Quick and dirty tip!

I guess everybody knows what I am talking about, it's a temporary solution of a permanent crisis! Do you see the problem? It cannot be happen, no temporary solution cannot solve a permanent problem! Why? A permanent problem has an important feature: it gonna be with you forever. Now you can solve this types of problem periodically. Some people solve it periodically and they keep doing it until the very end. I prefer the other option. Solve it permanently. Usually permanent solutions require bigger effort and greater patience. Still once it is solved, it is solved forever. I believe both approaches have their own pros and cons. 

Personally I hate solving the same problem again and again. That's why I hate quick and dirty tip. Quick and dirty works but the problem is, it works for very short period of time. Sometime even worse, it causes long time damage! how? Paul Graham once said, "doing fake things is worse than doing nothing." I found it as a very useful tip in my life. Quick and dirty tip is like doing fake things and in long run it creates an illusion of real things. That's a very harmful situation! You don't have any real job and you are thinking you have; you spend all your time on fake jobs and no time to look for real job. 

We often forget there is another very limited resource called time. If we spend most of our time on fake things we cannot have time for real things; even worse we cannot have time to look for real things. Personally every time I tried a shortcut I encounter a greater damage. So I believe those are not for me. I better wait for proper way of doing things.

Florida Road trip (Day III)

Initial plan was to visit Orlando possibly universal studio but then we decided we will visit all famous beached of Atlantic coast of Florida. However we could not do much because of our unprofessional planning. We spend some time in Daytona Beach, Cocoa Beach, a tiny beach near Fort Pierce. That's it. I think everyone enjoyed the beach day. Some of us enjoyed swimming in Atlantic. I am not a swimming person, technically I didn't even touch the water.

I had a little fight with Lipa that morning so the day was kind of off for both of us. I took some pictures but compared to opportunity it was negligible. Daytona, Cocoa all famous beaches! I just come up with little over hundred pictures. Anyway, the day was not that bad we had plan to attend night life of Ft. Lauderdale. Unfortunately it was Christmas day and everything was closed so we kind of spend time on Hotel room and Ft. Lauderdale beach.

Daytona Beach, FL

Cocoa Beach, FL

Christmas Florida road trip (Day III)

Florida road trip (Day II)

Our initial plan was to go to Savannah, GA first but after first day we realize it would be too exotic plan. So headed toward Titusville, FL directly. We stopped by Columbus, GA in the middle. Columbus, GA was okay but not too much exciting during winter.

Columbus, GA

Most important event was I loose control over myself and went crazy on Adnan. So that defines the fate of our entire road trip. Well in my opinion the it could be better but we had our own moments.

Christmas Florida road trip (Day II)

Florida road trip (Day I)

Day I of our Christmas Florida road trip was good. We started from Norman, OK around 10 am in the morning. Our drivers drove like crazy and we reached Fort Smith, AR around 12 o'clock. Our next stop was Memphis, TN. By the time we reached Fort Smith, we realized if we drive like crazy our MPG gone crazy as well. So we decided to slow down a bit and we reached Memphis, TN around 5 pm. We spend some time in Memphis. While we were in Memphis we heard a good news and we decided to celebrate it; so we did. We started toward Birmingham, AL around 10 pm and reached around 2 am in the morning. That's our first day. We pretty much driving like crazy. But cover maximum distance in our first day.

There is not much things to do while you are behind the wheel. But we chatted with each other, know each other a little bit and get ready for the next days. Since it was the day before Christmas the Beale street (Memphis) was boring and no one was there except us. The day was good except few minor discrepancies.

 Christmas Florida road trip (Day I)

Somebody to love

When the truth is found to be lies

and all the joy within you dies

don't you want somebody to love

don't you need somebody to love

wouldn't you love somebody to love

you better find somebody to love

When the garden flowers baby are dead yes

and your mind is full of red

don't you want somebody to love

don't you need somebody to love

wouldn't you love somebody to love

you better find somebody to love

your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his

but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is

don't you want somebody to love

don't you need somebody to love

wouldn't you love somebody to love

you better find somebody to love

tears are running, ahhh, they're all, running down your breast

and your friends baby they treat you like a guest.

don't you want somebody to love

don't you need somebody to love

wouldn't you love somebody to love

you better find somebody to love

[Jefferson Airplane]

Chickasha, Festival of lights

We went to Chickasha festival of lights yesterday. It was beautiful. They have pretty decent number of lights in the festival. This is not my first time, I have been there before back in 2008. This time it was different. This time my primary intention was was to take some photographs. They have a large collection of light and I wanted to take picture of them. I got some but most of them are crap. However I leaned some good lessons to take photographs of this kind of lighting show.

Some pictures are nice if lights are not in focus. Putting lights out of focus makes a outline of bokeh and that is pretty spectacular. Taking picture of lights in focus is pretty boring. Out of focus light is rather dramatic and visually aesthetic. 

Photographs are two dimensional, of course they are. Most importantly when I was taking photographs of lights, the entire field became two dimensional lighting field. What I saw was no way comparable to what I got in my shot. Well, this is always true for photography but it became even more important for photography of lights. Background lights are as prominent as foreground lights or to be more specific there is nothing called background light. 

Here is what I have taken from yesterday's photographic venture,

Planning!

I just realized I am not good as planning. Planning for life! So far I am pretty much without any plan. When I look back I feel there is something missing and that missing part is probably proper planning. So far, I behave pretty much as an opportunistic! without any plan at all. USA a super fine tuned country and I kind of fall behind because of my lack of planning. I got to be well tuned in terms of planning. 

I used to think I am good at it but all of sudden I realized I am not. I could have done better if I had a better plan. I have not idea how to improve it but I got to do it anyway! I need to find a place where I wanna be and then how to be it! Make some plan!

Florida, State of Sunshine!

Lot of things going on, this time we are going to Florida!!! We are planning a road trip to Florida during this Christmas break. This time we are sixteen! wow! big number. Hasib is coming from Illinois, Jamee is coming from Texas, Shehab is coming from Maryland, Apu is coming from Kansas! We are a big gang now. I can certainly feel the heat. Florida the state of sunshine.  

We are planning to drive here to Birmingham, AL, then Savannah, GA; we are going to touch all east coast beaches from from Savannah, GA to Miami, Fl. And then finally Key West, FL. That's our beach road trip for all east coast beaches. From Key West, FL to Pensacola, FL we will touch all Gulf of Mexico beaches. I have been told that these beaches are even prettier than East coast beaches, let see. From Pensacola, FL to New Orleans, LA and finally home, sweet home. We are touching many points and probably visiting all points of interest in Florida. I hope I would make some good pictures.

Sporadic obsessions!

My general exam oral presentation is tomorrow. That's okay, somehow I got the maturity of not worrying about exams. I stopped by blogs I follows. I came across Salehin's blog. Salehin was always one of the fascinating guys I always admire. Me and Salehin started our career almost same time. I joined Kaz and he joined couple of days later. Just to give a little context, he was my batch mate in BUET as well.

He was a friend of my friend; I believe Dew introduced him to me. I didn't know much about him. I was curious when I first learned, he disappear from his home. Wow! it was my dream, and now I found a guy who can do it! That's fist I started paying attention to him; later I learned he is a mountaineer as well! This guy is unbelievable; he does what I always dream of! What amazed me most was he does all of these quite effortlessly! Somehow I never could do all these! They are still my dream. My romantic dreams, one day I'll leave everything, leave everyone behind me. 

I was suffocated after six month or so after staring my first job! I started thinking I don't belong this place anymore. So I decided to choose another career for myself. Where I am going is a different story but I observed Salehin, he was amazing. He must have something that beyond my imagination. He was never tired of what his job. It's not that I didn't like what I was doing and he liked. I love software development more than he does, I just become frustrate of places I belong to after some time. 

Little little things, we call life!

How am I doing these days? It is kind of hard to define. I knew for what I was missing, what I want and how I want them; all of a sudden I got kind of confused: what really this meant to be? Is there really any purpose? Or is this a wrong question? Let say I have what I want, then what? I would want some more, and more and even more! But this is not how I imagined my life! Did I start early? Do I really have the maturity for real life, or does it really need a certain level of maturity?

I know what I am seeing is not right, but I don't know the right either! Is this 'right' stuff really exist? If not what our ancestors were taking about? Maybe it exists then? What happen to it now? I have so many questions to ask, so little time to seek for all of them. I don't know what I am doing here. I don't even know what my I meant to be!