Travel Diary

My Second Home. I am very very proud to be an AITian. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is in my heart. We made a holiday trip for two weeks in Bangkok. AIT is the place where I always love to come. The trip was memorable as my wife had to extract her teeth at Bangkok Hospital. We stayed two days in ST2, then we moved to Arefin's house. It was a homely stay with them. My son became a fan of Arefin's wife 'Runie'.

Amazed to see a huge airport which is designed with Chinese culture. Coming out from the plane, I felt a shiver with the temperature about 6 degrees Celsius. The long Great Wall is a real wonder. Enjoyed the spectacular design of the Bird's Nest stadium and the swimming pool.

Presented a paper in EASEC-11 held in Taiwan. Climbed the tallest building Taipei 101 (till then). Enjoyed the company and food with my mentor. Got a chance to attend a party with Taiwanese friends in a restaurant which they call 'Eat till die'. Grateful to Nick for everything he did for me.

We went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a conference 'Public-Private Partnership in Development' in Jan 2009. I presented one of my papers there. We visited Putrajaya and stayed close to the Petronas Twin Towers. It was a four-day trip. Armaan enjoyed swimming in the hotel and Juena enjoyed shopping at SOGO Center. I enjoyed the food, actually we all did. We enjoyed the company of Mr. Rahman, who took us to Putrajaya, Hokkaido Sea food restaurant and Lala Thai food restaurant. I have never had such delicious sea food in my life! Both the conference and the tour were successful, we decided to make more trips in Malaysia.

I went to Hong Kong to present a paper in the 2nd International Postgraduate Conference on Infrastructure and Environment. I was perplexed with the natural beauty of HK. I got a great feeling watching the ocean through the window while the plane was landing... This must be the place for civil engineers: long cable-hanging bridges, tunnels, high-rise buildings, seaports, MTR and cable cars. I also liked the Hong Kong PolyU. Mr. Bose was my travel partner on this trip. I liked Hong Kong, a nice place to spend holidays.

We, a team of seven members, went to Korea on June 12, 2018. It was an official trip from the Ministry of Science and Technology to see the feasibility, specifications and quality of planetariums in Seoul, Korea. There, we visited almost all the planetariums, science museums and observatory centers. It was a knowledge sharing and information gathering trip for us (Technical Committee for Novo-theatres, Bangladesh) as the Government of Bangladesh is planning to set up 8 more Novo-theatres in major districts of Bangladesh with an objective to promote science education among the young generation and thus to build a science-minded nation.