Cairo, the Crazy City
Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend here, and officially my second week at work has finally come to an end. Wow. Im tired.
Life here basically transalates into PERPETUALLY being busy and doing something and hence, perPETUALLY being exhausted. life starts at 9 am when i wake up (or aroudn that time atleast :P depends on how crazy the night before was...thank god i have flexi hours) i hit work by around 10 am where i check my mail... go around the office meeting everyone... check my mail (both personal and business) and then boom works starts hardcore... and when i mean harcore i mean that in two weeks at the office iv probably done more pure hardwork then i ever did in four years of college :P For example... today i had meetings with finance to approve the pricing structure of two different advertising products that i had proposed, then a meeting with the art department and the technical department to talk about the implementation flow that was helping design, then sat purely with the art guy to discuss the branding of the new products .... today i was supposed to have a meeting with the representatives of Arab African Bank over here but that got delayed till sunday... so instead i was working on business proposal financials (so first i had to actually learn how to WRITE financials :P hahahahahaha and so the work basically continues perpetually all day long... theres always something or the other and for some reason since the day that iv gotten here they have basically put me in charge of everything... even more then the project manager.... its HARSH... definately... but if you asked me if id rather be doing this or sitting and being a paper pusher... i would definately choose this :P I spend my days doing anything but wasting time... im learning a lot... the people i work with are absolutely amazing, incredibly helpful... and theres always someone coming down upto the office to meet me and of course the necessary "Welcome to Egypt!" hahaha
But thats where the day begins... when i come home from work... im at home for a MAXIMMUM of an hour... which is basiclly the time where we wait for the rest of my two flatmates to get home. Once everyone is home... then we leave the apartment and only God knows when well get back :P In fact, usually only God knows where were going. We start the plan to go somewhere with a vague idea of whose house were going to... and from there, we head from one place to another, house hopping and shisha place hopping and going to house partys and random get togethers until godforsaken hours of the morning. Half the time we end up at peoples places and we have no idea who they are... atleast thats how it started but now a lot of the peoples whose houses we randomly showed at are now really great friends of mine... so its a great way to meet new and amazing people.
hahaha and the people iv met... wow im gonna start posting seperate posts for all of them :P
So we get home around 4am... (after weve left the house around 5 -6) sit around the house for a while just cooling down after the night... and then crash when were exhausted enough not to notice the freak springs in the bed that poke right into your back... but then... when your exhausted enough, anything feels comfortable ;)
And then,
I wake up,
at 9am
and do it
all over again.
:)
I love this city...
Life here basically transalates into PERPETUALLY being busy and doing something and hence, perPETUALLY being exhausted. life starts at 9 am when i wake up (or aroudn that time atleast :P depends on how crazy the night before was...thank god i have flexi hours) i hit work by around 10 am where i check my mail... go around the office meeting everyone... check my mail (both personal and business) and then boom works starts hardcore... and when i mean harcore i mean that in two weeks at the office iv probably done more pure hardwork then i ever did in four years of college :P For example... today i had meetings with finance to approve the pricing structure of two different advertising products that i had proposed, then a meeting with the art department and the technical department to talk about the implementation flow that was helping design, then sat purely with the art guy to discuss the branding of the new products .... today i was supposed to have a meeting with the representatives of Arab African Bank over here but that got delayed till sunday... so instead i was working on business proposal financials (so first i had to actually learn how to WRITE financials :P hahahahahaha and so the work basically continues perpetually all day long... theres always something or the other and for some reason since the day that iv gotten here they have basically put me in charge of everything... even more then the project manager.... its HARSH... definately... but if you asked me if id rather be doing this or sitting and being a paper pusher... i would definately choose this :P I spend my days doing anything but wasting time... im learning a lot... the people i work with are absolutely amazing, incredibly helpful... and theres always someone coming down upto the office to meet me and of course the necessary "Welcome to Egypt!" hahaha
But thats where the day begins... when i come home from work... im at home for a MAXIMMUM of an hour... which is basiclly the time where we wait for the rest of my two flatmates to get home. Once everyone is home... then we leave the apartment and only God knows when well get back :P In fact, usually only God knows where were going. We start the plan to go somewhere with a vague idea of whose house were going to... and from there, we head from one place to another, house hopping and shisha place hopping and going to house partys and random get togethers until godforsaken hours of the morning. Half the time we end up at peoples places and we have no idea who they are... atleast thats how it started but now a lot of the peoples whose houses we randomly showed at are now really great friends of mine... so its a great way to meet new and amazing people.
hahaha and the people iv met... wow im gonna start posting seperate posts for all of them :P
So we get home around 4am... (after weve left the house around 5 -6) sit around the house for a while just cooling down after the night... and then crash when were exhausted enough not to notice the freak springs in the bed that poke right into your back... but then... when your exhausted enough, anything feels comfortable ;)
And then,
I wake up,
at 9am
and do it
all over again.
:)
I love this city...
i think whats crazier is that after sleeping at round 5am u can get up at 9... i dont think it would be possible in lums... once or twice maybe but regularly... naw as far as i remmember u, u were the most nocturnal guy i knew at lums... hahahaha u must really like this place...
good stuff good stuff
Posted by Ibad | 10:20 PM
i'm glad you're having fun. i miss you bitch. a hell lot!
mail me sometime.
Posted by Photographer | 11:22 PM
Welcome to Nomadlife :)
Posted by Nisrin | 10:38 AM
You're writing Financials! HAHAHAH now why do i find that so hillareously funny? :P
Posted by Sarah Suhail | 6:19 AM
Hey!!
Love your blog! It's real neat to hear about your experiences! Makes me wanna switch with you? What say you eh? ;)
No no I love Karachi (Although Lahore's got it's own charm!)
Thanks for the comments on the MC Blog! And yeah I apologize on the mistake in the newsletter.. timeframe got a lil confusin.. rest assured you'll be the highlight on the next one!
Cool pics dude! Must stay in touch! And of course shoot me a mail should any of those peepz bug ya! haha! (That's me acting bigger than I am! khee!)
Cheers dude!
Posted by eMad | 9:49 PM
I like your blog salman - it's always great to hear about people having fun in good old Cairo!
Welcome aboard
Posted by Superluli | 3:18 PM
you're in cairo!! i still can't believe it!!
have fun! and have you met the CC for IPM '07 yet? Say hi to Abdu! COol guy!
Posted by nida | 7:59 PM