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As 2008 Ends…

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Hi All,

As 2008 says bye tonight, I thought of posting some crap here to kill some time early morning :D

It has been a neutral year for me all 2008 with many good things happening and some struggle to get things rolling.

Early 2008 I was shuttling between cochin and chennai working with finest musicians in south India. Working for my latest malayalam album was very exciting. Though it haven’t seen light, 2 years of expectation is still exciting me ;)

I came back to Dubai on 15th January 2008 and since then I’m with the business here.

February was when I received mail from Molilim Yacoub, the canadian musician I worked with for the single Show Me Love. 2-3 discussions and 5 nights of sleepless efforts. Joining with Lyricist Karthik Chandan from Bangalore, we made an amazing song.

July 5th a well wisher mailed me saying that someone is releasing an album in Kerala titled Violet , the proposed name for my latest album. And so, I’m still in a process of renaming it before release.

August was my birthday month. No big celebrations. I normally don’t celebrate though. Ended up ordering KFC and eating them with cousins…lol :D

Today I got options for my new site logo. I’m starting to brand myself online ;) . Getting a arabic calligraphy done to be my logo. I got 2 options today. Will decide and work on something for website. I’m still confused if I should go for a black n dark theme or white elegant one as I have now. but one thing for sure, I will have full flashed website, hopefully.

Adobe released the CS4 with loads of new features…best thing technically helping me this year hehe :D

This year Dubai ruler has ordered to cancel all new year celebrations because of the crisis in Palestine. So be at home and hope for the best in 2009

Happy New Year :)
Ifthikar Ali

October is here…

Friday, October 10th, 2008

hi friends…

Eid Mubarak…though it is late :)

I was fully occupied after eid…not with so much of work but was totally lazy to do anything after the eid holidays…got some designs for the company and the company website to complete and a song to finish off…all pending…feeling so damn lazy and so many confusions and questions ruling over my mind…(i hate to be ruled…typical leo…hehe)

Updates listed…:)

Was busy finishing of a website for an advertising agency in dubai basically…finished it on the eid day early morning around 6am…i cant list the site here as it will be indexed by google and that company wont be happy about that…:) So did a good work alhamdulillah ;)

I had a great eid…sleepless night before eid and lunch at cousin sister’s place…the next day, we went for camping in dibba ( somewhere near dibbaa ), slept over beside a mountain and cooked food and things like that…cousin bro and friends were there…5 of us…pics are there on my facebook :)

Malayalam Album the one titled Violet before is breathing a bit now…now thinking of a new name and also planning up the videos…meetings to be held in cochin on november 2nd and hopefully something will happen…else I DUN CARE…i’m so damn tired running after that album for last 3 years…Guys i will make something new for who were expecting the album…i’m totally helpless in this matter. So pathetic and cheap is the people who start of with malayalam albums nowadays…GET A LIFE for god sake.

So what left…? Yeah, October…this time October is gonna be special hopefully…a turning point for sure…( who says? well, I Say :P )

With so many confusions and questions before a leap…I hope for the best…

Everything happens for a reason…let’s hope so :)

Cheers and have a great october… 

Ali

‘Running through’ Ramadan

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Ramadan Started here in Dubai on 1st september…(hopefully good to track the numbers). My 3rd Ramadan in Dubai…I’m here for last 3 years…:)

It was pretty much same as my routine was all same before ramadan hehe…I work everynight and sleep off the days…food from the restaurant ( i miss my mom :( ) and yea thats it…

Things are fast here in Dubai during ramadan as compared to India…I had felt like days are too long when I used to fast in India lol…

7th Day of Ramadan 2008 going on…wishing you a blessed ramadan…

So what’s up with u guys? Share your thoughts…

Cheers
Ifthi