Audra's Arrival :)

Well finally our mc is being formed .. after many weeks of arrival she finally comes :) .. her name Audra: .. her objecctive .. is to develop herself and meet some great people :) ... her pick up time .. 2 in the mornin !! .. hehe .. doesnt sound that bad does it .. well if u were staying 163 km outside Dubai and had to wake up at 11 and leave at 12 and make sure u reach on time ... now me n daniel were pretty tired but we still had fun on the drive coz it was kinda different to travel so late at night ... but trust me .. at the end it was all worth it .. the welcoming group was very good .. it was me daniel,Deepak,Vrej,Rana and Basma.. now usually this may not seem like much .. but if you think about it .. these people have given up their sleep to come to the airport .. and it felt good to be part of smthn like that :) ... k so then Audra Arrived .. now weve seen pics and so on .. but its still different when the real thing comes .. and me not wearing my lenses had no clue who she could be ... every alternate person seemed like her .. so i just kept quiet and hoped that deepak would recognize her :P .. well neways she arrived .. and i do not know what her reaction was .. but she seemed happy once we were all there ... so then what next .. well me n daniel could not go home .. and nor could audra ... so we all decide to go out roaming around the city ... below are the adventures of AIESEC .. most of the pics are not that clear becasue the ( Photographer _ Daniel :P .. ) was too tired to take them :P ...

2 Am .. Deepak .. Daniel and Vrej !

Vrej and Myself enjoying a cup of coffee :)

WELCOME AUDRAAAA ... these me, Deepak with his new shirt;) .. basma, Audra and Vrej.

Well in this picture u can see ghosts .. notice how these floating bodies appear out of nowehere in the mist of the night... an experience never to be forgotten .. :P

Got a close up view of the Burj ..

Me,Deepak,Audra,Vrej and Ranaaaa :P

Considered to be one of the worlds most exotic car :P:P

Just watching the sun rise :P

As the day passed we tookAudra to her place and then went to the office .. fooled around therE :P .. and then took her to the first place we take all new trainees and guests ... Shisha !!! :D ..

Myself, Audra , Fal , and Deeplick at Exit .. chilling on some hubbly bubbly :)

AIESEC Dubai goes to Ras Al Khaimah !!

Well we keep talking about it but it never seems to happen .. but this time it did !! .. we took a road trip to Ras Al Khaimah. RAK located about 140 Km from Dubai is a more culture oriented place, it still has forts and traditional souqs( Markets ) where they sell fruits and vegetables as well as traditional souviners ... now being AIESECers in Dubai , were kind lost when it comes to going to the other 6 Emirates .. Dubai is where its all at so we tend not to go exploring into unknown lands ... so we started of planning to leave at around 12pm ... but ended up leaving at 2 Pm ... hehe .. well yea we spent like 2 hours searching for each other amongs the development of Dubai !! ... well neways .. after we found each other .. we headed towards R.A.K .. and had a pretty good time .. 4 cars 12 people and a lot of road and Sand ! ... who all came ?? .. well in the Sharja car there was Melica and Vrej(Driver), in the Abu Dhabi car driven by Avi :) - was Fallon,Daniel and Martin, Audra,Deepak and Srini. and in the Male driven Dubai car ( Rana ) was Rana and Hur Bhai .. so it was all of us going on a place none of us knew about .. and the best part ... none of us carried maps .. so we were just praying there would be road signs !! ... hehe .. anyways .. as we planned we were supposed to go to R.A.K museum and then head for Khat Hot springs .. which was sadly closed and would open only after a year .... below are the pictures to give you a more interesting approach to the trip :) .. have fun and take care guys ..

My car,Ranas car

this is a very interesting picture .. when looked at closeley .. you can see srini looking either sleepy or confused ... rana looking like hes going in for a stroke ... and martin is about to sneeze ... or spit at the person in front of him ... i think it was audra :P ..

This is a rare picture .. you can actually see Daniel !!! .. he is usually camera shy so we try n sneak in a picture once in a while :P .. got u daniel ! .. umm on the other hand srini does not look happy with his drink .. he seems in a lot of pain ! :S ..

The picture that should be framed n kept .. a really nice pic taken by the cleaner at City centre so thank you to him .. k now im gonna explain this quickly .. sitting down is hur, then the people from the left .. Vrej,Fallons head,Melica, My head !,Audra,Gricky,Daniels head ,Martins head,Deepak Srini and Rana. !!

Notice how Deepak pretends to know a lot about the ancient coins that used to be there .... but .. what people do not know is that he was talking rubbish :P .. all for the camera deepak .. all for the camera ! :P

A view of one the the windtowers

Deciding on where to go next !! :)

a mountain goat near the Khat Springs , but unforunately it was closed .. so we checked out a Sheikhs guest house next to it. .

Well the little castle sorta thing u can see at the back is a hotel spa .. and the fortress in front was the guest house ... :) .. was really nice ..

another view of the house ..

Us at the House ... k too lazy to explain who each one is .. so just scrol up look at the earlier picture .. and match :P ..

k now to a person staying in the UAE this is a pretty wierd and scary road .. coz its 2 lanes .. one going one coming .. and there are no loghts at all .. !! . so we were trying to get out before it got too dark !! .. and also .. as u can see on both sides there was sand ... now to us thats like something we see everyday .. but to the trainees and our new MC thats like us going to a foreign country and seeing snow .... to them it was Fascinating !!! :P .. pictures below shall describe more :P ..

Srini , Martin and Audra :)

Srini and Martin on top of the world ... they were imitating the titanic position ;) ..

umm .. well there was total chaos here .. Audra did not know how to climb after that point .. it was as if ther ewas a force stopping her :P ... Daniel decided he was too tired and wanted to sleep there and then itself .. Srini ...... got stuck ! ..:P .. hehe all in all they had a good time :)

So that was about it ... we reached home .. and hopefully il have some more interesting stories to share with u :) ... take care u guys :)

Visit to the Musem and Heritage Village !

Well .. yet another week has gone by and we wanted to take the trainees to see what Dubai's culture was all about so what better place to take them than the Dubai Museum and Heritage Village ... unfortunately most of the trainees could not make it due to work and other issues .. but one of our trainees Martin still made it ... it was a different experience for him and just about the same feeling for the members itself as they had not seen the museum in a while either lol .. so it was pretty interesting ... who all came ?? There was me,Deepak,Basma,Vrej,Rana,Rana's Friend ( cannot rmmbr her name ) Martin and Daniel.

Avi,Martin,Deepak,Basma,Rana's Friend and Rana ( Daniel was taking the pic ! )

A view of the mosque right beside the museum

Just a view of the wall of the museum

a bed in an ancient house ... looks comfy but does not have that wow factor

umm.... i have noo clue what this is ... but it seems like a sorta exercise machine in the old days :S

Basma and Deepak .. seem like they are welcoming their guest with warm smiles but in reality they were just hogging up the air conditioner which is hidden above !! ...

Hmm .. that desert sorta thing you see is what Dubai looked like a looong loong time ago ... i know most of you are looking at the way Deepak's belly has gradually increased .. but focus on the model there .. thats more interesting ;)

We were just lost ..

A view from Outside the Museum

well what can i say .. this is Dubai's version of madame tussauds .. not that accurate .. but we can figure out what it is :P

Daniel is very fascinated with camels so he thought he would make a new friend .... this is Daniels Best Friend .. his name ... has many variations .. one is Roger and the other one .. Tiida - dunno why he likes these 2 names but hey .. its his decision :P

Martin wearing the head gear of a traditional dress.. msut say martin .. looks good :P

Well that concludes our Museum trip .. so after this we decided to go to Heritage Village .. about a 15 minute drive from the musem we headed there ... but before we left we had to take a memorial picture !

Basma ( Eyes Shut ! ) Martin ( Eyes Shut ) Vrej (Eyes Shut ) !!!! Daniel,Deepak,Rana and Avi !:)

Heritage Village !!

Welcome ... to Heritage Village !!

Heritage Village is basically a small souq sorta place near the creek where you can see how they make traditional bread and dress up in the National Costume and take some interesting pictures .. also you get to have Shisha by the creek and for the Ladies ... put some Henna ( its like putting a tattoo but it would involve no pain !! )

a view of the Bur Dubai Creek

A wind tower with an image of the most respected man in the UAE .. Sheikh Zayed!

Chilling at a Rest. n having the hubbly bubbly !! :) ( Basma looking doped .. deepak looking high and martin just chilling :):P )

To end it all with a typical hindi movie ending ... is us ... Deepak,Rana's Friend,Rana,Avi and Martin

Trainees in Abu Dhabi ...

Well after so long of talking about bringing the trainees to Abu Dhabi it finally happened !! ... this weekend was crazy ... I literally travelled after calculating ..... 722 km !!! .. all in a day !! .. but it was loads of fun :) ... hehe ... hmm so who all were present .... well there was Myself :) , Deepak, Vrej,Daniel,Melica,Valentina,Onur,Srinivas and Martin. !! .. so yea .. was happy about the turn out .. although wished more members would have been able to come .. but its a friday .. totally understandable :) ... k so we started from Dubai at around .. 12 30 .. and reached Abu dhabi by 2:30 or so ... and after reaching the "Garden City" we decided to go to the biggest mall in Abu dhabi ..... 'Abu Dhabi mall !! " hehe .. now check this out ... we went there at 2 30 in the afternoon .. and most of the shops were closed !! :S .. and would open only after 3:30 pm .. :S:S:S:S .. verry verry wierd !! ... but neways .. Melica,Valentina and Daniel still went around looking for Bargains as there were masssive sales going on :) .. hehe ... Srini,Onur and Vrej went for pirates of the carribean .... some said it was great while others still not sure if they liked this one or the first one better !! ...... Martin,Myself and Deepak .. went for AIESEC UAE's National sport .. ( aka the only sport that does not involve too much physical movements and is usually indoors ) .... Bowling ! .. hehe ...

here we can see our current mcp .. Deepak nair .. picking up a ball ... :P .. Martin seems more interested in what daniel is doing .. and daniel was just walking around lol ...

over here .. deepak takes the "pink" ball and is walking towards the pins .. look at his concentration ... if we ever have a bowling league .. he would be the captain of AIESEC UAE :P ... ( btw he got a gutter when he threw the ball but thats a completely different story .. you guys can make what you want with this picture as they say .. a pic can speak a 1000 words !

here .. mr menon the great shows his skills and style in perfection ... after many attempts he finally got the right accuracy and hit 1 pin !! :D .. hooray ! !

hehe .. after this .. we kept roaming around the mall waiting for the rest of the guys to finish .... so then around half past 5 we all met up and decided to go have shisha and get something to eat .... now being the Abu Dhabi resident .. people expected me to know where things are around here .... but .... i dint !! .. Vrej had to call up his cuzz and find out a good place to have shisha .. and trust me the place he found .. was brilliant ... it was this local cafe .. right next to the corniche ... !! .. it had the view of the Abu Dhabi skyline .. as well as the emirates palace ..

k this is one of the views from the shisha joint ...... also there were these jet ski guys who were trying to impress us by doing stunts .. and first was pretty cool ... then just got irritating hehehe ...

Onur n Vrej sharing some of their good times :P :)

Deepak and Srinvas

Martin and Melica

Finally .... Valentina in deep thought with her camera :)

Finally Emirates Palace !! ... Abu Dhabi's "Burj Al Arab" .. lol ... well its a massive project and it does bring a lot of attention ... so yea .. pretty good .. but i guess it doesnt beat the burj hehe :P

Finally the picture to remmebr this day .. a nice pic to end an interesting day out .. hehe .. AIESEC in Abu Dhabi .. *from the left - Deepak,Martin,Vrej,Srini,Me :D,Melica,Onur and Valentina :) ...