Saturday, September 20, 2008

Positive Thiking-Think Bangladesh

Positive thinking will change life forever. Experts believe that when you change the way you look at life, you will change your life – and it is true. Positive looks at the world as though it only has great things to offer and in that thinking, they see the opportunities for learning and growth, rather than the obstacles in their way. Instead of getting upset about the car that cut them off in traffic, they hope that there was not an emergency that caused the driver to need to go so fast. It takes time and practice.

A positive one is simply anyone that strives to look for the best in everything. For just one day, we can try to do the same. We are pround with the tag 'Made in Bangladesh". Let's join us and promote Bangladesh in every possible way we can.

Think Bangladesh-Promoting Bangladesh

We have stated a group in Facebook and Linkedin. "Think Bangladesh" is to promote Bangladesh. Our vision to promote Ethical Bangladesh with a passionate HOPE to see a better Tomorrow. We dream for prosperous Bangladesh by 2021. We dream for eight goals to be achieved by 2021:

1. Goal One: To be a true democracy
1.1. Democracy and Constitutional provisions
1.2. Role of political parties
1.3. Role of public representatives
1.4. A strong and neutral Election Commission
1.5. A neutral, merit based and professionally oriented public administration
1.6. Human rights
1.7. Rule of law
1.8. Transparency and accountability at all levels of national and local administration, with necessary institutional reforms
1.9. Separation of the Judiciary and the Executive
1.10. Judicial reforms especially in lower courts
1.11. Strong local government system with resources and accountability
1.12. Compassionate welfare arrangements for social protection of the vulnerable at all levels as stated in the Constitution

2. Goal Two: To have a publicly accountable and transparent government
2.1. Fiscal
2.1.1. Fiscal discipline and Fiscal Responsibility Legislation
2.1.2. Budgetary reforms
2.1.3. Revenue administration and generation of public savings
2.1.4. Implementation of Public Investment Programme/ADP, and optimum use of foreign aid
2.1.5. Transparent procurement system
2.1.6. Access to information
2.1.7. e-governance
2.2. Monetary Policy
2.2.1. Independence of the Central Bank in formulating monetary policy, and in administration of the financial sector institutions
2.2.2. Coordination of fiscal and monetary policy through an active and effective institutional arrangement to maintain a healthy investment climate
2.3. Balance of Payments
2.3.1. Transparency regarding ‘management’ of the exchange rate
2.3.2. Keeping the exchange rate competitive globally and regionally
2.3.3. Policy regarding access to international financial markets

3. Goal Three: To be a middle-income country
3.1. Coordinated and complementary roles of the public and private sectors in all areas of the economy
3.2. How has the existing arrangement, i.e. the relative roles of the public and the private sectors, worked? Where it has not, how to optimize the benefits for the economy and the society?
3.3. Poverty, income and employment
3.4. Agriculture
3.4.1. Land management,
3.4.2. Diversification of agriculture, agricultural research, extension and communication
3.4.3. Agricultural input supply, including irrigation
3.4.4. Issue of subsidy
3.4.5. Trade liberalisation and agriculture
3.4.6. Food security and social safety nets
3.5. Rural infrastructure and rural non-farm sector
3.6. Industry
3.6.1. Domestic industry
3.6.2. Export oriented production
3.6.3. Physical infrastructure
3.6.4. Financial sector, financial infrastructure and capital markets
3.6.5. Role of multinational corporations, foreign private investment and level playing field
3.6.6. Revival of the jute industry
3.6.7. Privatization of state-owned industries

4. Goal Four: To be a more equitable society
4.1. Income inequality
4.2. Regional inequality
4.3. Gender inequality
4.4. Equality of opportunities irrespective of religion or ethnicity
4.5. Equality of access to education and health facilities

5. Goal Five: To have skilled, creative and healthy people
5.1. Education
5.1.1. Universal scientific education for all
5.1.2. Basic literacy, Primary, Secondary and Higher education
5.1.3. Science and technology
5.1.4. Curricula of all educational institutions & quality of education at all levels
5.1.5. Extra-curricular activities at all levels of education
5.1.6. Public-private controversy
5.1.7. Gender balance at all levels of education
5.1.8. Appropriate measures to generate a large base of low skilled/semi-skilled workers; a supporting base of vocationally trained labour force; and a growing pool of world-class professionals trained in science and technology
5.2. Culture
5.2.1. Protection and promotion of inclusive Bangali cultural heritage
5.3. Health and Population
5.3.1. Primary health care
5.3.2. Promotion of sports and fitness for all ages
5.3.3. Disease control
5.3.4. Immunization
5.3.5. Safe water and sanitation
5.3.6. Population planning and reproductive health system
5.3.7. Child and mother care
5.3.8. Nutrition
5.3.9. Quality of service delivery and supervision at all levels of health and population planning

6. Goal Six: To offer necessary infrastructure to be a regional hub
6.1. Infrastructure
6.1.1. Roads and highways – rural, regional, national, international
6.1.2. Railways
6.1.3. Inland water transport
6.1.4. Ports: sea and air transport
6.1.5. Telecommunications, internet, ICT technology, and development of facilities for exporting services in this sector
6.2. Energy
6.2.1. Gas – exploration, development, estimation of reserves, principles of pricing of gas
6.2.2. Electric power –
6.2.2.1.Stock-taking of generation, transmission and distribution
6.2.2.2.The optimum and alternative ways of bringing a reasonable balance between growth of demand, existing unprecedented shortfall in supply, and development of short-term and medium term plans
6.2.2.3.Principles of pricing of power
6.2.3. Private-public interface and investments in the energy sector

7. Goal Seven: To be environmentally sustainable
7.1. Maintenance of soil quality for a sustainable agricultural system
7.2. Irrigation and protection of water bodies
7.3. Afforestation
7.4. Coastal area protection
7.5. Solid, air and water pollution
7.6. Urbanization, rural-urban migration, infrastructure and utilities to cope with urbanisation
7.7. Development of renewable energy
7.8. Disaster management
7.9. Tracking of climate change

8. Goal Eight: To be effectively integrated in the regional and the global economy
8.1. Trade relations and negotiation of trading arrangements
8.2. Regional cooperation: economic and political
8.2.1. Strengthening of the SAARC – Prospects
8.2.2. Cooperation in the development of cross-country infrastructure such as roads, railways, waterways, energy, and in the use of port facilities
8.2.3. Taking advantage of globalization and making Bangladesh a regional hub
8.3. Transparent foreign policy and defence policy objectives – emphasis on non-alignment, peacekeeping, and popular aspirations for greater economic cooperation with neighbours in South Asia and South-East Asia.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Finally rain is back, way too hot without it.

Dried soil have finally way out to fulfill its thrist. And even more than their thirstiness. Inundated by heavy rain.

Friday, had to go for Jummah prayer. Water was everywhere!

I am not your friend

I'm just a man who knows how to feel.

Well, a woman, not so much a man.

It feels good to write. It always does. It's been a long time since I really felt like I was free to write. Now, it's not like my words won't get criticized or talked about behind my back, or copied and pasted for others amusement. Now it's that I don't care. Me not writing won't stop people from being petty and cruel. I just have to keep on. I can't stifle my voice waiting for people to grow up. Age is a number that is not indicative of maturity, never will be.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sweet Word Can Say Manythings

Sweet is your "Nature"
Dear is your "Name"
As Earth wants Water, flower wants Dew.
I want nothingBut Happiness for You
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Never ask 4 a kiss, just take it.
Never give a hug, ask 4 it.
Never ask do u love me, first say I love u.
Never say I cant live without u, say I live for u.
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When I pray I don't see God, but I know he listens
As such, When I SMS U I don't see you,
but I know you think of me and Smiles.
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If you love someone,
put their name in a circle,
instead of a heart,
because hearts can break,
but circles go on forever
To love without condition,
To talk without intention,
To give without reason,
to care without expectation is the heart of true relation
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You are like the sunshine so warm,
you are like sugar, so sweet.
you are like you.
and that's the reason why I love you!
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Star + Moon filtered= Romantic night.
Bird + Sky = Lovely day.
Forest + Animal = Re- freshing world.
U + Ur smile = Its beautiful.
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What I feel for you, is really true.
You got to know, I need you so.
When you are gone, I can't go on.
Can't you see, that you are the only one for me?
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Love is like playing the piano
First you must learn, to play by the rules.
Then u must forget the Rules and Play from your heart
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It feels nice when someone misses u,
feels good when someone loves u.
feels better when someone's with u.
But it feels the best when someone never 4gets u.
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I've notice that being with u,
I smile a little more often,
I anger a little less quickly,
the sun shines a little brighter & life is much sweeter.
I LOVE YOU.
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instruction for life

1. Great love and great achievements involve great risk
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson
3. Follow the 3 R's
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all actions
4. Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship
7. When you realize that you have made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend sometime alone everyday
9. Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values
10. Silence is sometime the best answer
11. Live a good, honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you will be able to enjoy it second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life
13. In disagreement with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. dont bring up the past
14. Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality
15. Be gentle with the earth
16. Once a year, go some place, you have never before
17. the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

T Shirt Term You May Know

I may have to organize these into categories, but I tried picking the terms most related to t-shirts.
1x1 Rib: Also 2x2 rib knit trim. The width of each rib is the same as the width between each rib. This helps the garment retain its elasticity.

Bleach wash: The process of washing fabric or a garment with bleach to soften and distress the look of the fabric.

Brushed Cotton: Cotton fabric that is brushed to remove all the excess lint and fibers from the fabric, leaving an ultra soft, smooth finish

Cap Sleeves: A length of sleeve that hits the upper arm between the elbow and the shoulder. Generally used for ladies' garments.

Carding: A fiber cleaning process in yarn spinning

Colorfastness: The ability of a fabric to withstand exposure to sunlight, dry cleaning and laundering without fading or running. The types of fiber, dye and treatment used for setting the color determine how colorfast a fabric will be.

Combed Cotton: Cotton yarn that has been combed to remove short fibers and straighten or arrange longer fibers in parallel order resulting in a smooth yarn used in finer garments

Compaction: A shrinkage control technique used in fabric manufacturing.

Corduroy: Cut pile fabric woven with either wide or narrow wales formed by using extra filling. Back may be either plain or twill weave, the latter being better quality.

Cover stitch: Background of solid embroidery. Background behind copy.

Cover stitched armhole seam: Usually found in knit shirts, refers to the inside armhole seam being serged or finished.

Denier: The weight measurement of filament yarns and fibers. The low numbers represent the finer sizes and the higher numbers, the heavier yarns.

Direct embroidery: The process of sewing a name or design directly to a garment. Double knit: A knit fabric of double thickness.

Double-Needle Stitched: A finish used on a sleeve and/or bottom hem that uses two needles to create parallel rows of visible stitching. It gives the garment a cleaner, more finished look and adds durability.

Drapability: A fabric's ability to hang gracefully in a finished product.

End-on-end: An arrangement of warp yarns with one end of color and one end of white alternatively.

Enzyme washed: A process of washing using organic substances that cause transformation or accelerate the aging of dyes.

Face: Traditionally, the side of a fabric that offers a finished or polished appearance. The face is normally used for outward print and decoration.

Feeder stripe: An 1/8" repeating stripe.

Filament: A fine or thinly spun thread or fiber.

Finish: General term for processes used in converting raw goods into finished cloth. Bleaching, mercerizing, steaming, singeing, and dyeing are typical finishing processes.

FLASH: Used in silk-screening-applying a layer of white ink on a dark garment and quickly drying before applying additional ink colors. Prevents dark garment fibers from degrading the imprint quality.

FOIL (HOT) STAMPING: The process of applying metallic or colored foil imprints with a heated magnesium die to the surface of vinyl or leather. Can be combined with debossing.

Full Cut: Refers to a garment's fit as being generous and roomy.

Garment dyed: Apparel dyed in garment form rather than fabric form. This is a popular fashion treatment used by designers.

Garment washed: After a garment is sewn it is washed to cut down on shrinkage and add softness to the garment.

Gusset: Added panel of fabric in a seam to provide action movement.

Hand: The tactile qualities of a fabric. The way it feels to the touch - soft, firm, elastic, etc.

Herringbone: Broken twill weave giving a zig-zag effect.

Interlock: A plain-stitched knit fabric which looks the same on both sides. Often used for T-shirts and golf shirts.

Jacquard: Woven-in pattern created by a special loom. A raised design or pattern woven into the fabric as opposed to being printed on the fabric.

Jersey knit: A single-knit, plain-stitched fabric with a face side that is markedly different from the back side.

Knits: Fabrics constructed by interlocking a series of loops by hand or machine. Knitted fabrics tend to mold and fit easily to body shape: woven fabrics, in contrast, drape.

Lycra: An elastomeric fiber that is blended with other fibers. Can stretch 500 percent without breaking. Holds dyes well and is resistant to heat. Trademark owned by Du Pont.

Mercerized: A treatment of fine cotton yarn or fabric that increases shine, luster and strength. Its ability to absorb dyes produces vibrant colors.

Nap: A downy surface given to a cloth when part of the fibers are raised from the basic structure and brushed.

Neck tape: Protective band of tape sewn over the seam between the shell and the collar for a more comfortable feel to the garment.

Non-woven fabrics: Materials that are produced by interlocking or bonding fabrics together.

Ottoman knit: A horizontal raised rib textured knit.

Oxford weave: A group of cotton or man-made fabrics made with a modified plain weave or basket weave. Mainly used as shirting material.

PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM™ (PMS): An internationally recognized numerical standard of color matching artwork for reproduction on an item.

Peach wash finish: A "peach fuzz" like finish applied to washed poplin with a light nap for a soft, supple feel.

Pigment dye: Washed down colors that will continue to soften and age with washing. Great for outdoor and casual looks.

Pile fabric: Fabric with cut fibers or uncut loops which stand up densely on the surface. Usually has a plush feel (i.e., bath towel, velvet).

Pique: Knit fabric with raised lengthwise "cords" which are part of the weave. Plain weave: The basic criss-cross method of weaving cloth.

Ply: The number of single yarns twisted together to form ply yarn; also the number of ply yarns twisted together to form cord. By twisting two or more yarns together, a stronger single yarn is created.

Poplin: A blend of cotton and polyester (bi-blend) in a poplin weave.

Printed fabric: A fabric with a pattern printed on it with an ink or dye.

Raglan sleeves: Sleeves are all one piece from collar to cuff, allowing for ease of movement.

Reactive printed fabric: A fabric printed with a reactive dye that promotes colorfastness.

Recovery: The capacity of a fabric to return to its original dimensions after being stretched out of shape.

REGISTRATION: The distance required between elements of artwork to produce a high-quality imprint.

RESOLUTION: Term used when discussing requirements for specific imprint/art methods. Generally involves required "lines per inch" or "dots per inch" to produce the specified end result or quality of appearance.

Rib Knit: A textured knit that has the appearance of vertical lines. It is highly elastic and retains "memory".

Ring Spun Yarn: Yarn made by continuously twisting and thinning a rope of cotton fibers. The twisting makes the short hairs of cotton stand out, resulting in a stronger yarn with a significantly softer hand.

Ripstop nylon: Nylon taffeta with double yarns creating the box pattern to provide extra strength and resistance to tearing.

Running stitch: Sequential stitching which runs in a single direction.

Sand wash: The process of washing fabric or a garment with sand to soften and distress the look of the fabric.

Seam sealing: A process in which the stitch line of a garment is made leak proof by the application of seam tape or seam-sealing glue.

Set-in sleeve: Sleeves constructed to run from the shoulder to the cuff.

Sheeting, cotton: Plain weave cotton.

Shrinkage: Terms refers to the amount of size reduction in a 100% cotton item. Most 100% items have been pre-shrunk and no more than a 4-5% shrinkage should be expected.

Silicone washed: A process of washing using silicones that increase softness.

Space dye: A yarn dyeing process of which one strand received one color at irregular intervals. Produces an effect of unorganization.

Stitch count: Accumulated total of stitches required to complete and embroidery design.

Stone wash: The process of washing fabric or a garment with stone to soften and distress the look of the fabric.

Taffetta: Basic plain weave that is crisp and smooth on both sides, usually with a sheen. Warp and filling approximately of the same count. May be plain, printed, striped, checked, plaid, or antique with uneven threads.

Taped Seams: A strip of fabric sewn to the seam of a garment to prevent distortion. In outerwear, taped seams aid in waterproofing.

Texturing: To achieve a matte, cotton-like texture, a jet of air is blown on a fiber to give it a rough, non-reflective surface. Textured fibers offer greater bulk and airiness to a fabric without increasing its weight.

TINT: The percentage of a color used in an imprint area. I.E. a 50% halftone is produced by applying 50 dots per inch to the imprint area, leaving the remaining 50% without ink. Sometimes referred to as "ghosting" an imprint.

Twill: A fabric whose weave is made up of 2 or 3 warp yarns or threads to every one weft. Weave with diagonal ribs and large number of variations. Diagonals may be set at sharp or blunt angles, may be embedded or raised. Important types are flannels, serges, gabardines, and surahs.

Warp: Lengthwise yarns found in all woven fabrics. The warp is stronger and denser than the weft (crosswise) yarns.

Weft: The horizontal (crosswise) threads that intersect the warp (lengthwise) threads in a woven fabric.

Weight: Usually measured in ounces per yard.

Welt: A welt is a pocket opening treatment. The welt is a cut and sewn piece of fabric that is used to finish the pocket opening.

Yarn dyed: A fabric such as plaid, check or strip where the color is in the dyed threads or yarns before weaving or knitting cloth, as opposed to the color being printed on the fabric after being woven.