Archive for January 2006
Big brother
Yasir[disposed]placed
Wasif’s ill and all you do is make a late call and ask, “how are you?” Shameful manner in which you showed concerns for your youngest brother. Sorry janu, your big bro is a jerk!
Opsss!
Yasir[frightened]announced
Ma G would be angry that I didn’t eat that chanay ki dal ka halwa (ah, such a long name) she especially made for me and.. it expired. Again!
No donut
Yasir[annoyed]dispatched
I’d better be pushing refresh at http://www.randomerror.com/ than using Orkut; at least, it has some variety!
Google google
Yasir[stupid]researched
Enter ‘google’ into Google and press I’m feeling lucky.
Lost in the City
Yasir[serious]published
These days I am looking for an Information Designer to rehash my business website. I thought I would find someone at EOmag. While going through the portfolios I spotted this fine illustration:
This one is from Monica Calvo from Madrid, Spain. She seems to have a fantastic illustration skill, the only second illustrator whose work impressed me to bits (the other being some Karachiite at DA). My favorite in her portfolio is Hold Your Breath. If you read this, you must peek into her gallery. I had my jaw floored!
A sticker and a cake
Yasir[characterized]probed
Sometimes, just a small gift can make a big difference the way you feel. Aamer – my partner and friend – gave me a small sticker on Saturday when we were at Saeed Book Bank in Islamabad. It has It will happen… you just have to keep believing written on it. It really made my day! Now, I have that sticker pasted in front of my computer terminal here in Lahore. Such small things. When I went home this time around, my younger brother AB brought a cake 
just for me! *smooch*
New home!
Yasir[crazy]announced
So I have a new home now, right here at http://www.yasirhussain.com. I’d worked on this blog system during my college days as my project of PHP. Design inspiration came from Jark’s (dA’s co-founder, with much love and respect) older blog design. This one’s not complete CSS-based as his was, as I had to deal with older browsers and wasn’t too proficient in CSS then. But anyway, this has a few color themes which I’ll rotating from time to time.
I wanted to do it for SPIDER during my days with them, but now they have a blog of their own at Blogger. I still admit that WordPress, TypePad and Blogger (and many others) are better blogging systems/platforms but I wanted to do something of my own. It’s just out of blues that I registered my own name as a domain a few weeks ago and thought it would be interesting to use it.
As a matter of fact, I still have change configurations for few things like shoutbox, comments etc. as it was meant to be a team blog. So here begins the transformation!
Let go!
Learn to let go of the things and people you’re on the verge of losing. Let-go is the essence of mortality; of change. Mortality, after all, is not death but a change.
اب کے سال
اب کے سال کچھ ایسا کرنا
اپنے گزرے بارہ ماہ کے
دکھ سکھ کا اندازہ کرنا
سادہ سا اک کاغز لے کر
بھولے بسرے پل لکھ لینا
اپنے سارے کل لکھ لینا
پھر اس بیتے ایک ایک پل کا
اپنے گزرے ایک ایک کل کا
ایک ایک موڑ کا احاطہ کرنا
سارے صحبتیں حاضر کرنا
ساری شامیں پاس بلانا
اور علاوہ ان کے دیکھو۔۔۔۔۔
سارے موسم دھیان میں رکھنا
ایک ایک یاد گمان میں رکھنا
پھر محتاط قیاس لگانا
گر تو خوشیاں بڑھ جاتی ہیں
تو پھر تم کو میری طرف سے
آنے والا سال مبارک
اور گر غم بڑھ جاءیں تو
مت بےکار تکلف کرنا
دیکھو تم ایسا کرنا
میری ساری خوشیاں تم لے لینا
مجھ کو سارے غم دے دینا
اب کے سال کچھ ایسا کرنا
آج ایک اور برس بیت گیا اس کے بغیر
جس کے ہوتے ہوءے تھے زمانے میرے
