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  • I m not going to write much on my life in this post, I m going to write about Tea Break here.

    For me the project Tea Break started when Asim Imtiaz and me used to sit only rooms apart and me and Zair sat inches apart in Creative Chaos. Asim got me into this project since he had seen me working on freelance projects that had turned out beautiful. Anyways the moment Asim told me about the idea, I knew I was going to be a part of it, but I never got to make the design of the first version since I was busy with some stuff, and Zair managed to bring the first design online.

    The second design we pushed online, which is still online as I write this post, was made by me, I did the design and most of the front end code, then Asim had all the development fronts covered, Zair helped me a tiny bit with the CSS, and Ammar was the mastermind when it came to market our little baby that was Teabreak.

    There was a launch party held when we pushed this major update on the website, and I got to meet some really awesome people that includes Madam Jehan Ara, Ramla Akhter, Munir Usman, Imad Qamar and some I knew from before like Dr. Awab Alvi (who I believe is more blogger than a doc :P ).

    We had many updates to follow after that and we covered many blogging events after that, and the response had mostly been awesome, except some tid bits. When ever I got to speak about Tea Break I did so and people got excited when I told them that I designed that website.

    Later after quite some time had passed, we thought we needed to upgrade it a bit, and we starting taking feedback from users and also started building up a database of our ideas and new requirements. During this time, I flew to Dubai, where I had no access to a personal computer, only my office iMac, I obviously wasn’t allowed any work on that, so Tea Break suffered some development time on that, but it wasn’t long till I realised Dubai wasn’t the place for me, so I flew back when I had an offer from this another company ‘Xuqa‘, and the thought that it’s a game development company made it even better, so any how, I flew back to Pakistan, but even then due to my work hours I still wasn’t able to work on Tea Break, then the company decided that all it’s employees are going to be moved to Singapore, which is obviously super nice :) , so we moved here and again, lack of time followed me, but any how, I found a week end and finally did a design. It looks good to me, but sadly due to the amount of work I already have, I will not be working on Tea Break as of now.

    Even though it’s been an awesome experience, I m going to go off the Tea Break experience, since I believe my work (both, paid and for Tea Break) was being effected, I could concentrate on only one thing at a time, and I chose money ( :P ) , no I m quitting Tea Break at least for a while due to the amount of work I have here at Xuqa (now Game Ventures), also since I couldn’t dedicate any time to Tea Break, I didn’t want it to suffer any more because of me. I m sure the rest of the Tea Break team will find an awesome designer to fit into place. I might join Tea Break at a later stage, but for now I m not working on it, I need to focus on my office work first.

    It has been an awesome journey with you guys (Asim, Ammar, Asadullah, Zair), I wish you all the best for the future of Tea Break and it’s child projects.

    Tea Break is and will always be in my heart and mind, it’s one of the best things I have done :)

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    • Asim Says:

      Awsome man. Goodluck, and all the best with the new exciting things going on in your life, dude.  (Y)

    • Khan Shahzad Says:

      @Asim
      Thanks much mate :)

    • Shoaib Hashmi Says:

      Its sad, but for the time being I think you made the right decision.

    • Senilius Says:

      Sniff! :P

      Good luck man. You and the rest of the guys did an awesome job!

    • aMmAr Says:

      It was a nice working experience with you, it was awesome to have a designer of your caliber in our team. I wish both you and Zair all the very best. Peace out!

    • Azeem Says:

      Sad. But anyways best of luck!

      for what so ever you do!

      Regards
      Azeem.

    • Khan Shahzad Says:

      @Shoaib
      I had to, wouldn’t want to go away from that project, but yes, we all have to move on for the better :)

      @Senilius
      Thanks man.

      @Ammar
      It was awesome to work with you too man. Considering I got some free meals out of you and Asim it was awesome :P just kidding, no seriously it was awesome :)

      @Azeem
      Thanks mate.

    • Monis Iqbal Says:

      too busy with the hair style these days eh!

    • Khan Shahzad Says:

      @Monis Iqbal
      Haha.. nai nai.. Pakistan bhi ana hai.. log qatal kar dein ge.. :P

    • Ammar Faheem Says:

      Wish you all the best!

    • Zaki Says:

      dont be sad.. you’re building the biggest, sexiest cricket game in the world.. :)

    • Khan Shahzad Says:

      @Ammar Faheem
      Thanks mate.

    • Khan Shahzad Says:

      @Zaki
      I m not sad, I m moving on, and building a game and being a part of change in an industry are different things, with Tea Break I was a played a part in getting lots of people to blogging, I m happy about that :)

    • ptbm Says:

      Sorry for my ignorance and capability of slow understanding, what actually is Tea Break?
       
      *:O)

    • dehog Says:

      Ptbm
      teabreak is a Pakistani blog aggregator. I worked on the main design of the whole thing sometime back.

      This post was to announce my departure from that team since I moved to Singapore.

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