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Back home in Karachi

And now we’re in Karachi again…hunging out with people...buying gifts...going to places i became to like so much...eating Indus Bryani...getting our nails done;-)...…and the MC is gone off to poland...and it's strange and lonely in the house withouth them...and I’m leaving tomorrow…with one crying and one laughing eye (as far as eyes can laugh or cry…) because I’m sad about leaving and I will miss everybody so much, but I’m also excited about what is coming!!!

And before I forget…we went to the beach tonight! Marvellous!!!! we’ve actually been to the beach 3 times now…and of course I love to share some pictures with you;-)

Green Islamabad

After Lahore we went to Islamabad by bus because we got invited to a Pakistani Wedding, a Mendhi.

Islamabad is incredible green and its right in front of the mountains – beautiful!!! The first day we went to see the famous Faisal Mosque and in the evening it was the Mendhi at the girls house! The girls were dressed up really colourful and sang and dance and afterwards there was a delicious dinner.

The next day Hasan took us up to the mountains where we had a great view over the whole city! In the evening there was the Mendhi at the Guys house and the day after that we went to Murree…a village up towards Kashmir, where apparently every Pakistani goes on Holidays at least once in their lifes…we got a lot of gifts for our dear families and friends there;-)

And of course....SHISHA :-) later that night....

Fabulous Lahore…

The morning after Independence Day we went to Lahore…we went there and loved it! Thanks LC Lahore for being such wonderful hosts!!!


We got to see some of Pakistans’s heritage and thanks to our fabulous tourist guide Sohaib we now actually know a little bit about the history!


Then we got our hair cut! It was quite the adventure finding a hair dresser, but thanks to Manal I’m really happy now (and thanks to Manal’s nice hospitable family we actually slept really, really good on a real bed, with AC, sheets and breakfast…)

The real adventure however started when Emad left me with my two wonderful babysitters Saad and Sohaib…first our Car got parked in…so we had to wait and get coffee…and THEN :-)…then we went to the “sufi Night” at the Shrine of Baba Shah Jamal, where we wanted to see Pappu Saeen playing the dhol (traditional drum). It was awesome. It’s a shrine, where they play the drum every thrusday night and the Sufi’s get high. My boys were quite worried about me and when we were standing there to watch the crowed dancing, they made sure that no stranger came even close to me. After that we went for shisha J also quite nice! All in all it was a fabulous evening and I had a blast! Thank you boys so much for taking me there!!!

Time for an Update...

So…i feel it’s time to update my blog…it has been quite a while, I know…and that’s why I’m going to post about everything we’ve done during the last week…because we were on Vacation!!!!!! so...here we go ;-)

Azadi Mubarak!

It all started on august 14th....Happy Birthday Pakistan!!!!!
There's no better way to celebrate the Pakistani Independants Day, than by playing cricket on the roof top....
And look at our hot-shots...climbing even higer ;-)

Partytime and our beloved MC boys :-)

Life is pretty busy as a MC Ceed...and the slow internet was preventing me too from updating my blog...so sorry...i didn't know that you guys were actually reading it and waiting for an update...so here we go;-)

Party time ;-) it was supposed to be THE Party in town…we got official invitations, some of us even had to take on new names, so that all of us could get in…all the girls got dressed up and the boys too…

we were actually quite lucky, that we could dress up at all...for there was no running water in the house, despite all the rain in karachi, and no running water means...no showering...for 4 days...but we were lucky because the water came back that day...finally!
Omar took us in his very fancy car ;-) and when we got there…we were among the first one’s…even though the kids there were quite young (and half the girls still were wearing braces…) we had a lot of fun and the inevitable fight, that made us leave, happened way to early! Thank you Omar for taking us!!!!

And now…for all of you who wonder how it is to live in a tiny apartment together with 6 people…first of all...who says a 3 bedroom appartment fits only 6 people...

it’s fun:-) because funny things happen all the time and it’s never boring and ‘our Boys’ are entertaining us… They sit on the kitchen counter and “help” us cook… They make us desert and breakfast (really!!!) They clean (at least one of them;-)! They “are” Jack and Rose…and let the Titanic sink in our living room… (i tried to upload pictures to prove all this during the last hour and give up now...so imagine yourselves...)We love our MC Boys…and Puneet you’re still one of them…Ramoo really misses you and cries every night…

Monsoon in Karachi

The rain has arrived in Karachi…streets are flooded, power is off, traffic is down and stores are closed…and the ironic thing about it…we don’t have any tap water in the house…

View over Karachi from our roof top

JNC 2006

It has been done, JNC 2006 is over.

Finally all the hard work, sleepless long nights and last minute agenda changes have paid off…

And it was an awesome experience! Even though the whole weekend was accompanied by a lot of unforeseen changes, late night meetings, falling as sleep at random places and sleeping for just a couple of hours, all the passion, commitment and inspiration of the Delegates made it worth while. Thank you guys so much!

A culinary experience….

Today we ate salad…you might not quite understand, why this is such a big deal…but it is! We’ve been eating nothing but junk food and chicken for more than a week….and having green fresh vegetable actually can be seen as some kind of highlight…even though it was at Pizza Hut…Pascale and Joanna’s special “we love Salad”-Smile is a prove of it….so in the name of us girls, I would like to thank Emad for making it possible that one plate of salad fed all of us ;-)So, let me give you a review about some of our culinary experience so far…

Barbecue for Sharmeen’s Birthday…very delicious….and there were even some vegetables….

single-,double- or triple chicken masala at Karachi Broast...apparently very spicy...but nobody even started crying...so i'm not so sure if it was really that spicy, or if our guys are just really tough;-)

Family Dinner…we founded the Ceeder-Family (Daddy Puneet and Twin sisters Lena and Pascale) and had to finish the leftovers out of the fridge from one plate…

All-u-can-eat Brunch at the Costa Coffee place…it was so horrendously expensive that we really had to eat all we could eat….but it was good…especially the Christmas song they played added a lot to the whole Sunday atmosphere ;-)
Pakola….ok…I’ll get into the whole pakola deal some other time….when I understand it myself…or I have someone else explain it…because I just don’t get it…but there must be something about it….Our normal daily meals...ya....just junk food...but all will get better after conference...apparently...;-)