From a forwarded email from Moneeza A. regarding Dreamfly:

Akri is my home-village. It’s where my father was born. It’s where I first learned how to ride a tractor and install mosquito nets around hand-woven hammock-beds. It’s where I raced my pony with my brother on the dirt roads and rode on motor-bikes and tongas to nearby (barren) fields and villages. As I grew older, the differences between me and Akri started to become stark. Acutely painfully stark. After being home-schooled in Badin, I made my way to Cornell University. Then Microsoft. And now Harvard Business School. While Akri stayed the same. With barren fields and dirt-roads that lead to nowhere. People who don’t want to go anywhere. Or become anyone. Or even do anything. All people of Akri - men women alike - other than the little children. When I visited my home-village this year, I found children, only the little ones, somehow out of nowhere, talking to me about their crazy, imaginative dreams. Dreams of becoming someone. Dreams of flying to places unknown, of curing people, of ending wars, of saving the world! Children for whom the reality of Akri had not yet set in… I want to take each child of Akri and dare her to make her dream a reality. With the help of friends, people who care, people with beautiful hearts and some crazy journeys and dreams of their own, people like my good friend and partner Mona, my husband and best friend Adil, my life-time friends at Microsoft and new acquaintances at Harvard, we can take the children of Akri on a flight of dreams and a fight to make every purposeful desire and positive ambition a reality.

Free Screening of the National Film Board documentary “Dream Tower”: This is with regard to an earlier post of mine i.e. regarding Rochdale College which seemed to have generated a number of comments. Is on the 18th of Jan.

Sing for South Asia: Happening this saturday at Harbourfront. Is for fundraising purposes and shall feature one of my favourite South Asian bands, Noori.

Case Camp Toronto4: I want to go. Anyone else up for it? Mark?

LuluLemon Warehouse Sale Toronto

A friend of mine is involved in the Christmas Flower Show in Ottawa this year. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area. Opening night is Wednesday, November 29th @ 7pm. If you click on the thumbnail on the left, it’ll show you a larger version of the schedule.

The Second Year class of the Horticulture Program at Algonquin College presents a Christmas Flower Show every year. The show is based around a theme, which is determined by the students. This years show is titled ‘Plantasia.’ It will be displayed from November 29th, 2006 – December 31, 2006 at Algonquin College. The students are responsible for the successful execution of the show. The plants which will be displayed are all propagated and grown by the Second Year Horticulture class as a part of our ‘Greenhouse’ course on campus. In this course, students obtain hands-on, practical experience with greenhouse plants and cultures. Students manage and maintain a greenhouse conservatory.

– [Amna H.]

The above is what we’ve been up to today. We, the IT dept. decided to be keys. I’m CTRL btw. Despite all the nerdiness I am rolling on the floor laughing right now. Muhahah ha ha.

oh and Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween by =Eireen

Also check out In The Red by the same artist.

[Hope Goes Here] Lebanon

Septemeber 21st, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
Student Centre Presentation Room
University of Toronto at Mississauga

$15 Regular Admission
$10 with Student card

The University of Toronto is hosting an official fundraiser in partnership with the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN) to increase awareness of the genocide which took place this summer in Lebanon. Come out for an evening of information, perspective, and entertainment.

I think the word “entertainment” was in poor taste, however should be an interesting gathering and will hopefully raise a fair amount of money.