A very Merry Happy New Year to everyone.
Let’s see the the last year was ok, kind of lost so little, gained so much, still living, surviving, enjoying ! Wohoo
I got myself a brand new Drum kit, now I m looking for a proper tutor. Another thing I wanted for quite some time, let me thank Zulfiqar Ali Faisal for paying for the loan for Drums, thanks much mate 
[Pictures at the end of the Post]
I’ve been in Singapore for a quite a while now, and I’ve had friends over from Pakistan about 2 or 3 times, yet I still hadn’t managed to discover as many places as I did when one of my friend’s sister was over. Maybe because she had quite an amount of energy to drag me about everywhere she could. This obviously is a great experience for me, and I hope it was better for her.
About a day before Christmas, Zohra reached Singapore at about 8pm, I thought I’d go and catch her at the airport, turns out she had already left for her hotel in a cab, and there I was standing at the Airport cursing at myself.
Anyways I called her up and told her I’d meet her at the hotel, and then I took the MRT and went over to her hotel, which by the way wasn’t very familiar to me, maybe because I was lucky enough to have a place to live when I came crashing to Singapore, so obviously being an owner of an iPhone 3G, I flipped out my phone and navigated to that place using the super awesome Google Maps, I just wished I had a 3GS, would’ve made finding the hotel a breeze, oh and did I mention it was right next to “The Cathay” but since I didn’t know I got off a station away and walked to that place.
Anyways, once I was there, and I met her, we decided to hit the streets and catch a movie, since Christmas was next day I thought it’d be better to catch Orchard Road later and see some other stuff instead. So I took her to “The Cathay” to book our tickets to ‘Avatar’, and it was about 45 minutes before the movie would start we headed for Plaza Singapura, where I bought Paras her gift. When we headed out of the mall, Zohra seemed to have seen lights for the first time in her life 
obvioulsy she has seen Eid Milad-un-Nabi before.. Jokes aside these lights were kind of pretty and alot of things nicer from the back than from the front. They were lighted up from both sides.
Anyways after quite an amount of snapping and begging I finally got her on her feet and dragged her to the MRT since she wanted to expereince that too, so I took her two stations ahead and back so that we don’t miss the movie, oh and about the movie, we saw it in 3d which was a different experience for her.
So the movie wasn’t a short one and we kind of got off late from there, and we were hungry like anything, and she thought I would like some pickle with the food and I thought the same about her. Truth is neither of us were really concerned about it but I didn’t know that and neither did she, so we walked from “The Cathay” to Mustafa Centre at about 3 am.. yes 3 am.. got the pickles and some other stuff, and then got a cab back to her hotel and had some food. At about 6 am I left her to head home and snooze..
Then it was Christmas, even though our plan was to meet early and head off for Sentosa wagera and then see some other stuff before hitting Orchard, turns out we met at around 4pm, and then headed off for Orchard after a little lunch. I realized how much she enjoyed lights here. Kind of snapped everything she could, a sales girl selling some tiny clip caps, which I bought for her, a kid who wanted to take her picture, me as I borrowed a Santa cap from girl near by and pretended to do the yoga thing. The performances there for the Christmas was awesomely amazing, had one been there, they would’ve loved it 
Since we were hungry I thought I’ll take her to Al-ameen, which is a funny thing in itself.. I ordered Palak Paneer, which she ordered ‘Nasi Lemak Ayam’ which is basically Plain Rice with chicken, but when it’s served they come with some nuts, a sauce and anchovies.. Now any sane person usually stays away from Anchovies atleast in the desi land, and after these are fried they look more like golden brown fried onions, and thats what she thought until she discovered the fish’s eyes… Yes these things are super tiny Anyways after the food we bid farewell till the next day.
The next day I woke up with her calling me, and asking for the plan, the plan again was Sentosa and stuff, but turns out she had to move stuff from her hotel to a paying guest place, so I headed over to her hotel, grabbed her stuff and headed to her paying guest place, I can tell you one thing for sure, that aunt probably is a murderer just kidding, I m sure she’s a wonderful woman, just looks angry
Anyways she dumped her stuff there, and we moved and went Vivo city at Harbour Front, where she bought quite a few chocolates, and looked at the other awesome stuff, drooled over clothing and shoes, saw some decoration pieces and fell in love with them. Aarghh I had to drag her again, this time we saw some performers at the mall and she immediately flipped out her DSLR and captured a bunch of stuff. We then headed for some other place… blah blah, and at the end since wanted to use some stuff which one of my house mates had, we were back at my place, where she used my room for the night, and I was kicked out of my room haha.. the couch can be a great savior I tell you.
The next day we finally went for Sentosa, but kindof missed the whole thing, the snow city, the science park, where she went crazy with photographs, sadly we lost some stuff too, which I think was very close to her. Oh and did I mention she did the reverse bungee with her eyes closed.. haha.. who does bungee with eyes closed
She stayed the night to my place again, since she forgot the keys at my place, and it was too late, infact we did go to her place only to realize the keys were missing. So we went back, backed up images, which are uploading for her, damn they account for some 7.5 GB :O and then went to sleep. woke her up at 6am, thats when she left for the guest house, so she could fly to Malaysia.
She’s been calling me since she went to Malaysia to ask for random things, and telling me about the infections she got at Langkavi.. girl take care of your health! Please.
Anyways the Christmas weekend for me was really exhausting, but it’s the best weekend I ever had in Singapore yet. So far nothing has beaten that, and yes I would miss her. Had been a great company.
Tags: aunty, bana, discover, dost, friends, fun, guest house, guests, malaysia, science, sentosa, singapore, stay, Zohra
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
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 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
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
Hey.. so the last few weeks have been really really busy for me. In terms of activities, work, people and everything else in between or otherwise.
Just by the time Zulfiqar’s parent’s were back in Singapore, I had to fly out to Karachi, my cousin’s wedding was coming up, with a shit load of work on my plate. I completed some bits of it, and ten flew to Pakistan. After quite some months experiencing the power outage was kinda fun. Not only did I get to meet my friends, I attended a Tweet up (pictures), and appeared at CIO Pakistan for an interview.
The wedding for which I actually went there went pretty well. It was mostly a surprize for my relatives since I had told them I wont be able to make it, infact one of my cousin was really pissed at me, and called me the day I was flying, little did she know I was about to head for Karachi in a few hours They were nothing less than shocked & surprized (Mission accomplished).
Anyways, I had fun there with lots of stuff, my family and all though were a little angry that I spent less time with them, I hope I get to spend more time with them the next time.
Also on my way back to Singapore, it was the first time I slept on flights, maybe because I hadn’t had rest lately.
As soon as I was back I was smacked in my face with pending work, which I m finishing up.
Also as it’s in the spirit of the month. It’s the independence day of both countries I m linked to. Singapore on the 8th, Pakistan on the 14th God bless.
Tags: 14th aug, 8th aug, august, CIO Pakistan, dishum dishum, friends, fun, independence day, interview, karachi, kashif, media, saba, wedding
Lately the days have been really kind to me, and so have the people around me. I haven’t written about quite some goodness in my life of late.
Some time back, we went out and watched Transformers II, oh yes a movie lot of people are still waiting to see, but boy it’s an amazing movie, I m planning to go and watch it again soon.
Last weekend I was out with friends and decided to hit the Escape theme park, what we experienced there was plain awesomeness, though we know there was lots missing there and that a lot of rides were for kids, but then again we are kids at some level! so hell yeah we enjoyed that alot, for those who are going to ask for pictures please know that we were having so much fun we couldn’t snap pictures
Anyways, and now we’re planning more goodness for the coming weekend. Ice Age 3 in a 3d cinema is in the agenda
Oh and btw, I kinda lost a 100 SGD :S
Tags: 100 SGD, 3d, balach, escape, fun, go cart, ice age 3, Lost, movie, mufadil, Park, saad, shahzad, theme, transformers 2, water, wet, wild
This weekend was awesome, we crossed borders on foot.. and we shifted our apartment !
Most of the Game Ventures team (except, Siddharth and Pete) went to Malaysia for Lunch. It was at Nandos, ok so why didn’t we have Nandos in Singapore..? Because we don’t freakin have Nandos here :S
So anyways, I had to stay up all Friday night, just so I can wake every other guy, to go to Malaysia, because we had to go at around 12pm, but obviously that didn’t happen, we left at around 1pm.
Since we went to Johor Bahru, which is the nearest to Singapore, it felt like I was in Dubai again. Thankfully it wasn’t Anyways we went to where Nandos is, just to discover it’s no more there. So we then called up Zaki’s friend who told us where the other Nando’s is..
Cutting the crap.. we had the best lunch since we had been to Singapore. Thanks to Ahmed on quite some note, because thats why we came here. Any how, we then left to roam around the city, we ended up to some mall and spent like a lot of time there, and I was like really effed up in the mind.. why because I hadn’t freakin slept
Then later that night, Weng had come, so me, Saad, Zaki, Zulfiqar and Weng went of for dinner while the rest of the guys headed off for Singapore, there we had some Shish, but obviously I didn’t and the light food was awesome which was Saate and some other malay/sing food.
Then Weng dropped up to the Customs at Malay, from there we walked, and walked long, really long, to Singapore, which is awesomeness !
Then we come to Sunday, we shopped kick ass today, lots of stuff since we had to move, and we went to IKEA, Best Buy, Bess Point, and God know’s where else..
We had the last signing thing happen and then we cooked, or lets say, Fraz and Ali did, and the plan was to make Karahi Chicken, or Biryani, but due to the lack of Na’an, they ended up making Karahi Chawal but it tasted good.. like F**k freakin good !
And now we are sitting are a**es.. going to sleep after doing our accounts
Tags: apartment, food, frakin good, fun, malaysia, move, nandos, shift, singapore, team, travel, walk, week end, xuqa
This last week plus the week end has been the best since I came to Singapore, no kidding. Why you may ask..
I attended the kick ass deviantart meet up organized by $spyed & $heidi from deviantart. These people are on a world tour, so they are going to be seen in a dozen of places. I met some awesome people there, some of whom have the best art skills I have ever seen, these people know what they are doing and are freakin good at it.
If you’d like to see the pictures, you’ll have to logon to facebook, here’s the link to the album.
Me and Saad had decided that we’ll go out and check out Singapore since we hadn’t really gone far from office that much and hadn’t really seen Singapore even though we have been here for quite a number of days, so this week end, the plan was in place, we left home on Saturday at around 3pm-ish and had the best time of our lives.. found some bachi’s who were super hot.. Man it was awesome I tell ya So yeah we took some time off and enjoyed the week end, we later went for pool table.. that was fun.
Picture, here ya go and here you got too.. Again these are on facebook.
I got my hands on a swatch and a swatch on my hand. yo yo yo.. loving it ! I bought this.
Me, Pete, Saad and Balach went to Sentosa Island today, the experience wasn’t as we expected, why ? since we went freakin late, thanks to the f**ked up monopoly session last night.. I m not playing that game again, at least with the folks here.
But I think it was ok, at least compared to sitting at home, it was awesome !
Pictures, thought you’d never ask.. here.
Tags: balach, deviantart, fun, hotness, meet up, merlion park, peter, poland, polish, russia, russian, saad, sentosa, shahzad, swatch, watch, yaay
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