Alexa And Barbie

MUN my beloved

The thing is, I used to be fucking terrified of MUN. Everything about it (research, writing, teamwork, collaboration, public speaking) scared the living crap out of me. I came to my first conference with a whole folder of (largely) useless facts. I physically shook when I first rose to give a speech defending an amendment. I couldn’t eat and had to go to the bathroom four times before the committee sessions because I was so nervous. And yet, as the three-day conference went on, I got more and more confident. I stood up, debated, proposed amendments and gave speeches. I grew to love it more than anything in my life. 

Here’s a quick aesthetic I curated based on MUN

A binder of perfectly organised notes on the country’s politics, socio-economic environments, geography, and current affairs 

Watching documentaries about your country’s culture, taking in the unique landscape 

Empty coffee cups that somehow manage to multiply on your desk 

Pulling all-nighters, too eager to learn as much as you can 

Crisp white shirt and fresh suit, all ready for the upcoming day 

Messy handwriting, scrawling notes on the resolution of other delegates

Ink-stained fingers

Reciting your speech to yourself, having committed it to memory

Nervously cracking knuckles before your opening speech

Feeling immense pride when your resolution passes

Heated debates during unmoderated caucuses

Placard raised proudly 

Here we go again…

Hello! I have an important announcement to make!

You’re beautiful. You’re cute. You’re pretty. You’re gorgeous. You’re handsome. You’re wonderful.

Yes, you. You, the person reading this. You’re incredible and you are loved.

I do not care about your orientation, be it: straight, gay, bi, pan, omni, lesbian, poly, a-spec, aro, ace, litho, quoi, aroflux, aceflux, demi, queer, or what have you. I don’t care if your romantic and sexual orientation match or not.

I do not care about your gender. Cis, trans, bigender, trigender, demigender, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderflux, agender, genderqueer, polygender, pangender, omnigender, quoigender, or anything else.

I do not care about the colour of your skin, your race, your ethnicity. White, Black, European, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian, Aboriginal, Mixed…

I care not for your nationality. Afghan, Albanian, Algerian, Andorran, Angolan, Anguillan, Antiguan, Barbudan, Argentine, Armenian, Australian, Austrian, Azerbaijani, Bahamian, Bahraini, Bangladeshi, Barbadian, Belarusian, Belgian, Belizean, Beninese, Bermudian, Bhutanese, Bolivian, Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Motswana, Brazilian, British Virgin Islander, Bruneian, Bulgarian, Burkinabe, Burundian, Cambodian, Cameroonian, Canadian, Cabo Verdean, Caymanian, Central African, Chadian, Chilean, Chinese, Christmas Islander, Cocos Islander, Colombian, Comoran, Congolese, Costa Rican, Ivorian, Croat, Cuban, Cypriot, Czech, Dane, Djibouti, Dominican, East Timorese, Ecuadorean, Egyptian, Salvadoran, English , Equatoguinean, Eritrean, Estonian, Ethiopian, Falkland Islander, Fijian, Finn, French, French Guianese, Gabonese, Gambian, Georgian, German, Ghanaian, Gibraltarian, Greek, Greenlander, Grenadan, Guadeloupean, Guatemalan, Channel Islander, Guinean, Guinea-Bissauan, Guyanese, Haitian, Honduran, Hungarian, Icelander, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Manx, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakhstani, Kenyan, I-Kiribati, North Korean, South Korean, Kuwaiti, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lebanese, Mosotho , Liberian, Libyan, Liechtensteiner, Lithuanian, Luxembourger, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malawian, Malaysian, Maldivan, Malian, Maltese, Marshallese, Martiniquais, Mauritanian, Mahorais, Mexican, Micronesian, Moldovan, Monegasque, Mongolian, Montserratian, Moroccan, Mozambican, Myanmarese, Namibian, Nauruan, Nepalese, Dutch, Dutch Antillean, Aotearan, New Zealander, Nicaraguan, Nigerien, Nigerian, Norwegian, Omani, Pakistani, Palauan, Palestinian, Panamanian, Papua New Guinean, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Filipino, Pole, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Qatari, Reunionese, Romanian, Russian, Rwandan, Saint Helenian, Kittian and Nevisian, Saint Lucian, Vincentian, Samoan, Sammarinese, Sao Tomean, Saudi, Scottish, Senegalese, Serbian, Seychellois, Sierra Leonean, Singaporean, Slovak, Slovene, Solomon Islander, Somali, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Surinamer, Swazi, Swede, Swiss, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tanzanian, Thai, Togolese, Tongan, Trinidadian, Tunisian, Turk, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Ugandan, Ukrainian, Emirati, British, American, Uruguayan, Uzbek, Ni-Vanuatu, Venezuelan, Vietnamese, Virgin Islander, Welsh, Yemeni, Zambian, or Zimbabwean.

I do not care about your religion, whether you’re: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Adventist, Anabaptist, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Evangelical, Lutheran, Moravian, Pentecostal, Quaker, Calvinist, Western Rite Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Pagan, Wiccan, Amish, Mennonite, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, etc

You are valued, you are loved, you are wonderful, and you are beautiful.

I hope you have a good day or night, a good week, a good month, and a good year.

I love you and wish you the best.

I'm stressed but at least I have iced coffee

@mkvx

Shark tank India

*Entrepreneur walks in with a good product*

Ashneer: Isme QR code daal denge

Aman: iski branding mai kardunga

Namita: yeh meri expertise nahi, mai isse bahar hu

Anupam: Arre bolne toh do

Peyush: Mai isse global leke jaunga

But love the show, never thought indian tv serial touch would have made it this enjoyable :p

The banter between the sharks is 🤍

And all these jokes aside, the sharks are getting deals at great valuations! They'll surely make a lot of money. Some of these startups might raise follow-on rounds from prominent VCs and become household names in coming years.

Hey!

⚠️this is your sign to stop scrolling and pick up the book that you’ve been meaning to read⚠️

⚠️this is your sign to stop scrolling and pick up the book that you’ve been meaning to read⚠️

you’re welcome ✨

Cove harbour

ID: Portrait orientation watercolour painting of an old harbour. The focus is two brick cottages along a sloping path in the middle. A crow sits on one of the chimneys. There are old cement stairs going down to the water on the left, and a white ladder leaning against the bank of the harbour in the centre, with a white and blue wooden docked in front. End ID