its gone.... or has it?

D'you Like?
I like!
Me and my two hot bodyguards :) heheh well that's what it looks like... actually it's just 1 snapshot from last weekend where I had the great pleasure to chair LDS 2009.
It was such an experience.... for the first time, I think in a long while I heard and saw Maltese people that inspired me.
And it's not to be negative or anythign of the sort, but I didn't expect it honestly,. Being the chair you're supposed to fuel people with food for thought and points for inspiration and reflection.... strange and ironic that the opposite happened (at least I can testify to that)
I saw people who believe in people.... something which I used to miss noting...I left Malta many years ago as I felt like a lonely idealist.... I thought "go out, study and come back.... you'll find people out there who think like you, if you can't find them here"... and yes, I did!
This month, well last month my AIESEC career came to a close (Thank God some of you might say) ... it's a strange phase... it's a page to turn, its a book to earmark... and in this weekend I felt as inspired as I was on my first AIESEC Conference. Thanks to Mr Zahra - a superb entrepreneur who gave not just a presentation or some key clues but dished out wisdom, motivation, entusiasm and passion.... I missed that, and then I thought I can find more... and I will. I am getting ready to go on exchange and come back to dig out those other Maltese Ms&Mr Xs
well not to forget the delegates....
It had been a long time since I saw so many, if not all, delegates completely involved in the conference... it came so easy and so natural not to have to chase people....
And the faci team... pride and joy... but also source of learnings and laughs :) Thanks guys it was an honour

Now? I filled a HUGE bag with my AIESEC t-shirts for which i seem to have no place in my wardrobe and will have to go into storage.... tear.... A box of memories, a bagful of them, so strange to get so attached to something so metaphysical, yet so concrete....not the t-shirts, the organsiation!!!

Exchange here I come :)
Hoping someone takes me!
Pick me! Pick me!Pick me!

Verlaine

A few years ago I used to teach English, one student gave me a gift - this poem, writing the first stanza promising more poems by mail... I think it's time I asked for more... so that I can post them here.. for now please enjoy this...

Mon Rêve familier

Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant
D'une femme inconnue, et que j'aime, et qui m'aime,
Et qui n'est, chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même
Ni tout à fait une autre, et m'aime et me comprend.

Car elle me comprend, et mon coeur transparent
Pour elle seule, hélas ! cesse d'être un problème
Pour elle seule, et les moiteurs de mon front blême,
Elle seule les sait rafraîchir, en pleurant.

Est-elle brune, blonde ou rousse ? --Je l'ignore.
Son nom ? Je me souviens qu'il est doux et sonore
Comme ceux des aimés que la Vie exila.

Son regard est pareil au regard des statues,
Et pour sa voix, lointaine, et calme, et grave, elle a
L'inflexion des voix chères qui se sont tues.

Paul VERLAINE, Poèmes saturniens (1866)

Next Steps?

I keep asking myself where I'm going to next
The thing is, where I am now is where I am going to be for a while. I'm back in Malta and enjoying it, yes I always do for the first weeks but this time I am SET TO enjoy it! I want to because there are a lot of things to do and I can't understand why I didn't see it before!

To Do List?
- Research for my thesis... it's gonna be on Malta... makes sense for a change to do it here.... will be interesting to write in Italian!
- I'm thinking of Joinging JCI... looks like an interesting next step....
- Im gonna hunt down theme based events in Malta.... I have to!!!
- EBBF Malta - a must!
- Join the gym!!!
- READ!!!
- Maybe a car boot sale... Ebay or .....
- Go by the sea! I've been in Malta two weeks and haven't done it! I miss it like crazy
more?
hmmm dunno I could add to it :)

LOG ONTO TED.com

A while back a few people mentioned this website to me, I honestly took one look and thought NO! I don't need to listen to more people speaking and not acting. Yes I think I was stressed, admittedly I had forgotten how sharing opinions and thoughts is as important as working and acting, for the simple reason that it stimulates further thought, ideas and a desire to act.

Today I Watched The Journalist Carl Honore vouch for the Slow Movement
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html

watch it, it's worth it, and its also good food for thought for yours truly who needs to SLOW DOWN

First Post in my new blog

Hey World
This is me
Welcome to my second Blog!
Well I'm not a Blog lover, I had a blog in the past but stopped updating it, whether because of lack of time or lack of interest it remained there, un-updated for ages.

What I plan to do now?
Try a second time, but now use it to have my Say!!!

I have always had opinions, on most things, and now I have found it time for me to share them. Who wants to read will read, who wants to comment, please do... I am here and I want to speak up! This is my attempt...