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Nachos, Muchachos!

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:43:26 -0700

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Strides On Serene Waters

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:55:28 -0700

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Satellites

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:17:21 -0800

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Sunshines, Sunshines!

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:40 -0800

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Here’s to the blooming of a new era! Here’s to the building of bigger dreams!

Word and Java

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:10:49 -0800

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I can’t connect to those times anymore when work used to seem too long and breaks used to seem so short. Change has happened so much to life and my mind that I have officially become a so-called ‘boring’ person. Not sure if I’m still a cool dude to hang out with, but there’s no denying that nowadays hours of work leave me asking for more and breaks leave me anxious for the jumpstart of something new!

A cuppa joe n’ I’m ready to go!

Not Where I Belong

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:35:33 -0800

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Lately I have spent a lot of time contemplating many ideas – academically, career-wise and otherwise. Self-discovery being a continuous lifelong process, a good chunk of it has happened to me within the last few months; and it has only left me more confident and ascertained about my role in my own life and those of the others around me. It has left me with the understanding of who I am and want to be, where I belong and where I don’t.

Air Ballet

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:17:09 -0800

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So ends twenty-twelve and begins twenty-thirteen. I have never been much excited about the New Year celebrations. It is nevertheless the marking of a new era, a new beginning and a new set of twelve months that can bring twelve hundred changes to our lives.

Today I feel liberated, strengthened and inspired. Last year has been the most eventful and happening year for me. It has changed the way I want to live, has established the image of how I want to see myself and has given me beautiful memories that are too many to count. It’s been the year of purging trash and starting with a clean slate. It’s been a year of re-prioritizing my objectives in life and learning the paths I’ll need to take to actualize them.

January 1, 2013 feels pretty fresh and promising, and I feel ready for what life seems to have to throw at me. May Allah bless!

Turn & Slide

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:14:48 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

No complains when life takes a last-moment turn but the road is smoother than you could ask for …

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View From A Taxi

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:20:38 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

I didn’t notice how the last four years have passed. It went by so fast that it leaves me feeling like it all happened in a heartbeat, and I have the best and brightest moments of them all engraved on my mind. I have just been done with my undergrad, and looking back, every year was better than it’s previous.

I have not been into photography in the later years as much as I was during the beginning. It’s changing though, slowly :)

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Felicity Express

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:55:02 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

I’m very close to the end of my undergraduate years, only about a week away, and this photograph echoes what I’m feeling inside. Have to wait a few weeks to get the chance to literally jump around like that, though. It’s been such a great phase of my life, and it only got better with time. The last two years, (more precisely, the last four trimesters) were the very best and in many ways defined who I am and who I want to be.

Just waiting for the moment to ride my own felicity express is a joy in itself. Waiting has hardly been sweeter!

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Minding One's Business

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:38:59 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

This photograph was taken almost two years back, from inside a train. It’s one of those shots which don’t carry much weight but always make me think. This man was totally lost in his own world, entirely oblivious of his surroundings.

The power of these pieces of paper, and our continuous pursuit of them …

Lazy Sea Hours

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:33:21 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

Contrary to how things should be, I have chosen my sub-optimal option of spending several lazy hours like this man on the boat. Sometimes you need a breather even when not much is going on, more for your mind rather than your body. Right now, I'm just breathing in and breathing out. And, as it has been for the last couple of months, I'm craving for a break. A big one!

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Lost, Almost

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:42:03 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

This is a photograph from my Barisal trip in 2010. Life was way simpler back then. I was still a newbie in university, warming up with everything. I hardly had much to worry about and I felt like I could do so much in a day. And now, it's just deadlines, responsibilities and rush. I've got less than a month to complete two research projects and more importantly, to decide where I go next.

But right now, all I wanna do is get the hell out of it all and forget everything. No, I don't wanna go back to the simpler times. I just wanna get lost, only for a while ...

Urban Sundown

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:39:15 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

I have a terrible sleeping routine and I was thinking the other day how I haven't seen a sunrise in a really long time. But for that matter, I haven't really seen that many sunrises in my entire life.

Sunsets I have enjoyed hundreds, and turns out, life's become too busy to keep aside some time for watching sunsets. Heck .. the kind of sunset that I'll get to see here in the city does the sun no justice. There's barely any "horizon" here. Still, at least I used to be able to get on a rooftop almost every afternoon and watch the daylight die out. I miss those times.

I wouldn't go back in those times though. I've never been the kind who wants to go back in time. I like how life unfolds. I find it intriguing and adventurous, whichever direction it takes. When those days come, if they do, when I'll see a sunrise and a sunset in the very same day, it'll be the same sunrise, and the same sunset, and the same sun. Only I will have become a more evolved version of myself.

Blurry Sense Of Magnitude

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:54:41 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

Haven’t we all faced the sheer impossibility of making words illustrate the simplest feelings or the deepest emotions? Isn’t our inability to measure the depths of these feelings very beautifully intriguing? We try, through art and literature, through smiles and tears, and yet can never truly express exactly how much we feel – how much we hope, wish, believe, detest, regret, hate or love.

The desperation to show and the restlessness to see human emotions often create unexplainable magical feelings in our minds. It’s probably the blurry sense of magnitude which makes love, faith and even pain so strangely beautiful.

She's Too Scared To Come Out

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:28:26 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

She looks out and she sees an ugly world, its rotten realities, its chaos and pretense. She doesn't see another soul worthy of her truth, doesn't spot a single one who will keep their judgments to themselves.

She's fine in her little world, where she has the freedom to believe dreams are just as real as reality. She's too scared to come out, and she will remain, until the clouds of the contaminated world will surround her too.

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আমার একটুখানি আকাশ অনেক নীল

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:35:03 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

যান্ত্রিক জীবনের ঘূর্ণায়মান চাকার ভেতর আটকা পড়া আমার আকাশটা খুব বেশি বড় না। ব্যাস্ত দিনগুলোর প্রতিদিনই মনে পড়ে সেই সুন্দর মুক্ত সময়গুলোর কথা, যখন সবকিছু ভুলে হারিয়ে যেতে পেরেছিলাম সাগর, পাহাড় আর আকাশের বিশালতার মাঝে।

মানবসৃষ্ট আকাশছোঁয়া ইটের দালানগুলোর ফাঁকে ফাঁকে একটু একটু করে আকাশ দেখা যায়। আবার হারিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় আসা পর্যন্ত, এতটুকুই আমার আকাশ।

কল্পনার তুলির সামান্য ছোঁয়ায়, আমার একটুখানি আকাশ অনেক নীল। :)

Catching Up With The Kids

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:41:45 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

I remember those times when I was quite young, me and my little sister used to wait for Abbu to come home so that we can give him a summary of all the happenings of the day. Well, my sister would always get the spotlight naturally, and I was always the silent one around Abbu. We always shared a deep bond but we rarely expressed ourselves to each other.

This photograph reminds me of all those magical times of my childhood. Abbu and I have both become a lot busier. The change has more to do with my growing up. Now, there's no more daily update meetings. We only talk plans, politics and have father-son consultation sessions.

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My New Nerdy Pair's Red Carpet Event

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:42:27 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

I have an affinity towards photographs of glasses.
I wear them, I change them often, I broke quite a good number of them and I own multiple pairs of them. I dunno if this makes me sound like a half-blind guy but I almost don't need the glasses (the compensation is only -0.25 units).
But quite likely, there will be more photos to come of them :-P

Mr. Misadventure

nobody@flickr.com (Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:42:27 -0800

Mutasim Billah | প্রীতম posted a photo:

The guy in red started to climb a tree and then he got stuck and couldn't get down.
The two other guys below are part of the rescue team.

True story.

Location: Lawachara National Park, Sylhet, Bangladesh.