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COPYRIGHT ©
1998-2006
Shahidul Alam
Accidentally retired Master Mariner.
The following picture was taken by my web cam on 6-Aug-2002.
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 About Me
Short Introduction & Timeline
I was
working on Sea going ships as a Marine Officer. But at
the age of 30, suddenly one accident took my ability to
move from chest to below. I last worked as a Chief
Officer. I passed my Master Mariner in the UK. I am now
43, but still surviving...
Operating Computer by means of a wooden
splint in my hand. A Pencil fitted on the splint does the
job of a finger. Do I really get fed up at times ?
Many people keeps on wondering about
this. How do I pass my time ?
Truly speaking, I sit on the
Wheelchair at about 2 pm. and then how time passes I
don't know myself. I get down on bed again at just 10 pm.
In between at times I take break for prayers, tea, coffee
etc. And rest of the times my eyes are stuck on the
Monitor.
I don't know, how it keeps me
busy. But it really does !
My Time Line :
| 1962 |
| I was born in a small town named Rangpur in Bangladesh on 29th October. |
| 1963-68 |
| Childhood in Dhaka then in East Pakistan. |
| 1968-71 |
| Started going to primary schools in Mauripur, Karachi, Pakistan. |
| 1971-74 |
| Liberation war started. We were still in
Pakistan. Whole Bangladeshi community who were in Air
Force of Pakistan were forced to stay in a small camp
named Warsak in Peshawar. It was a confined space. So, we
were mad to come out to the free country named
Bangladesh. |
| 1974-80 |
| Repatriated back to Bangladesh. Spent my teen
years in the college named Momenshahi/Mirzapur Cadet
College. I completed my SSC and HSC in that college. |
| 1980-82 |
| Started getting trained for a carrier as a
Marine Officer at Juldia Marine Academy in Chittagong. |
| 1982-93 |
| Worked in various sea going ships in different
posts or capacity. |
| 1988 |
| Got Married after 1 year of love affair on 18th
May. |
| 1993 |
| An accident took place in the month of 26th May.
While diving in a swimming pool I became paralysed from
chest to down. |
| 1993- 2004 |
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I was engaged in doing almost nothing. But then I took interest in computers, from the second
year of my injury. This ordinary 486 computer, with a monochrome monitor was bought by my Marine Academy batch mates of 17th
batch, my good buddies. This ordinary PC was very costly then.
I spent 1st few months in playing games. I learnt my 1st DOS command "DIR" from my younger brother. But then I quickly started picking up everything. I learnt DOS, then win 3.1.
I thought that, I should teach youngsters. So, I opened a school in my small room to teach
some basics, DOS and software such as - Lotus, Word
Perfect, Dbase - then later on Windows 95, Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel, FoxPro etc. I continued teaching
students from the neighbourhood three years from then.
After teaching about less then 100 students, I lost
interest in teaching.
But, one good thing happened, I have grown very good computer skills.
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| 2005- onwards |
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2005 had been a great year for me. Marine Community all around world raised a fund guided by Capt. S. M. Abdullah. They bought me a power (electric) wheelchair (See the photos here). This chair brought a sharp change in my lifestyle.
So far I had been jailed inside my small room. This power chair accelerated my mobility to go outside and see the busy city. I am doing most of my shopping by myself, going to park, restaurants etc. I know, I have least possibility to regain my sensation, but going outside by my own by pressing a joy stick reduced my frustration by a significant amount.
I still pass my most of the times with computers. Now I have Pentium IV PC with 17" color monitor, scanner, webcam, printer, Broad Band modem with 24/7 Internet connection. I try to do small programming by means of Visual Basic version 6. Please try my Bangla software by me in this link - Although still it is in it's early stage.
http://www.banglapad.com
At present, I am learning PHP and MySQL for web application.
Otherwise, I watch TV and for nothing remain busy with
Internet etc.
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