The Penman

Image source: colornote.com Back story I usually forget things quickly and this is why I have to note things down. Sometimes I can’t concentrate on my work because of a lot of thoughts in my brain; I usually think, “I’m gonna forget these important tasks I have to do”; this kind of thinking interferes with my work. This is why I always keep a notepad or use a notepad app on my phone. This helps me stay free of stress and tension. Why is colornote special? I used a lot of other apps on my smartphone to keep notes, but there were problems I couldn’t tolerate. I am listing some apps with their pros and cons. Evernote: A nice app with sync, but heavy (takes much space and ram). The loading time is boring. Contains too many features that I don’t need. Google keep: Almost similar to evernote, but it's also a heavy app. Some other lightweight, small notepad apps: Fast and small, but lack sync feature. Sync feature is essential for me. If I need to restore my phone or change my smartpho

Image source: Youtube Back story "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."-Bill Gates I heard this quote from my brother. I can't explain how much I love it. What is laziness? According to psychmechanics.com, "Laziness is an unwillingness to spend energy. It is an unwillingness to do a task we perceive to be difficult or uncomfortable." When is a person being lazy? / Who is a lazy person? According to psychologytoday.com, "A person is being lazy if he is able to carry out some activity that he ought to carry out, but is disinclined to do so because of the effort involved. Instead, he carries out the activity perfunctorily; or engages in some other, less strenuous or less boring activity; or remains idle." Laziness is usually bad A lazy person does his work lazily and he is often found late in submitting work, hustling in the deadline, etc. This may lead to dissatisfaction with other people around hi

Image source: economictimes.indiatimes.com/ Back story: My mother tongue is Bangla (Sylheti form). My dream is to become a great writer in English. But I was struggling to find a way to write well in English. I used to think to myself, "I am trying so hard, but it's not going well enough." Then finally, I found a way. Alhamdulillah!  Step by step walkthrough: Step 1 : Think in your mother tongue what you want to write,  Step 2 : Create an outline in your language and note them point by point in your mother tongue, Step 3 : Start your writing in the writing language. Think of the sentence in your mother tongue and then just translate it to the other language. You may need to use a dictionary and google translate for the translation because you will produce some perfect and deep words in your mother tongue which may need to be translated into a perfect word of the other language. Step 4 : After finishing your writing, use a grammar and spell checker service. Step 5 : Proofr

Image source: Woman's Day.com The Back story My mother often feels sorry for the fact that feeding the children of our region is very hard. They like junk food very much, but if you try to feed them healthy foods, they will just turn their face back and say "Noooo!!"  On the contrary, the children born to nonnative parents like to eat those very much. I noticed the problem and thought: something must be wrong.  When I discuss that with my mother, she usually explains to me a theory which I call 'The nationalism theory.' It states that all Noakhali (nonnative) children are like that. Our children are 'adilka'. I don't agree with her at all. There must be some mistakes in the child-raising technique of our local parents. The probable causes behind the 'Noooo!' problem: 1. Our local parents are extra caring to their children. When feeding times come, they force their children to eat. But nonnatives don't. So, forcing the children might be the

Image source: ucg.org Dear B, I don’t know how you are in your next life and I don’t know whether Allah has forgiven you. I was very sorry when I heard about your suicide. I didn’t believe it first; I couldn’t even imagine you can suicide. I was shocked after being sure. I later called your mother and talked about you. I hope she is OK now. X, why did you kill yourself? I was informed that it was related to a relationship. My friend, you were a Muslim. As a Muslim, it was not appropriate for you to kill yourself because of a prohibited relationship with a girl. Allah has sent us in this life only to worship him alone. Our lives belong to Him only. That’s why we say ‘Inna lillah’ when someone dies. The sentence ‘Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rojiun’ means ‘Verily we are for Allah and to Him we will return.’ Our life, death, love, aspiration, everything is for Allah alone. After knowing all these, how could you sacrifice yourself for someone else? I assume you were too excited to think abo

  Image source: The Financial Express The whole world is under threat of the coronavirus. The virus has reached the best of nations, to the most advanced of all the advanceds. But have we thought of any positive effect of this pandemic? Probably most will answer no. I will talk about one particular positive effect of the pandemic. The virus has spread a disease, the disease has caused a lockdown, and the lockdown has given us a long time with our family, at our home. In my country, Bangladesh, the people live outside their hometown fall into either of these groups: Students studying in colleges or universities, Workers of industries and garments, Employees of public and private organizations, Other people working outside their homes Among all these people, the people of groups 1,2 & 4 are most likely enjoying their time at home. The reason behind this is that they usually stay out of their home for their jobs or education, often leaving all their family members at home. In this loc

Image source: Dreamstime.com Pressure on hardbooks and libraries has lessened to a great extent nowadays because of the widespread use of E-books and videos as tools for learning; thus, learning has become easier. But the problem is learning on a digital screen is harmful to our eyes and overall health. Here are 10 tips for you if you want to lessen the extent of the harm digital screen causes. 1. Choose a big screen size: the bigger the better A big screen makes your reading and watching a lot easier than small screens. So, try to buy a device with a screen as big as possible and affordable. 2. Choose right display type: the cheapest the worst The more expensive a device is, the best display it uses. But you must be sure by looking at the detailed specification. AMOLED displays are best and TN displays are worst. IPS display is good enough for both smartphones and laptops. 3. Prefer high contrast ratio: the higher the better The contrast ratio (CR) is a property of a display system w