Random Act of Kindness

This week has been a blast. Not only I was able to do a full-time AIESEC work but I found my balance in life! No terribly exciting things happened this week, but everything that happened were good things.

1. Girls Night In. Me and my girlfriends watched Garden State (written and directed by Zach Braff from the TV series "SCRUBS") on DVD on monday night. A simple but sweet story line about a troubled TV actor( with limited success in acting department) who fell for this "weird" innocent girl (Natalie Portman) he met in his hometown when he was visiting to attend his mom's funeral..

If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like.

2. LC-BoA get together. We succesfully organised a get-together for the LC members and the Board of Advisors members and not to forget two of our SNs who has past RBs (yeah baby, talking about common induction!). It went pretty well and the SNs now understand more of what AIESEC actually stands for and they are willing to get involved in the LC before they go! YAY! On the other hand, the BoA now understand the history of AIESEC Canterbury and they think we're progressing well. Everybody was so into helping us to get intern in!

3. French Film Festival Project. After a few long weeks of waiting, someone from France got back to me at last !! It has been a little bit slow but I believe with a little patience and determination, this will be the start of something big ;)

4. Family Time. My aunty, her Japanese boarder and I went to Hoyts to watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith. A highly recommended movie to watch for several reasons; good actors (C'mon, It's Brad Pitt we're talking about here), witty lines and a reasonably big amount of action scenes. It also features that dude who plays in the O.C, too!

5. Ratana's Visit. Ratana, the Swiss AIESECer from Otago, came by to visit Christchurch before he's off to North Island. We had dinner organised like always. One thing I learnt from this is never trust Nick and his telecom mobile to organise such thing. One time we agreed to dine in Little Saigon - a cheapo Vietnamese place in town. I got there and asked for a table for 5. The waitress shooed off a man who was sitting on that table, waiting for his takeaway . But a few moments later I got a text saying that we're not dining there anymore! How unreliable! The dinner was followed by a night at the Fox and Ferret. We were waiting for the pool table to be vacant, but it seems like people just can't have enough of it. :(

Since Ratana is leaving NZ, we thought we're going to do something else the next day. Yeap, we did a Big Breakfast on Saturday morning! A full cooked breakfast complete with bacon, egg, hash brown and sausages! Mmmm... yum! Antony taught us a card game called... Doubt/ Bullshit/Cheat- whatever. The rule of the game is similar to "Bullshit" (like the one in How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Had so much fun in playing that game! In the evening we sent Ratana off. See ya later, Ratana, I'm sorry I acidentally dropped you off the community! :)

6. Venue Inspection. Jo and I drove up to Oxford to inspect one of the possible venues for MS 06. Ha, see, we're into it already! It feels like dejavu. Driving on the same road, listening to the same music (over and over again for one hour and a half). Aah, yeap. I did this before.., with Giedre! =) The venue inspection followed by window shopping at Northland Mall on the way home!

To top it off, the last two days has been all warm in Christchurch. Not only the sun is shining, but the weather is actually warm for winter. I'm lovin' it!