Mudeungsan, Gwangju -- Sep 24, 2007

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I went to Mudeungsan with Riaz, Raheel, Farrukh and Tallal. It was a rainy day and I thought we were going to Chosun university in downtown, but on the GIST gate they told me that they want to go to Mudeungsan first. I resisted but they were not ready to listen, so we went to Mudeungsan using bus 9. We all had umbrellas and decided to hike the mountain. Initially I thought it was not a good idea as the weather is not good and track would be dangerous apart from my lack of stamina, but again they dragged me up. It was very hard to climb and at each step I was wishing to see the peak as soon as possible. With a lot of resistance and encouragement we hike quite high. From that peak nothing was visible as everything was covered with mist and we decided to descend after taking many pictures there. The downhill was also challenging as the danger of getting slipped increased. Eventually we came down. While in the bus we decided to go back to GIST and postpone the visit to Chosun university on some other day as we all were very tired and Farrukh had to cook. That was a nice day and we talked and joked a lot. My camera was slipped from the hand and hit a hard rock but it survived. It was a nice trip. Thank you all guys.

My 25th Birthday in GIST -- Oct 2, 2007

Today (Oct 2, 2007) I turned to 25. I have mixed feelings of excitement and sorrow. Cant explain why.

Fahad's Farewell on 22 September 2007

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On september 22, 2007 We held an iftar party in the GIST kitchen for bid farewell to Fahad bhai who was leaving for U.S to start a job there. His work place is located in California and he went there on H1 visa. He had already completed his two years in PhD at GIST. He froze his PhD and went for US aiming to come back after one year, though it is uncertain. Lets see what happens as I will be here more than one more year. Many kinds of food was available. Tallal made Pakoray, Dr. Nasar brought some dumplings filled with minced meat, Fahad made some sharbat, Dr. Asif brought Biryani, we contributed in Juice, Pizza, Fruit and the rest. The food was very delicious. After the dinner we made some tea using the 'Earl Gray Tea' which had expired 2 years ago. We were joking about the harmful effects of expired tea while quoting about the people died in these days because of poisonous liquor in Karachi, Pakistan. But thank God, nothing happened to us. It was a beautiful evening. Tariq bhai and Umer were missing during the event. Later Umer told me that he had gone to the GIC. I dont know why Tariq bhai did not come. The food was more than enough and most of the Pizza was not consumed. We saved it in the fridge and used it in the Seher on next day. Fahad bhai left for U.S on 29th September. I met them on the sehri on that day. We really had a very good time with him and he was liked by everybody in GIST. Fahad bhai we wish you best of luck towards your future endeavours.