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I'm *still* alive

Nope, this isn't the mega post I've been promising people, but I see some free time in the horizon so it will happen, sometime within this month :D

Anyway, here's what you can expect an update on in that post:

1. Transition *yes, my last post was that long ago* :D
2. MC life, Interns, MC CEEDs (Marina, I miss you!), Mads (Mads, I miss you too, but not as much as I miss Marina!), and Karachi (Lahore, I miss you too!!)
3. IC '07, and the craziness that was...
4. Current stuff and future stuff

Cool?!? I promise to post in under 2 weeks...

Ciao

Day 3...

KLepo and Taha are here - Yay! I'm not the only new/slighlt confused person in the apartment anymore!

 

We all went and picked KLepo up at the airport (his flight was 40 minutes early, but thankfully he was still in the terminal when we got there), then we came back to the apartment, hung out on the roof (which we might lose soon, courtesy DHA), went out for dinner to Karachi Broast (which is a pretty good local version of Nando's), and then proceeded to come back home and do some further hanging out on the roof - with some AIESEC dance lessons thrown in.

 

Now the new MC is blogging/checking emails/updating facebook while the old MC is passed out after a hard night of partying...but it's 4:30 am and tomorrow will involve spring cleaning the apartment, so I should log off and get some sleep.

 

Pictures soon...I just need to get them from all the people who own cameras :D

Day 1

Thought I'd update the blog now that I've finally moved into the MC Mansion. It's been a while since I did anything AIESEC related - took a one month break from everything but emails, and had a blast. Am now in Karachi - the city of lights, and more importantly AIESEC in Pakistan's HQ - and moved into the apartment last night. Very soon the entire place is going to be crawling with incoming and outgoing MCs, CEEDs and interns, so the next few weeks should definitely be interesting.

Sohaib's getting here on the 7th, KLepo get's here tomorrow, and Taha will be moving in soon too - so by next weekend we'll have the whole 07/08 team in the house - really psyched!

More updates after Klepo arrives.

Experience Pakistan!

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A worthy cause...

Arto, the guy who made the IC '06 video is making a movie, and he needs your support.

You can become a coproducer of my film 'Wszystko' (eng. 'Everything') and help me to make it as well. All you need to do is to support this film with a sum of at least 10 euros / 10 dollars / 5 pounds (higher amounts are very welcome). In exchange I will mention your name in the credits and moreover I will send you a DVD with the film to the adress given by you.

He's collected $2500 so far, so if you're up for it, log on to the film's website and donate!

Updates...

For all those wondering, I'm in Lahore right now, not Karachi/Islamabad/or another country. My cell phone is broken, so email me instead :D

Lotsa stuff's happened...and I didn't have the time to post (read: too lazy), so here's a quick update...

- IPM 07: An amazing conference to be a part of. Best thing about it: meeting all the crazy elects!!

- Post IPM: Had a great post-stay with Salman Suhail and his great roommates!! Thanks guys! Got to see the Pyramids, Sphinx...2 down, 5 to go :D  

- NPM: Spent a relaxing week in Karachi, and participated in the best 2 day conference EVER! Here's to next year and the coolest NLT ever!!

Here's something that I've had opened for the last couple of days, but wasn't sure if I had the guts to put out there. My nohari window (an inversion of the johari window) can be accessed here. For those of you who haven't contributed to my johari window yet, that's over here.

That's all for right now...I think my first post in a few months should be short :D

We're in Egypt!

Yep, we reached here safe and sound - but it was an extremely interesting trip (when aren't they?). Our flight from Khi-Abu Dhabi was eventless, but we were delayed at that airport for 2 extra hours (on top of our 4 hour transit!) but we managed to meet the Sri Lankan delegation, and a guy from the UK - all AIESECer - so we managed to pass the time with considerable ease (although Costa did tell us to stop hogging the sofa after two hours!).

The fun actually started after we reached Cairo airport, because when we got off the plane and came towards immigration, there was a huge group of people screaming and shouting - which we later found out were people wuiting to be given their passports. Since the online passport scanning network in the airport had collapsed a few hours ago, everything was being done manually, which meant that after you had submitted your passport to the control booth, they would manually enter your data and then after about three hours they'd send a bunch of passports to these gaurds who were screaming out the names of the people who the passport belonged to! Lucky for us, since we were delayed by two hours, we missed most of this commotion, and only saw the ending, as after about 10 minutes of being in line to hand over our passport, we were told that the system had been restored and we could do the whole thing digitally - meaning we got done in 15 minutes!!

Have just reached the pre-meeting venue after a very harrowing drive through Cairo streets, but that's normal supposedly, and are now getting some stuff done and re-charging before heading out for dinner.

201

as this is post#201, i have to say something profound...so here it goes,

i won, i won, i won, i won, i won! (repeat until exhausted!)

sorry about that, but it's about the only thing that comes to mind :D anyway...smarter posts coming up soon...keep reading.

while out for dinner with some old friends, the question of "what's the one thing you want to do before you die?" came up. having never thought about it before, i was stumped. the answer that i gave shocked even me. i'd never thought i was a romantic...

2006...

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Lived alone in a foreign country for two months :D

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make New Year's resolutions, it's like waving a red flag to a bull.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope

5. What countries did you visit?
Poland

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Same old story - a laptop!!

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Dec 31 - best NYE ever!!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I prioritized, my way :)

9. What was your biggest failure?
I wasn't always around for people.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I actually didn't buy anything significant, I did mooch a jacket off of Rob's back :D

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My brother's - he finally took the plunge got married!!

13.Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
No one - to be appalled and depressed, you need to have high expectations of people and I don't believe in those

14.Where did most of your money go?
Travelling - although technically that's my dad's money

15.What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Poland - it was by far the most insane experience of my entire life!

16.What song will always remind you of 2006?
"My humps", and Laura dancing to it in the SGGW dorm room! The whole incident was hilarious and I can't get that song out of my head now. Followed closely by "Signal" from some cheesy Indian movie, as my sister made me listen to a million times for the wedding!!

17.Compared to this time last year,

I. are you happier or sadder? Happier
II. thinner or fatter? Same, maybe fatter - ouch!
III. richer or poorer? Richer, till I buy my laptop.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Spend time with family...

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sleep :D

20. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Nope...aww..sad!

21. How many one-night stands?
none...good girl!

22. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope - I dislike some people a bit more.

23. What was the best book you read?
My sister's, can't say the name or anything else as it hasn't been published yet :D

24. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I rediscovered some old stuff I had liked when I was younger.

25. What did you want and get?
I wanted a laptop, and I got the money for it :D

26. What did you want and not get?
I wanted a new phone, and although I might just get that, I haven't gotten it yet.

27. What was your favorite film of this year?
Aahh...the worse film was "pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest". I loved "Hooligan's", though it's not a recent release.

28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
This is a sad story - turned 23, was home alone, no one around me, on Eid! Very, very sad story.

29. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A better b'day :P

30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
same old, same old...jeans and t-shirts

31. What kept you sane?
who said i was sane?

32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
The "supernatural" boys.

33. What political issue stirred you the most?
Nothing can faze me anymore.

34. Who did you miss?
Ammar Zaki - the idiot moved to the US :) We're meeting tomorrow though

35. Who was the best new person you met?
Mostly everyone on the IC '06 CC - but David Pollay, the chair for the conference, was truly phenomenal.

36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
You have to have courage to admit to and learn from mistakes