hello people. This is day 61 of lockdown from Los Angeles and this is the first
time in my adult life that I've gone 61 days without shaving my facial hair. So
I'm on my rooftop right now and my lease in LA is about to expire
so in the next couple of hours I'm moving to Hawaii
Okay so I just got to my hotel room here in Waikiki and this is where I'll be
staying for the next fourteen days and I'm not allowed to leave this room and
there's nothing really wrong with this place but this is way way smaller than
it looked like in the pictures, but I mean look at these pictures now look at this
place. This is what I get for picking the cheapest hotel room in the state of
Hawaii with a microwave. I do have a fridge. I do have a stove where I can cook
stuff. Foes come with Silverware. I have a view to the streets I guess. I have
this ancient telephone I don't think I have seen these things for like 20 years. I
don't think this place is bad, it's just smaller than I expected and now I am
trapped in his hotel room because I can't leave without getting this five
thousand dollar fine or potentially getting arrested because of these rules
that Hawaii has placed on visitors coming into the state. So the question is
what am I doing here? As I said earlier in the video my lease was about to
expire in LA and my options were to move to a new place in LA because the one
place I was staying at was way too expensive given my half-pay over this
summer or I could have just moved to Hawaii. So I decided I don't want to be
stuck buy myself an apartment again in LA for two months in the middle of the
city because that can get pretty depressing and I figured I'd just come
here because this is also the safest state in the u.s. right now. I also
figured that doing this whole 14-day quarantine and a room thing could be a
very interesting experience and it would be fun to document, so this is not gonna
be like any of my other travel videos because I'm not really gonna travel. I'm
gonna be right here for the rest of the video but I think I'll figure out a way
to make this interesting.
Good morning people it's day 2 of quarantine in a hotel
room in Hawaii and I just realized that don't have any coffee and I'm running
out of the sandwiches that I packed with me when I came
here so it's time to get some groceries.
For Nadir? Yeah
This is heavier than I expected
oh sh.. there's eggs in there. They didn't deliver everything they're supposed to. I
ordered pasta, they said they'd replace that with spaghetti because that was
outta stock but then they didn't deliver me anything, but they did deliver
me everything else except for the pasta including the pasta sauce, got some eggs
I got some nice expensive bread, more expensive than what I usually get but
that was all that was available and I got some Skippy's peanut butter and I
got instant coffee. Now everyone likes to hate on me because I like to drink
instant coffee sometimes but it's not bad. Come on give it a shot before you
tell me it's horrible. I do like good coffee too but instant coffee's not bad
at all. I have these oven roasted almond nuts that my mom ordered for me en masse
when the lockdown started because she was freaking out that I'd run out of food
and then she just ordered a bunch of food or mostly just nuts and sent it to my
place, So I had to to pack all these nuts with me and bring them with me to Hawaii
all right so my second round of spaghetti arrived. So this is the first
time I'm cooking anything since I was in a hostel in Stockholm last summer where
they had free pasta and I made a lot of pasta. Now I like to think that I am a
responsible adult that makes responsible decisions in a lot of ways but meal
preparation is definitely not one of those ways. I will partially blame that
to me being lazy and partially to me growing up in a country called
Bangladesh where most people even educated people don't know shit about
nutrition. My mom is a highly educated woman but she told me that I should
stick to eating noodles or ramen a lot if I wanted to save money in college so
I was doing that two or three times a day when I started college. Thankfully
other people in my dorm common room saw that and they freaked out because they
thought I was gonna die of a salt overdose or something like that and that
was the first time my life that I learned that you could have too much
salt in your diet and that's bad for you anyways I think my food is almost ready
so I made myself some pasta with pasta sauce and boiled eggs. I definitely
messed this one up. it's nothing too complex but I'm a simple man and this
makes me happy
good morning people. it's day 4 and 6:30 a.m. in my hotel room quarantine and
today I want to take you through what I've been doing physically. So I wake up
every day and do some stretches and this is something I usually never ever do but
I've started doing stretches since I've started doing calisthenics at the start
of lockdown because like many of us I can't go to the gym and I don't want to be
horribly out of shape by the time this ends. those are some of the highlights
and fails right there, and after that I switch to some resistance band
training. Like thankfully it got this band previously because I had a shoulder
injury. I can't really do cardio in here so what I do is I pick up the phone and
I call someone. Then I walk around this house.I keep doing this little walk just
six and a half steps and back until I hit 6,000 steps. One of the reasons I got
this hotel room because it looked big in the pictures cuz I figured I'd have
space to walk around and do some calisthenics without you know hurting my
ass but the problem now is that I don't have that space anymore. Here's me
touching the wall with one hand and I just have to turn around without even
doing so yes things are a little tricky about exercise. I have to be careful and
the reason these hotel rooms look so much bigger in the pictures by the way
is because of how wide-angle camera lenses work. If you bring something
really small close to it, it looks disproportionately big. So let's take
something really small like my finger then let's move it closer to the camera
like this and let's put something big like my head next to it. Someone who
doesn't know this is a wide-angle lens might think these two are the same
(size). Does that remind you of something? well there's one more thing that I like
to do that's a lot more interesting than walking around this room and it still
gets my step count up: Shuffling
well I don't think I've ever really talked about this on this channel but
pretty much everyone that has known me the last couple of years knows how much
I love electronic music mainly techno and they pretty much know me as the guy
that's dancing all night. So this is very much a part of my identity and something
I like to do every weekend back in pre quarantine days at least
alright so that's what a in hotel room workout looks like except for that the
AC is usually on. I turned it off cause it's loud. I also usually don't have any pants on
because I only brought so many pairs of shorts that I can get dirty right now
but I put some shorts on for this video because I don't think this is the point
where I should start my career as a cam model
what's up people. It's day 9 here
and today is a very special day because it's Eid right now in Bangladesh. For
those of you don't know what that is it's the biggest holidays for Muslims or
in Muslim countries in general but it's much bigger than a religious holiday
it's just as big culturally as it is from a religious perspective so I've
been getting Eid Mubarak, which sort of translates to happy Eid, messages from
all of my distant relatives and friends for the last five or six hours. Now I was
supposed to be back home this year to celebrate with my family but since I
can't do that because of the pandemic and all, we figured the second best thing
to do would be for us to have something similar to a traditional Eid meal
together but over zoom. So I couldn't find any Indian restaurant that I liked
around here so I got some food from Denny's and we're all gonna sit down 2
pm Bangladesh time, 10 p.m. Hawaii time because I'm 16 hours behind them
and we're gonna have a meal and pretend like everything's normal
My food is here. Smells so good, it smells like french fries. So I cheated. I already
ate all the french fries but I still have my chicken skillet and my chocolate milk
(Bangla) What are you doing? (Bangla) I will put you in the video
okay we have some technical difficulties but I'm
gonna put the camera down and get started on the food and everything else
good morning from day ten from hotel quarantine, So when I'm not using my
books as push up stands, I do tend to read a lot and surprise surprise, I read
a lot of history. Right now I'm reading this huge book on Balkan history that
I've been reading for a while, this book called Lenin's tomb the last days of the
Soviet empire, this book on the gypsies of Europe and another one on bloodlands
which is the parts of Europe between Hitler and Stalin how they're affected
so if you've been following this channel for any amount of time, the part about me
reading a lot of history books shouldn't come as a surprise to you. What might
surprise you is that my favorite kind of history is not necessarily the
mesoamerican stuff that I cover or Classical period history. It's more of
what happened in the 20th century and I spent about eight months backpacking
through Europe and going to a lot of these places that were in the Eastern
Bloc, and that lived through the Holocaust and that were former Soviet Union
States let's say. So the reasonable question after that might be that why
didn't I make any videos about these places. Well one of the reasons I didn't
was because I think that while it's very important to get facts right when you're
covering videos about history, the burden of that responsibility sort of gets
heavier when you're covering traumatic events where the people who went through these
events are still alive and well. So that sort of stopped me because I was afraid
to get things wrong but I've come to realize that after as much as I've read
on these issues, whatever content I can add about these issues would probably
forward the discussion in the right way and I'd be bringing awareness to things
that definitely need more awareness so next time I'm going back I'm definitely
making more videos. Will probably be more Bald and Bankrupt style videos than
heavily edit ones like the ones you see and you also might be thinking why I'm
reading so much sad stuff? The reason for that is a deep one. I believe in my core
that when we suffer as people, we have a
chance to learn something new about the world, be it about ourselves and when
people have gone through these times of mass suffering like the Holocaust or
post communism or communism itself, a lot of people have learned a lot of valuable
lessons that they have tried to pass on to us and now it's on to us to learn
about these things, to make life better for ourselves and for everyone else in
the world
Today is the day
Goodbye ancient telephone.
Well I just
spent 330 hours inside that room. To be completely honest that wasn't the worst
thing ever. I mean I could go for a walk though
Finally get to be out right? Yeah (laughs)
Enjoy the outside
Aaand I'm out
Damn it's hot Right. On to the next adventure