Adios Szab - Hello MC!

It was the morning of May 18th, I frantically gotup at 9:30am to literally RUN off to college, as we had our Research Project Presentations - which you have to give at the end of your BBA, and is pretty much worth 2 courses! Got to college by 10:15, in a rather unusual setting in the Auditorium (where we were presenting for the first time), and witnessed nervous, tensed, hyper (some losers were for some reason!) and some happy buncha' students.. who were about to unofficially graduate!

Presentations from 10:30am - 5pm, and my group's turn was at 4pm! Sighh. So after catching up with my sleep, joking around, millions of sms-es, going for prayers in the middle (friday), taking pics!, having lays, revising notes, we were on the stage for 1 final time! (why is this turning into a lame story of some famous band's last gig?! :p)




So that sums it up pretty much. Presentation finished, went ok, less raping as compared to others, and we were treated by our college to tea and snacks!

And so after giving 100+ presentations, clearing 48 courses, taking 144 hourlies and 48 finals, going to a huge number of seminars/conferences... I still have the same old car!.. Ok no, I finally graduate!

It was indeed a pleasure studying here, and a greater pleasure to have met the life-long friends I made over here.. the early morning halwa-puri's, the frantic runs to the lab for print-outs, the lays with tea sessions, the samosa with tea sessions, the random arguments in the cafe over why we chose a certain topic for a report, the mimicking sessions! (oh damn!), the walks from 90 to 100, the birthday celebrations in the study, the flamingo trips, the meetings! (SO many!), the EBM's!, the random AIESEC memories, the fights, the daewooooo! (oh how can I forget you! you SUCKER!!:p), the drops, the same damn feeling after giving every exam, and the billion other things.. this all would definitely be missed!

And now its hello to the MC of AIESEC in Pakistan! Can't wait to start, though I do need to wrap up some stuff. The last couple of days have been a lot of corporate meetings with Emad/Kurt, desperately trying to sell off my car (sadness), family stuff, hanging out, and a lot of green tea for some odd-ball reason.

The entire month of June is transitioning into next year's role as the National Team of AIESEC in Pakistan, which entails living with 3 old MC members, 3 new MC members, 2 Interns, and 1 CEED-er from Canada, at the MC Mansion! Not to mention crazy transition sessions at the Office as well as at home/roof/wherever!


July is when we officially take over, and thats when things get insane!


More of that later, right now some more pics.





So am I going to end this off on a really emotional note in a background of empty corridors?!

No I'm not! Thank God its over!

:)

Crazy.

So, the mission towards getting AIESEC in Pakistan's Full Membership Status has begun!

I just got back home from the crazy MC Mansion an hour back, after Emad and Nida left for the airport to fly-off to Egypt for International President's Meeting! What a challenge, and what a conference they are gona have! All the best guys!

It was an interesting day today, to say the least. My Advertising teacher thought I "always" have some problem or the other when I asked him for an early leave from his class. I actually had dinner from outside today, without whining about the fact that I have to take pre-cautions. I actually took Yousuf's advice on something, which turned out to be really good in the end:P. I was at the MC roof for 5 hours, chugging up Pakola and chocolates non-stop, sorry Kurt. I finally broke my car's keys. I missed The Apprentice.. Ok, now I am just getting too emotional.

More randomly, I haven't posted since pre-NLC, so I might want to start off from there. I think NLC 2007 was by far, the most challenging, inspiring, blunt and fun conference that I have experienced so far. Seriously.. It was 5 days of.. 'everything'.

As mentioned in my previous posts, I did apply for President of AIESEC in Pakistan, which I did not get. However, I did get selected as Vice President of AIESEC in Pakistan, specifically dealing with External Relations! :)

So my MC Team for the next 1 year starting from June'07 would be Nida (President), Sohaib (VP Xchange), Tomas (VP Talent Management) and ofcourse, myself (VP External Relations).

While we have already started off with random suggestions for a Team-name, I think its safe to say that the thoughts that we are having right now, are nothing less than crazy. But nevertheless, what a rockin' year to look forward to!

In more random news, I am figuring out a way to get a laptop. I need help, so give me some ideas! It sucks not to have one. Not to mention the fact that I have to get to India in exactly 32 days from now, for APXLDS 2007!

Anyway, welcoming a new friend to Pakistan in the next couple of weeks is definitely happening! Aura, you're in for the time of your life girl! And an awesome blog you got, once again.

I'm out for now.

3.7 :)

After having a previous best GPA of 3.3, and lowest of 2.7, its safe to say, that this semester was quite full of surprises.

Activities which should have had a negative effect on my gpa (but somehow had a positive effect!) :

- Missed college for 3 whole weeks due to Jaundice!
- Acted in a play in September. Go TCN!
- Probably the busiest semester for all AIESEC related activities!
- Buddy over from Africa! :)
- Demo album launch of InQishaaf. Alongwith atleast 5 concerts!

Can't get over it. :P

In more news, only 16 hours to go for deadline of MC Applications for AIESEC in Pakistan!

What's my status?

A million thoughts currently in my mind. A billion ways to put it. Sleep was never such an anti-thing for my body. Ever.

81 days...

It feels like a lifetime has passed since I last posted here.. SO much has happened its not even funny.

Rockstar Supernova? They're in a mess now for copying some other band's name or something. Lukas won it btw. Pointless, but just had the urge to round off that previous post.

I think the most striking things to remember during these 81 days.. were the 7 solitary days at the hospital. All alone.. family/friends visiting in the evenings. No TV, no internet, no AIESEC work, no other work, no college, no assignments, no Karachi Broast with the boys, no doodhpatti, no late-night gmailing, no gtalking at 2am, no cursing my awesome sportscar, no annoying tyre punctures, no NYDS!:(, no Eid, no garlic fries from Milano, no hourlies, no corporate meetings, no tracker, no band meetings, no music, no f.r.i.e.n.d.s, no MTV, no EBM's, no Szabist ki canteen, no tea with samosa every single day during break, no driving sisters around, no messed up room, no neighbours, no laptop, no nothing.

Sigh.. so many no's. I don't know if those 3 recovery weeks were a break for me, or time to reflect on, I know one thing for sure. NO compromise on health ever again!

Anyway, then we had InQishaaf taking over life. Demo Album Launch Concert at the Basement. www.inqishaaf.com Project with Saaim and his buds. Covered by Geo and CNBC. Another one at Cafe Shabistan. Another at DHA.

Then we had an end to our non-raising drought! A raise with Reckitt. Welcoming Kouadio Yao - MY first trainee here in Pakistan. Hearing him say,

You're like my father overhere.

Million other news.. cramped up with finals, so would like to stop and ponder over the Sales Management final tomorrow. 15 hours to go, exactly before he hands us the papers. To study or not to study..

Moving on! I remember I have to go with Yao to the Visa office at 9am. As much as I hate early morning wake-ups, this one seems exciting. I'll get back on THAT one soon!

Mugged at ATM by the bank!

So I walk into an ATM machine after quite awhile, just to check how much cash I have in my account. As soon as I enter my card and code, it displays this message:

"Sorry, your card has been captured! Contact bank for details."

Lol. I wish I had kept a check on the amount I had in my account.