Thursday, November 23, 2006
his innocence
is my escape
these days.
=)
We were sitting on the dinner table last night and he's sitting with me he turns to me and says
'Khala, show me your ear!' And I thought he wants to do one his doctor acts so I offer it to him and he says,
'No! Turn to the other side.' Confused, I do what he says then he puts his ear against mine and tells me a secret. I wish I could describe the feeling but it's our little thing.
10:52 PM
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A typical day at work, I was sending out some emails, moved away from my desk for a bit. When I returned my phone's message memory was blinking, I had exceeded the limit AGAIN! Aaargh, now I have to delete an important message (read: may not be important but just worth bugging friends about later!). Now I'm waiting for this message to come through, wondering who it is, hoping it's not another 'logistical disaster call' from uni. I receive the message from a friend I haven't spoken to in over a month and that too virtually, it reads:
'Today is International Spastic Day. Please send an encouraging message to a retarded friend, just as I have done. I don't care if you lick windows , interfere with farm animals, vote Labour or occasionally shit yourself....you hang in there sunshine, you're fucking special!'
1:52 AM
Monday, November 13, 2006
Is this is the end, my only friend.
1:43 AM
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Waiting for class to start and sitting next to Wangari (our Ashoka intern) in the lab I'm just wondering if I could've been found in the same situation years ago. I think about how crazy she might think we are sometimes, just now I come rushing in and I'm like have you heard this song,
'Drops of Jupiter', and I'm only so excited about it because of conference and she's like 'Nooo' but I'd like to. And I don't even know if she likes it or not I just hand her the ear phones. I find it hard to believe sometimes how you create your own comfort zone with people you've met let than a month ago. You just know you connect with them at some level even if they don't belong to your country or speak your language I know I have more in common with her than the 20 other people in this room. And that's what matters -
just that.
And these are the few
most exciting times you spend with someone at times! (Please click on the blue box!)
5:31 AM
Monday, November 06, 2006
Been less than 24 hours since I got back from Lahore and I miss conference already. Our largest conference so far, the experience was amazing! So let me type out my personal list of the
'good, bad and the sleepy' of NYDS 2006!
- Opening Plenary with Ali Siddiqui
- MC Jive (Chicken DANCE!)
- Portraits
- The sheep and the super cool king
- The Chair - Dhruv :D
- Late night Shisha Sessions (courtesy: Adeel, Shibli aka Shisha Corner and Saad for detailed Seinfeld discussions;))
- Lahore Night (awesome arrangement)
- 1 hour of sleep-in (Bliss!!)
- Karachi Night (7 hour long legislation surprise!)
- Legislation - motion-block
- 2a+b
- Faci-ing at the LC session
- Free coffee/kitkat/red bull
- Formal night and all the 'First' speeches
- Endless photo sessions
- NLC 2007 Bid Presentation
- Wake up call by 10 people screaming
'GOSSIP'- Singing
Drops of Jupiter in my 'potential-heavy-metal-vocalist' voice with the rest of the delegation!
Thanks to the NYDS 2006 Team: Dhruv, MC, Facis and OC for making this conference as good as it was!
11:06 AM
