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Faraz

if it were that simple, it would have been done a long time ago !!!

About Me

I'm a spiritually minded person, who has a wide range of interests (from reading up on Tarot & Buddhism to working on business strategies, from cooking to music, from writing to researching, from occasional graphic designing and electro-music to dabbling in fashion styling and photography)......
Used to write songs and poetry a long time ago (just don't find time these days even though inspirations abound all the tim)....but want to get serious about taking my basic guitar knowledge a few levels higher, and maybe even record some songs...........
I'm married to my best friend, and I am here to make friends...not a lot of them...just enough friends whom I can spend time on......taking a few minutes to write a one-liner or sending an IM.....
I would love to meet people who bring a diversity to humanity.....who complete a part of us thats always missing......who bring a sense of wellbeing in a world thats slowly becoming discriminatory, crazy, vicious and paranoid......
So whether you're a filmaker, a single parent, a chef, a blue chip recruiter, a tattooed swinger or a student......If you wish to engage in a relationship thats based on respect, humour (sarcastic, cheeky and lots of it) and a sense of kinship, then drop me a line........
My career has taken me from food franchises to advertising / branding to airline catering......so you know I can create, and cook up, a storm......
Blessed Be !!!!

My Interests

cooking, music, watching movies, travelling, mentoring, Net-surfing, daydreaming.....

I'd like to meet:

1) Eddie Van Halen, Hendrix, Joe Satriani and Stevie Ray Vaughn (wishful thinking though)...

2) Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Martha Stewart, Richard Branson and Donald Trump

Other than that, I want to meet people who are entrepreneurs, creative types, musicians, chefs / cooks, anyone who shares my ideals and beliefs....or even those that differ from me......

Music:

Rock (hard rock, soft rock, ANY ROCK !!!!!!), blues, heavy metal (led zeppelin, iron maiden type), alternative, nu-metal, grunge....

occasionally don't mind listening to commercial radio stuff (top 40's, hip-hop) and even electronic music (Chemical brothers, oakenfold, deep forest)....

If I had to pinpoint a genre down for listening 24-7, it would have to be classic rock (from hair-metal bands like Warrant, Poison, Skid Row, , Firehouse, GnR, Whitesnake, Motley Crue all the way back to Lynrd Skynrd, Kansas, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Toto, Boston).....

ROCK & FUCKING ROLL forever !!!!!!!!!!!

Movies:

Anything and everything...especially Sci-Fi, suspense / horror, love mysteries and crime capers..

Television:

any version of CSI, Law & Order:SVU, 24, Numb3rs, Cold Case, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The Apprentice.....Food Network, HGTV, BBC Food, Discovery.....

Books:

Anything by John Grisham, Sydney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, Frederick Forsythe, Alistar Maclean, Jack Higgins.......

Currently reading a lot of Iris Johansen and Mary Higgins Clark - guess I'm really bored...

Cookbooks on ethnic cuisines.........Murder mysteries, real life crime / forensic novels...

Heroes:

my parents (for putting up with me all these years, my wife (my strength, my beacon of guidance through all my dark and moody days).............

All my teachers at the Catholic school (who dedicated their lives trying to improve ours, at a pitiful pay)

My Blog

deconstruction and unlearning

Hmm.....how many of us have skills / talents that we picked up along the way...with no one to guide us, we just kept on teaching ourselves as best as we could...with occasional tips and tricks from fr...
Posted by Faraz on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:15:00 PST

if you don't know me, don't fucking stereotype me

Why in world do we stereotype, or compartmentalize everyone using a predefined criteria ???? Had a major discussion with the dumbfuck in my office who thinks of himself as a self-appointed preacher m...
Posted by Faraz on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:29:00 PST

new beginnings ????

First working day of 2006.....and boy oh boy has the shit started to hit the fan already......Just got back from a lengthy 3 hr meeting with auditors, and now have to take a briefing from cabin crew a...
Posted by Faraz on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:38:00 PST

comfortably numb

Just found out today that this vacancy announced by my company (which would have meant 2 pay group rise) was filled by outsiders, even though a number of internal candidates applied....and I made it t...
Posted by Faraz on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:51:00 PST