BRB

Have been roped in to help out at the APEC Business Advisory Council conference happening now. And then sieving through applications to select SEAYPD steering committee members the week after. And then organising the Exploring Sustainable Development workshops the week after that. And getting cracking on SIYC after.

I'm just saying that I might not be blogging for a bit. (Again)

For now, gotta run off to the MCYS Feedback Unit conference. Throwing metaphorical darts at certain ministers should be fun.

BRB. (as long as you don't hold your breath)

ruff muakz

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Fast

Everything's been a bit of a fast-paced whirl since touching down.

Organising the development workshops. Have yet to flesh out how we're gonna do policy discussions, that lobby role-play thing, the Youth-Led Development bit, the section on the MDGs - and human rights - and my opening speech to start the whole gig off on the first day. (Among many others.) It's kinda cool that the guy from the UN Millennium Campaign is excited about this, being the pilot on MDGs for this country, and I'm stoked we'll have a space on that website about this after.

Kicking off applications for the SE Asia NGO steering committee. This whole NGO idea is something I've been sitting on and dreaming about for a coupla years now, and to see the amount of interest coming in is a bit of a jolt in reality. This is actually happening. I'm excited. Of course, there's the whole strategic agenda-setting, organisational structuring, and - the youth summit that's supposed to happen in September. It's a bit of a rush, and I hope there's enough commitment from the team we'll have at the end of the month to deliver. I'm nervous.

And when I get back to Sydney - an actual job. (hopefully, anyway.) Before I take off for 6, 9, 12 months. Development project, wherever-the-hell I can't wait to find out.

And D.

2006 is set to be a fast year. A big year. I'm fired up.

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raw

de la Radu până la mie -

well, sometimes i hate you...not all the time. sometimes i love you. not all the time. sometimes i don't even remember you. not all the time. sometimes i just think i am better off without you. not all the time. sometimes i think that you are not worthy of me...not all the time. sometimes i worship the ground you walked on (in bucharest) ..not all the time.

sometimes my mind is blank, and has only you in it. sometimes i think it is all a big fucking lie...not all the time. sometimes i think that i am the biggest jerk with the people around me, because of you...not all the time. sometimes i feel that you are the very wrong thing for me. and maybe you are...

sometimes i just want to be left alone...not all the time

everything is complicated and relative. and purely beautiful.

i have to wipe my tears, i can't see the screen anymore

Dragoste.. îmi pare rău.

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Home Base

It feels so strange to be back. It's only been, oh, 3 hours since I stepped back into this house. But somehow I don't feel the ease that's supposed to come with being at home. It seems counter-intuitive, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I've only spent 5 summers here - as opposed to my 5 years (and then some) in Sydney - or if I have grown so accustomed to being on the move that being in a "base" now feels weird.

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Tokyo - NY - Sao Paulo - Curitiba - Buenos Aires - Recife - Rio de Janeiro - NY - Chicago - Boston

The past month has been an amazing whirlwind. The places, people, music, language (oh how I love Portuguese), friendships.. and a little bit more. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to fully reflect on the entirety of the past 5 weeks, or ever really take it all in, to begin with. But it's not really something that words on a blog could ever truly convey.

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I'm still somewhat disoriented from my final week of travel. Giddy. It's cliched, and corny, to say it was a dream - fuck yeah, it was anything but. It was real. As much as traipsing aimlessly around London wasn't. I'm still struggling to comprehend the impossible reality that this actually happened in.. 6 days. (You've got to be kidding me.)

What a feeling.

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Currently listening to: Brighter Than Sunshine | Aqualung

Damn this is growing on me.

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