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Assalamualaikum (May PEACE be upon you)

This is Adnan Firoze from Bangladesh. I'm a senior at college and have completed my Computer Science and Engineering major and finishing my minor in English Linguistics this semester and hope to graduate this December.

Life has been kind to me in every possible way - from academics to family. I have a nice home, two doctors as both of my parents and an extraordinary sister.

And my interests lie in music (I play the drums), mathematics, diplomacy, diversity of cultures and anything related to "peace" (which ever way you perceive that is up to your interpretation).

Someday, I wish to work higher up at UNICEF or "Save The Children" cause I want to make a difference by contributing by playing a pioneering role in making a world without "hungry children." The dream is to find food and shelter for children and not to find any hungry children - not here in Bangladesh, not in Somalia, not ANYWHERE. I have started my first step by sponsoring a school student for her education in rural Bangladesh through the Serve-BD Society ( http://www.serve-bd.org ).

That should tell my story.

Regards

• The Slumdog Entrepreneur

  By Adnan Firoze on December 12, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  [Originally I wrote it for Dhaka Courier] The Journey from Mojammel to ‘Mojo Mama’ Let’s face it, people don’t turn into millionaires overnight as depicted in the Bollywood-esque Hollywood movies (and one of them even ended up winning the best… Read More ›

• Admission Woes – 2012: Medical Colleges in Bangladesh Prescribe Decapitation for Headache

  By Adnan Firoze on August 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Adnan Firoze Official link: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=7557 It is that time of the year again – the time when all hell will break loose in the war for undergraduate admissions in well reputed universities across the country. Tons have been written… Read More ›

• “Ramadan Mubarak” says Colonel Sanders

  By Adnan Firoze on July 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Official link: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6946 No one says “Ramadan Mubarak” better than Colonel Sanders. As the holy month closes in and before the writer gets his nerves slit by fundamentalists, Adnan Firoze writes. Allah’s apostle (pbuh) would be extremely agitated while us… Read More ›

• Library and Formal Education: Friends or Foes?

  By Adnan Firoze on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Original Article: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=5630 In 1912, Promoth Choudhury – the acclaimed writer, critic and close acquaintance of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore said, “Libraries are more important to the education system than the institutions such as schools, colleges and universities.” Many contemporary… Read More ›

• Walton Primo NX Handset – User Experience and Review [VIDEO]

  By Adnan Firoze on May 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Walton is no Apple or Samsung but finally a Bangladeshi brand has posed a formidable place in the smartphone arena. The Walton line of smartphones use the same technology used in the brands that are better known; however they do… Read More ›

• Dhaka+20: Bangladeshi youths draft UN resolution

  By Adnan Firoze on May 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Original/Official URL: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6122 Dhaka witnessed the most solemn youth summit in regards to diplomacy and sustainable development on the May 11 and 12, 2012, through Dhaka+20 Model United Nations Conference. Being above par of regular youth conventions, it did not… Read More ›

• Sights and Sounds of Barisal

  By Adnan Firoze on May 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  After a hiatus of several years, last Saturday (May 4, 2013), I hopped on a ‘ship’ that we call ‘launch’ named “Sundarban-5” at Shadar Ghaat, Dhaka and headed off to Barisal to drop my sister at her medical school. Not… Read More ›

• Gadgets for Artists in Bangladesh

  By Adnan Firoze on September 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Official Link (where the ‘Staff Writer’ was me): http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=7812 Not that the days of the easel and the oil paints are over, a new dimension has certainly come into existence in the art world. With the advent of technology and… Read More ›

• Social Media bids farewell to FOUR ‘Armstrong’s

  By Adnan Firoze on September 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Adnan Firoze The unthinkable has happened! The passing of the first man on the moon – the great Neil Armstrong on August 25, 2012 (at the age of 82) is not necessarily unthinkable. The hero who inspired generations was… Read More ›

• The Noise of Music: A Prose to the Guru

  By Adnan Firoze on June 9, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Official Link: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6377 No! I am not among those who relegate contemporary music as harsh noise and celebrate the bygone era of Eric Clapton, Runa Laila or J.S. Bach. I love heavy metal music while I enjoy the occasional subtleties… Read More ›