I was in Hyderabad yesterday, to attend a friend’s wedding, umm actually it was a Valima. I enjoyed the wedding  a little and had to go through a major travelling mess.. no kidding.. add to that the effed up situation at the Intercity Bus Stop.

I went with a few other friends from my Dubai work place, and yeah I knew Riaz from there. So it was me, Tauseef and Shahzeb. The first trip from Karachi to Hyderabad was alright, since we hired a car to drop us there. From there on we called Riaz’s friend in Hyderabad, who picked us from the stop and took us to the Hall. We were among the first to get there, so a long boredom session was in place.. Thank you

Anyways, a little later we started see some familiar faces, that was nice we got to do some catching up with folks from Dubai plus it was a bit of help from the boredom session

Once we were done with food and stuff we headed to the bus stop from where we were called back and were asked to travel with the bride’s family, which was a pretty nice gesture.. 15 minutes into the journey back to Karachi this guy starts talking about god knows what, but what I liked was that when I was playing NFS on my iPhone I was gathering up crowd.. iPhone loves crowd. Then this guys starts to talk about iPhone like he knows the world about it, it was easy to shut him up, which was what I thought an accomplishment, but guess what.. he didn’t shut up.. he started playing “Name Place Animal Thing” on voice with kids on the bus.. I was like “F**K No” what followed was a three hour noisy crappy game.. What we were left was a bad head ache, not to mention a backache from the journey.

I would congratulate Riaz on his wedding, Mubarkaan.. and oh I m not going to attend a wedding in a different city on a bus.. unless it’s a very cool one.

Congrats to you bro.

Cheers.

Tags: dubai, hyderabad, journey, karachi, riaz, shahzeb, tauseef, travel, wedding

A Video I did very recently.

This video has been made entirely from clips recorded during my ride from work to home. It also features clips from my lunch with my awesome friends at Creative Chaos.

Credits:

Music stolen from:
Track: Hurricane 2000
Artist: Scorpions & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tags: car, fight, fun, lunch, media, radio, ride, roads, travel, trip, video, walk

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

Yep, The place I’ve been working for quite some time, wants me to join at their office in Singapore, so as much as I m excited, I m also a a bit sad, ask me the reason, and I’ll tell you that I m going to be missing my family a lot.

This is not the one month deal like the last time I went to Dubai, UAE, put it simply, Dubai is more of an advertising/Print based work, while the place I m flying off to now is more of game development/web based work. So as far as work is concerned I m excited, I m also excited to be flying out of my motherland, and exploring newer places, but again, I have my family members, friends and relatives here, and obviously this is where my heart is.

One of the reasons that I m also happy to fly to Singapore is that it’s a smoke free zone, kind of, you’re not allowed to smoke on public places, that only leaves out your living place to be a smoke allowed area, and smoking is kind of expensive for those who want to smoke. SG$ 54. Woohoo.

I m going to be buying lots of chewing gums for myself from here though. Yippee.

Tags: artwork, away, development, fly, game, singapore, smoke free, travel, we, work

The good things first..

My blog was listed in the 100 inspirational blog designs, which got me do a little wowing

Also, it’s was also the 5th birthday of WordPress… YAAAY !

Ok, so thats about the end of todays good part

As I said it’s been a random day, total random day ! I hadn’t really slept well then again, when do I ever ?, any how, I hadn’t slept well, and then this shit load of work, well it wasn’t that much, but since i was way sleepy, it seemed like it, but I completed it, which is a little achievement for my inner brat And oh boy, alot of systems at our work place got infected with some crappy chinese virus haha !

But most of the systems are now clean, and those that had the issues weren’t major machines, except a couple of them, which means we probably will get a dedicated server for the design team soon, hopefully. Thank goodness my computer was still safe, otherwise things would have been much more bizarre, in the wrong direction.

We also had a little design team meeting today, which was god, and nice one, and guess what, I’ll be leading the next one, not really a very interesting thing really, specially since I m going to be doing it, not much is going to come out of it

Oh and boy, I got late coming home too, missed my office van, and took ages to grab a cab, and then the long route..Woah.. nevermind.

Tags: achievement, aisi ki tesi, asif, bizarre, blog, bs, design team, fahad, farhan, fun, furqan, inspire, meeting, Nadir, omair, random, saima, Seher, talal, travel, van, win, won, yasir, Zair

Thanks to Zair, for partially suggesting this blog entry’s title.

Now, now, the day, has been quite of a stir, a mix up of things, various things.. Both good and bad, odd and wow type. But in the end, I m still me, happy and woah..what… !

First, H-N had problems returning to Karachi, and that’s why he had been going through some mental stress and torture, but he should hopefully be here in the morning

Then we have those teaming and grouping things at office and before that those three people from Network department getting a farewell.. damn man !

Me, Zair, our manager Farhan, had a meeting with a client, and man, the guy’s awesome, infact all the people in the room at that time are awesome and since then, I’ve been saying a a lot of no’s and what’s to lots of things, for no apparent reasons…odd? I know !

Then some non disclosure agreement issues…oh hell !

We even have MB, having problems getting back to normal life, since she’s lonely..cheer up girl

And then there is me… All excited for the new day… Zair’s gonna have some hard time

Tags: awesome, clients, group, hassan, mb, meeting, mix up, nda, team, travel, wicked, work, Zair

It’s going to be New Year soon, and we’re getting surprises already

Pakistan is going to be exploring Space soon, and even the south and north poles of this very planet, and guess what, we’ll even have our flag there.

Namira Saleem, is the lady who’s proud she’s going for this such an awesome travel, and surprise surprise, she’s an artist

Here’s the excerpt from the news itself :

"Reflect a positive image of Pakistan as a peace-loving and progressive country"

ISLAMABAD: Namira Salim, who is undergoing training to be the first Pakistani to go into space, is also set to become the first citizen of the country to travel to the North and South Poles.

Salim will hoist Pakistan’s flag at the South Pole when she travels there next month as a member of an international expedition.

Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammedmian Soomro on Monday presented the flag to 35-year-old Salim, a well-known artist who will blast off into space in the world’s first commercial space liner in 2008.

Pakistani Woman Leaving for South Pole to Hoist Flag

After space, Pak woman now eyes South Pole

Tags: awesome, female, image, north, Pakistan, pole, positive, south, space, travel