How To Play: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation about what the word means to you and why, and than pass out letters to those who want to play along ( Read more... )

"Queria falar de uma terra com praias no norte, e vinhos no sul ( Read more... )

This past week has been an odd mix of relaxing and strenuous. The weekend itself was mostly spent doing site visits for architecture class, and doing a good deal of painting in my sketchbook ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, this past Sunday and Monday Italy had its general elections. It's been in American news quite a lot, so you've probably at least heard that it was happening. Italians were to pick a new Prime Minister and decide if they wanted to keep the right-wing government of the current PM, Silvio Berlusconi, or accept the coalition ( Read more... )

After relaxing for a few days, this past week has been quite the roller coaster. To begin with, I did not find out any news from Tisch as expected. My roommate Ajit, who was waiting to hear back regarding internal transfer to Stern, and I were both very anxious over the weekend, expecting to receive decisions from our respective schools. On Monday ( Read more... )

It is nice to be back in Italy for good. After a whole month of travelling the continent, I'm spent. That's why this whole weekend was spent sleeping in, eating lots of food, or enjoying the Italian art of doing nothing. Marvelous ( Read more... )

Hace dos años que visito Barcelona, y, ahora, yo vuelvo ( Read more... )

I just realised today that it has been a year since I started Livejournal. So, in honour, I decided to peruse through my year's worth of entries. Here are some excerpts that just prove what a weird person I am ( Read more... )

So Sunday morning I happen to go online to check up on my bank account, and I find that there is a mysterious charge of US$259.05 to my account made on the 17th of March to a strange corporation that I had never heard of. Now, I think I would have remembered spending $260 on St. Patrick's Day, when all I did was go to a Paris supermarket to buy ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in Italy, relaxing after a wonderful European spring break. So much happened during the week I was away, so here are simply the highlights ( Read more... )