Another travel story

Okay believe it or not this is the first time i don't complain from traveling procedures, in fact as far my memory recall i don't think that i ever had smoother traveling preparations, but i think i should share :)

Okay, so now i have my army status done so i know what is going on with my army shit.

So lets go:

1.Registered to IC 2007 in Turkey
2.waited until i got approved from my MCP and then AI
3.got the approval a few days after
4.had to modify some informations in my application
5.got invitations letter
6.because i am from Alexandria and the embassy's rules is that i have to apply in alex
7.going to alex
8.applying for the visa(it cost 205 pounds now hmm interesting)
9.got the visa the second day( yeah nothing new i will be citizen of turkey soon :P)
10.second day is Friday so no army permission for me
11.going to army base 35 KM outside of alex
12.waiting for 4 hours in the sun to get a permission to go to turkey for the purpose of doing omra that was fun
13.had to wait for another hour to chance the permission
14.got the permission( yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay )
15. had my flight conformation from abdo

and ta da thats it, i am ready to go to turkey the only thing remaining as usual is getting my bags ready, i am happy and hope that every time i travel it would as easy as that where the only thing i worry about is preparing my bags.

Turkey here i come, ammmmm again :P

My Tarot Card

I am Death

Change, Transformation, Alteration.

People fear this card, but if you want to change your life, this is one of the
best indicators for it. Whatever happens, life will be different. Yes, the Death card can signal a death in the right circumstances (a question about a very sick or old relative, for example), but unlike its dramatic presentation in the movies, the Death card is far more likely to signal transformation, passage, change. Scorpio, the sign of this card, has three forms: scorpion, serpent, eagle. The Death card indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. This is a card of humility, and it may mean you have been brought low, but only so that you can then go higher than ever before. Death "humbles" all, but it also "exults." Always keep in mind that on this card of darkness there is featured a sunrise as well. You could be ready for a change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Okay so what else is new.....

Okay enough about me :) but isnt this blog about me :P:P:P

Anyways i just wanted to send a late greetings to my dear friend and one of the dearest AIESEC members in my heart................NADER

In a really challenging election Nader made it , he is the LCP of AIESEC in Alex for the term 07/08

I've known Nader from day one for both of us and he actually worked with me in the same team twice in two different functions and to tell you the truth as much stone headed Nader is i always loved to talk to him and have some interesting conversation with him.

I've seen Nader take it step by step from the young child that just entered university and AIESEC to the person he is now, it's really intresting how you can see the difference in a person in such a short period.

Sally our LC babe, I've never been so proud of you, you've shown us a different sally from what we all thought you are, you were confidant about yourself and your knowledge and that's something that is rarely found in someone in your age.

Nihad, my successor and one of the most dedicated ICXers I've seen until now, it was challenging for you and i'am sure that you have thought about a million times before you apply for it, you earned my respect and i am sure everyone else as well.

4 years now and i see my beloved LC growing, one EB team to another, one LCP to another, maybe the results doesn't speak for them but still the real product of AIESEC is people and i got to say, AIESEC has developed their people a lot in the past 4 years including myself.

I wouldn't be more proud

Back again :D:D:D

It's been a while.....actually a while is no the word my last post was on the 8th of Feb which makes it almost 3 month.

And a great 3 months, in 3 month my life went up and down, good and bad but in the end of these 3 months i am happy.

I finally got what i was running after in the past 2 years
Yes i got it, i am the upcoming Member Committee Vice President of Exchange :D:D:D

it was though, even thinking about running again for the 4th time was hard, everyone around me told to let go and forget about it and even some told me that its a lost case.

But i had something within myself saying common what are you going to lose, i don't care so much about how i will look , like common its not like strip poker where i have to take something off whenever i lose.

So i did and it was one hell of a ride to tell you the truth, 2 interviews one with representatives of each entity of AIESEC Egypt and the other with the MCP elect and both of them were very hard but somehow i managed to keep myself calm and it went okay.

And after a long period of nail biting and not sleeping and checking my email every 2 mins i got the email :)

Hi Bahaa,


I want to say thank you for your application --

and I would also like to say, welcome to the MC 2007/2008.


Congratulations.

Annika
MCPe
The sweetest email i ever seen for a while.......

I think this puts me back on track , the track i thought i was way away from it.
So much i want to do and so much i want to change, this year will rock i am sure, and i am happy with my team , in my 4 years in AIESEC i never felt so happy about working with a team like this one, i know most of them and have lots of respect to all of them and who knows what we will do together.

Wait up AIESEC World AIESEC EGYPT IS COMING TO ROCK THE HOUSE
and here is the team ( from left to right ):

Hossam.....MCVP Projects
Me :).........MCVP Exchange
Annika......MCP
Laura....... MCVP Talent Managment
Abo............MCVP External Relations
Ash............MCVP Information Systems

For a memory that died today

Oh - thinkin' about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free

Now nothin' can take you away from me
We bin down that road before
But that's over now
You keep me comin' back for more

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

Oh - once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down

Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way

N' baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

I've bin waitin' for so long
For something to arrive
For love to come along

Now our dreams are comin' true
Through the good times and the bad
Ya - I'll be standin' there by you


Good bye

Friends For Ever

The 3 Brothers :D :D :D :D

Mabrouk Ya NoN your Engagment :)

"Remember The Name"

You ready?! Let's go!
Yeah, for those of you that want to know what we're all about
It's like this y'all (c'mon!)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

He doesn't need his name up in lights
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him
But fuck em, he knows the code
It's not about the salary
It's all about reality and making some noise
Making the story - making sure his clique stays up
That means when he puts it down Tak's picking it up! Let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much
Never concerned with status but still leaving them star struck
Humbled through opportunities given despite the fact
That many misjudge him because he makes a living from writing raps
Put it together himself, now the picture connects
Never asking for someone's help, or to get some respect
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach
And now it all unfolds, the skill of an artist

This is twenty percent skill
Eighty percent beer
Be a hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames
And I heard him wreck it with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game"
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church
I like bleach man, why you had the stupidest verse?
This dude is the truth, now everybody's giving him guest spots
His stock's through the roof I heard he's fuckin' with S. Dot!

They call him Ryu, he's sick
And he's spitting fire
And mike got him out the dryer he's hot
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak
What a fuckin' nihilist porcupine
He's a prick, he's a cock
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get shot
Eight years in the making, patiently waiting to blow
Now the record with Shinoda's takin over the globe
He's got a partner in crime, his shit is equally dope
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat

He's not your everyday on the block
He knows how to work with what he's got
Making his way to the top
He often gets a comment on his name
People keep asking him was it given at birth
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's living proof, got him rocking the booth
He'll get you buzzing quicker than a shot of vodka with juice
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best
Dedicated to what they do and give a hundred percent

Nobody really knows how or why he works so hard
It seems like he's never got time
Because he writes every note and he writes every line
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind
It's like a design is written in his head every time
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme
And those motherfuckers he runs with,
The kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying,
How do they do it?!

PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006

WORLD PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2006

MY PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2006



AIESEC ALEX PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2006

AM BACK AND STRONGER

This is
10% percent luck,
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure,
50% pain
And a
100% reason to remember the name, my name, cause i am back stronger then ever to wipe up what i was...



Get ready cause i will be around for a while ;)

Winter

I hate being sick :S :S :S :S

Whats the difference ?????

Summer 2005

Winter 2006

In Memory of two fellow AIESECers and Friends

Esin Evcimen
1987 - 2005

Hayri Doğan
1987 - 2005

Every step I take, every move I make
Every single day, every time I pray
I'll be missing you
Thinkin of the day, when you went away
What a life to take, what a bond to break
I'll be missing you

It's kinda hard with you not around
Know you in heaven smilin down
Watchin us while we pray for you
Every day we pray for you
Til the day we meet again
In my heart is where I'll keep you friend
Memories give me the strength I need to proceed
Strength I need to believe
My thoughts Big I just can't define
Wish I could turn back the hands of time
Us in the 6, shop for new clothes and kicks
You and me taking flicks
Makin hits, stages they receive you on
I still can't believe you're gone
Give anything to hear half your breath
I know you still living you're life, after death

On that morning
When this life is over
I know
I'll see your face

Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
Every night I pray, every step I take
Every day that passes
Every move I make, every single day
Is a day that I get closer
To seeing you again
Every night I pray, every step I take
We miss you Big... and we won't stop
Every move I make, every single day
Cause we can't stop... that's right
Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
We miss you Big

Never seen anything like this

Feels like home again

Marmara Sea, Amazing view

Faci room, lots of people working and lots of computers, but i like it, its cool

Again faci room

Maja, Macedonia MCVP PD and one of my fellow facis :D:D:D:D
She's polish ;)

Airport pickup team :D:D:D
VIP persom i am ;)

ATEMKO 2006 International Facis

Leaving on a jetplane

GOD I LISTEN TO THIS SONG A LOT TODAY

AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

Okay so another travelling abroad story....

Last time the polish people gave me a hard time getting the visa for a time that i didn't enjoy in a very boring period of my travelling life other then the conference.

Anyways this time was easier but lets say the story from the beginning....


1. Got an email about faci position in Turkey's biggest national conference ( ATEMKO )
2. Applied for the conference send my application on the 11th and deadline was 19th
3. Waited waited and waited even more
4. The day of announcing the faci team came ( 20th) my f**king email is not working aiesec mail is down for more then 14 hours ( i was freaking out )
5. Got email that i got accepted yaaaaaaaaaay
6. Got the invitation letter a couple of days later
7. Went to college to get some papers
8.Went to the embassy on Monday and they asked me to wait and i waited for a couple of hours ( hmmmmm they didn't do that with me the last couple of times )
9. Was asked to come the second day to get my passport , hmmm am i going to take the isa and why did he make me wait for 2 hours then ????
10. Went the second day to get my passport and got it with the visa in it ( yyaaayyy that was easy )
11. Tuesday going to Cairo, missed my train took a mini bus that was pulled over in the middle of the desert for a speed ticket
12. Waited for one hour and half to find another ride
13. Found one but it will take me to the other side of Cairo which is so far from where i am going and where i was suppose to go
14. Went got my plane ticket ( 1650 pounds, hmmm that's not so bad )
15. Went to my college branch in Cairo to sign a paper and it took them 30 mins to do so
16. Went to the ministry of internal affairs to stamp the paper
17. Went to army office, was there at 2:30 and they close at 3
18. got rejected in the beginning cause i am not allowed to travel in the middle of the academic year( damn i had to finish my army s**t after graduation
19. Talked with the guy for a while and he was kind enough to accept my papers and was asked to come to second day to take my permission ( hey that was easier then the first time )
20. Kept looking for a place to stay and went to one of the trainees
21. Went the second day to get my permission to find out that the major who signs these papers didn't feel like going that day so no papers today and i have to stay one more day
22. The guy ( not the same one from the first day ) ask about my name and say that i have to translate the invitation letter ( why the f**k didn't he tell me that yesterday )
23. kept looking for a translation office for couple of hours and couldn't find
24. went back trying to tell the guy that i can translate it myself, he refuses plus he was closing everything ( come tomorrow he says )
25. Went and found a translation office which took him 7 hours to finish and had lots of mistakes that i had to give a small English course so he would do it again.
26. Went today morning and gave them the papers and made sure that everything is there
27. Was asked to come on Sunday ( YOU STUPID SOB I AM LEAVING SATURDAY )
28. The nice guy comes and tells me to wait and he will finish everything for me but i have to sit and shut up until he finishes and it doesn't matter how much time i will get it.
29. Got my permission at 3 Pm after 6 hours of wait doing nothing at all but smoking
30. Took the first train and came back to Alex
31. Now i have like zillion other things to do so i can leave on Saturday


Well i am lucky that i manage to leave every time , but does it have to be like that, its really stupid I've never hared that any country in the world do such things to people so they can travel, they make me feel that we are 100 people in the country not 75,000,000 and they even need more people to get into the army.

Leave them , its not like everyone will go out of the country and never comes back, why do you always think that we will escape ????

GOD I HATE WHEN STUFF LIKE THAT HAPPENS....

Anyway i am leaving on Saturday and really happy for my first international faci experience and going back to turkey and see all my Friends

Stay toned for more news and pictures :):):)

ADIOS

Waiting

Did i mention before that i hate waiting for a long time for something.............

I will always remember you my dear Esin.....

  

One year ago i had one of the most excising experiences in my life, which was my traineeship, i met a lot of people from different countries but only one was really special.

Esin.

She was a member of my hosting LC, when i saw her the first time it was my first day there and i was tired and want to shoot myself after a long day, she came to me and welcomed me and introduced herself.

to tell you the truth there was something special about that girl, she was really in love with AIESEC and was really enjoying her time being around the trainees and in the office.

A few days later my first day of the job came and i went with one member of the LC but they told us there that they wont be able to do my paper work that day and i should come the second day.

On the second day esin took me to work, there was a strike and no work, it was funny i thought i will never start, she tried her best to get me in and even had a fight with the security guy to get me in, but we didnt enter the building.

She kept apologizing a lot that day and kept saying that this never happens and i will work the next day .
and i had the chance to talk with her and to discover more about her dreams and passion in life and in AIESEC.

She was really a cute smart girl. God rest her soul

I finished my internship and came back and we kept in contact for a while, one day i was preparing myself to go to a company visit with my members when i got an SMS saying that AIESEC Ankara had an accident while going to national conference.

I got worried and hoped that everyone is okay, but that night i got the news that Esin and another member of the LC has passed away in that accident.

To tell you the truth and i dont care what anyone says , i cried a lot that night i couldnt believe it , Esin the cute little esin died.

i cant impress how sad i was and still am for that and how much i miss her with her smile.

A few days ago i had a dream that i went to ankara again and i saw her there on the door with all my friends from there, i woke up really feeling sad and i thought i should write more about her cause she deserves to be remembered, cause good people should always be remembered for ever.

I want you to pray for her.

And i want to chare the picture on the bottom with you, this is the last picture Esin took in her life a few hours before the accident, she is the one in the orange jacket, i want you to see how everyone is around her how she is really special in that picture.

En lilah wa en elayh rage2oun

I miss you my sweet friend



 

Best Outing EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Its really nice when you meet old friends and hang out togther and remeber the old days, specially you are not living in the same city or even country.

A few days ago we had an amazing AIESEC gathering, los of people there hanging and talking it was nice, but the coolest thing was the gathering of 3 EB teams of the last 3 years and 4 LCps of the current and last 3 years, Shereen, Luli, Margo and Alaa.

It was really nice that our team gathered again, this is the first time we meet all toghter after our term has finished, it really brought us memories and made us laugh about the good times we had.

It was an amazing year:):)

It was really a SUPER Day



 
 
 
  

Godfather

I didnt post anything for while and i stoped checking my blog or everyone else blog, it was getting really boring for me.... nothing new, same old things.

But last week everything changed, in my LC's information session Alaa my dear friend and LCP asked me to come and talk about my XP in AIESEC so i went there and i was so happy to be involved again with my LC and started to feel that i am part of it once again.

I was happy to see all the new members or future to be members sitting there intrested in AIESEC and really want to learn something new.

In the end of the information session Alaa and the rest of the EB team supriced me by thanking me for my effort for the LC in the last 3 years and declearing me the Godfather of this LC.

I felt really proud and felt that i really had an impact on this LC.

From a total loser the first time i joined AIESEC in 2001 to someone everyone thank for doing something really important in this LC.

I didnt imagen how much i love this LC but it seems its part of me already :):)

I am happy

Impacting lives

A 4 days trip made me realize how cool and fantastic AIESEC is.
10 people in one place because of the effort of one team for more then 5 months and matching effort for over 2 months.

all together from 5 different countries interacting having fun talking exchanging thoughts and dreams.

I was really happy to be with them in the same place and specially feeling responsible for this gathering in one place.

This is what AIESEC is really about....

I LOVE IT :D :D :D AND I LOVE MY TRAINEES :D :D :D

 
  

Live from IC & you can part 3

 
 
 
  

Live from IC and You CAN part 2

 
 
 
  

LIVE FROM IC & YOU CAN

 
 
 
  

Finally

So finally after a long time of hoping and dreaming and running and fighting I am in the airport waiting for my plain , yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

I am sitting now hearing some music checking my email inside Cairo airport waiting for my flight to Budapest that will land there at 6:30 AM and then I have 45 mins to catch my plain to Poland at 7:15 , it's going to be close but I feel that I am going to make it , as long as I passed the passport officer here and finished all the army shit I am will be okay .

YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY I AM GOING TO POLAND :D:D:D:D:D:D

Stay tuned to my new from there ;)

My XGB work

XGB LOGO

I was asked to design i logo for our XGB team so we can print it on tshirts to look cool in IC and after long hours of work i came out with these 3, i am really happy with the outcome of my work
And as John said : Globalisation at its best. Designed in Egypt,
printed in India, bought in Poland, 'shipped' back to some 10 other
countries...

:D :D :D 

Countdown

25 steps to get a polish visa

THE VISA

So I didn't leave to Poland, the embassy didn't give me my visa yesterday, and I was suppose to leave at 3 am.
And I had a call this morning telling me that I had the visa after 9 hours of my flight, and the nice thing that the embassy people said that this is my fault cause simply the responsible person in Poland did not confirm that I am coming with them.

So lets order the events:
1. I applied for the conferece
2. I got the acceptance of me being a delegate ( 2 weeks delay )
3. Got invitation letter ( after one week of annoucing the delegation list )
4. Got my plane ticket as its a rule to book your flight to apply for the visa
5. Applied for the visa the second day ( after getting all the documents )
6. Was asked to call after 10 days
7. Called after 12 days cause after 10 days was a Saturday and they are closed Saturdays and Sundays ( was told hat I did not get the approval of the visa with a promise that I will get it before I leave on the 17th)
8. Called the second day no answer
9. Went to the embassy yesterday and waited for 3 hours in the sun to be told that someone in Poland did not answer the email for confirming my participation in the conference
10. Went again in the afternoon and was shouted at and got a lesson in manners from the embassy's communication lady
11. Called the my airlines to change my ticket
12. Was asked to pay 70 dollars for changing the departure date
13. Phone call at 11:39 am saying that I got the confirmation of my participation of the conference and was asked to go to the embassy with consideration that they close at 12 :S:S:S 14. Ran to the embassy
15. After 1 hour of standing in the sun I called them to ask what will happened and I am from Alex and I wont have the chance to come to Cairo a lot
16. Was asked to wait for the door to be open after another lesson of manners from the communication lady of the embassy ( she s polish who doesn't speak good English nor Arabic you figure it out )
17. Was asked to enter
18. Sat for like 30 mins
19. Was asked to come at 3 to get my passport ( why did I sit for 30 mins then ) ?????
20. Went to pay my plain pelanty and was asked to come again because I didn't have the ticket with me
21. Went home got the ticket and had one drink and went back the embassy without even sitting for a couple of mins
22. Went to the embassy at 2:45 and at 3 called and was asked to wait until 3:30
23. Ran to pay the airlines pelanty
24. Ran again to get to he embassy
25. Got my passport plus some extra money that they asked by mistake ( huh ????? ) 70 pounds ????? THEY ACTUALLY GAVE ME MONEY

SO mainly I felt that I am getting a visa to heaven, and I think that a ticket to heaven would be easier to take.
As much as I wanted to o to Poland as much as they helped changing this, if this happens with the embassy what will happen to me there well only time will tell.

ha ha oh yea , i just got an email from dalia our MCVPX saying that we have to have the invitation letter ( the one that i have to give to the embassy so i can get the visa ) with us when we go cause there is a chance that we might be not allowed to get into Poland if we dont have it (WTF) :S:S:S:S:S

Wish me luck.

Travel stuff

Conference delegates list--------- check
Plane ticket--------paid
Visa-------applied

hmmm I think I am ready to go to Poland , just 100 other things to be done from now till the 17th

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I am going to Poland :D:D:D:

Strange , I CAN READ IT :D :D :D

Try to read this. I'm sure you can....very interesting.
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 56 plepoe in each 1000 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr
the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the
frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!

Inch by Inch

Special thanks to dody for posting one of my favorite speaches i have ever heared:

" I don't know what to say really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives. It all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me.
And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time.

Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces, and I think... I mean I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me, and lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. And so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small.

I mean... one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch.

On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face...

Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think you're gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it, you're gonna do the same for him.

That's a team, gentlemen. And either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die, as individuals. That's football, guys. That's all it is. Now, what are you going to do?"

IT DOESN"T WANT TO LET GO AND I DONT WANT TO LEAVE IT

Okay as i said before that it's allmost over, but it seems that AIESEC life doesnt want to leave me and it seems that i dont want to leave it as welll.

4 days ago i got an email saying that i got accapted in AIESEC International Exchange Growth Board which is a part from AI.

All what i can say is that i never umped from joy like i jumped that day , i am really happy that i am once again on the path that i planned to go throught 3 years ago.

I AM IN AI YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY

Is Egypt targeting bloggers?

A nice blog from Human Rights in Egypt blog:

Now that detained blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam has been freed, Egyptian authorities are using his release to claim that there's freedom of expression in the country.
The World, a National Public Radio news program, took a look at the issue in its Monday's broadcast. Here's the report.

I applaud the news attention to this issue. I think the report exposes the fallacy of the Egyptian government claims that there is no need for concern because there is a plethera of viewpoints being expressed in Egypt. I was touched by Alaa's recollection of a security official looking at his blog with him prior to his release. A writer always appreciates knowing he has an audience!

But there is reason for concern. The variety of opinions in Egypt is historical. Egypt is a society with a long and strong history of civil society and a vigorous civil discussion. That is part of the background to this issue. Systemmatically, the Egyptian government has tried to pare away that history, using first State of Emergency powers and then adding to that a series of expanded powers passed by the parliament.
I date the latest effort to 1996 with the first of a series of press laws that put journalists and human rights defenders at risk. That was followed by crackdown on professional societies coming under the control of Muslim Brothers. That was followed by a 1999 NGO law that held the threat of government action against any NGO at any time. The point is even is all the jailed bloggers have been freed, there's little reason to feel confident.

The laws and the precedents are there for the government to act to curtail anyone's freedom of speech at any time. And the Egyptian government has shown time and time again that if it has the power to do something, it will do it.

No, the only basis on which to judge whether Egypt has freedom of expression is the statutory ability of the government to silence critics. When the Mubarak regime ends the State of Emergency and abolish articles of the penal code and other legislation that, in violation of international standards, allows it to detain people for their free speech, when all that power is taken away, then that claim can be made. The courage and strength and speech of political opponents in Egypt is impressive; the fact that they don't have the legal right to such speech is not.

Part of my life almost over

In exactly 3 days my AIESEC term will finish, closing another chapter of my life, I was thinking, gosh it felt like 2 days the day I started and today and all what is between these two events are regular day stuff.

The wonderful things I’ve seen, the good people that I met and the best times that I had, when did all of that pass a year has passed already???

I remember the day first time I had my meeting with all the new members all excited and really asking for developing and knowledge.

People says that we are all young people doing some stuff to fill the blanks in our lives , maybe they are right from their point of view, but for me in the last 2 years in AIESEC I wasn’t filling the blanks in my life, I was remaking, reshaping my life.

I’ve learnt a lot to tell you the truth, but I don’t know really is it time for me to go, is it time to leave the way for new people?

Or I still have something to give or to do…

One of our members once told me that when he thinks of me he thinks that I am one of the 7 people who are going out from the AIESEC logo, you don’t know how this really affected me how it really touched me from inside that someone really considered me as big as a part of a logo that describes an international organization.

Life is short and I am getting older and older and I should get with my life, but how many other people can I change to the best if I stay cause I still have the will and energy to give, but it doesn’t seems so.

 

I think it time to let go….

Goverment

Well some of you might think i am getting into politics and stuff, well you can say i am but in a way. I just want to say how sick i am from what they are "driving" us to. I want to share a small story which most probably wont read in the news papers cause its happened to good old me.

A few months ago my mum told me that there is this guy in her faculty that needs someone to design a database for the faculty so i said why not , i will have fun and get some money.

Anyways i started working and when i found the work load was big on me i told a friend to join me as he really wanted the money, and we worked and worked for the last few months on this "big" project , during this month the leaders of this project in the faculty change but they told to keep on working.

To tell you the truth i was very happy with that , as it was my first big programming job in my life and i was going to take lots of money plus i will make a huge program that will be used in