And the winners are..

AIESEC Karachi Rewards and Recognition Night

The winners are...

Leadership Excellence Award: Sharmeen Saleem (VP PD)
Personal Development Award: Omar Khan (ICX Development)
Best Performing Member Award: Taha Durrani (ex ICX TL / VP ICX Corporate)
Best BCP Award: People Development
Best Performing Department: People Development & ICX Corporate

Congratulations everyone! =)

EB Team Days: Day 2

Running through every subsystem of the Exchange process..
..typing out the output and realizing that 3 hours had passed and I was still typing away like a madwoman..
Tons of fun though..non-agenda items: gmail and blogger coaching ;)

EB Team Days: Day 1

So if anyone was online wondering why the Gtalk and MSN addicted EB wasn't online all afternoon..we were at Costa Coffee [famed for Sharmeen's and Nic's coffee dare] - because..

We kickstarted Quarter#1 EB team days today..
..and what an amazing experience its been!!

Our team days have the world's longest agenda (just typing it out put me on the fast track to carpal tunnel syndrome) - but we've had such an interesting learning experience and gotten quite a bit done (including creating the 'EB Story')..looking forward to the next few days.. :)

Team Days!

Creators of the EB story - Rabia, Sharz, me and Taha

Me and Sharz

AIESEC Karachi Rewards and Recognition Night

Karachi

presents

Rewards and Recognition Night

For the Quarter: March - May 2006



AIESEC Karachi's members and departments are to be nominated for the following categories:

*drumroll*

Leadership Excellence Award

Best Performing Member

Personal Development Award

Best Performing Department Award

And a very special award that will be selected by the LCP:

Best BCP

Send in your nominations by 11 PM, 28th May 2006 to

karachi.pk@aiesec.net

Are you watching the Oscars or
are you winning awards?

Its up to you!

Go ICX!

Congratulations to Taha Durrani for being confidenced as Vice President Incoming Exchange - Corporate Sector! Looking forward to your interview on Monday - even more questions :p

And congratulations to Taha and the entire ICX Corporate department for an equally amazing reason...

in 2 days..this department raised 5 FORMS! 4 ETs and 1 TT!

Am so incredibly proud of them! AIESEC Karachi's HOT TO GO! =D

Election results..

Incredibly intense OCP elections today! Great candidates, good presentations..and a really tough Q and A session - am so proud of both Omar and Saher for applying :)

And the OCP for Fall Recruitment '06 is..

*drumroll*

Saher Sohail!

The candidates - Saher and Omar - with the Chair, Delia and Returning Officer, Mikaal



Drenching Saher in water - CONGRATULATIONS!

At elections - that's Mikaal trying to get his way into the picture! :P

pre-elections hype..

30 minutes to go for OCP elections..
Ballots are printed and cut..
The returning officer has disappeared with the makeshift ballot box to beautify it..
The list of voting members has been handwritten..*after an attempt to steal the lab assistant's ballpoint..*
I can't wait to see the presentations!

Very excited,
Saba

Guess who's back!

And our very own nomad - Umair 'Dodi' Dawood - is back in town from Windsor, Canada - where he is now VP Finance! Dodi was on the first EB of AIESEC Karachi - and I've been bugging him for stories about AIESEC Canada, his LC and their last national conference. For all those of you who know Dodi, he has stayed true to reputation by nodding off during a session run by externals at NLDC. Of course, he's also told us some stories about what Puneet's (incoming MC CEED) been upto..watch out, we have the edge now ;)

don't panic!

It is that lovely time time of the year..when everyone wishes they had this button on their keyboards :P

Today is the last day to submit applications for the two new leadership opportunities AIESEC Karachi opened - Vice President Incoming Exchange (Corporate Sector) and Organizing Committee President (Fall Recruitment '06). I've been sick since last night but the only thing that got me out of bed was the excitement at the thought of reading everyone's applications.

The EB is very excited about elections - I think its because we're not worrying about applications and presentations and whatnot. Its a bunch of new people - with completely new perspectives and really excited and motivated to run for a leadership position. I think as time goes by, you forget how it feels like to do something for the first time.

Looking forward to a great election on the 20th :)

Tori's farewell address as MCP AIESEC Pakistan..

Dear AIESEC in Pakistan,

This will be my last formal address to you as the President of AIESEC in Pakistan.

When I was a young girl I had a dream to make a difference in the world. Throughout my entire life I have never lost sight of this dream and knew that one day I would be given the opportunity to complete something that would make that difference. The opportunity showed itself in October 2004 when Kartik Sharma asked me to establish AIESEC into Pakistan. In accepting this position I knew it that it would not be an easy year, but I looked forward to the challenge as I believed that AIESEC could do so much for the youth of the country.

Looking back over the last year I can confidently say that my life has been irreversible changed and I thank you all for this. You have opened your hearts and homes to me over this time and taught me so much. I thank you for sharing stories with me about your country, your family and yourself. I also thank you for working at developing AIESEC into Pakistanyou are the founders of what will one day become the largest organization that offers life changing experiences in Pakistan.

Along side each of you, there are several other special people who contributed to the development AIESEC in Pakistan over this last year. These special people were Delia, Nicole and Sharmin, to the three of you thank you for everything! You were much more then just my colleagues you were my best mates! I will never forget all the experiences and inspiring conversations we shared together. Through you I have grown. Thank you.

Last week, while reviewing the countries progress Delia said something that stopped me in my tracks. She said ori, we can now go home, the members in Pakistan are strong and motivated to take their AIESEC country forward. Delz was so right and it is now up to you to give the AIESEC experience to countless other people.

I wish Emad Nadim all the best for his upcoming term along with Joanna and Kurt, together you will take AIESEC to the next level which will further strengthen AIESEC in Pakistan. To the new MC team 06-07 I raise a toast to you and wish you all the best for your term!

Thank you AIESEC in Pakistan for making me the person I am today and enabling me to fulfill a dream I had so long ago.

Yours truly,
Tori Anderson
1st MCP of AIESEC in Pakistan
2005 - 2006