Istanbul Summer Plans (Revisited)

hey guys so its been a while since we last sort of talked about the summer... i have some updates since the end of the year (oh and happy new year all... ;) btw... i'm a little late but that's southerness i guess...). so i got a job offer in a consulting firm in san francisco and will be taking it up, and so now i'm in the process of getting a work permit and that stuff. so i'll be trying to get 4 weeks off between graduation (june 17th) and starting work, so it would be ideal for me to go to istanbul in mid-june or first week of july because i also want to go home to bangladesh for about 2 weeks because i probably won't be going back in a while. so for others with issues regarding taking holidays from work or have other scheduling problems please post, because once we set a date i'll buy tickets right away.

..::Just a special day::..

It was just a special day...

For tha first time I entered in the ?Estadio do Dragão? ( the stadium of FC Porto ) as journalist what a fukin experienced I had there? you cannot imagine how nice it was being a part, actually what pleasure it was working that magnificent place!

I was there assisting the broadcasting of the game with the national radio of Portugal antena1

Peace my Brothers!

News from Venezuela are not only about Chavez

As usual, it's been quite a while since last time I wrote here, but I'll try to change that. Lot of things have happened since:

- I met some very interesting people, mostly foreigners, like me
- I fasted during 3 days in Ramadan
- Chavez was reelected for the 3th time, but not with my vote
- I quited my job and I'm working freelance now
- I paid for a haircut for the first time since a long time
- An article I wrote about my days in Istanbul was published

As you should know, I'm also saving money to travel to Europe and Middle East this year. I'm happy to say that I'm almost there at the goal I setted myself. I still have to figure out the visa issue, but I'm closer. I'm up to traveling around the middle east before or after the Istanbul reunion, so we have to talk about it. Anyway, I have to write another post just for the trip planning

Here is the link to the article I wrote about my experience in Istanbul. It was published by a magazine in my university. If you don't understand anything is probably because you don't know how to read spanish. If you don't you can also look at the huge pictures they inserted in the middle of the article. I don't know what they were thinking

In other news... Maarten, you should be happy to know that there is new "malandro" fashion here in Caracas ("malandro" meaning something like a thug, street-wise, delinquent) which is to wear pink shirts. I think we all now why they can wear it.

So... What about you? What have you been up to? What about the reunion? I think june should be a good month