From the Ramadan Cookie Project 2006 photoset, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
To state the obvious, since everyone is talking and blogging about it these days, Ramadan is here! Has been here for a couple of weeks, actually. How are we nearly halfway through the month already?
I wasn’t fasting on Monday, so I took a slice […]
Entries Tagged as '(3)BeautifulThings'
Lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven
September 27th, 2007 · 21 Comments
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Links to love · Rockstar and Crescent
It’s not as easy as willing it all to be right
May 7th, 2007 · 58 Comments
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I’m so tired of constantly feeling so tired - I don’t sleep enough, I fall asleep holding books I once could have finished reading in a single day, I sleep crookedly, and my neck has been aching for over a week. Also, there’s that drama that enters my head once in a […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Bibliothek · Blogistan and the Wide World of Webs · Rhymes and unrhymed lines · Rockstar and Crescent
Your light shines brighter than the best
April 6th, 2007 · 28 Comments
Pencils so pretty, it makes you want to eat them, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
My (3 or more) Beautiful Things posts always contain snippets from a single given day of the week, but, in this case, I haven’t written in a while, so the following is a compilation of things from the past couple of weeks:
one. […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Casa420 and Familia · NineToFive outside the 925 · Rockstar and Crescent
Just give me moments/Not hours or days, just give me moments
March 26th, 2007 · 16 Comments
My life is little things that make me happy - like tomatillos at $1.99 per lb.
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - Beautiful things: The mid-week edition
one: flickrphotos. I get to work, check my emails, and the first thing I find is a facebook message from my sister’s friend, which makes me laugh and […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · All-Star Crackstar Squad
And the toppling sand mounds
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments
We are like these things, impermanent and unpinned; originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. [Click here for larger view.]
A few things I have been grateful for, so far this week:
one. …That so many of you took the time to read my last post about Imran Saithna. And that, for once, my commenting system seemed to cooperate […]
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Beautiful things from a Tuesday in the month where everyday felt like Monday
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments
yellowsunshine diptych, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
From Tuesday, January 23, 2007
one. The Howie Day album I haven’t listened to in over a year because it inexplicably started skipping just as inexplicably works perfectly again when I pop it into my CD player while driving to work. I spend my commute listening to music that reminds me […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world
December 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Three beautiful things - Friday, Dec. 29th:
one. While walking to my office in the morning, I whistle at a beautiful, furry orange cat sunning itself on the sidewalk, and surprise myself with the clear notes that come out of my mouth. I can’t even remember the last time I whistled. Has it been years? I […]
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I want to stay another season/see summer upon this sorry land
November 13th, 2006 · No Comments
Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The heat wasn’t working at the office today, which means I spent most of the day being aggravated about the cold and - of course - engaging in monologues with God about how much I disapprove of this winter business.
“It’s all in your head, Yasminay,” […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925
Take a breath, feel the beat in the rhythm of my steps
November 11th, 2006 · No Comments
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Three beautiful things from October 15, 2006]
- Wearing my favorite red t-shirt - I call it my “sell-out” shirt - and realizing it still smells like the Clinique perfume I spritzed on at Macy’s, four days ago. [The shirt reads “Coca-Cola” in Urdu/Arabic script, read right to left.] I have to […]
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On the side of the highway, baby/Our road is long
November 11th, 2006 · No Comments
Blurry San Francisco, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Beautiful things:Bumper stickers I’ve noticed lately, which have made me laugh -
OUTTA MY WAY. I GOTTA PEE.
EAT BEEF. The West wasn’t won on salad.
I LOVE AIRPLANE NOISE.
And my personal favorite - NIRWANA - which reminded me of when my favorite crackhead, Somayya, first moved from Pakistan to the U.S. […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Hit the Road
Three things: The Halloween in GMail-chat edition
November 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I first got an inkling that Halloween this year was going to generate funny conversations when my buddy Z IMed me at the beginning of October with, “I’m gonna go as Ahmedinejad for Halloween.” Seriously, I didn’t even have a comeback to compete with that. In true Yasmine fashion, I believe my […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · All-Star Crackstar Squad
Three beautiful things: The transportation edition
October 27th, 2006 · No Comments
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[From October 11, 2006]
- It takes me two hours to get to work in the morning, because two big rigs collided on the Sunol Grade on Interstate 880 and spilled oil across the freeway. Impatiently listening to the AM radio to pick up on any traffic updates, I hear the newscasters […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Hit the Road
(More than three) beautiful things: The semi-work edition
October 26th, 2006 · No Comments
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Okay, kids, so remember that part where I said I was going to post “three beautiful things” everyday? Well, clearly, it didn’t work so well, because - once again! - I haven’t really updated in nearly three weeks. The good news is, I’ve been scribbling down beautiful things in my lovely little […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925
Three Things: The Home Edition
October 7th, 2006 · No Comments
Chukairiyaan, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
1. Waking up at 8am, realizing it’s a Saturday, and burrowing back under the warm covers to sleep in until 10:30. Washing my face, and then promptly sitting down at the computer. I check emails and weblogs while my mother pulls up a chair beside me and flips through catalogues and […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Bibliothek · Casa420 and Familia
Three Things (plus three more)
October 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Sunlight shadows on the sidewalk, Friday afternoon, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This afternoon, after clicking over to Blogger.com and pausing before signing in (believe it or not, this is something I do often: I decide I want to update this weblog, I click over to Blogger, and then I just stop, overcome by a feeling of […]
Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Blogistan and the Wide World of Webs · NineToFive outside the 925





