Adventures in Madrid...

AA / What up?

Alright, so my latest adventures -- if you weren't in the know already -- are on Google Video. This time, I come to you from the recent trip to Madrid:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=madrid+imran

Eventually, I'll get to posting my adventures in Madrid and London, but for now you will all have to settle for this. Be patient and remember that my time is more important than yours. ;)


Chow!

Lady Caliphs -- The Real Ballers

AA

This is a pretty interesting ESPN piece I remember watching a couple months ago. It's on a high school women's basketball team, but Muslim women who observe the hijab, mashaAllah. (Thanks to Mehboob for providing the link.)

peace

An Ode to Jessica...

WS

So, like, I don't even know where to begin? I can't tell you how excited I was (and still am, obviously) to see that some girl named 'Jessica' actually repsonded to my last blog entry's questioning.

Recall that the entry immediately below provided the world an update as to how popular and cool I really am despite vicious Internet rumors my two brothers are trying to create. My little video documentaries/adventures/journeys/etc. are being viewed on Google Video by the world at large and so naturally I'm turned on (and off) by this...

Anyway, in the prior entry, I posted the following questions regarding my 'audience':

who the hell are you? Where do you come from? What's your name? Why are you so interested in me? And are you a single, attractive, and nice Muslim girl? (If 'yes' to that last question, please email me!)

Much to my surprise and joy, Sister Jessica hollered back. Being a single, Muslim brotha, the first thing that pops into my innately immature mind is that, Does this mean that Jessica is a single, attractive, and nice Muslim girl?! I mean, look, I'm not tryin to sound like a jerk or typical guy (i.e., jerk, punk, and all that) here, but I just gotta be honest with you...

"Jessica" - if that's your real name - who are you? Where are you from? Do you like to bhangra? If you're not familiar with bhangra (i.e., buncha Pakistani or Indian Punjabi people dancing around by moving their shoulders in a hypnotic yet off the hook way), can I teach you? Do you think bhangra is haram? Are you married? What's your ethnicity? How old are you? Have I scared you as yet? How stupid/dorky am I to make myself known to everyone and now you specifically on how stupid/dorky I am? If you don't like bhangra, why not? If your name is Jessica, when did you convert (oh, welcome to Islam)? And finally, at least for now, why were you doing a random video search for 'Imran'? (Do you fancy the famous cricket player, Imran Khan?)

:) Okay, just know that I'm totally messin around. I hope if you really did see some of my videos that you would at least know that I like to have fun and kid around. Just my unusual way of saying Thank You for your comment; it was appreciated and welcomed at any time. We'll have to work on getting that .01% viewership up, though, but that'll come with time. Haha...!

I know after my brothers read this they're gonna hit me upside my head and tell me to delete this post. To that, I tell them, DON'T HATE, YO!!!


Cheers

My Videos : People Out There Love Me...

Hi All

Okay, I can now confirm that I have secret admirers, lovers, stalkers, and potential freaks that want me (or at least my friends). As you may know, I mashaAllah recently went to Madrid and London for a nice one week mini-vacation (well, Madrid was technically for work, but it wasn't like it was crazy busy or anything like that). So, tonight I finally had some time to upload some fun video clips from Madrid to my favorite website - Google Video - and decided to take a look at this "Reports" section for my account. Well, what's really friggen cool is that you're allowed to take a look at your Viewing Information and see how many people have viewed your clips and downloaded them, too.

So, now, this is the pretty cool and equally scary part of it:
My video clip called, "Imran's New York Trip" has been viewed a total of 1585 times. Look, I know that you're gonna say that about 1580 of those views could be credited to me, but I assure you (for once), this just isn't true. Further, the video clip (which has been on there since early January 06) has been downloaded 20 times!!

So people out there...who the hell are you? Where do you come from? What's your name? Why are you so interested in me? And are you a single, attractive, and nice Muslim girl? (If 'yes' to that last question, please email me!)

Haha, okay, I admit: it is a little presumptious and arrogant to think that 'random' people are out there doing this when it could (and is most likely the case) be my friends, but just allow me to humor myself. It's doing a nice number on my ego, man.

So the Imran's New York Trip clip is the one, from feedback I've received, that's the best b/c it's me 'singing' (though I have since learned that what I qualify as 'singing' is actually considered attempted murder in some states) to a Kelly Clarkson song and then I subsequently get really excited and very ghetto upon seeing the highway exit sign for Manhattan... [sigh, good times...]

The next most popular one is called Imran, Erik, Taha: Hoopage. Now, the popularity of this one I kinda resent. It shows Taha ridiculing me by addressing me as 'Hey, Fat Man' like I was some out-of-fashion former superhero or something. To upstage T-Man, I showcase some of my basketball, well, let's just say 'skills.' Anyway, you'll be surprised to know that my little talent show was received with vicious (snake-like, in fact) snickers by Erik and Taha. Jerks!

The third most popular Imran video clip is called Farooq & Imran: King Kong, Dawah. You know what? I kinda resent this one being so popular, too, because Farooq had the gall to draw parallels between my masculine physique and King Kong's. I'm not sure how I should take that? Specifically, after showing the Empire State Building in NYC, Farooq commented, "...and Imran's king kong ass is gonna climb that..." That hurts, man. How many people did you fwd that to, Farooq?

So, my loyal and most likely drunk 'fans', please continue to watch these video clips. I appreciate and value your committment to everything that's ME. In fact, just yesterday you people viewed the Imran's New York Trip clip 9 times as well as Imran Shakur vs Taha Ghani (hmm, wonder who viewed that second one, Taha?!). Soon enough, you'll all fulfill my dream of appearing on the 'Popular' or maybe even 'Random' links on Google Video. So, until then!

Alright, those were your higlights of the top three clips. Just thought I'd share that with all ya punks! Look out for four new clips from Madrid coming soon...!

Chow!

Owwww!!! And Some Balle Balle!

Hi

I know you sit there at night often thinking to yourself, what would happen if the King of Pop (MJ) and King of Bhangra (Daler Mehndi) were to ever collaborate?

Well, this video clip will probably be the closest thing to that:

DISCLAIMER: THIS VIDEO IS HOT!!




:)

Archived Internet Pages

Hi

This is pretty cool and seems like something Google would've come up with. Regardless, credit goes to Baseer for pointing this out. Here's the email he sent to us earlier today about it:

"this site is awesome: http://www.archive.org/ ...only goes back to 1996 cuz thats when they started the waybackmachine...brings back memories...

type in any site and click "Take Me Back" then click on the date

check out google 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

depaul 1997:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970205082525/http://www.depaul.edu/

uic 1997 (yukk):

http://web.archive.org/web/19970606093823/http://www.uic.edu/

have fun."

I'm havin fun with this one. I typed in my brother's website and one of his first web pages/design came up (www.umarshakur.com). That's friggen awesome (and scary??). I also checked out:

www.hotmail.com (first one is friggen hysterical!!)
www.yahoo.com (same comment as from hotmail)
www.sunnipath.com
www.darulqasim.org
www.madrasaprogram.com

Enjoy! Let me know if you think of any cool ones.

Word

Islamic Video Clips

AA

Just thought I'd spread the love...

Very beautiful (though there's a delay in the video or something): Quran recitation

Also, you might be interested to know that those Islam: Empire of Faith shows are available on Google Video, too.

Further, from DeenPort, a blind hafiz, mashaAllah. There's a madrasa in S. Africa specifically for the blind. SubhanAllah. His recitation is so beautiful, mashaAllah.

Okay, this is tight.

And there used to be a better one of this online, but can't find it anymore, but still pretty good: Junaid Jamshed

Via Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, I found out that Syed Faseehuddin Soharwardi has some of the beautiful naats he sings on Google Video: 1) Ishq e Nabi Mere Dil Mein Bhi Sama. 2) Stand up for this one, people...Mustafa Jaan e Rahmat Pay Lakhon Salaam.

Okay, I'm done!

Allah hafiz

Slam Dunks Mayhem...

Holla

Click away...

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Now be good and hope that I don't do any of that to you on the streets...

Peace!