Pop open the can. Take a swig. Light another smoke. Keep an eye on the floor – make sure no one’s pushing the stripper too hard. Yea, it’s all good. Time to make the rounds.
Three years is a long time for many, for me it passed by in a blink of an eye. Sure; the seconds turned to hours and the minutes to days, but on a whole, I remember the last three years as a blur. There are patches of memory which seem to shy away from attention, and there are those that stand out far too strongly for comfort.
And of course, there was my muse.
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I must confess – I am a writer.
I write poems and stories and fantasy and truth. But while I learned to write without my heart, WHEN that heart opens, it becomes more than just writing.
We are the sum of our experiences, and when I read what I’ve written today (and yesterday, and the day before, and for the last 9 years), I’m hesitant to learn what exactly I have experienced.
There are no wars or gruesome bloodshed. Nor disease, nor adventures fit for lore. But it is a journey fitting of a tribute, and that’s how we find ourselves at this point.
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As I make a fresh start in 2010, it’s also time to upgrade how ahmedbilal.com looks. Michael Heald has done a fantastic job as usual – it’s a hattrick of hit designs with him after Soccerlens and Football Media, and I hope to work with him again this year.
What can I say about the new site? It’s got the right look and feel to it for what I’m doing in 2010 and beyond, and it does an excellent job of highlighting what I do in real life.
Feedback / comments are welcome.
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Seth Godin’s Tribes is the manifestation of the business / marketing industry understanding more and more about what works best and how people and communities work. The ideas in Tribes are nothing new, but they have finally been expressed in a easy-to-understand, ‘common-sense’ way that is Seth Godin’s forte.
Tribes talks about three things – creating communities around causes that are bigger than any individual, providing strong leadership for these communities and how to finetune your leadership of these communities so that you can achieve your goals.
The book is a combination of anecdotes designed to sell you on the power of communities – but if you already believe in tribes and want to figure out how to make the ideas work for you, you have to do the following:
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Contemporary self-improvement advice suggests that everyone has an Aladdin’s lamp inside them that can grant them an unlimited number of wishes. Self love, then, amounts to rubbing your Aladdin’s lamp to your heart’s content and making ALL your dreams come true.
The sky’s the limit…
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Saving money doesn’t need to be rocket science, spreadsheets and budget calculators – sometimes financial prudence is borne out of common sense, like this:
Get more Basic Instructions here.
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I first heard about Cricket Revolution in February 09, when I met Babar Ahmed of Mindstorm Studios at the Startup Insiders session at LUMS, organised by P@SHA.
The first question that popped in my mind at the time, perhaps a bit unfair, was: “Will this be better than the current crop of cricket games in the market?”
Having played the game over the last weekend, the answer is yes and no. Let me explain.
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Just watched the first episode of the Dunham Show. It’s just as – if not a bit more – funny as the Dave Chappelle Show, which I thought sucked. Of course both of their stand up routines rock, but the shows are average with a few gems sprinkled around – they can’t be better than that.
It’s tough – Jeff can’t get the audience and the following that he wants without doing the weekly gigs or a weekly tv show, and he can’t entertain his audience with every single line or every single joke (lots of repetition, the bane of any over-exposed artist).
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Sharing your birthday with someone (in)famous, or anyone else, only matters if you believe that people born on the same day share certain personality traits. (If you’re skeptical, my extended family is living proof of astrology – you can spot a Cancerian a mile away).
So when I found out that Antonio Cassano was born on the same day as my sister, it made me smile. It’s bad enough that my girlfriend shares the same birthday as my sister, but for the greatest primadona of modern-day football (let’s say he makes Cristiano Ronaldo look angelic) to be born on the same day was just too good.
And it makes sense too, although in my defence my sister and my girlfriend are wonderful people and I love them very much – just as Cassano is a great guy too.
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