Movies for constructive purpose, rather destructive !!

A scene from My Name Is Khan

The other day, I was watching this movie called “My Name is Khan”. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol paired, directed by Karan Johar movie can only be expected as to be one of his typical romantic comedy emotional dramas. Surprisingly this time the movie base is quite different than his other movies. The trio gave the Indian Movie lovers some movies like Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum. So, though the title was fascinating, I was almost sure that this movie would also be some typical romantic drama. Otherwise, I anticipated it would be something on Terrorism Issues in US. Well yes the movie is about the Terrorism Issue but it had some different element in it, which makes it distinct, and yet another great work of this trio. The movie portrays a simple Muslim Autistic man getting married to a Hindu divorced woman and the consequences for having the Muslim title “Khan” after 9/11. Somebody who didn’t watch the movie might think that the movie is all about Islam and Terrorism, and then I would say, it’s not. The movie is about humanity, peace and identity. Though, MNIK has some unrealistic scenes which justifies the Indian movie makers in their place. However, the movie is successful to pass a real and true message to the world. The message of Islam, that Islam is a religion of Peace and Humanity. In this modern age, India is giving the society some playful entertaining yet Patriotic movies like Rang De Basanti, Lage Raho Munna Bhai and movies on serious Terrorism issue like New York. Indian Media is growing stronger and they tend to focus on different issues of life and world. This is about Indian Cinema.

Third Person Singular Number

Let’s review our Movie Industry. Some of the latest classy movies of Bangladesh are – Third Person Singular Number, Monpura. Both movie did quite well in Bangladesh and became popular among Bangladeshi educated youngsters. Yes I said, educated!! This is a very cruel truth but the real scenario of Bangladesh Movie Industry is, most bangla movies are made to entertain the lower income uneducated society. The context of movie, the story and the plot are mostly focused to that target group. Unfortunately, an uprising and creative Director like Mostafa Sarwar Farooki who made commendable movies like “Bachelor” once, comes with a movie like “Third Person Singular Number”. Bachelor negatively criticized the modern upbeat young generation of Dhaka. On the contrary, TPSN criticized how woman faces problem when she dares to stay alone in our society. As I am biased towards woman freedom, so this part of the story convinced me. But, the other part of the movie about living relationships in Dhaka is the vicious part that a director should show in a Bangladeshi context. I believe there are many other woman issues which can be portrayed in a movie. As an under developed country like Bangladesh, are we really prepared to accept the “living relationship” concept? Moreover, a movie is one of the strongest motivational audio-visual medium among public. The public is going to take it, the after effect can be either positive or negative.

My point of elaborating from Indian to Bangladeshi movie is the comparison of the quality, the scope and range of two countries movie industry. India has come a long way, they are showing movies on Homosexuality, Living Relationships, Terrorism, Woman Rights and Patriotism. My argument is, why am I taking only the negative part of another culture? Our country has lot of issues which is not given necessary focus. Our well known directors like Farooki might take those issues seriously! I feel Patriotism is one issue that should be strongly shown in a different way in this modern context, apart from Liberation War. Today’s Bangladesh society is way back from the other countries of the world. Bangladesh is still struggling with basic needs like Food, Shelter and Education. 40-30% of the educated society is controlling the country. Among this educated society, 20% might be the younger generation, who usually get to see movies like TPSN. The young generation who watch this movie will eventually start to think staying alone and start for a living relationship. On the other hand, this younger generation can easily be influenced towards constructive effort by showing and reminding patriotism in the movies. Today’s patriotism is not the Liberation War of 1971. We have long passed those years. Today’s fight is to struggle and make our country stand in the world with the equal benchmark like India. Our country is recognized as one of the corrupted nation in the world. Every morning when I come to school and start my working day, I sit in the middle of many other teachers criticizing our country ruling system, corruption, incidents. Every bangla channel has at least 2-3 talk-shows on many serious issues of our country. To be honest, I don’t understand what they keep on talking about!! And to me, I even don’t understand why are they talking on these issues and showing those on TV. If the audience don’t understand the discussion then what is the point of showing it?

The bottom-line is, instead of having talk-shows on TV, our media needs to make some motivational movies to inspire the generation. India being a neighboring country, has improved 100 times than us. The underlying motto of their improvement is, instilling Patriotism in the core of every Indian’s heart!! Why can’t we do this? Why our movie makers are more interested on making movies on issues like Living Relationships, multiple Love Affairs? So, instead of copying the Indian culture into our movies, our movie makers should come up with some stories which can motivate our people and make them love our country. Movies for constructive purpose, rather destructive !!

ILLUSIONS AND DREAMS

Illusions and Dreams

Look in my eyes I’ll make you see
We’re drifting aimlessly
Blind in a world of make believe

Hear them sing their songs off key n’ nod like they agree
Buying the needs to be discreet

I’ve got no hand in matters worldly
I hardly care at all
What’s going on fails to concern me
‘Cause I’m locked behind my wall
But you know what drives me out
Out of my mind oh

It’s whatever makes you see
Makes you believe
And forget about the premonition you need to conceive
The images they sell are Illusion and Dream
In other words dishonesty

- POETS OF THE FALL

“Illusions and Dreams”, a beautiful song by Poets of the Fall, is a great composition. The composition is great not only because it is melodious and the music is beautiful, but the lyrics, every word of it express everything the song wanted.

There was a time when I used to listen to songs with all my heart, but I used to listen to the music, the voice behind the song, instruments, when someday a friend of mine really made me listen to one song. Now the question is what I mean by “really listen”. The friend of mine once listening to one of her favourite singer’s song and suddenly she started saying …. “have you heard the words, those are soooo true”. Then I listened to the song for a while, trying to explore how true those are? And those words did explain what the song meant. From that moment onwards I started to feel, a song cannot be complete without the lyrics. Words are like soul of a song. Without the words the song cannot be expressed in a way it should be. But again, there are instrumentals, sometimes music do speak without the words .

Now as I have finished giving the definitions, reasons and causes of listening to lyrics, I can come back to my main story I think . I have been listening to the song, ever since I first got to hear the song. The music, the melody, the instrument works, the lyrics, the words, the vocal, each and everything of the song is outstanding. And really the words are so true. We do live in a world full of dream, glamour and luxury. The world does look captivating, we often sway along with the flow. The glamorous world outside has some dirty faces inside, we hardly think about that. The dirty faces do make us cry, depressed and tear us apart at times. Its all some illusions we are in and some dreams we see every now and then. And as the illusion is over, the dream is shattered. The illusion and dream is over, and we live in the world of cruelty, dishonesty and treachery. This is all about the song. Bravo to the composer , the singers and the whole team behind the song, bravo for realizing the cruel fact and bringing up to the music fans. The world is truly one “Illusion and Dream”.

It’s all about moments …

It’s like any other day for me today, as usual rushed out from my office towards my classes. I got out of my office and ran towards the bus counter to catch my Business Mathematics class. One class I would hardly like to miss. The same old teacher, the same old mates, the same old mathematics … hmm ……. pretty boring. But, still something happened in that 1 and half hour, for which I am here now, in front of my computer gathering words. Mr. Sayeedul Karim a very charming and dazzling personality, when he comes up with his lectures it amazes each and everyone of the class. O yes …. he did amaze me , not with his marvelous English pronunciation or the way he teaches, but the words and speeches he give. O yes ….. he did create some moment. What was there in his speech that made me so amazed. Well, if you ask me the summary, then probably for some it would be same usual lectures, for some they would answer … “we know it all, what’s so new about it”. For me, it was something we always know, we experience each and every day, we breathe every moment, its LIFE!

Life … yes we do survive, rush and get busy in our everyday life. But have we ever thought about it?? Frankly speaking, we all do think of life. Everyone thinks of life, but in a different perspective. Probably for someone life is beautiful, for someone its fun, for someone it’s giving, for someone its winning, for someone it’s not the kind of life they expected. But still, it’s LIFE! Someone told me the other day … “bacho” (in bengali), in english which means LIVE. Now here the question arises what do we mean by living? Well we all are living, then why did that someone told me that?? Perhaps the way I live, it does not mean LIFE to him, or may be the way he lives that’s LIFE to him. O wait … now I’m getting confused, what is LIFE actually?? MMM….may be Life is “magic”. May be its all about creating magic. Now, are we magicians that we need to create magic?? Huh…!!!Well we all are magicians in our life. Mr. Sayeedul Karim, he is a magician. Let me explain how… A man who could have earned 20times more by going abroad, he is just passing his life by teaching students in a third world underdeveloped country only for his passion towards teaching. O yes …. for me he is a magician. A teacher who remembers his dead students in front of 45 students and makes a powerpoint presentation explaining what he had learnt from his students, is indeed a magician. The moment he created, the moment he made and the moments he had in his life from his students, probably that is LIFE. May be I’m wrong, may be my words are shattered and scattered. But how many times in life do we feel like enduring a moment? Many times in our life we experience some moments, those moments are priceless, precious than an expensive diamond ring! How many times do we create those moments? How many times we make those moments in our life? O yes … many magicians are there in our life. I witnessed a magician today. He taught us today that life is not about earning A’s or grades, or money or having high luxury life. It’s all about creating magic in our life, someone else’s life, making a moment, it’s all about moments.

Access Gmail with Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003

Gmail is quite bothering when you think of accessing it with a lower speed internet at home.And again gmail is my professional email account, so i need to access gmail everyday at least once. (Not always important its more of a habit i guess.) But , accessing gmail has become impossible, the interface takes a long time to load and again the mail message doesnt open. So, i just thought of configuring Gmail account in my Outlook today. And then i found a nice article by which i finally did connect to Gmail through Outlook 2003. You can setup gmail in your outlook the following way :

• Select Tools | E-mail Accounts… from the menu.
• Make sure Add a new e-mail account is selected.
• Click Next >.
• Choose IMAP.
• Click Next >.
• Type your name under Your Name:.
• Enter your Gmail email address in the E-mail Address: field.
• Make sure your Gmail user name is listed in the User Name: field.

* Your user name has to be “something@gmail.com” in your Gmail address. If your address is “asdf.asdf@gail.com”, for example, use “asdf.asdf”.

• Enter your Gmail password under Password:.
• Type “imap.gmail.com” under Incoming mail server (IMAP):.
• Type “smtp.gmail.com” in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP): field.
• Click More Settings ….
• Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
• Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.

* Leave the default of Use the same settings as my incoming mail server intact.

• Now go to the Advanced tab.
• Make sure This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) is checked under both Incoming server (IMAP): and Outgoing server (SMTP):.
• Make sure “993″ appears under Server Port Numbers for Incoming Server (IMAP):.
• Enter “465″ under Server Port Numbers for Outgoing server (SMTP):.
• Click OK.
• Now click Next > and then Finish.

Have Fun !! Happy GMAILing !!

My First Digital SLR Camera

I was first amazed when i took some shots of my friends, their single photographs. That was when we used to have those cameras using films. These days we use digital cameras. Life has become easy and fast. In this fast paced world , we think an outcome of anything to come fast. So digital camera’s has been successful to reign the world with their fast and efficient technology. I dont take photographs very often, but the photo comes good whenever i take any. That increased my interest level and fascination towards photography. And i love colors. When i see some fantastic photographers take some pictures giving life to colors, it compels me to think how in the world they have done this.

It’s then when i decided to have my own digital SLR camera.I asked my brother to bring one nice Digital SLR camera in a reasonable price. And he bought me a great DSLR camera. The camera is Olympus E-Volte 510. It has some amazing features. It’s resolution is 10mega pixel with a kit lense of 14-22mm, ISO : 100-1600,Shutter : 60-1/4000,Max Aperture : 3.5.

Olympus E-volte 510

The camera is amazing and a wonder piece for me. I love to shoot amazing thing , beautiful colors, nature and expressions.I love my Olympus E-Volte 510.

Google Tag-Based Search

Google search is really hazardous sometimes. The keywords we look for sometimes don’t find the right thing we want. That is possibly because we don’t narrow our search. Now we have that option in a very easy way i.e. by adding a FF plugin Cloudlet. While searching with some keywords it inserts tag clouds right under the google search box. We can narrow our search keywords and search efficiently with the help of the cloud tags. You can filter your search by keyword tags, but also by websites and even domain name extensions, and turning it off is as easy as clicking your mouse. The add-on even works on Google News both for source and location tag clouds, and enables you to filter down by author in Google BlogSearch.

Cloudlet was developed by the International Software & Productivity Engineering Institute (INTSPEI), a research organization with offices in New York and Kiev (Ukraine).

Cloudlet plugin

Visionary

The Visionary …. What is a visionary? Actually there is nothing called visionary. But it could be. Silent observation, something offering to the world, or something speechless yet expressing a vision, a thought that make someone dwell. It could be anything, anything wandering in someone’s brain, or any non-existing material or anything untouchable, anything hypnotizing, any hidden dream that needs to be fulfilled, someone’s imagination, a poetry or a song, a portrait.

In another words a vision can be something to depict, something to picture, or express. It can be a dew drop of a winter morning, fresh scent of a cold wind, a flower in a desert or a woman’s amusing laugh! Hmm…so it can also be an expression of emotion, that is our happiness, sadness, fear. A vision can be a reflection of past, presentation of present, and focus to future.

So this is just a small try of my imaginations. But again our thought, vision is much wider than what we express or write. Words are less compared to what our creator gave us.

Wrting articles for online readers

I’ve been asked to write articles for online readers, although there are many intriguing parts of writing. You might be very good in writing and enriched with high vocabulary words or accurate grammars. But, writing requires many other aspects, comprising all those can end up in a good piece of work.

For a start, I was quite puzzled with how to write an effective online article, and how can I make my writing professional and informative as well to attract readers. I surfed internet for a while. Then I found out, online articles are booming in the internet market. A huge group of writers are running a successful business by writing articles and publishing those on internet. Nevertheless the article has to be informative, well written, easy to understand and should have a sole purpose. An article conveying nothing is like a letter without a message.

There can be many type of online articles. Like some of the online articles hold information. The informative articles need to be written with proper research and information authenticity. Some are “how-to” articles. Readers love such articles. These articles usually lead to an objective or goal. For example, “how to loose 10 pounds in 2 month” is one such article. Some are mini case study based articles, by raising a question and then by answering it with 2 or 3 examples. Interviewing is also another type of article. For example, if anyone wants to write on banking, he can interview a top banking industry analyst.

Naming the article an attractive name can drag many readers. The online readers mostly believe in “short time benefits”. So, they will be influenced by an attractive title. For example, “Are High Protein Diets the Key to Fast Weight Loss?”, “31 Ways to Organize Your Office”, “How to Find the Best Dress for Your Figure” are somehow dragging the readers attention. Online readers usually browse randomly, trying to find the desired information they need. A boring title and a long article can make the reader hop on to another site very easily.

By researching some sites I found a number of tips to write an effective online article.

1. Keep your paragraphs short, even a line or two.
2. Make your heading compelling.
3. Get to the point quickly-in the title and the first line.
4. Make your copy strong, clear, and direct.
5. Target your article to your preferred audience.
6. Try to avoid adjectives and adverbs like “ly” and passive verbs.

Hope these tips helped you a little. So, writing an article for online readers and get sold is not a tough job now. Thousands of people around the world are earning their living by writing freelance articles which get published in internet. Melanie Mendelson is one of such writers who write articles for online readers. She does a great deal of earning by only writing articles. So, just by following few steps of writing online articles can lead to a thousand dollar cash only sitting at home.

Nytrogen Inflated Tyres

Science has given many revolutionary inventions, which we adore, everyday in our life. Wherever we see, the modern civilization is a picture of science’s various wonder. Science has given us television, music system, computer and most importantly easy transportation system by inventing car, automobile, train, aero plane. These inventions not only assured us easy way of moving from one place to other, it also enabled human to do everything in less amount of time.

We ride cars and move by cars very frequently. But have we ever thought how the big metal built assembled with engines and oils cross miles of roads every hour? The car stands over four wheels. The tyres of wheels are usually built with rubber, metals and plastic composites. These tyres increase vehicle performances by providing high friction, braking and steering. The vital product of a tyre is the air it is filled with. Usually a tyre is filled with compressed air, which includes oxygen, water and other pollutants.

The compressed air is generally used for tyre inflation though, nowadays many companies are providing nitrogen as a tyre inflation media. Nitrogen as a gas is less reactive compared to oxygen. The promoters claim various advantage of nitrogen inflated tyres like high mileage, stability and casing durability and better fuel consumption. They claim nitrogen inflated tyres would go longer period than compressed air inflated tyres. Therefore nitrogen could be the common inflation media, which is actually not. Rather than the compressed air nitrogen inflated tyres have some benefits.

Nitrogen inflated tyres run cooler than the compressed air inflated tyre. The nitrogen inflated tyres heat controlling capability creates a reduction in the running temperature, which causes a cooler temperature. The reduced temperature eventually increases its tread life. The impermeable tyre rubber always causes an amount of pressure loss. Nitrogen inflated tyres make lower pressure losses. All these ensure the tyre life longer than that of inflated with compressed air. Nitrogen or any other inert gas has fewer fire risks.

There are many companies providing nitrogen as an inflation media to many customers. These companies are promoting their product by providing this information in their websites or banners, whereas some websites on safe drive or safe tyre says contrary.

Many companies are saying that nitrogen inflated tyres causes less pressure loss. But research has found that both oxygen or nitrogen or a mixture within a tubeless rubber tyre with an impermeable liner would take several years for oxygen to leak away. So, the tyre needs to be fitted and sealed properly to ensure longer pressure stability. And it is also found oxygen and nitrogen and air all have the same rate of pressure change for an equal amount of temperature change, which disapproves the fact that nitrogen inflated tyres are more stable at holding it’s pressure. And again the cost for nitrogen inflation is far more than compressed air. Frequent pressure adjustments are also needed to get the advantages of nitrogen inflated tyres. But adding a small amount of compressed air can degrade the advantages. Nitrogen filling stations are also very few.

Because of its high cost, and availability nitrogen is not used in cars for everyday usage. Rather nitrogen inflated tyres are used more in aircraft, racing cars, trucks and vehicles used in mining and industrial applications. In conclusion, nitrogen may be beneficial in some ways, but the maintenance cost and added complications nullify the advantages.