Trip to Alex

Key Learning Points from my Trip to Alex:

1. Trains with mouses might not be that bad.
2. If you are not taking a train, please don't take Peugeot (7 passengers.)
3. If you are not taking a train and you are riding a Peugeot, don't you ever take the agricultural road to Alex.
4. Cairo and Alex people are only good at shouting from their cars windows and giving the finger to other car drivers. Cairo and Alex people shouldn't and couldn't engage in fights with micro-bus, truck drivers, or Upper Egyptians.
5. You can always stop any Egyptian fight if you are a police officer.
6. The only way to convince the people, you are a police office, is to pick a victim and start slapping him (6 - 14 ) slaps.
7. Egyptian police officers can slap people at the speed of 30 Slaps/min. Actually saw one giving a driver 14 slaps in less than 30 Sec.

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Alex trips are always an eye-opening experience. What will happen to me tonight?

FRAUD!!

I have been always reading and hearing of fraud incidents - emails, letters urging victims to provide their bank accounts for corrupted African officials to do money transfer away from government's sight on the hope that the victim will share the money with these corrupted officials. I'm only 21 and a month (21 is the legal age in Egypt) and i have received this fraud email on my aiesec.net email from the minister of foreign affairs himself!! can someone lend me his account coz i don't have one and i promise we will definitely share the gains??

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HON. DR. ADENIJI OLU. MINISTER, FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY.
OFFICE COMPLEX, WUSE ZONE, GARKI- ABUJA.
E-MAIL :drolu10001@yahoo.com
DATE : 22TH SEPTEMBER, 2005
Tel: 234-80351-85-111
Profile page: http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/ministries/foreignminister.htm

HON. DR. ADENIJI OLU
I am Hon. Dr. Adeniji Olu, Minister Foreign Affairs Ministry; my office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and financial institutions in Nigeria concerned with foreign contract payments. I am the final signatory to any transfer or remittance of huge funds moving within banks both on the local and international levels in line to foreign contracts settlement.
I have before me list of funds, which could not be transferred to some nominated accounts as these accounts have been identified either as ghost accounts, unclaimed deposits and over-invoiced sum etc.

Your name was among the people expecting the funds to be transferred into their account, on this note; I wish to have a deal with you as regards to your unpaid funds.
I have your file before me and hope your data's are correct and untempered unless u reconfirms it. As it is my duty to recommend the transfer of these surplus funds to the Federal Government Treasury and Reserve Accounts as unclaimed deposits, I have the opportunity to write you based on the instructions I received 2 days ago from the Senate Committee on Contract Payments / Foreign Debts to submit the List of payment reports / expenditures and audited reports of revenues. Among several others, I have decided to remit your contract sum following my idea that we have a deal/agreement and I am going to do this legally.

MY CONDITIONS:
1. The sum of USD$55,500,000.00(FIFTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) only will be paid into an account I will provide you after you have confirmed the transfer of your sum into your account by telegraphic Transfer (T/T), confirm able in 3 working days.
2. This deal must be kept secret forever, and all correspondence will be strictly by email / telephone, for security purposes.
3. There should be no third parties as most problem associated with your fund release are caused by your agents or representative.
If you AGREE with my conditions, l advise you on what to do immediately and the transfer will commence without delay as I will proceed to fix your name on the Payment schedule instantly to meet the three days mandate.
I hope you don't reject this offer and have your funds transferred. Waiting for your reply soon.

HON. DR. ADENIJI OLUFOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER.

The information in this message and in any attachments, contains confidential information and is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). strictly urgent reply on this confidencial

The Grudge

I saw this movie 4 months ago and I personally relate my experience of this film to the experiences of ghost houses in amusement parks, where you get scared and frightened all the time, but the film - like ghost houses - lacks any drama or any meaningful chronological order.






But there's this quite frightening and annoying scene that makes this film a special scary movie to me. This is when the ghost or monster came to some victim in her bed and killed her (as in picture).




kids always had many fears, from monsters in closets or thieves. I noticed that many (including myself as a kid) hide under the blanket - having it as a psychological shelter for danger. Then comes this damn movie to introduce the concept of having monsters coming to you from under the blanket and ruin this shelter that all kids use.!!

I really pity all the kids who saw this movie and I'm sure i was one of them i would have troubles sleeping every night.

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I'm a very proud x-LCP




Was really great to have a reunion of AUC EBs for 2004-2005 in IC India, and to realize that all EBs in our last term have taken a step forward in the organization with Local, National and International Leadership positions

Hadia, Tarek, Maggie and Martha... You are my pride and joy. Thanks for the great year we had together and best of luck in both your AIESEC, professional and personal life

To LULY

And the rest of the Egyptian girls who think that micro-bus is so yaaay beee2a and very dangerous.

Yesterday I and Tamer, found a mouse as fat as you can imagine in the second class Air Conditioned carriage of a train from Alex to Cairo. The mouse was so damn confident, walking between the people's legs as if this was its normal daily ride. I'm till now wondering what could have happened if only one lady found out about this mouse.

From now on, I won't accept looking down upon the nice, fast, efficient, and AMAZINGLY clean micro-buses.

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Tarek took this Random picture of me while i was taking a nap sometime, somewhere in India

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My message to Tarek: you still have a long looong way to go, to match the talent and creativity i put into my pictures of you - Better not to challenge me in this track :-P

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You can't goto India without :

1. Visiting Taj Mahal in Agra

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2. Having an Elephant ride

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3. Experiencing the herd of cows crossing streets and slowing down traffic (or sleeping in middle of highways roads as we experienced)

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Egyptians so so happy after getting Travel Smurf from Pakistan in IC till IPM in March



Frankly, part of the happiness faded away, when we realized how heavy smurf is. The only way to carry it was this :-)

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In India, you get to appreciate all the amazing JUNK food chains. In Agra, we have been to Pizza Hut twice and had pizza for dinner, breakfast and lunch.

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With McDonald's it was three times in less than 24 hours!!

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But these in now way matched the exotic, luxurious super SPICY Indian food we had at the conference sit

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Egyptian at Amman with a transit of 21 hours (changed to 25 hrs.) to find out that Jordan is one of the very few countries that doesn't require visas for Egyptians. we seized the chance to tour around the city. How many years will take us to exand AIESEC to this beautifyl country?

Egyptian delegation in Global Village