Got some pretty affordable quotations. Whether you guys are willing to pay for it is another matter, eh?
Headed down to Kampung Glam/Haji Lane area 'cos Kak Yana wanted to take a look around. Spotted an absolutely talented Arabic calligrapher. I don't really know whether to use the term 'Islamic calligrapher' or 'Arabic calligrapher', but I'll be more respectful to our secular nation and stick with the latter.
Got him to 'calligraph-ise' my name. Cost me a good five bucks, that one. But I must admit, it's pretty good, although I would have wanted to see something more elaborate and expressive. Heh.
I guess I'm being unfair to a certain group of people right now. If you can read Jawi or Farsi, this would probably make more sense. It reads my name, 'Muhammad Hafeez' from a sort of clockwise direction starting from the top right hand corner.
Hell, western calligraphy is hard enough, but my respect really goes out to Arabic calligraphers (and ambrigramists too. Didn't think I forgot about you guys, didja?)
Check out my post on ambigrams here.
