Category: Personal

I was supposed to reach KU within 9.30 but I reached at 9.15. I knew there would be course registration alone but ended up having “warm up” classes. Such a pleasant surprise.

It’s 29^th March, 2009. As the official letter mentioned, I started for Khulna University well before time. I reached the campus at around 9.15 and headed straight way to the BA discipline in the 1^st Academic Building. There was a little crowd there, chatting and roaming around aimlessly or better said, without knowing what to do. I soon joined them asking which of my classmates have already arrived. It was then, a young guy guided us into the same room we gathered into the day we got admitted. I found out quickly that this “student looking” guy was no less than a lecturer at BA discipline. I have heard rumors about KU BBA teachers being unfriendly, harsh and strictly conservative. The openness in the approach of this “Enamul Haque” surely made me believe that those rumors were in fact rumors. He made a nice introductory movement helping people know each other and breaking the ice. We were soon having fun in the class as students kept giving out their names and home districts. Soon after he has finished, we were introduced to another teacher who gave us an overview of what we needed to do if I wanted to register myself for the BBA course.

When the class was over, we spread out following the instructions given earlier. It was a long tiring day and I, along with the other freshers had to stand in ques, stand in the sun and walk long distances time to time under the typically hot summer sun. But what really marks the day special is that I attended the first class in my university life, no matter whether there was an academic air or not, it is special and it will remain forever?.

PS: I was supposed to post the entry yesterday but I felt so tired and sleepy that I went to sleep halfway through it, leaving behind the incomplete and unpublished post. I completed it today, 30^th March and looking forward to publishing it with my another post about the orientation ceremony taking place today morning.

Finally, I have prepared myself for the studies of Business Administration, leaving behind Computer Science. Yeah, it’s more than true that I have never loved anything/anyone more than I loved my programming environment. I have been a tech freak for a long time. I have adored programming more than anything. I remember I wanted to go for BBA before I came in touch with a guy from InfoRev. He made me believe that CSE would have been better for me. My parents and many others started to believe that I would make a better Computer Scientist than a good Business Administrator. But, may be The Almighty had a different plan for me.

Time passed and here I am, a student of BBA in Khulna University. I have completed the admission procedure already. It’s the course registration tomorrow. On 30^th March, is the Orientation class. I think my classes would start the following day, 31^st March.

I would request every reader of this blog to pray for me and wish me luck.

My dad was insisting on trying out the BTTB internet service for a long time since some of his colleagues highly praised the internet connection from BTTB. So I finally agreed to try out the internet service from BTTB, the state owned telephony and internet service provider. There’s a nasty feeling in me about all state owned service providers. Still, to make dad happy about it, I agreed to buy a modem after he managed a telephone connection. I was a bit happy that we got a telephone connection within the 24 hours of submitting an application. I thought things have changed after the recent formation of BTCL from BTTB. My Dad and I went to the local computer market and purchased an internal modem for the purpose. I installed the modem successfully and dialed. Whoa? It worked!

I was wondering if it was the BTTB people knew years before. You had to wait hours, days, weeks and months to get a telephone connection. The service used to be very poor. The BTTB engineers used to demand bribe for their service. I see nothing today. I was glad and surfing the internet enthusiastically. My dream came to an end when I had a power cut after around 10 minutes into the browsing.

When the electricity returned, I turned on my PC and dialed. Damn. No response. Tried again and again. Nothing happened. Got frustrated enough to call the local Customer Service of BTTB Internet Section. They suggested my lack of expertise and keep trying. I said nothing and kept trying after dropping the call. I kept trying for about 30 minutes when I finally decided to give up. I called the Customer Care again and now they told me that there has to be at least one telephone line free for data connectivity. They suggested that I should call the dialup number from my telephone to see if it responds sending back a modem tone. I followed the instruction. A female voice let me know that there’s no line available at the moment. I kept trying when a single line would be free. I waited for 4 hours. No way!! No lines free. Now it’s around 5.45 PM in the afternoon when I found a line free and got connected to the internet. It’s true that BTTB has made fair progress in providing cheap services, but they need to scale. Being a GP Internet user from the beginning, I never knew that I had to wait for a telephone line to remain free before I could connect to the internet. And it’s the national ISP. The other day they blocked Youtube. I wish our internet was free from the clutches of the corrupted people working at the BTTB.