Me On A Airplane

Hi





Okay, so I get bored on my flights to Cali. What else am I to do? Read a book?!



:) Cheers

Week 12: Bears Loss. :(

Hi

What a depressing day. We lost one of the biggest games of the season against Tom Brady and the Patriots. The game was very awesome defensively. Both teams had key take aways throughout the game with the Bears recovering the ball multiple times in the red zone. I mean, what can you say about our defense? The best in the league, indeed, mashaAllah.

Now, our offense, on the other hand is a different story. Grossman tried a few times to hit the deep threat of all deep threats (Bernard Berrian) a few times, but the throws were short. On the mid-range passes, however, Rex did pretty well. He'd hit up either Bernard or Moose for some key gains. Why they didn't stick to that AND our spot-on running is beyond me. I mean, with Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson both running, our run game is pretty amazing. This is Chicago. We're the Chicago Bears. Like many a kalu, we run. In a game like this, after the first couple deep throws didn't work, you stick with what does: running and every once in a while the short/mid passes.

I hate to say it, but the main reason we got our TD was because of two HUGE penalties. Whether they were justified or not is another story. Being a die hard fan, I will say that they were justified, even if a little weak. (A penalty is a penalty, right?)

Regardless, it's not like that was our only scoring opportunity. We had an amazing opp to win the game with 1:48 remaining, but on the FIRST play we throw deep! WTF?! How are we possibly going to do that when the deep ball was NOT working?! HOW COULD THEY MAKE THAT CALL!! AND WITH ALL THAT TIME REMAINING!! It was so frustrating. I remember Jones walking off the field with a look of disappointment and disgust as if he were saying, I told them that we shouldn't go with that play. I hear ya, Jones.

I dunno. Maybe the Bears were thinking like this: Alright, we have a lot of time on our hands. The Pats are gonna assume that we're gonna do running plays and short passes. Our deep ones haven't been working, but if Rex feels it, maybe we can throw them off and go with a deep pass on the first play? That logic could perhaps work with me. I mean, your risk level at that point is out the fricken stadium, but so be it.

Here's a great article on ESPN to read that analyzes the Bears and specifically Grossman.

Anyway, Go Bears!!

Bears vs Pats: 17-10
Record: 9-2.

Drama on The Blog

WTF?!

Well, I always appreciate comments on my blog. Comments that make fun of me or even others. I especially appreciate comments that praise me. Those always make for fun reading. Of course, it's enjoyable to me and others when done in the proper manner, of course.

In the recent blog entry about Farooq's Bears Party, however, this has not been the case. What's worse is that it hasn't been about me either, but one of my closest friends and his fiance. And kinda out of the blue, too.

This is absolutely childish. I feel like I'm babysitting a deviant 15 year old high school desi kid that was heart broken and is now releasing his/her anger on the world over.

I'm not sure what your problem is or why you feel like pissing a buncha people off. My recommendation to you is to 1) stop reading my blog and 2) mend your broken and pathetic life.

I'm not one that likes to get into these things, so I kindly ask you to inshaAllah stop. Let's not create drama on this blog or to a lesser extent in other people's lives. Jazak.

Let's leave this blog for what it is: A blog that is inherently all about the glory that is me.

Cheers

Punjabi Spiderman

This is hysterical. Spiderman in Punjabi. One of the best lines is when Spiderman comes to save the day and someone yells "Look, it's Spiderman" which apparently translates into "Oh agay Shazada!" [around 3min 25sec]. Anyway, funny stuff... Punjab Zindabad!

Farooq's Bears Party

Me and Sayeed...together...finally.

Hi

On Sunday, Farooq threw a Bears party at his crib that was phenom, mashaAllah. 20+ guys showed up as we all enjoyed watching the Bears 10-0 victory on his 42 inch Ambilight plasma.

The food set-up was inspiring. Burgers, sausages, and hot dogs. Oh wait, I should let you know that those were the starters! Then the main course came with Sayeed brining six large IE pizzas. We're talking spicy gyros and spicy chicken pizza from Italian Express. It doesn't get much better. Oh wait, but then you should also know about the cheesecake, too.


Well, anyway, the highlight of the game included the Bears DEF (notably, Urlacher's INT in the end zone!) and the new Bernard Berrian on our offense -- rookie Mark Bradley. Other than that, it was a low key game, but nonetheless improving our record to 9-1, Alhamdullilah.


And, now, more pictures...

The best pic ever. Sami.

The hottest pic ever. Fahad aka "Do Me".

Pic 1: Tariq being disciplined. Pic 2: Ali, Tariq, and Zubair. Pic 3: All I can see is Fahad in this pic. All the others are Hydros lost in the darkness. ;)


Cheers

Kramer: Fricken Racist

Hi

This is a great way of destroying your career. What an idiot! It's scary that he must really feel this way about African Americans if he let his anger control him and yell this stuff out...



Azubillah!

Urlacher's Crib

Hi

Courtesy of Fahad, here's a link to AT&T's Home Turf with Prime Time showing Urlacher's phenom home.

http://seehowtheylive.com/bUrlacher.php

If only my mom let me played high school football. This would've been me...

Urlacher For Life

Arab drift accident

AA This is what you could do if you were in the M.E. and were looking for an activity to do. Crazy. Fun, if successful. Dangerous. And stupid because of the self-inflicted pain, damage, or worse death that could happen. But with the music that's playing in the background it almost makes you forget what's happening...

Week 10: Da Bears - Unstoppable

Hi

Granted, many of you haters out there will try to comment, "Oh, so the Bears are unstoppable, are they? Well, what happened last week? Where was your blog posting?!"

To the haters out there, I have this to say to you: .....

Nothing. I don't have to say anything to you after Da Bears destroyed and dismantled an entire city just before the 2nd half of the game. Where Tom Jones became Brian Urlacher-like from a few weeks ago (think Arizona game) and motivated the team to play like it normally does. His PHENOM 26-yd run sparked life in my team again, mashaAllah.

Moose continued to show why I pay him the big bucks by making big plays. Rex caught on fire. He connected with Mark Bradley just before the half ended. I knew Bradley had to do something; in the pre-season he's shown us a lot of potential, so I'm glad he was the back-up to our deep threat Bernard Berrian. Sexy Rexy remembered our new weapon this year, Desmond Clark and also connected with him for a TD. And let's not forget Devin Hester. WHOA! SubhanAllah, man! He tied our very own Nathan Vasher for a 108 yard field goal return for the best in NFL history! Unbelievable! Two seasons in a row we did it by two very talented ball players. This Hester guy is sick!! (See his awesome pic below.) And the fact the he tricked the Giants into thinking he was gonna down the ball was a stroke of genius. When I heard that, I was like, WTF?! Are you serious?! Amazing!! Alhamdullilah!

The important thing here is that the receivers started to catch and HOLD ON to the ball. After last week, many people started hatin HARD CORE on Rex. Granted, he was still making his rookie-like mistakes (i.e. throwing off the back foot, trying to get rid of the ball instead of taking the sack), but let's not forget that this is his first full season as a QB!! I like how people forget that. Or that many of his passes are being dropped. Hey, I'm not gonna be ignorant here and just conveniently disregard his overthrown passes; he still needs to work on that, obviously. But I'm not going to throw the guy to the bus like the media loves to do.

You know, I really liked one thing Al Michaels said tonight. He said that people in all their babbling and blogging will one second say that, for example, The Bears are the best team! Then, after a loss like the one we had last week against Miami will say, The Bears are not that good! They have an easy schedule, etc., etc., etc. But now, with a HUGE win like this one, people will say, The Bears ARE the real deal. It's like can't people just stick to what they believe in? Well, apparently not. People will instead go with what's hot at the moment. These are band wagoners. People without backbones. Haters. The naming conventions on these type of parasites goes on and on. In the end, they don't matter.

I believe in the Bears and always have and always will. Even in years past when it didn't seem like anything was working for us, you'd see me support them week-after-week. So when a couple people from, oh I don't know, Saint Louis try to taunt me and question me about why I haven't blogged about the Bears after a loss, I think to myself, Well, they just don't matter.

Even if the Bears lost today, which, Alhamdullilah, they didn't, I'd still be the first one to cheer for them next week and the week after that and so on.

It's moments like this victory that gives me reason to do so. Anyway...

Chicago 38, NYC 20.
The Chicago Bears: 8-1.

Spidey

Hi

We all know very well that the epic saga of Peter Parker will continue next year. Here's the latest and greatest preview. (Don't forget to breathe)



Daaaang!!

An Ode to Taha

Salaam

Disclaimer: Please note that this is not an actual ode to Taha as you all are used to seeing. Such an ode must come at a really significant moment like his wedding and will undoubtedly be a few thousand paragraphs long which would make Moby Dick look like a bedtime story. I will have to say, however, that this ode is the next best thing in terms of significant moments in the 9 year relationship Taha and I enjoy and will inshaAllah always enjoy...

For the first time ever in the history of the man.myth.legend.sufi.lover.fighter.punjabi blog (online since ~1.5yrs)............drum roll, please....................................Taha Ghani himself has commented on my blog. See the posting right before the U2 / Green Day video below.

[okay, now slowly exhale]

I'm still not over it, to be honest. In fact, the nice little email notification I get when someone posts a comment still sits in my inbox. I'm a little dumbfounded. Typically, I'll get IMs from Taha saying, "LOL. I loved the blog entry" or "Imran, you are my hero" or "Jeez, you are phenom, Imran" or "Imran, how do you do what you do?" or "Imran, you're pretty cute" or...oh wait...those are my inner thoughts, sorry...

So anyway I'm used to getting Taha blog "postings" via IMs or just a comment in person like, "Imran, your hotel pictures you take of yourself inspire me to call Sana." I'm not sure what that means, so take it with a grain of salt like I do...

I mean, some of the IM messages he left me regarding my blog postings in the past were great and I'd tell him to post that comment. But, as usual, Taha would ignore my pleas.

I'm not sure what's so special about that Eid pictures blog. Was it because I called him out for not being my homie by not coming to my crib in past Eids, so, to make-up for it, he thought posting a comment would get him back on my good side?? But then his comment, "Got any leftovers?!?!" would make no sense unless he's asking if I have any leftover room for him in my heart (the answer to that, btw, is a resounding NO! You flippin sellout!).

I later found out what he meant by it. As it turns out, the only thing Taha noticed in those pictures was the food. What a friggen Punjabi. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Mad respect to Taha for his first of many postings and much respect that his first post had to deal with food.

Now that you have posted a comment, you must continue this time-honored tradition. A tradition that is shared by such blog comment posters like Ali, Umar, AJ, Jessica (well, once upon a time for her), the Texas crew, etc.

Much love.

Cheers

U2 and Greenday

Hi,

A phenom video / song from MNF in New Orleans for the Saints (The Saints Are Coming).



Props to my brotha Umar for finding this video. He had this on his blog waaay before me...

Wake me up when Sept ends...

Eid al Fitr in Pictures

AA

Okay, a tad bit late on the Eid pics. But with the usual hotness factor (mashaAllah), I'm sure it was well worth the wait for you Imran-dependant people...

Ali. The light-skinned one amongst the three of us is always ready for the camera with that no-teeth smile. Yes, just like me, he's very hot, too, mashaAllah. So that's a "yes" to your question of "So, Imran, hotness is a genetic trait throughout your family, huh?"

Dr. Shakur (aka "Umar") is straight up chillaxin in this pic like he's just come back from a 72-hour rotation when in reality he's only relaxing after a long day of, well, relaxation (i.e. eating, eating, and more eating...oh, and some snacking, too, here and there [there is a difference]).

AJ. Not only does he represent the West Side, but he also represents the new look and face of SHUKR (the Banana Republic of Islamic traditional wear).

Me and the Prince. It took a little convincing, but he mashaAllah came and had dinner with our family on Eid. It was a good time for sure. And I gotta give him props, too. For many years when Taha has spent lonely Eids here in Chicago, I'd nearly beg him (on hands and knees) to come and celebrate Eid with my family, but Taha never has/did. So props to AH for doing so the first Eid I asked him to come! Taha, take heed. Hassan, iA, many more to come...

Me and two of the Chaudhary Sisters after Eid Namaz (The Chaudhary Fam were our parosis [neighbors] from Bolingbrook and good family friends).

Rayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! [Umair Bhai's son] You little cutie! He was sooooo happy to open his Eid gifts! :) Cutest kid, mashaAllah.

Fi Aman Allah

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday, Mom!