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Prepping for the trip

bidyut — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:58:50 +0000

Once again I am preparing for a journey. However, this time the trip isn’t just going out of town somewhere. Neither is it a trip to Bangladesh. For the first time this centuary I am taking a trip as a vacation. New places. New scenary and hopefully a ton of pictures.

The whole thing starts this Saturday so as you might have guessed the countdown that has begun a while back still continues. The trip starts off at Istanbul and goes through Cyprus and then finally London. Fine, I’m going to London to meet people I haven’t met in a while. It has nothing to do with sight seeing, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do any… may be. Only time will tell

Pheonix modifications: Part 4

bidyut — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:06:51 +0000

Ever since I saw a short antenna on a tC in Davis, CA, I found the OEM antenna ridiculously long. I mean it’s 16″! Seen that I have checked the Scion catalogs casually over the next few years to see if they had any smaller antennas. All in vain.

Finally I have given up the idea of getting something from TRD or Scion and started looking on the internet. Of all the ones that I found this new one met what I wanted for an awesome price

Unlike the OEM, it’s nice small and still gets the job done. Not to mention that thanks to eBay, it also wasn’t that expensive at all. And everyone knows that swapping the antennas were just a piece of cake

Pheonix modifications: Part 2

bidyut — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:41:56 +0000

As many of you may or may not know/remember, soon after I got Pheonix I added an iPod connector to the setreo system. This was largly due to the annoyances of switching FM stations for a good reception of the FM transmitter sitting in the car (Monster iCar Play Wireless) and creating mixed CDs that I actually want to listen to all the time.

Yesterday, while scouring the interwebs in search of other information, I ran into this site, Your Scion tC .com. And it had a few more tricks that you could do for cheap or gratis. So what’s the first thing I did?

Neat, huh?

Sights and signs around Dhaka

bidyut — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:14:16 +0000

It has been a while people, and I’m still in Dhaka. Luckily my sister has managed to score a Bluetooth Dongle so I can finally post all those pictures that I have been filling up my phone with. Here are a few things that are around Dhaka that has little or nothing to do with the original franchise.

And then there are the ones which are actually originals and are true to the chain.

Ok fine, the last image is a big blurry but it was pouring out there so I couldn’t really get a good shot. But you can see Colonel General don’t you?

And finally I just have to point this out since I didn’t know about Cyprus befure I met my friend from there at GATech. So here’s to Alper whose country is now a top educational destination in Bangladesh (apparently).

Day [sic] trip to Buffalo

bidyut — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:00:18 +0000

Last Saturday, I went to Buffalo for a day trip. Not just for fun, but to attend one of my friend’s wedding. I was fortunate enough to take a good bunch of pictures. Now the reason I point out that the day trip was not a day trip was simply because my flight got delayed and I ended up staying there over night anyway.

But then the drama continued, as they mentioned that my flight the following morning was at 8:20 am. Fortunately enough at 6 am I fonud out that the flight is actually at 6:20 am. Though I couldn’t get on the flight at least I got the next plane out for free at 7:15 am. This is to just point out the craziness that can happen on a ‘day trip’.

Let’s forget all of that. Indulge yourselves with the pictures from Buffalo.

Of Crabs and Gators

bidyut — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:56:58 +0000

Yesterday was our second day at Miami. Even though we are staying at Fort Lauderdale, we have been going to South Beach for all our beachiness. Yesterday, however, we did spend some time at Fort Lauderdale. We went to the lower parts of of the Everglades and got on a air-boat, drifted on water and saw a bunch of alligators.

Later at lunch we tried fried alligator, and I also tried a golden crab. The gator tasted great, I’ll try that again any day. The crab was good too, but by God it was a pain trying to get through all the shell and all. So no more fighting for crab meat for me. I’ll stick to the gators, chicken and fish.

Also news from the north says that Sylvee is doing fine. She’s a bit lonely, but I go back tomorrow and then it all goes back to normal.

Car stories

bidyut — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:19:17 +0000

Before I start, let me just mention that yes I still get excited when I see another Scion tC on the road. May be not as excited as I used to get, but I still do. Nowadays the tC have become common place. So much so, that I have started seeing more and more tC’s in the same color as mine.

Though I was stumped when I saw a Midnight Pearl tC at a local Target. Not really because of the color, or the fact that it is yet another tC. It was because of the content of the car it self. You be the judge.

Rock City and Ruby Falls

bidyut — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:03:19 +0000

This weekend, one thing led to another and soon I found myself driving three, sometimes four, lovely girls to Rock City and Ruby Falls in Tennessee. The drive out there was eventless, though by the end of the day I actually got tired of sitting in a car. A part of me is happy that BSA never ended up going to Rock City. It was actually a fun walk, but I cannot see some of the students actually going thru the whole walk. Yes, I have pictures, and they will be up when I get around to it.

The next on our list was Ruby Falls, which also involved a 2 mile trail, just like Rock City. The fall at the end was quite amazing. However, I do which that they would let us be at the fall for a longer period. I guess they couldn't as there were other people waiting for us to get out, after all. I love seeing natural wonders and it's always great to go on walks, though long walks like these alone are actually quite boring.

Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar on a bike

bidyut — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:27:58 +0000

Granted that this was not a trip that I have done, that I have attended, or I have the guts to do, but I applaud these kids for taking the initiative and getting it done! Just when I was about ready to give up hope on the children in my country, we see these amazing strides taken by some. First there was Dhaka Racing – I admit that it is no NFS, but still the first initiative. And then we had this supernova explosion in the music world, introducing Fuad Almuqtadir, Habib Wahid, Arnob, etc.

Though I agree that this task was not something as big as the rebirth of the music industry or the first Bangladeshi racing game, but it just makes me happy to realize that there are still people out there in the new generation that wants to think outside the box, that is willing to see their plans unfold. Kudos to Nawaf, Shabab, Rufi and Adnan.

Couple of things, however, if you read the article. First it is not tube-oil, it is actually a tube-well. Next they were not wandering around Tiger pass at 12pm, it was actually 12 am.

South Beach and back in 38 hrs

bidyut — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:41:27 +0000

Yes, ladies and gents, I have been out of town this weekend. I know otherwise anyone in the town knows that I am still here becuz I constantly probe everyone about something to do. So one of my friends decided that he just needs to go see his girl and so friday night we went towards Boca Ranton, FL. The trip started out bad as I forgot my camera and I finally decided that going back for the camera will be worthed. I’ll let you decide if it was.

We were at Boca Ranton by 9am Saturday morning and we spent the day checking out the Riverfront in Fort Lauterdale, some mall where I gto some important business taken care off and finally the beach at well.. South Beach! Most of the pictures in the Galleria for this trip is from there It was fun. I really wish that we could stay back and party by the Riverfront Saturday night, but time was pressing. We both had work on Monday.

So we started back that night around midnight and was back in Atlanta by noon Sunday. Am I crazy or what? I did, however, sleep for 14 hours that night.