The Diary of Dhaka's Day-Dreamer

Do you know what VHDL is? It stands for 'VHSIC HDL'. Which stands for ‘Very High-speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language’. As the name says, this is used to design and describe digital circuits (very complex) in a easy way. Our university's engineering curriculum has an elective course named - 'VHDL Modeling & Logic Synthesis'. Well it's considered as one of the toughest courses. All the students hesitates when taking this course. But I can assure you that there is a teacher who makes the course a piece of cake. But you know, there is no guarantee that you'd have him on your course. What should you do then. No problem. All you have to do is to go to road No. 21, Bloc-B, Banani, in front of house No. 76, 78 (which is another university.). Then you should find a little guy. The best way to recognize him is to start yelling - 'Hamba Hamba' and you'd hear a loud laughter. The laughing person is him. You'll find him with a cup o...

Ever thought about the people behind the marketing concepts? Consider about a simple logo. Ever thought how a designing is done? I know that, those who do this type of job are great minds. And a simple sign-board kept me wondering about 2 hours to get the idea. You can see a portion of it. It contains a logo of a university. Well as you can see, this is a logo of an educational institution. A university, as it says. As the slogan says, 'A carrier minded university'. The name is given in the logo- 'The University of South Asia'. Have you thought about the factors which had to be considered on designing its logo? I guess no. Well let me put some light in your thoughts. The easiest way of designing a logo is to take the initial letters of the words forming the name (i.e.- get the Acronym). Like BBC for British Broadcasting Company. Now if we take the initial letters of this university then it becomes USA. Well, it can't be taken because though it's not copyrighted ...

We had been under British colonial rulings for 200 years. Then we had been under Pakistani dictatorship. We had fought for establishing our mother language, Bangla as the official language of our country while under Pakistani rulings. The effect of all these is, we have a 12 year schooling on which we have English as our subject. After that, for higher education, most of the universities use English medium. And the ability to speak in English is taken as a measure of how smart a person is. Though I can't find how not speaking own language can be taken as smartness. But that's another story. Despite all these, we don't use English anywhere in our everyday activities. And I think except some rootless junks of the society, deep down ourselves, each of us have an unwillingness to learn the language. As for example, in our university, we have an English medium environment, but that is somehow limited inside the class. And sometimes, even inside the class, we freely use B...

Two friends were meeting after a very long period. It was so long that they both decided for a celebration. As the old times, they got into a bar. They were having a great time there just like the good old days. And they were getting back their old mood. The empty glasses were getting piled up in front of their table. It was such a wonderful time! And they were filling their throats round after round as if they were thirsty for a century! After an hour or two have passed, one of them told the other with a requesting tone, 'Pal, I think you've had enough. 'Would you please stop drinking’? The other paid no heed. Some more times passed (as well as some more glasses), the man looked up and suddenly rose with a scream, ‘Pal! YOU MUST STOP! You’re GETTING BLURRED! SOME MORE DRINKS AND YOU WILL VANISH!’ Well I got the story somewhere. But that's not the matter. The matter is- the two people in the picture, I am very much sure, are drunk as dead.

What would you do if you had an exam after 30 minutes and you have zero preparation? If you arranged the night before exam to have all your friends at your home to get prepared by group study and slept all night without doing so, though your friends were not sleepy? If they didn't sleep for a second and studied and tried to wake you up in each 15 minute to get you some studies? If all of your friends couldn't leave for the exam, just because they couldn't awaken you and didn't want to leave without you. One thing is sure you didn't have a sound sleep that night. So then, after the night, on the exam day, if your caught in the middle of a traffic jam (because you ware late) just 30 minutes before the exam, which would last for at least 1 hour, how could you pass this time in the jam efficiently? Definitely you'd try to sleep in the bus, in a position, just as this guy is sleeping. You should try it. Because, this is the best way (u...

This man, I don't know where he lives, but I do regularly see him at Banani. He recently had an eye operation and has to put on a black sunglass for protection. I saw him some days ago and he looked funny. I asked him for taking a picture. Then when I held the camera in front of him, he suddenly changed his position and stood before the camera as erect as a soldier. No matter how much I tell him to stand in his normal way, he gets back to the same erect position when I hold my camera. So I had to take his picture as it is. It's funny how people change in front of camera.