Slightly Bruised and Broken

Nothing can make you more perplexed than waking up one morning and reading in the newspaper that one of punk band that you have interviewed before for your ‘zine’ was beaten on stage. Although the Carburetor Dung in my personal view have evolved quite significantly since back in 2001, they still retained some form of ‘being true to yourself’ in term of their music and their act on stage which unfortunately have a bad omen for them this time.

The morale that we can learn from this story is: ALWAYS do your homework on your audience and tune your act according to their beliefs and culture so that we are not taken as being rude or disrespectful. I am pretty sure that if they performed in front of the ‘normal’ audiences who understand the culture and beliefs in the punk, this might have not happen. Perhaps it is not really a well-thought-out plan to bring a punk band to do a live performance for this event.

As usual, I just love to listen back to old Carburetor Dung's songs, so this is one of the song that I have embedded in this post with the lyric tribute to what is happening currently in my beloved homeland. Read More

Banner Design for Blacknight.ie

First of all, I would like to say thanks to Gary Daly for recommending me to his boss for this project. This animated banner design project was completed for Blacknight Solutions, one of the pioneer company specializing in hosting, server, colocation and domain names registration here in Ireland. They have just launched their new VPS hosting services for their customer and this banner is designed mainly to introduce their new vps services to their customer. Check out this banner in action

Size: 500px x 86px - Format: Animated GIF - Size: 47.06KB

Waffle.ie Logo Design

It has been a while since I post anything in this blog. I have been fairly busy with works and other stuff. In the midst of juggling my works and studies, I have completed another logo design project for a friend of mine. Let me know what you think about the design.

There goes my Google PageRank

I just noticed last week that I lost my Google PageRank (PR) from three to zero for this blog. It has been a long time since I ditched this Google PR craze, it is just not worth it. I can still remember back in few years, I used to wait patiently for the next Google PR update, reading from one SEO blog to another on how to boost my Google PR. Now, I just don't care that much anymore. I probably found my peace now :)

Congratulation to my big brother!

Alhamdulillah, my brother who just completed his studies in Germany end of this month have been accepted to work in one of the biggest engineering conglomerate in Germany. So now he is officially the first person in our family who will take the plunge in the working life. He probably will be staying in Germany for at least five more years. InsyaAllah by next year, we will have the more than half of our siblings here when my younger sister finished off her A-Level studies.

For the first time ever, I post my family picture in this blog. So here you go.

From top left: My oldest brother, my father, my mother, my grandmother and my sister (Fourth in the family). From bottom left: My younger brothers (5th and sixth in the family) and youngest sister (seventh in the family). This picture was taken during 2007 Hari Raya Aidilfitri in Malaysia.

From left: My brother (Third in the family), myself and my lovely wife. This picture was taken during 2007 Hari Raya Aidilfitri here in Cork, Ireland.

My youngest sister - thinking about the problem of Ummah. lol