Our favorite, funny balloon-maker and t-shirt seller is back, and better than ever. Check out the newly-relaunched HijabMan.com for all sorts of good stuff, including his gorgeous photos, of which he explains:
I’m not a photographer nor am I a journalist trained to seek out interesting subjects and present them neatly labeled and interpreted. My only […]

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You know what else is annoying? When you write up a brilliant entry and post it and then come back the next morning and check your weblog and don’t see it there. So apparently you just dreamt you wrote it, and now you have to “re-write” the whole thing all over again. What a process, […]

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Since most of you are too horrified or disturbed, I’m sure, to comment on my letter to God in the previous post, I just thought I’d let all y’all know that I’m off to Oakland soon for Jummah [Friday congregational prayers], where I’ll try to repent for my blasphemy. Yes, aren’t you relieved?
Good things about […]

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Nothing brings one’s (read: my) mood down like logging into an old Yahoo! email account and realizing it was deactivated because I hadn’t logged in for four months. Yeah, like your 1GB of space helps me now, Yahoo!, when I’ve been using GMail as my primary email account for nearly two years.
Thanks a lot […]

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That’s me! And, err…you?, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Since I seem to be on a roll with posting about blogger meetups and such, here’s another story.]
So, once upon a time (early […]

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As a closing commentary of sorts to previous post [which you should perhaps scroll down to read first], I should add that I got plenty of teasing from my buddy S about “blobs” and “blobbing” in the weeks following our hangingout session with Anjum.
It’s difficult to explain to those who neither blog themselves nor […]

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S felt it was necessary to add to the glorious architecture, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It’s a sad testament to my slacker tendencies that not only have I neglected to write about my Blogistan meetup with Anjum about a month ago, but she has updated about her first California trip a couple of times already, and […]

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The title is meant to be ironic and tongue-in-cheek. So get off me. Via 2Scoops‘ contribution to the comments box for the last post, I present the following [click for larger image]:
I could write an entire post based around this - lots of deep analysis for why I have been blogging for three years now […]

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Who needs oranges when you can just take a bite out of your sister?, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
So I’m being blog-interrogated into updating, apparently. I have lots of stories to share (like, […]

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So now that we’ve said goodbye to good ol’ ramblingmonologues, why don’t you pull up a chair, and go right ahead and prop your feet up on the coffeetable; that’s the only way I know how to sit comfortably, and you might as well do the same.
And while you’re getting settled in and looking around […]

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I love love love the random smallness and coincidences of the online world. That’s the beauty of existence.
(p.s. And, yes, cynical Mr. Elysium, I did indeed verify it.)

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and nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Random small update on last week: Went roller skating last Wednesday with my sister, and the Princess of […]

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Requesting your prayers and good vibes for one of my favorite Blogistanis, Binje the biryani-wala and ice cream-lover extraordinaire, whose father passed away on November 14th. All I’ve got going through my mind, in light of recent and cumulative events of the past year is, “This year is on crack and I hate it: why […]

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of flip flops, feet, fuzzy socks, and small world friendships
Sometimes, in the middle of a hectic day, I’ll stop by a computer kiosk really quickly and check up on this here weblog, and after skimming over the same ol’ title and same ol’ opening line of the topmost post, I’ll think to myself, “Dude, people […]

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speed freak this, you ugly box!
I know you all find my story about that one time I tailgated a Hummer highly amusing and unforgettable and, yes, insane, but I feel totally vindicated in realizing that I’m not the only one enjoying such pursuits. Seems like Anjum is doing some gloating of her own, as well. […]

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