News ... News !!!

Well this blog is different. It won't be mainly how I feel, it won't be talking about some problem I have, but will be talking about something that is going to happen to me.

Yesterday, my dad called me from his office before he starts his weekly work-out. He told me go sleep for a while ( I had an exam and had not slept since the day before ) and wake your sister up, let her study, cause I have a surprise for you when I come. I tried finding out any hints, he totally refused to tell me a word. With that, he ended the call and left my head to all the questions and wondering. My mum didn't even know what was going on.

My dad returned at 10:15 and called the whole family in his room, sat us down, and started talking.

He told us that 5 months ago he got an order from work that he travels to Kabol for a whole year. If you know me well, you'd know that this place is not so weird for my dad to travel to, he's been to worse :D. He told us that he totally refused the order and told them there is NOWAY I'm leaving my family. The only way you could get me to go, is to base me in Islamabad so I could take my wife and kids and visit Kabol every once in a while. They refused that suggestion, so he refused the position.

You do have to imagine how our hearts stopped by that time. My dad has a bad history of traveling to the weirdest places ever, Iraq, Eritrea and those are just examples :D. I mean for a second there we thought he would complete the sentence saying that I couldn't refuse more and I travel in a week or something. Thank God .. he didn't say that :D .

Instead, he continued talking, and that was over with.

Then he told us, that today, they gave him another order. They told him he'll be traveling to Dublin, Ireland ... AND WE ARE ALL GOING !!!!!!

So now I could finally tell you what this blog is about. I will be leaving to Dublin after our final seminar for a whole year !!!!!!

I bet some people are like thank GOD we're getting rid of you ... and other's are feeling the way am feeling that I'll be missing you guys so much.

I can't really believe it till now that I will travel soon isA. I tried to figure out how will I tell you guys I'll leave and figured that most of the people that I care about are the ones who read my blogs, so I thought that would be the best way to tell you the story, from the start till the end.

We still have 2 months and a half together or so, and I've decided to make the most out of them, cause truly I will be missing each and every person I know.

And heey, don't you think I'll stop contacting ya'll .... what is Facebook for :O ???? And what are my blogs for :D .

My beloved friends, you will NEVER be forgotten .... AND DON'T YOU DARE FORGET MEE !!!!

Changing Lanes ...

Well, as usual its very late at night, or early in the morning. I'm supposed to be studying ( do take care of supposed ). I realize that what I am reading is in deed interesting, yet its not interesting in the studying kind of way. At that same time, I heard about my older friends, who are now graduating, and I listened to their grades and their GPAs. It is a very indescribable moment when the dean or whoever that calls out the names, calls out your name and says : " with a total grade of excellent ( very good ) .. the student ...... " !!!!!!!

Leave aside your feeling, what about your parents' feelings ? MAN, I bet they would be so proud.

That made me wonder, how did I manage to go from an A student, known for her hard work and bright mind, to a careless, lazy, just passing student ?!?!

True that if I had had the chance to choose I wouldn't have chosen FCIS. And true that it has never been my interest. And true that I was accepted in this college and I only knew how to check my mail, play online games and download stuff. But are these enough reasons to pay off my debts ?

Ok, let's think in another way. DOES IT TRUELY MATTER IF I GRADUATE WITH A+ OR D ????? TRUELY .....

Apparently, not so much.

I know a FEPS graduate now working as a ( sort of ) marketing manager. ( its complicated that position for me to explain )

I know a Hotel Management graduate now working as a social studies and PE primary teacher.

I know a Computer Engineering graduate now working in medical marketing ( exporting and selling medical machines ).

I know an Engineer graduate now working as a developer. ( that's not so odd though :D )

I know a Social Institute graduate ( if you could call them graduates :D ) now working as an accountant.

I think you get my point. I can go on and on and on with these examples.

Well, how did any of them pull that off ? COURSES COURSES COURSES !!!!!!

You see, I actually have loads of other interests ( considering computers are now one of my interests ).

I adore Egyptian History, Languages, Writing, Music, Designing, Marketing, and those are just a few examples.

Less than a month ago, we had this event that I had to help organize. I took responsibility of the presentations from A to Z. Starting with the design till managing them while my dad spoke. I did the design for the template ( from scratch ), the animations, pictures and everything. I wasn't satisfied. I just had to stop working in it 'cause it was time. I was modifying in it even on site and just before my dad goes up to give the speech. I didn't want to see anyone's reaction, I didn't even ask for it.

To my amusement, people came up to me and told me that they really liked the work done on the presentation and that my next step should be presenting it instead of my dad ( HaHaHa (6) ). That gave me a boost of confidence and made me talk more after the presentation and while we were having tea and stuff. Some people came to me asking about the project and the coming steps and if there is anything they could do. And suddenly, I found myself talking to a huge group of people of businessmen, housewives and youth !!

After I was done, the headmistress of my brother's school came up to me and told me: " well, you are finishing college soon, how about you join the school and become our official speaker and do for us some presentations?". I laughed, cause I took it as a joke. Turns out, they are doing some presentations for the school to increase its popularity and stuff. ( Oh btw, just for the record, I did end up getting stuck with all the coming presentations from preparing to performing. So watch out, you might catch me soon in the your nearest store !! )

Anyway, the bottom line is, just because you chose a route at some point doesn't mean your stuck in it for the rest of your life. If you really believe in something, and have a goal to reach, be sure that at some point a suitable door will open up, so cease the opportunity. And if you miss it once, you'll get a second chance, and a third. Just don't keep missing the chance till its too late to take a detour.Just finish your current route so you could start ceasing. That means I got to go study. ( =S )