Hooked

After months of delay i am finally reading the da vinci code.
It took me a month and a half to read the first 60 pages, i didn't do much reading then.
It took me yesterday to get to read the following 200 pages!!
And i am officially hooked, my mind is now thinking 24/7 of what secret that the curator is hiding!
Yesterday I opened the book at 11:30 only to put it down, with a struggle, at 4 am!
I am expecting a few more days of lack of sleep.

pathologic cleaning disorder!

Yes! that is me.
I am a pathological cleaner.
I am sitting in the NC office working on a computer when i realize that the Keyboard is extremely dirty, with some letters you cannot even see from all the dirt. So i turn off the computer and get my baby wipes and start cleaning it.
Now it still not sparkling but it's acceptable.
Tom of course was deeply disturbed not by the fact that did it, but by the fact that i really genuinly enjoyed it!
up untill now i have mentally cleaned up the office a zillion times, and i have a set plan for how i will start cleaning it when i move in.
Today i just realized,,, why wait?
I could do it over the labor day vacation. I have sunday and Monday off, just enough to do the first round of cleaning in the office.
Then by mid June i can do the second and round of cleaning, and finally by end of June the final step.
The worst thing about me which Tamer is yet to find out that I need a good physical working environment inorder to perfrom.
The good thing is i like creating it. :)

I am excited about cleaning Day - let's see hoe many people i can get to join me.

Yikes!

thumbs up!

Thumbs up and hats off to Mustafa,
You're still a winner in my Eyes!

Love ya
xxx

time to say goodbye

For the past month I have been convinced that it's cool that i am leaving my LC, and it will be great to receive less calls from the zillion i get daily from all my members.
I seriously could not wait to start my MC term and finish my LCP term.

But yesterday the Elections took place, and at one moment it hit me.
Someone was calling " Hey LCP,,LCP" so naturally i turned around and yelled "YES", only to get a reply " not you, we want margo".
It hit me,, my babies will no longer be my babies.
All those people who you have around you all the time, who can't wait till you call them to go out and hang out, who offer you their seat, or a ride in their car eventhough you live miles away.
I will not get to see them everyday, and hang out on a daily basis, i will not be pestered all the time with their phonecalls at 2 am and 8 am, and i will not be constantly asked questions about AIESEC.
And it hit me that i will seriously miss all of that.

I look at my LC and see people who I have grown really fond of, people that make me feel good about myself and happy with my LC and happy with the effort my team and I have done when we started all of this from scratch and I now feel so sad to leave.
Nader, Mamdouh, Mustafa, Hany, Ozzie, Hashem, Sara, Alaa and soo many others all my babies :)

(i really sound like jen and those ppl who've been in AIESEC for ages)

And soon my role will deminish, and Margo - also one of my babies, will be the new LCP, and a fine one i may say!
I never realized how much i love my LC till yesterday.

and quoting my dear friend poo " gay-sec will have to end someday"

what is this, week of the dead?!

damn, what a week.
I thought the exams made it bad but apparently not.
First, you have the Pope who passed away, and his funeral which was today.
Second, you have Shireen's grandma passed away as well.
Third, you got all those people who died and were injured in Khan El khalili.
Fourth, it's Nora's grandpa who passed away too.

I hope there are no weeks like that in a long long time.

my biggest flaw

i plan too much and i want everything.
i hate that

so my motto from now on is
Carpe Diem!
this is THE challenge of the YEAR!

I am challenging myself to not think about anything that could or could not happen.
I am only allowed to think about events that are a maximum of 7 days from now.
(let's face it, i can't live day by day, and i already have a daily plan till the end of the month, so i can't not use it)

let's see if i can do that.
comon, i managed to food-control alright untill now. i should be able to do this.

Addictive TV!

Yesterday was monday, the day where the TV from 9 to 10 and from 11 to 12 is sacred.
This is the time when the TV show 24 is shown.
My sister does not go on her daily Jog, my brother does not go out and goof around with his friends or play with his Need for Speed.
My friends are not out having fun, they don't answer their phones.
What's happening?
24
I have heard about and seen all sorts of people addicted to that show.
Each episode of the show represnts one Hour or Jack Bower's (the main character) Day.
Each season is 24 episodes each representing a day - therefore seasons are called Day one, Day two, Day three..etc
I have started watching Day one a year ago in one of its re-runs but decided not to watch it coz i didn't want to be committed to staying home to watch it.
It's now in Day three, and people still follow it and make it a highlight of their day.

TV can get sooo addictive. especially shows like 24 where you can't even blink, otherwise you'll miss something.

anyone here addicted?

A nightmare called Cairo

Some facts about Cairo:

Cairo is one of the largest cities in the world with 20-22 Million people living and working there (including day workers)
Along with Bombay and Rio de Janeiro, Cairo is the worst city to drive in.
An average taxi ride costs 10-20 pounds.
Getting ripped off is the norm.
If you are a girl in a Taxi, there is a 75% chance that the reason why the taxi driver keeps looking at you it's because his hand are in his pants, giving himself some "pleasure".
The amount of veiled girls/women and bearded men makes you feel like you are in an Iranian movie.
The color blue does now exist: the Nile has a brown color, kind of like the color you see in the toilet when you have diarrhea. The sky is gray as it is covered with a thick layer of Fog.
There is no correct accurate map of Cairo.
Crossing the street is an adventure that is as life threatening as jumping off the Himalaya Mountains.

And finally,,,,
Cairo is going to be my home in the very near future