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Dhaka
Diary
The
Fly-over craze
The
other day, my friend and I were crossing the road, under the
Mohakhali fly-over, when suddenly human-spittle hit my friend's
head with a loud 'smack'. It obviously came from someone standing
on the flyover, smirking at having to see such wonderful sights
from a different height on the same area he has been hanging
out in for years! We were furious, though, and ran up to the
fly-over to find this 'spitter', but he had obviously disappeared.
Spectators and pedestrians walking about the fly-over is a
very common scene, since the establishment of this structure
in Mohakhali. They seem to be simply standing on the fly-over,
chatting for hours or just sitting around, making it a regular
hangout spot. Bangladesh must be the only country in the world,
where people are allowed to walk about on the flyover and
create yet another mess altogether.
Rahad
Abir English Department, Dhaka University
Mugging
the muggers
My
father is in government service and had bought a revolver
for his own safety. During Operation Clean Heart, all legal
arms holders were asked to submit their arms to the nearest
police station. While he was on his way to the police station,
two young men stopped him. They threatened him with their
knives and asked my father to hand over everything he had
on him. My father, with a beating heart, dared to pull a fast
one. He took out his gun and simply inquired, 'Which one do
you want? The pistol or the bullets inside it?' They mistook
my father as a cop and ran away, leaving behind their knives.
My father took the knives home and joked with my mother, "Look
honey, the government realised that after submitting the gun
we would be helpless. That is why they gave us these knives
to protect ourselves!"
Emil
Tasia Dhaka
A
calculating move indeed!
I
am a student of class XI, group science. A while back, I lost
my calculator and needed one immediately to catch up with
my homework and also at school. So my father got me a new
one of the same model from the stadium market. As I began
to use the new calculator, I was perplexed by the differences
in functions between the lost device and the new one. I was
seriously bewildered by the fact that both the calculators
were of the same model, but were different in many ways. So
I made my way to the stadium and looked at a few of the calculators
being sold there. As I had expected, there were duplicate
pieces of every original model of calculators! The duplicates
display 10 digits as opposed to the original ones displaying
80 digits. Duplicates do not have the 'Shift, Const, ^' buttons
as do the original ones. Little details like, the number display
actually appearing on the lower line of the display as opposed
to the upper line display of numbers on the original calculators
have also caught my eye. So a word of advice to all who depend
on these scientific calculators, look thoroughly through the
device before actually purchasing one.
Piash
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