I m aware of the fact that it’s been ages since I last wrote, and I finally put some words together to post on this little I own called ‘a blog’.

I just recently posted a print online, if you’re FAT like me and don’t care what people say, get this print and put it up.

Also since alot of things have happened my last post, I’ll just put in some headlines.

Howzat was also recently launched on which we worked some odd 6 months or maybe more, and the response has been fabulous. We’re still making some things even better then what they currently are, obviously this is an on-going iterative process. Click here to play the game.

I’ve also received some really cool response from the last video I did titled ‘Hungry at 1am‘.

I m sure there’s alot more that has happened, but I m too sleepy to think right now, maybe in the next post, I’ll write about the gazillions of other things.

Oh and btw, if you have an iPhone or iPod touch, get the app ‘Whats App inc’ and add me via my phone number as your contact which you can get from my facebook page. Lets talk

Tags: fat, fun, howzat, hungry, sleepy

Some stuff I just did last night. Also I do realize the title sucks.

Hungry at 1am from Shahzad Khan on Vimeo.

Check it out on deviantart or flickr.

Tags: 1am, hungry, late night, mcdonalds

Good things and bad things happened just about the same time. boinkers..

The good first.. Paras Amir Ali Allana who I know through flickr and Raheel Lakhani was in town recently with here family.. And since she’s a friend how could I not show her around, even though I haven’t seen this place much.

We went to a couple of places, including The Toy Museum, a full ride of MRT line (though it wasn’t intentional), then it was for a 3d movie experience, I took them to see G Force, and then the bungee which was my favourite, and then to round it all up, we ate at Lao Pa Sat. It’s a matter of one’s taste but Paras’s sister didn’t quite like the food there, which obviously made me think I should’ve taken them to some other food place I guess, but anyhow.. the day was fun.

Some days later I find out, my website and blog is being marked bad by google. some malicious links had been reported.. I was like woahh.. hello… bring that thing down.. I looked up, checked properly, verified and then requested a review… which was pretty quick and my website status on google was restored ( ).

Anyhow, it’s about only 2 days to Eid, and some how it doens’t really feel like Eid, but I did make a Eid card to put online. You can leave a comment about it on this page, it’s facebook page or the deviantart page.

Also now that I have my fish eye lens, telephoto lens, wide angle and macro lens I think it’s alot fun to do photography.. Also I m going to attend the GCT in the morning…

Here are some photos I took recently.

Tags: blog, bungee, camera, crap, down, Eid, fish eye, fun, Google, lens, macro, maza, naureen, paras, tafreeh, telephoto, visit, website, wide angle

I have been really pissed about people ripping off my artworks recently, with the recent patriotism in Pakistan, alot of people had started doing something or the other about our online image.. I m really happy about that, and I wish all these people who start something like that all the best.. where I do draw the line is why the F*** do you have to steal some one else’s artwork to do just that.

I saw a rise in such incidents, where not only mine, but works of other artists were not only ripped off by known websites, but wannabe artists as well.. Whats more at some places it was being used for profit reasons. I count myself as a patriotic person (in a limited way), and I don’t think stealing is one of the things I’d like to do.. and stealing my work is no good thing, infact stealing any one’s stuff is no good.. specially if they make a living out of it.

My artworks have been online for quite some time, and I don’t watermark my images because it takes the beauty away, but if you like one of my works, and want to use it at some place, you know you can just ask for it, I m sure we can come to some terms to work on. But no… some people just take things for granted..

Please people.. respect the effort one puts in their work.. and stop stealing.. and then calling some one else’s work yours… it’s not !

Tags: artowrk, cheating, copying, Pakistan, patriot, plagarism, quaid, shitness, work

I recently bought a Kodak Zx1, and very recently bought 2 lenses online from usb fever, just received them yesterday, and I’ve been playing with them since, these are awesome seriously. Order them at will and your pictures will be much better

Here are some of the pictures I took with the lenses on, actually these are macros I’ll put up some wide angle shots soon, and I think I m going to order some more lenses

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

I hope you like the pictures, please comment, and help me make my work even better

Tags: awesomeness, drumset, fun, lenses, macro, photography, pictures, spiral, superman

Okay so we finally have XBOX 360, which is awesome and fun to play.

We got a couple of games with it when be bought it, the awesome thing is you can hook up your computer to it so you can wirelessly stream your content onto it

Also I’ve been doing some Time Lapse videos lately.. check them out below.

Tags: clouds, sunrise, video, xbox 360 pro

Again it’s been a while since I scribbled on my this little space here, but trust me when I say I’ve been occupied with lots of work lately, not to mention the tension that surrounds you as you approach the release date of your product.

This tension builds around each and every member of the team, but then we have to fight it out to bring out the best in us.

Anyways, We’ve approached the website development stage, which honestly is the part I m loving, it didn’t quite start out right, but it’s in the right direction. Something the users wanted, yes we’re doing just that.

I m hoping everything goes as planned now

Also Ramadan Mubarak to everyone, it’s our second Fast here in Singaland going strong

I’ve also successfully and regretfully forgotten to wish two important people their birthday. One is Uzma, who is one of my closest friend, and she’s super effin pissed at me :S Secondly my uncle.. whom I should’ve wished.. just slipped out of my mind… again you see guys I m occupied with so much shit.. I couldn’t get you folks on time, I m really really sorry.

Tags: azeem, howzat, ramadan, uzma, work

Let’s do a little recap here.. shall we.

I went to Pakistan recently, and had a good time, which included the Tweet up, which I didn’t quite write about. It was one of the best things I attended in Pakistan since the Bloggers meet up. I met some more people, some really awesome ones, took really crazy (birdie poop) pictures, and socialized.

I also got to hang out with awesome folks there the same day (Anum Vighio, Imran Hassan, Umair Khan Jadoon, Taimoor, Sana Saleem, Aly B, Haris Nadeem, Enk, Byte Connector, Ayesha, Salman.. did I miss anyone ?)

Anyways, a few days later, infact the day I had to fly I also pulled out enough time to do a mini interview for CIO Pakistan, I felt good I did that

Anyways once back in Singaland, I had to finish up loads of work that piled up sometime last week, I stayed 3 days at office just to finish up work …. shweeeeeepp…. forward to yesterday.

We went out for fireworks wagera since it was National day here, but sadly reached too late.. anyways I ditched Hamaad and Saad, and went for Reverse Bungi which I enjoyed greatly, really really greatly Had food later, and celebrated Fraz’s birthday.

Also I m still up and haven’t slept yet, and it’s about 7 effin AM… gotta hit the sack now.. later.

Tags: 7am, alyb, anum, balach, bloggers, bungi, byte, CIO Pakistan, enk, friends, fun, hamaad, haris, Imran, national day, Rabia, reverse, saad, salaina, sana, singapore, taimor, Tweet up, Tweople, umair, work

I was thinking of all the things I’ve learned professionally and at what level of capability, some times even considering not to learn, all in the goodness.

A few years back I preferred to freelance rather than take up a job, now I would say I m comfortable with both. When I first started off with jobs, Hassan Sarwar was working at a advertising/web/crap company ‘Dreams Quest’ these guys were looking for a senior web designer, and so I was called in and joined immediately, I wasn’t really impressed by anything there, but just the fact that I’ll be working with a team and a friend. One fo the most important things I learned was that people there sucked big time, no kidding. I ended up quitting the job some time later, and going back to freelance, Hassan had done so earlier than me.

It was quite an experience and I had decided I’ll work with people who consider value of the work that I do.

Again while freelancing, I decided to do my blog, and put it up, Hassan at his new work place opened up this blog, and other guys at the work place noticed it and were pretty impressed ( ), needless to say I was sitting in an interview room again, only this time it was a very cool place to work. I took up the job, and still cherish the time I spent at Creative Chaos. About 9-10 months later I decided I wanted to go and work for a company that had work to do other than the websites. What turns out is that one of my other friends was working in Dubai, UAE, and these guys were looking for artists too, and since I had spread the word I was free, I was in touch with the guys again, before I could leave Creative Chaos, I had 3 more jobs at my disposal. I opted to move to Dubai, not only because it’s nice to see places world wide, but also I wanted to see the place I was born.

What happens here is not something many employers would appreciate but, I left the company (Illusio Pvt Ltd) in a month, due to a strong political influence in the company a plus the crappy political thing they had running in the company, and add bad management to that. While I was going to leave this place I had another offer from a company “Peanut labs” who also wanted me to do their website (which as of now has been screwed to quite an extent) as a freelance project, let’s go back a little on this, while I was in Creative Chaos, I did a website “TimeSvr” as a freelance project, and since the CEO of TimeSvr and another company “Xuqa” which was co-owned by Peanut labs,  was the same, he offered me a job, which I declined since I wanted to go to Dubai. So anyways coming back to where I left from, Peanut labs offered me a job, I decided to take it up (yes good money was involved in that), so I flew back to Pakistan and started off. A few months down the road and a decision is made that the whole Xuqa team and later the Peanut labs tea was being moved to Singapore (WOW going out again ), being in Xuqa, I was moved here first, been enjoying since.

If you’re thinking why I wrote this.. just cause I felt like it

Tags: creative chaos, dream quest, dubai, game ventures, good, illusio, jobs, karachi, office, Pakistan, places, singapore, work, world, xuqa

So about two weeks at out own apartment, it feels really good. The feeling of staying away from office when it’s a weekend is really good. No one actually knocks from the office to wake you up. I love that!

While I was at work on Friday, I got my package, finally. Now I have my awesome threadless T-Shirts.
I bought three, Barrow Bath, The Shower and Let’s get physical. These are awesome t-shirts.

Also since we finally did our product demo, which must’ve gone smooth, I wasn’t there, but I m hoping it did went well.

Also we went for the movie “I love you man” on Friday, man it’s one freakin awesome movie, you’ll laugh till the end, for those who don’t know it’s about a guy who doesn’t have male friends, and he needs a ‘best man’ for his wedding, the movie is about his quest for one.

Also we went for a night safari just yesterday, me, Saad and Balach. In all honesty it wasn’t as awesome, it went fine, wasn’t as ‘awesome fun’. But yeah the awesome part was the awesome ‘black pepper crab’ we had after that. That was awesome. Sadly Saad just puked after that congestion you know

Some pictures here if you’re on facebook. Also which reminds me, I got my facebook username, did you get one ? Mine is facebook.com/dehog

Tags: awesomeness, cricket, demo, night safari, threadless, tshirts, work