[greater_noakhali] Fw: 21st inspiration for us (Some Bangladeshi Computer Science Students from Melbourne)

Subject:  21st inspiration for us (Some Bangladeshi Computer Science Students from Melbourne)

Hi Everyone

This is Mohammed Jubaer Arif, a phd student at the
Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. I
am in my second year of phd candidature. On my first
year, I have been working hard and fast only with my
study. Then I realized I have more to give to the
community, to my university and on top of everything
to my beloved country Bangladesh.. Thus, I involved
myself with different clubs in out university and
recently I have been elected as President of our
department's postgraduate student body. You may like
to have a look at our group :
http://www.cs. mu.oz.au/ pgrad/index. html

As the subject line suggests, the first point is, in
our department we have 14 phd students, boys and
girls, from Bangladesh out of total 50 phd students.
All of us work hard and spent most of our day into our
lab. Even in our busy schedule we never forget our
beloved country Bangladesh. Thus, whenever we confront
an opportunity to promote our country we take some
time out of our busy schedule. I would like to mention
about few points regarding that and the first one is
Festival of Nation at our university.

Festival of Nation, is a yearly program organized by
our university for people from different culture. This
year it was around August and as usual we took the
opportunity to show our love to Bangladesh. We came
out with a Bangladeshi food stall. Our food was loved
by so many people that we finished all our food on the
first day of two day long program. Another interesting
point is, we were doing this while students of Dhaka
University were shamelessly fighting with our pride
The Army of Bangladesh. It was so painful from our
part, mainly because even under being so much work
load we try our best in the foreign lands to take our
country upwards and whereas in our own country the
scenario is different. With this little effort what we
made sure is, our flag was flying at our university as
high as two super power of the world Israel and U.S.A.
Please have a look at the attached file.

Secondly, another story from our little Bangladesh
here in Melbourne. From our club we have arranged a
chess competition recently. Our competition was
supported by former woman world NO. 1 chess player
Alexandra Kosteniuk (http://www.kosteniu k.com/). You
can have a look at her website where she was so kind
to put up a news of our competition. In this very
competitive competition Bangladesh got both 1st and
3rd prize. On top of that, Mr. Abdun the first prize
winner won last three years in a row.

Finally and most importantly, the reason I am writing
to you all is regarding our pride, our dignity 21st of
February. Yes, you all know it is now International
Mother Language Day. This year we will celebrate this
event in our department with more flavors and from
here on it will be a yearly event from our group and
from the Language Technology research group of our
department. I have been working to make it official
for last one month. Finally we are there and I am so
happy that, I had to share it with you. We never
forgot 21st, we will never forget it.

To the students, always have this believe that we are
young, we are unbeatable and we are strong TOGETHER.
We can reach to our aim by simple steps one at a time..
I am not claiming with the 21st February being an
official event at our department we have achieved a
lot but surely we are proud that every year, doesn't
matter we are here in the department or not, yearly at
least for one day people will utter the name
Bangladesh.

Thanks to the Language Technology Research Group of
our department and to our university.

Bangladeshi students all over the world please
encourage yourself to work with this idea at your own
university.. You can encourage your Language Technology
Group of your respective universities and make people
heard the name Bangladesh. Let's don't fight at the
street of Dhaka University, let's put all of our
strength and courage together and let the people heard
our voice, let them know we are coming up.

If sharing these simple stories help even a single
mind, can encourage another soul to put some efforts
for our beloved Bangladesh, we will be proud of our
efforts. Please forward my message to all those
beautiful souls, those are ready to flourish.

We have created a small Bangladeshi students group
here in the department and group's main message is "We
Love You Bangladesh, We Will Never Let You Go Down."

Oh! Yes before I end, I should mention, we are also
working hard with our research and study. The person,
so far, from Bangladesh at our department who
completed his phd joined our university as research
fellow here in Melbourne.

I am coming home after 2 long years on 6th of
February, 2008. Looking forward to share our stories
to the students.

Regards
Arif.

With regards

Mohammed Jubaer Arif

Mobile: +61-0411215302
Personal Web: http://www.geocitie s.com/jubairarif ctg/
Org. Web.: http://www.geocitie s.com/halimscham ber/

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[greater_noakhali] Fw: Info for who want to go abroad

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Subject: Info for who want to go abroad

1. Even Russia is now getting Foreign Workers, who enter illegally without any visa but mostly they are Chinese. About 150,000 Chinese in 2007 but they were just half of total Foreign Workers. (Average Russian earns $ 1,000 a month but Medical Treatment is free, Education up to Ph. D. Level is free, Housing is free or subsidized by the govt., elaborate modern Transportation system is subsidized by govt., Electric, Gas and Water Bills is low and besides all this Russia is 4th in the list of the countries that this world owes money to after Japan, China and Germany). Hardly any Pakistanis are going to Russia looking for a job presently. Learning Russian before going there is very important though they teach in their Colleges in English also. Tens of thousands of Indians have been graduated from from their Medical to Space Technology Universities in last 3 decades.

 

2. Canadian Parliament wants more and more Immigrants and Canada keeps failing to fill the quota every year because not enough apply for Immigration or fail to qualify. (Canadian Per Capita Income is higher than USA but Pakistanis and others don't know this. In Canada, you don't go broke like in USA if you get ill by some serious disease that requires operation etc becuase Canada has Socialized Medicine Program in place for who can not afford). You can get Immigration Application from Canadian Embassy and learn, how best to qualify for Immigration. It gives you extra consideratiion if you learn French Language, aren't too old and have a skill that is needed in Canada. After compiling all the documents and submitting the application it takes 2 years to get Canadian Immigration even if you have a wife and children. Your children would qualify for free schooling because its free in Canada.

 

3. Getting a Visitor Visa to UAE costs money (in Pakistan about Rs. 20,000) and when you reach there and establish a job promise, you have to come back to Bangladesh to re-apply for 2 year Temporarily Immigration Permit. Normally in Job offers that ordinary illiterate person or even in most cases even a College graduate gets are around more than twice or thrice the Skilled Labor makes in Bangladesh. There's no problem with getting job offers in this country. Though there are too many Punjabis in UAE, they do not beat-up Bangladeshis and Bangla get together and share their government-provided Air-conditioned flats with each other. Urdu Speaking Paksitanis or Mohajirs are 2nd largest there and they love Bangla or have no prejudice against them because they think, Bangla were victims of Punjabis as they have been in Pakistan.

 

4. Getting a Visitor Visa to any EU Countries is very hard just like getting visa of USA. Brunie, Japan etc. They want to know, how much Income Tax you paid, how much property you own etc and issue Visas to people, who they think, would not stay seeking Immigration. Only Royalties or super rich get their Visitor Visas. People try to land in these countries by other strange means.

 

5. Entering in EU countries is risky business but its happening everyday and thousands are making it everyday. Some even die because of recklessness of the Smugglers, who don't give a damn about their lives after they have gotten the money. Though nobody is shooting them for swimming to their shores, a lot of people die before swimming ashore. The Smugglers pick you up in Turkey, some part of former Yugoslavia, Albania or from some country of North Africa.

 

6. Greece, an almost Communist country keeps granting legalization of Illegal Immigrants. Standard of Living of Greece is not that bad. You are already in God's Paradise there compared to your life in Bangladesh. When you try to learn Greek Language you find that some of Greek Words mean the same or almost same as in your language somehow though those words are part of ancient Bangla or had creeped in to Bangla from Urdu or Hindi. The Problem or good news is, that once upon a time or around 4500 B.C. we spoke Aryan Language with regional accents from Greece to Bangladesh.

 

7.  Italy is a Socialist Country and permits Immigrants but not as much as Greeks do. Learning Italian is essential or you are doomed.

 

8.  Southern France has mixed population of people of ancient north Africans, who were later described as Arabs and some real later Arabs. You find a lot more people there with Black Hair than in northern Italy. Its hard to land there illegally thru smugglers but if you have somehow, its not so easy to get yourself legalized for having a job unless you are applying for Political Asylum.

 

9.  From Morroco its not far enough to float in to a shore of Spain but the same problem. They don't want you and Standard of Livinig there is not that great compared to rest of the Europe.

 

10. British Navy makes sure of it that Human Smugglers do not succeed in dropping-off anybody at a British Shore. U.K. arrests hundreds of people on fake visas on her airports than on her shores.

 

11. Mexico used to issue Visas to anybody in the old days but she has stopped doing that because of USA's orders to not grant visas to people of poor countries unless sure that they would not be later crossing US-Mexican Border.

 

12. Since Mexico doesn't issue Tourist Visas to non-rich of poor countries, they get visa to Dominican Repbulic in Carribean or some country of West Indies. There are Americans, who would fly them to USA for a good amount of money from there to USA or Smugglers would sail them to Mexico so they could enter USA like all Mexicans do from US-Mexican Border.

 

13. In 2006, more than 1300 Non Mexicans were arrested by the Border Petrol of USA, which is just 1/10th of number of people, who got through illegally since US Border Petrol doesn't have enough Man Power thanks to Capitalist running USA.

 

14. Off 1300 caught by US Immigration Petrol, half were Pakistanis. Not one Bangladeshi, which explains, who backwards are Bangle on how to Emigrate to USA. If there was an Nobel Prize for one of the poorest countries of the world on this, Bangladesh would have won it hands down because information network for our poor Bangla is doesn't provide much info.

 

15. If you go to Singapore (with same Standrd of Living as Europeans) on Tourrist Visa, there are not much restrictions and if you hang-out on out-posts from where the Emergency Manual Labor are sought from by factories, you could be hired for good and may qualify for Singapore Nationality later but how many Bangla know this?

 

16. Pakistanis have been in Malayasia for last 2 decades becuse they could send money to to their parents or their wives after finding a job there. How many Bangla have done the same?

 

17. Australia has an Immigratation Policy similar to that of Canada and Pakistanis have taken advantage of that for more than last 2 decades. How many Bangla have done the same?  

 

18. You can find Pakistanis even in Panama, Argentina and so many other countries that you don't know if even countries with such names exist in the world. Is there any Bangla in such countries?    

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