MUNIK 2011

Much as I'd like to believe that I've been blessed with literary talent, the belief is often challenged by my inability to find the right words for transcribing events onto paper. Or perhaps, life is sometimes just too rich to be confined to mere words.

MUNIK '11 is the perfect example. To describe the seriousness of the debates, the companion ship amongst delegates within regional blocs, the camaraderie within committees and the sheer festivity of the last day, is beyond my limited scope.

Even in this digital age of pictures and videos, concrete memories are hard to hold and already MUNIK '11 has become as fleeting as something my imagination would conjure. But no amount of time will erase such epic moments as Maha saying, "Pretend Ehab is a pole and dance around him", or the delegate of USA announcing "With great power comes great responsibility" (EPIC) or Brazil's desperation to find out who sent the "Brazil is sexy" chit. (XD)

The length of this reminiscence is a testament to how fast time erases memories, even if they are as rich as the acronym MUN itself.  

English inspirations

After years of exhilaration every time there's a hint of rain, and looking at forests in England it's not hard to see where masters like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis get their inspirations from. Rainy weather has brought the best in my poetry and I'm just an amateur. The epics seem to be as much a product of their surroundings as of their mastery of words and unrestrained imaginations. Its not just the English, everywhere it seems, the wilder and lusher the scenery, the greater the stories. Now if only I could find a nice cave up north to complete my epic in....