quick update!

Ok I'm going to do this Nay-Nay style, and take a short cut as well. It's been too long, way too much has happened, and before I start getting amnesia, I'm going to note down the last (nearly) 2 months of my life:

6th Feb: Flew to Singapore. Spent a week there with my family, shuttling back and forth between home and hospital.

17th Feb: The decision was made to take my uncle back to Bangladesh. All of us flew back with him to Dhaka. There I spent a couple of weeks, taking care of him with everyone and just spending time with him. Too many heart wrenching moments, the worst being the day I had to say goodbye to him, because I was flying back to Cairo. I don't know how to describe how one feels saying goodbye to someone you realise you will probably never see again.....and them knowing the same thing all too well. I will never forget his tears, or the way he wept like a baby.

12th March: Flight back to Cairo. One-way ticket. Gulp.

13th March: Arrival in Cairo. Work sends me a car :D Somebody awaits my arrival with a big-ass sign saying my full name in big felt letters. LOVIN' the VIP treatment :D (Ok i'm easily pleased)

15th March: Start my job within a mere 2 days of arrival, going promptly into production period, meaning.....no weekends off until end of the month :O

Experiencing the sheer joy of waking up at 8am every morning. Something I have not done in something like 6 years....Realising strangely, that I'm not moaning or complaining because.....I like my job. :O

Had a strange epiphany on the train to work one morning. A very happy morning where I realised that I am NOT dependent on ANYONE to be happy. It doesn't matter if things happen to get me down, or people do things to get me down, shit happens, yes, but it doesnt affect my disposition ultimately. For the first time in my life, I like who I am, I like where I am, I like what I am - and at the age of 23 - I am where I wanted to be. Which makes me happy :D Alhamdulillah.

Finally visited *something* other than Alexandria and Cairo........ Fayoum! To be honest, not that impressed lol. Fun day trip though.

Got my first writing assignment at work! Conducted my very own interview - and get this - with a photographer tagging along behind me! :D That WAS so friggin' KEWL! HAH!

Got my first bout of food poisoning in Cairo. Not pretty. I spend 3 months here with no problems. You would've thought I'd be immune to all Cairean poisons by now. But no. It had to happen i guess.

Still crashing with friends. Promise to start writing again, soon as I settle down into my own place......