Now that the olympics are over... Was it just me, or were the medals this time actually really really ugly?

But here's my end-of-the-year summary anyway. Whenever I do these, I'm always surprised at how fast a year passes... while at the same time, the first half of the year seems so far away. I can barely remember anything from before summer my holidays at this point. But then again, that could also just mean that the first couple of months of the year ( Read more... )

A bunch of things, I suppose.

First of all, late holiday wishes to everyone from Brazil. Hope everyone had a great Christmas, although I already know that's sadly not the case for everyone :(

But yeah, I'm currently in Brazil (have been for two weeks now), spending time with ishtar_vr and enjoying a surprisingly mild summer (and missing out on the first ( Read more... )

Last friday I had to hand in the final essay for one of my classes. I enjoyed writing it, and I'm still feeling fairly proud of the result. The same goes for a previous essay I had to write. It feels like spending all that effort on a well-written essay that'll only be read by about 3-5 people is just a waste. I've had a few people comment on how ( Read more... )

Since the weather was awesome today, I still had to take some pictures of the situation for my current design project and I wanted to check out the prices of some compact cameras I'm interested in (which turned out to be more expensive than online, contrary to my hopes :[ ), I went out to Rotterdam today ( Read more... )

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So I ran a search on Google Image search for "suddenly ninjas" yesterday. This is one of the things I came across.

this is awesome y/y?In unrelated news, university is kicking my ass time-wise. Last week one of our professors literally admitted they expect us to work around 12 hours per day on weekdays, and spend at least one weekend day on work ( Read more... )

I am back from Brazil and on the internet, on my brand new shiny workstation laptop. Imagine that!

I don't particularly feel like making a very long post about my time in Brazil right now, but I can assure anyone who's interested I had an absolutely incredible time with ishtar_vr and I did meet with angeling a few times, who's pretty great despite telling bad ( Read more... )