ei jibone
tobuo ekhono tumi shotto ekhono amar jibone.

aidda abar keda... halai ekkhan rakhkhoss

2006-03-09T23:41:00.000+01:00

coldest winter in 10 years..

2006-03-09T01:16:00.000+01:00

Swedish winter is far from over... looks like it has just started. Today like most other days.. there was heavy snow. Now, is that good for someone comming from a hot hot country like Bangladesh :( And astonishingly its almost the middle of March!! When the hell are these fluffy white stuff going to stop falling from the sky!! Most swedish are now on the north having a lifetime of joy with there snow skates... they never get tired of snow. I say.. this winter cold is killing me... each time i go out.. my bones and balls and teeth start making cluttering sound. And my face just freezes to a point where my brain can no longer send electrical signals to my facial muscles - to ask them to contract and relax so that i can have some sort of verbal communications. I turn dumb... and also numb in my fingers.. both in feet and hand. Even my poor big ears are not spared from the numbness. Believe me.. its damn painful when you can't feel anything!!

snow form my apartment

How on earth does it snow so heavily in the middle of March ... thats because Northern Europe is going through the phase of coldest winter in 10 years. What luck.. last year they say it was the warmest winter.. and now its the coolest coldest winter. Obviously the coldest parts of Sweden this winter is in the north, as always. But southern Sweden is also seeing temperatures fall further below the average... and also drier with a weaker (face piercing) west wind than usual.

So what do I do.. well i just stay home.. tucked away in the corner of the room.. as close as possible to the heater.. and surf the net - looking for some faint hint of this horrible, terrible, miserable winter to end. I thought my luck had come back to me.. when i saw the sun shining ever so bright with its 1000....00^999999 watt power. But alas.. the sun was doing nothing to warm up this winter.. it was making the snow melt and in that way making all the cold come out of the ground and make the temperature fall far below zero!! So the lesson is.. its better to be outside when there is snow then when there is sun. Because by some Swedish law.. the temperature is always close but below zero when its snowing.

At the end of the day.. I am a proud man :) I get to face the coolest winter in 10 years.. are you so damn lucky like me?? Care to join me...

I rarely write anything in my blog.. because i am not good with my english. But i got inspired from Jenny's blog and thought i should put my pen to the paper or make use of my flat stylish laptop like keyboard from Logitech - 300 kroner. This will atleast make my blog look like a blog rather than some picture/foto warehouse.
comments- rumanzakaria@gmail.com

iq test

2006-03-08T00:24:00.000+01:00

http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf

Jinsangzi Houpian

2006-03-04T13:43:00.000+01:00

Jinsangzi Houpian: golden throat, chinease medicine for throat..

just for fun: understanding engineers

2006-03-02T22:14:00.000+01:00

Understanding Engineers - Take One

Two engineering students were walking across a university campus

when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?"
The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."
The second engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fitted you anyway."

Understanding Engineers - Take Two
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Understanding Engineers - Take Three
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.
The engineer fumed, "What's with those blokes? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!"
The priest said, "Here comes the green keeper. Let's have a word with him."
He said, "Hello, George! what's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The green keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group fell silent for a moment.
The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Four
What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
Mechanical engineers build weapons and civil engineers build targets.

Understanding Engineers - Take Five
The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Six
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints."
Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections."
The last one said, "No, actually it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Seven
Normal people believe that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Understanding Engineers - Take Eight
An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He
bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for oneweek."
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a Princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want."
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"
The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."

source: Jenny

Ruman & Antor night vision - fun

2006-02-26T22:55:00.000+01:00

Image based rendering

2006-02-23T19:19:00.000+01:00

For the complete animation click here
For some reason the color is not smooth..

OpenGL...

2006-02-21T21:44:00.000+01:00

OpenGL provides the programmer with an interface to graphics hardware. It is a powerful, low-level rendering library, available on all major platforms, with wide hardware support. It is designed for use in any graphics application, from games to modeling to CAD. Many games, such as id Software’s Doom 3, use OpenGL for their core graphics-rendering engine.

OpenGL stands for “Open Graphics Library.” “Open” is used because OpenGL is an open standard, meaning that many companies are able to contribute to the development. It does not mean that OpenGL is open source.

OpenGL was originally developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) as a multi-purpose, platform-independent graphics API. Since 1992, the development of OpenGL has been overseen by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), which is made up of major graphics vendors and other industry leaders, currently consisting of 3DLabs, ATI, Dell, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Matrox, NVIDIA, SGI, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Graphics. The role of the ARB is to establish and maintain the OpenGL specification, which dictates which features must be included when one is developing an OpenGL distribution.

source: Begining OpenGL Game Programming

Terracotta Army

2006-02-17T22:04:00.000+01:00

The Terracotta Army (Chinese: 兵馬俑; Hanyu Pinyin: Bīng Mǎ Yǒng; literally "Soldier and Horse Figures") is a collection of 8,099 life-size terra cotta figures of warriors and horses located in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵; Qín Shǐ Huáng Líng). The figures were discovered in 1974 near Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.

More about Terracotta Army can be found at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

Xi'an, Shannxi, China

2006-02-17T21:42:00.000+01:00

Xi'an (Chinese: 西安; Hanyu Pinyin: Xī'ān; Wade-Giles: Hsi-An; literal meaning: "Western Peace"; former name Sian), is the capital of Shaanxi province in China and a sub-provincial city. Known as one of the most important cities in Chinese history, Xi'an is listed as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China because it has been the capital of 13 dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang. Xi'an is the eastern end of the Silk Road. The city has more than 3,100 years of history. It was called Chang'an (长安/長安 pinyin: Cháng'ān), meaning "Perpetual Peace", in ancient times.

Xi'an is the largest and most developed city in the central to northwestern part of China and is ranked among the 10 largest cities in the nation.

Source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an

Family album

2006-02-15T01:42:00.000+01:00

My room: Cousine Rizu and Tanvir

Tanvir - keya style hai yar... kuttaa maraa

A piece of land my uncle bought right in front of our grandparents house - its now a vegetable garden :)

My room - My sister wearing some kind of borkha (religious cloth to cover the whole body) for fun

Grandparents house: A recent arival

Grandparents House: Cousines - Mayesha and Tanima

Little Mayesha

My sister- Shumona, Mayesha and Tanima

Grandparents house: Little Cousines

Grandparents house: she is youngest of us cousines..

My house in Dhaka: Another of my younger cousine

Grandparents house: My mother and her aunt- she spends most of her time in India

Grandparents house: My sister and our grand-mother. In the background inside the house is one of my aunts.

snow festival with new friends :)

2006-02-12T12:05:00.000+01:00

eida abar keda're... chilla kaidda lobon lagai dimu'ne

2006-02-08T11:11:00.000+01:00

lucia party

2005-12-16T18:49:00.000+01:00

I am SKULL....

2005-12-02T22:06:00.000+01:00

Dipawali

2005-11-06T13:41:00.000+01:00

Lab... lab and lab

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Me and Zaheer kicking some chinease ass :)

a romantic evening in the lab ;)

The gang.. sajjad, wang, me, zaheer

we look cool in the glasses..

sajjad frustated... wang's laptop too slow :)... its actually the victor machine he is aiming at beacuse of some bug this linux machine does not show anything on the desktop

Zaheer bhai warming up..

sajjad on 'Mission Imposible'.. trying to find some planets in the wronge direction

Kutttttaaaaa Maaarrrraaaaa..........

2005-10-09T14:42:00.000+02:00

football... football... and football

public and private university..:)

2005-09-30T10:44:00.000+02:00

true.. true..

2005-08-28T15:46:00.000+02:00

Two golden baldies of norrkoping... Wang and Sajjad :)

Celebrating their bald-ship..

I joind the party... but I had plenty of hair and monkey face to show.

Stupid Friends..

2005-08-28T14:58:00.000+02:00

One of my friend recently came to sweden from bangladesh to do his masters. Since he is a smart guy and wanted to celebrate his coming to sweden - played a stupid joke on me. His stupidity and oversmartness caused me and my friends and elder brothers valuable hours.... not to mention the tention and suffering that he caused us here in Norrköping. My whole day was destroyed and now I am a day behind my study schedules... sucks.
Sometimes people make nasty jokes without thinking what harm it can cause to others. Hope this does not happen to anyone else living here.... and I hope morons like my friend reliaze this and stop being oversmart. Student coming to Sweden for study should concentrate on studying and spent their time wisely, and should respect the others that have also come here to study. Sweden is a peaceful country - the rules and regulations are very different from that of our country. People here are very kind and helpful. New students who have travelled a long distance and spend lot of money to get here should realize this and act accordingly.

2005-08-20T15:38:00.000+02:00

This is Selva Ganesh. He is from Tamil Nadu, India. He is vegetarian and non-smoker. He is doing his masters with me in Sweden. He says that he never takes anything serious...:) He is the only one with moustache.

This picture is taken at the campus Käkenhus

2005-08-19T20:39:00.000+02:00

This is Wang Chiyu. Dont even try to pronounce the second part of his name.. it is very difficult ;) He is from Beijing, China and now in Sweden doing his masters with me. He is a hard working guy and is a 'programming guru'. This picture is taken near Roxin lake in Linkoping. He has found a resturant job and is very happy about it. Smokes a lot.. which is not good for health.... quit smoking Wang. Wang has a girl also studying in Sweden. She is now staying in Linkoping and Wang was with her the whole summer. Her name is Zhuang Xun and they have known each other since highschool :)

Sazzad Karim (Remon)

2005-08-19T20:24:00.000+02:00

This is Sazzad Karim... we call him Remon and sometimes even Fatal Terror (there is a cool story behind it). This picture is taken on Rupsha bridge in Khulna. He looks cool in his 'panjabi'. He thinks he is not very good in programming... but the truth is this guy is one programming guru. He likes to keep his code neat and clean..:)

2005-08-19T12:57:00.000+02:00

Me.. when I had long hair..:)

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Sajjad smiling...:)

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One cool boat inside a glass bottle... picture taken from the national art museum of fine arts at stockholm

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two of my friends in sweden... Mustafa and Sajjad

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polash... photosession (catwalk)

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this is me.. ruman zakaria

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Thi is me... Ruman Zakaria at asseseron

Hello everybody :)

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All of you are welcome to my blog.. have a nice time