Friday The 13th Mystery - Part 1 - IMRAN®

Friday The 13th Mystery - Part 1 - IMRAN® 

Friday The 13th, Something Sharp Is Coming! 

Can You Guess What?

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Marking Mass & Momentum, Selfie Interrupted — IMRAN®

Marking Mass & Momentum, Selfie Interrupted — IMRAN®

I was about 175 lbs at age 25, when I first came to America in 1987. The lessons and laws of physics asserted themselves on my life: as the momentum of an active, exciting life grew, time seemed to accelerate right along with it.

But unlike the differential equations about rockets losing weight as they burn fuel — equations I had taught myself as a pre‑teen in Karachi from those fabulous yellow‑and‑black Teach Yourself books by Hodder & Stoughton — the opposite was happening to me. The faster my life moved, the more mass I accumulated around my waist. 😄

Over the decades I added the almost formulaic ten pounds per decade. Whenever I managed to reverse the trend, the formula was always the same: switch Pepsi to water, and practice portion control. It worked every time. At least three times in the last decade I brought myself back to 179 lbs — the weight I was when I started at Columbia Business School in January 1989. But sooner or later, after a late night of work, I'd find myself popping open a can again.

The daily Pepsi and ice‑cream habits kept the trajectory climbing, and late last year I hit 205. The only way that number would've been good was if my bank balance had been "worth my weight in gold," but that didn't happen. So I returned to my tried‑and‑tested routine: portion control, less eating out, and completely cutting soda and ice‑cream purchases.

The shockingly unaffordable grocery prices — and the ridiculous cost of Pepsi and Coke 12‑packs (almost a dollar a can!) — actually helped. Temptation became too expensive to indulge. I'm also dealing with many other complications in life that I keep to myself, but through it all I remain perpetually optimistic and eternally grateful.

Yesterday, while getting ready, I was taking this selfie to mark my gratitude for getting back down to the weight I was in 1987 at age 25… when I was interrupted. Whether I can maintain it through 2027 and beyond remains to be seen. May God help me stay healthy, happy, and active for whatever destiny awaits me here on earth. Your prayers are appreciated.

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Surreal Sky Serene Secure Street Structured Scene - IMRAN®

Surreal Sky Serene Secure Street Structured Scene -  IMRAN® 

Being a late‑night person, I'm usually going to bed at three or four in the morning. So it's unusual for me to be out walking the dog a few minutes before 6 AM, as I was yesterday, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. That also means I rarely witness sunrise, being so enamored with sunset as I am.

So imagine my surprise when I stepped out the front door and saw this surreal sky above my serene, secure street. I had never seen SpaceX rocket launch after‑effects visible from Apollo Beach before — especially from a launch across the state. Perhaps the upper‑level winds carried the illuminated plume sideways, letting it drift into view over Tampa Bay.

As I took this photo from my front door, I loved how the full moon cast the shadow of the streetlamp across my driveway, creating another surreal structure — an almost symmetric echo of the halo shimmering in the sky.

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A Flock Of (Non) Seagulls & The First (Ides) Of March Sunset Tampa Bay Florida – IMRAN®

A Flock Of (Non) Seagulls & The First (Ides) Of March Sunset Tampa Bay Florida – IMRAN®
As life keeps sending one challenge after another since early last year—almost as if testing my resolve, my faith, and my perpetual state of gratitude—I remind myself to keep seeing, feeling, and capturing every moment God still grants me in this magical place I've been blessed to call home for 14 years. Even on the hardest days, scenes like this flock skimming the fiery First‑of‑March sky remind me that beauty, hope, and meaning continue to unfold right in front of us.

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Fool “US” Once, Fool “US” Twice, Again & Again, Netanyahu - IMRAN®

Fool "US" Once, Fool "US" Twice, Again & Again, Netanyahu - IMRAN® 

Talk about history repeating itself (do quickly) and being gullible at the hands of a criminal (or two) trying to stay in power and out of jail. Facebook showed me this post from exactly 11 years ago, 3/3/2015. 

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""If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." ~ #Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu urging the US to invade #Iraq in 2002. ... America is SO thankful to him & the lying neocons for helping get us in that nightmare. Who would not want more "great advice" from this man.

....By the way, this quote was shared with me by a respected American Jewish rabbi who leads an organization to promote peace and stop the evil policies of Zionists and war criminals like Nethanyahu." 

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Here we go again. 

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Thought For Food: Salmon Lover’s Delight — IMRAN®

Thought For Food: Salmon Lover's Delight — IMRAN®

I'm always on a see/seafood diet. I see (sea)food, I eat it. The irony? Growing up in the seaside city of Karachi, I actually hated seafood. Sometimes the stench of a fish‑market truck crossing paths with our school bus on Drigh Road on the way to St. Paul's High School would make me nauseous.

Even later, when visiting my parents, whether it was my late beloved father's favorite fish — caught fresh daily from the rivers and canals his Irrigation Department job gave us the luxury of living beside in Punjab — lovingly cooked by my late precious mother, or Dad's favorite fried fish at a restaurant in Lahore, I still had zero interest.

Everything changed unexpectedly on my first trip abroad — in West Germany of all places — where I discovered authentic Japanese food for the first time. I was pleasantly shocked by how much I enjoyed it. I took to sashimi… well, like a fish to water.

Years later, during a visit to Japan itself, that newfound love only grew deeper — and it has never abated. From holding my nose on Drigh Road to diving nose‑first into sashimi — life has a raw and fresh sense of humor with nothing fishy about it. 

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