Mina and HE.
Tipu and Sohel at CRISL Tour.
Tina & HE.
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 1
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 2
Jahed's Marriage & SHE.
Ershad & SHE.
Convocation 1
Biswa's Lover.
Russel's Marriage and SHE.
Shova and HE.
Ahsan & His Friends (UK)
August 25, 2005
Recent Pictures ...
NAME of Friends (4th Batch Finance & Banking) and their Photo:
Tipu and Sohel at CRISL Tour.
Tina & HE.
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 1
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 2
Jahed's Marriage & SHE.
Ershad & SHE.
Convocation 1
Biswa's Lover.
Russel's Marriage and SHE.
Shova and HE.
Ahsan & His Friends (UK)
Tipu and Sohel at CRISL Tour.
Tina & HE.
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 1
Computer Lab at Dept. DU. 2
Jahed's Marriage & SHE.
Ershad & SHE.
Convocation 1
Biswa's Lover.
Russel's Marriage and SHE.
Shova and HE.
Ahsan & His Friends (UK)
August 23, 2005
My Efforts...
The story of my website <www.khokonz.tk> starts some time in the middle of June 2003. When I decided to do something for my classmates, friends, and myself. After the final exam of BBA Program of Dhaka University, I have worked for World Bank and USAID Projects. I have realized that I am loosing communication to my classmates, friends day by day.
When I started MBA Program in July 2003 at Dhaka University, I have come to know that some of my classmates, friends are living abroad (USA, UK, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Australia) for higher studies. I decided to use Phones and Emails for communication.
As I am writing poems and short stories from my college life, some newspapers and magazines publishes that & my friends are always encourages time to time. So, I feel encourage to begin my website to integrate my classmates, friends forever.
As a self-learner, I have learned how to make a website by Front Page, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Dream-weaver etc. I have passed many times by searching free stuff’s at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. It was in the September of 2003 that I finally launched my websites by Free Hosting Site at <www.khokonz.4t.com>.
Finding the information regarding friends was an arduous task. Someone doesn't have Email ID, Phones etc, someone doesn't know how to use PC and NET etc. However, the journey continued.
When I started MBA Program in July 2003 at Dhaka University, I have come to know that some of my classmates, friends are living abroad (USA, UK, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Australia) for higher studies. I decided to use Phones and Emails for communication.
As I am writing poems and short stories from my college life, some newspapers and magazines publishes that & my friends are always encourages time to time. So, I feel encourage to begin my website to integrate my classmates, friends forever.
As a self-learner, I have learned how to make a website by Front Page, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Dream-weaver etc. I have passed many times by searching free stuff’s at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. It was in the September of 2003 that I finally launched my websites by Free Hosting Site at <www.khokonz.4t.com>.
Finding the information regarding friends was an arduous task. Someone doesn't have Email ID, Phones etc, someone doesn't know how to use PC and NET etc. However, the journey continued.
Somewhere, in the beginning of the year 2005, I have decided to start Group Email at <4batch_finance_banking@googlegroups.com> for better integration. Less then 2 months, my all Group members (Finance and Banking Dept.) were shown tremendous responses.
It was sometime in February 2005 that I came up with the idea of coordinating the entire Friendships database and bringing it into one platform. It can be the perfect sense!
My mission was to represent the entire classmates (4th Batch, Finance & Banking Dept. DU) in one common platform accessible from all over the world. It's primary objectives are: Contact Phones, Email IDs, Pictures, Career Profiles and Recent News.
Importantly, when I come to know that my classmates, friends are getting right information at the right time around the world. I just feel happy.
Let the Friendship go on and on…
Khorshed Khokon, MBA
August 17, 2005
America's World Role
America now leads the world in all dimensions of power—military, economic, cultural, scientific (see chart 1)—by a margin out of all proportion to its population.
Look how they (American) seek to reshape the world. They have defined their war as one of good against evil, of civilization against terror, but have then butted their heads against the blood-stained brick wall that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They have spoken about a “regime change” in Iraq, but have done little about it. They have said they favor democracy, but then hesitated to condemn an attempted coup in April against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. They have said they favor free trade, but then slapped tariffs on steel imports and subsidies on farming. They have rubbished foreign aid, then embraced it; supported a bankruptcy procedure for countries in financial crisis, then opposed it.
Bangladesh and PRSP
The general goal of the PRSP is to reduce poverty in phases so much so that by 2015 this global social scourge may be cut by half. This is also the grand aim of the UN as articulated through its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The global financial institution like the World Bank (WB), which is a major provider of development assistance to the developing economies and the LDCs, does also emphasize poverty reduction and hence preparation of the PRSP as a condition for receiving its development assistance. Which in other words means that the international donors, both bilateral and multilateral, have shifted significantly from their earlier focus on growth and development.
The failure of the previous model of development has forced the international donor community to rethink its strategy for development in the Third World. As a result, the issue of addressing poverty separately as a precondition for development and growth has now returned to center stage in development thinking. Hence the necessity of preparing the PRSP by countries like Bangladesh, still depending on donor assistance to plan their national budgets and implement their development activities.
The lead consultant of the anti-poverty document, however, has assured the nation that the PRSP has taken into account the real situation in the country as well as the problems of the ultra poor, urban poor, rights of the indigenous people, land and technology as required by the donors. The question of addressing the unique conditions of poverty in the Bangladesh society is pertinent to any poverty-reduction strategy in the local context, as the country has its own history of poverty. People's lack of access to social and state resources, poor governance, lack of transparency and accountability and pervasive corruption in the administration have their deleterious impact on the prospect for development in Bangladesh. Poverty is therefore directly related to these negative factors prejudicing the country's development efforts.
The failure of the previous model of development has forced the international donor community to rethink its strategy for development in the Third World. As a result, the issue of addressing poverty separately as a precondition for development and growth has now returned to center stage in development thinking. Hence the necessity of preparing the PRSP by countries like Bangladesh, still depending on donor assistance to plan their national budgets and implement their development activities.
The lead consultant of the anti-poverty document, however, has assured the nation that the PRSP has taken into account the real situation in the country as well as the problems of the ultra poor, urban poor, rights of the indigenous people, land and technology as required by the donors. The question of addressing the unique conditions of poverty in the Bangladesh society is pertinent to any poverty-reduction strategy in the local context, as the country has its own history of poverty. People's lack of access to social and state resources, poor governance, lack of transparency and accountability and pervasive corruption in the administration have their deleterious impact on the prospect for development in Bangladesh. Poverty is therefore directly related to these negative factors prejudicing the country's development efforts.
In this context, the whole gamut of development issues merits a very careful consideration at the time of finalizing the PRSP in order to map out a poor-friendly development path for Bangladesh.
August 10, 2005
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's speech...
I have THREE visions for India. In 3000 years of our history people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards, the Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation.
We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others, that is why my FIRST vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
My SECOND vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn’t this incorrect?
I have a THIRD vision; India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Department of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr. Brahm Prakash father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.
Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan; he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was this day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert and into an orchid and a granary. It was the inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE?
I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14-year-old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is: she replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim.
India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Allow me to come back with vengeance. Got 10 minutes for your country? YOU say that out Government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don’t work, the railways are a joke, the airline is the worst in the world, and mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give Him a name? YOURS. Give him a face? YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your international best.
In Singapore you don’t throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground Links as they are. You pay $5 (approx.Rs.225/-) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU comeback to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity.
In Singapore you don’t say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn’t dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.900/-) a month to, “see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else. “YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 kmph) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, “Jaanta Hai sala main kaun hoon (do you know who I am?). I am so and so’s son. Take your two bucks and get lost.
We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others, that is why my FIRST vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
My SECOND vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn’t this incorrect?
I have a THIRD vision; India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Department of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr. Brahm Prakash father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.
Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan; he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was this day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert and into an orchid and a granary. It was the inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE?
I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14-year-old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is: she replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim.
India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Allow me to come back with vengeance. Got 10 minutes for your country? YOU say that out Government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don’t work, the railways are a joke, the airline is the worst in the world, and mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give Him a name? YOURS. Give him a face? YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your international best.
In Singapore you don’t throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground Links as they are. You pay $5 (approx.Rs.225/-) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU comeback to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity.
In Singapore you don’t say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn’t dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.900/-) a month to, “see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else. “YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 kmph) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, “Jaanta Hai sala main kaun hoon (do you know who I am?). I am so and so’s son. Take your two bucks and get lost.
YOU wouldn’t chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand. Why don’t YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don’t YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground.
If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country why cannot you be the same here in India?
Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay Mr. Tinaikar had a point to make. “Rich people’s dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,” he said. “And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here? He’s right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse?” It’s the whole system, which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my son’s rights to a dowry. “So who’s going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU.
When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to The system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand. Or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England.
When England experience unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a Great deal of introspection and pricks one’s conscience too. J.F. Kennedy’s words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians?...
“Ask what we can do for India and do what has to be done to make India what America and other western countries are today”
August 09, 2005
Royals cost Britain £37m in 2004
The Royal Family cost Britons £36.7m last year, equivalent to 61p per taxpayer. Buckingham Palace said the figure, which excludes security costs, was at its lowest since 2001 and had fallen 2.3% in real terms since 2003-4.
August 01, 2005
ISO 9000 Certificates
President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) Abdul Awal Mintoo recently said around 600 Bangladeshi companies have so far been certified by ISO 9000, a global standard for maintaining Quality Management System (QMS). But the number is growing quite slowly because most of the companies in Bangladesh are not completely aware of what ISO 9000 stands for.
July 31, 2005
Lyrics: Shania Twain
From This Moment On“I do swear that I’ll always be there. I’d give anything and everything and I will always care. Through weakness and strength, happiness and sorrow, for better, for worse, I will love you with every beat of my heart”
From this moment life has begun
From this moment you are the one
Right beside you
Is where I belong
From this moment on
From this moment
I have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your loveI’d give my last breath
From this moment on
I’d give my hand to you with all my heart
Can’t wait to live my life with you, can’t wait to start
You and I will never be apart
My dreams came true because of you
From this moment
As long as I liveI will love you,
I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn’t give
From this moment on
You’re the reason I believe in love
And you’re the answer to my prayers from up above
All we need is just the two of us
My dreams came true because of you
July 28, 2005
Bluetooth Technology
It was in 1994 when Ericsson Inc. first invented this technology called Bluetooth named after Danish king Harald Bluetooth, who was successful to adjoin Norway and Denmark right in the manner technologies are being integrated today. But it wasn't until the year 2000 that Bluetooth became widely popular among devices. Bluetooth transfers data at a rate of 721 Kbps, which is 3 times the average speed of parallel ports and 8 times the average speed of serial ports. This bandwidth is capable of transmitting voice, data, video and still images. Unlike IrDA (Infrared Data Association), Bluetooth frequency ranges quite a distance from a metre to 100 metres even at blockades.
Adamjee EPZ
Adamjee Jute Mills in Narayanganj, founded in 1957, was closed down in June 2002, after the nationalised industry had incurred a huge Tk 13 billion loss accumulated since the independence.
The AEPZ to be set up on the mills' 295 acre land will comprise 200 industrial plots. It eyes a $500 million export a year and is expected to create some 100,000 jobs. Investments to the tune of $250 million for 70 industrial units have already been proposed.
July 26, 2005
Apologies...
Positive world for the positive human being, Check out the list of great apologies of the world:
- The second largest US bank JP Morgan Chase & Co. has publicly disclosed that two of its predecessor banks had received thousands of slaves as collateral prior to the Civil War. It offered a formal letter of apology and said it was creating a 5 million dollar scholarship fund for the African-American students from Louisiana.
- Japanese apologised for the cruelty committed by its troops in the Far East during World War II.
- Germany apologised for the suffering caused by its actions toward Jews and others.
- Pope John Paul II apologised for the past sins of the Roman Catholic Church against non-Catholics.
- Australia apologised for its mistreatment of the country's aborigine population.
July 25, 2005
Travelling...
I am travelling inside my mind, which is running inside the globe that is spinning around the sun. Everything about life is relative, yesterday, today and tomorrow, everything depending on time and motion, everything having its rightful place in the stream of events from birth to death.
July 23, 2005
July 21, 2005
Did you know....
- Those who appear to be very strong in heart, are real weak and most susceptible?
- Those who spend their time protecting others are the ones that really need someone to protect them?
- The 3 most difficult things to say are : I love you, Sorry and Help me?
- When you help someone, the help is returned in two-folds?
- It's easier to say what you feel in writing than saying it to someone in the face? But did you know that it has more value when you say it to their face?
- If you ask something in faith, your wishes are granted?
- You can make your dreams come true? If you ask for it by faith and if you really know, you'd be surprised by what you could do.
July 20, 2005
July 14, 2005
Monsoon 1
A village woman dips into the pond near her house for water. This is age-old practice in our rural area particularly in the monsoon seasons of Bangladesh.
Look at the human life and water of my village (Tangail, 1991). Fisherman are always interesting character in our rural life. Wide looking area with monsoon light is the art of my country, Bangladesh.
June 20, 2005
Trivia 1
- Two people can get married, but more people are needed in a divorce.
- Anything is fair in love and war.
- Late to remember and quick to forget.
- Politics is a self-serving business in the name of the people.
- He is like the fool who stays up all night trying to find out how he goes to sleep.
- Life is either a dream or a nightmare. Superstition is when one is obsessed with either.
Confused on everything...
There was a time in my life (student life) when I could draw a line between opposites. Good was good and bad was bad. Innocent was innocent and guilty was guilty.
Then reality came to my world (professional life) and made me confused on everything. Now I can't tell the difference even between black and white.
Politics is the magic detergent that washes all stains, so that the same person returns like fresh laundry again and again. Get power, abuse it, step down and go clean.
Perhaps we have failed to audit our own behavior. Everyday we are swimming on calculator, trying to accomplish a life that is so-called professional standards.
Then reality came to my world (professional life) and made me confused on everything. Now I can't tell the difference even between black and white.
Politics is the magic detergent that washes all stains, so that the same person returns like fresh laundry again and again. Get power, abuse it, step down and go clean.
Perhaps we have failed to audit our own behavior. Everyday we are swimming on calculator, trying to accomplish a life that is so-called professional standards.
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