Let's be clear: these are not my tabs. I found them online and I thought it'd be a shame to lose them. So without a second thought, I'm posting it on my website...

Intro : Plucking

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              Repeat this 4 times


Verse 1

     Tomar jonno prithibi aj niechey biday,
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     Tobu tomar tukro chayay,
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     Dubey achey koto mithye agun ondhokarmoy,
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     Koto smriti koto shomoy.
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     Tomar jonno prithibite ajke chutir rode,
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     Nijer majhey tomay khoja,
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     Akash niley takiey thaka.
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                         (Music : Keyboard)


Plucking(during Keys)

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             Twice during the keys.

Verse 2

     Tomar jonno prithibi aj niechey biday,
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     Meghacchonno basto Dhakay,
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     Manush gulo shunno chokhey dukkho didhay,
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     Akash paney takay.
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     Tomar jonno prithibitey themey jay shomoy,
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     Amar dehe ratri namay,
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     Mithye agun ondhokarmoy.
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Bridge 1


   E             G
Virer majhey abar virey,
   E             G
Amar shorir meshey kolaholey,
   B               C       D       G
Dukkho bhuley mishey jai mukhosh srotey.
   E             G
Onek durer akla pothey,
   E             G
Klanto ami firi tomar kachey,
   B             C         D       G
Mukhosh khuley boshey roi janla dhorey.

   C         D     G       B     E
Amar gaaner shobdo shurer ontoraley,
   C      D       G
Tomay aki kanna chepey,
   C      D       G
Mohakaler klanto pothey.



Verse 3

     Tomar jonno brishti jhorey amar lekhay,
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     Alor moton mithye chayay,
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     Pathor hoye ghure morey amar hridoy,
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     Koto smriti koto mithye voy.
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     Tomar jonno golar vetor atkey thake krodh,
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     Amar chokhey smritir ghola jol,
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     Nirjonotay tomar kolahol.
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Bridge 2


   E              G
Tomar na thaka ostitto,
   E              G
Roye gechey amar nishwashey,
   B           C       D         G
Fele asha ai pothey dujonei akshathey.


   C             D     G         B      E
Amar obosh anbhutir deyal jurey koto shomoy,
   C        D     E
Hete eshey amra dujon,
   C        D          G
Hariechi poth kothay kokhon.


 G   B   E       C      D     G  B  E     C    D
Amar   dehey   khujey  firi  tomar     anubhuti,
 G   B   E        C      D       A     D      A    D
Tomar  chokher  durer  akash  mishey thakey rupok hoye.


 C                    D      G      B        E
Tomar jonno bishonno ak nithor hridoy amar vetor,
 C      D     E
Daray shorob aka,
 C              D  G   B   E   C    D  E
Tomar prithibi shorger moton chiro odekha,
 C              D  G   B   E   C    D  G
Tomar prithibi shorger moton chiro odekha.




Last Verse


     Tomar jonno poth harie ojanay,
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     Tobu tomar lekha kothay,
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     Ferey klanto amar olosh shomoy,
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     Koto smriti ondhokarmoy…
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I've always liked seeing people smile. And I always loved making them. There are very few things in this world that can make me as happy as making people smile. I've often gone beyond the normal to do so. It's addictive, it's rewarding and it never has to stop. Whatever makes you smile, it makes me smile too.

Life has not been always a colorful butterfly for anyone. Everybody gets hurt. Everyone has had tears in their eyes. Everyone felt lonely at times. Everyone has felt out of context at times. Everyone has felt helpless at times. Everyone has felt the absence of love from the significant people whether it was really there and not. But in those moments, if you think about such times and smile, it always ease things albeit not set everything right - when you thought you had invented a whole new way to play a music instrument, when you had been told you have a pretty smile, when you saw the hero and the heroine finally get together in almost all hindi films, when you got to purchase that shirt with your preferred price over the tagged price, or when you hugged your parents the last time.

Life is good with a smile. Life is good with tears. Life is better with tears and smiles combined.

DTV transition took place earlier in the mid of this year after a gruesome fight for change of deadlines. Being in the test team and thus, down at the SDLC chain, the change of deadlines had a significant impact on our work load. Nonetheless, both the web team who were responsible for designing and developing the site and the test team did a great job on the successful relaunch of DTV 2.0 and keeping up to its hype even till after the transition, which finally and gracefully* took place on June 12th of this year. Fortunately or unfortunately, I had joined the team at a time of heavy DTV workload nearing the crunch time.
I took the liberty to walk down to the DTV Command Center inside the FCC building and took these pictures there during the time of transition.

* No animals were killed in the process of this transition. The term excludes all server failures.

I was going through this Tilt Shift photography site and found a tutorial on how to do it. So I pulled off a few pictures at my own liberty from my hard drive and tried it out. Check it out.

Here are some pics I took at the Luray Caverns. I added border shades to the images. Everything else is as natural as it comes :-)

Here is an example of times when boredom leads to random productivity. As I was reading up on an article online to show how to take pictures of the moon, I decided to follow the instructions as much as I could and these are some of the pics I got to take. Such are the times when I wish I had an Image Stabilized Lens!

That bit aside, here are some of the pictures.

One of the perks of working where I work is the free tickets I get to special events at the Verizon Center here in the nation's capital. The band whose songs were played in many memorable events in my life, now performed before me live. And the best part of it all is that it was as inexpensive to view as it would've been if I were to watch them on YouTube. Free concerts always sound good. Greenday made it sound even better. They started out with songs from their new album, 21st Century, and later moved on to songs I personally am more familiar with including Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Time of Your Life.

Verizon Center, for some unearthly, stupid and downright ridiculous reason, does not allow anyone to bring cameras to the venue. That's a setback I will never forgive this venue for for the rest of my life. I had to torture myself by realizing I had to depend on my memory to capture these moments instead of the much more dependable CF cards of my camera. Nonetheless, I was able to (or so I think anyway) capture some pics of the place through my cell, ending up pushing it to its limit seemingly effortlessly. So here they are and I hope you guys can make some sense out of these pictures.

I'm putting the famous 3R quote from Captain Planet to yet another use. This time, I'm applying it to my very own website which I had known from 2002 under various domain names and disowned countless times. But this time, I'm sticking to the sufinawaz.com domain name for good. I had been lazy enough to not put it back up after taking it down for several months now. But enough is enough, I said to myself! And along came the idea of importing the feeds from blogspot and picasaweb albums in addition to what I already had, to rebuild this website with minimal effort and yet in most effective ways. True, I had to indulge myself into some coding after what seems to be a zillion years, but must I say, it has been a very satisfying effort indeed. I can now use the tools at blogspot and picasaweb to organize my blogs and photo albums almost effortlessly and with a great amount of flexibility in retrieving and displaying the data too. So most of what you will be seeing here from now on will actually be imported from blogspot and picasaweb.

It took me a decent amount of time to figure the stuff out since it's been a while I've done any coding. So once I get some time, I will upload the PHP codes that you can use to retrieve data from blogspot and picasaweb. And since they are both Google products, you can also take great advantage of having the pictures you upload for your blogs being connected to the picasaweb albums.

So stay tuned, and hopefully I'll have my website up in less than a zillion years from now*.

*Conditions apply unconditionally.