Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category

September
9th 2008
Last month…

Posted under Projects & Thoughts

August was a hectic month with work from SISTERS Magazine. I had to design almost half the magazine in like 2 or 3 weeks, and that isnt easy when you are new at it!! (which is why i havent been posting here much). It was a lot of hard work but also great experience, which will be very very useful to me in the very near future :D
Anyway check out the Autumn 08 issue of the mag, its awesome. i aint just saying it coz im part of the team, it really IS awesome!! and im a guy! We even have a free taster if you don’t believe me :)

Also finished an advert for a new nasheed artist, Abdullah Rolle, who will be launching his new album at the GPU. Catch the advert which is now airing on Islam Channel, or you can watch the Abdullah Rolle advert here (a better version is up on my facebook for those who know me).

And lastly, here is a free ramadhan wallpaper for you to download and pretty-up your machines. Courtesy of my good friends over at VD and IDH :) enjoy.

now that work has eased up a lil i can relax a bit and finally play on my new ps3 :D …untill next week when its back to busy with the Winter edition of SISTERS Mag!

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June
8th 2008
comics

Posted under Aligraphy & Thoughts

 

So i finally watched Batman Begins last night. i know, im slow. Especially as im a BIG Batman buff. My excuses for not watching it sooner: it didnt look all that great, i clocked the game and i didnt think Bale suited the role (i wanted to play Batman :( ). But as The Dark Knight is coming out and this one looks good i thought i should stop sulking and just wacth it. it wernt as bad as i expected (or maybe my expectations were REALLY low). Next one will have the Joker though, which is destined to be good. and it seems as though they made him psychotic as he should be. we’ll see how it plays out.

Anyway as i was just randomly browsing the net, i come across a Muslim artist who makes comic strips! Being the nerd i am, i’m obviously gonna bookmark his page n check it on the regular lol. Check out Br Shaik’s work :)

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May
23rd 2008
lots of things to look out for

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Was crawling the web looking at art when i came across a site with some of the most magnificent calligraphy ever. the Ozcay brothers have some super talent. was in awe over their work. how i wish i had such skill…. but all i can do is try so iA will be going to a calligraphy workshop tomorrow by Samir Malik. learnt so much last time from him. hope this time is even better.

Salam Cafe is a hilarious comedy show from Australia. Defo worth watching :)

Islam Expo looks more and more attractive as it gets closer. Not only is Ruh gonna showcase new canvases, not only are Outlandish gonna be performing, but i hear AA may be doing some live painting! i cant wait!! :D

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April
19th 2008
iG site done - again!

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The new iGraphic site is done, again. This time we will keep it up longer than last time hopefully :p

Me n Mehedi have been working hard on the new site for the last few days. But there is no rest for the wickid, we got a ton of work in our hands and it looks like we cant take any more work on for the next month or so.  But thats kool coz we got some projects which i am really excited about, like the SISTERS magazine advert is gonna rock! and our first mini documentary!! might not be the most exciting topic, but its our first ever and we are hyped.

Anyway, away from work, i came across something interesting (to me at least) Midway games are set to release a game which will square off the Mortal Kombat characters vs the DC comics characters :s wired as it may be, i still wanna get it coz i wanna kick evry1s ass as Batman!

MK V DC

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March
6th 2008
i need ur duas!

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plz make dua (prayer) for me as i need as much of it as i can get. Got a very important meeting coming up on Monday and iA it will go well.

Plz plz plz rememeber me in ur duas. jzk :)

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March
1st 2008
new [virtual] home

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although it may not seem any different, but this site has just moved to a new server [thats why it was down yesterday]. its not really interesting news or anything (and i know sum1 is yawning right about now), but it was a pain working out how 2 move it and modifying the database MANUALLY as i’ve never done that before. now to move about 5 other sites from muslimways shared hosting to our new iGraphic server. trust me, thats as simple English as i could put it in!!

moving muslimways.com alone will probably take a week! good luck mendo :-p

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February
26th 2008
Hadith v2.0

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Extract from BBC News:

Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.

im sorry but WTF!? We all know how Turkey is BARELY a ‘Muslim country’ and now they are bold enough to take such a step as to say that they will take it upon themselves to reinterpret the Hadiths for modern day and age?
What next?A revised version of the Quran? Astagfirullah!

Link

A thought just occured to me… am i really becoming a ‘geek’? i get my daily dose of news by reading it online… surely that is normal….right? …i hope so…

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February
18th 2008
mocha the sleep killer

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that stupid mocha kept me up till 7am last nite!! aghh!!! only 2 hours slp. annoyin man. brain wudnt switch off.

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February
17th 2008
becoming a beardo

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after readin a blog bout y a sis startd wearin a hijab i thought it wud be kinda kool 2 write y i started 2 keep a beard. so here goes…

i started getting into islam from da summer of 2005 i think. duno y, but i came home from a mela 1 day n jus wanted 2 pray. it was odd coz b4 that my iman was pretty much non-existant! i was dumb enuff 2 fall 4 the darwin theory (evolution from monkeys? what was i thinkin!!). sooooo grateful that Allah saved me and guided me to the right path!!

anyways as i startd readin in2 islam more i startd to change my circle of friends (used to be mostly girls). dont get me wrong, they r all reli nice ppl, but they jus dint help me in terms of my iman.

wow, this post is getting 2 long, im gna try n giv it 2 u in a short version now!

so now most of my mates hav beards, n i see how it affects them in their lives. i started thinkin maybe i shud keep 1 aswel coz it wud help me refrain from doin bad tingz when my iman dips low. n lets face it, i am a weak person in terms of my iman!

my family were alredy shockd with the sudden change in me. they liked me prayin n stuff, but were woried im gna become ‘extreme’ or whatever. so u can imagine that they dint favour the beard idea when i told them. they did the typical ‘keep it when ur olda’ and ‘we dont want u 2 get dun 4 terorism’ routine. but i did what i had 2 do and just started keepin it. think it was from november 2006.

now evry1 has got used to it but my rentz stil tell me 2 keep it short.
i dont regret it at all. it helps me sooo much! not only am i fulfillin a sunnah (or maybe wajib, its debatable!) but da beard also scares away da girls :)

not only that, but it makes me act ‘good’ (most of the time!!) coz its like im representin muslims and islam to all the dimwits who believe all dat garbage from the media. and evry1 givs u dat extra bit of respect which is kool 2.

ok im gna stop rambling now coz even i wont be botherd to read all that! if u did read it, safe n leave a comment plz :)

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February
6th 2008
Taare Zameen Par

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Not your typical Bollywood movie. This film actually is worth watching, touches on some important issues espcially regarding parenting skills. Bengali (and most asian) parents piss me off of the way they treat their kids. So unsupportive. Its all about getting excellent results and stuff. And if the kid gets in trouble or anytin den its coz he is bad.

For example, cops come round ur house and ask u questions, and they automatically assume dat u done sumtin wrong.
Or u get in a car accident, and insted of askin if ur alrite, they start swearin at u for driving rough (even if it wernt ur fault).

And dont even get me started on what they think about Art…

Anyway, its a nice story, Aamir Khan and da lil kid r wkd. That song in da film is really nice 2 (the one about mum), very emotional.

That kid had a hard time in the film, reminded me of madressah days :( teachers teaching with the stick. Yeh, like thats the best way 2 teach sumtin 2 a kid init. Dumbass. Lucky i was goot at school or i might have been a depressed lil kid 2! Think all parents and teachers should watch the film atlest once a week so they be nicer 2 kids.

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